Blog your best small business marketing
advice for a chance to win big!”Details on how to enter will be linked in this space soon.
We are proud to announce the Gushcloud and UBL Small Business Marketing Blog Outreach Blogging Contest – the first annual blogging contest in support of Small Businesses.
Largest cash prizes ever offered in a blogging contest of this kind.
Starting cash prize total is $5200 - $1650 higher than the final cash
prize offered in the CommentLuv FamousBloggers contest.Current Cash Prizes $6250
Important Contest Dates:
- Contest announced: April 1, 2012 (and NO the huge cash prize we will have is NOT an April Fool’s prank!)
- Contest Start: April 15, 2012
- Promotion Period: April 15-May 31, 2012
- Judging: June 1 – June 14, 2012
- Winners Announced: June 15, 2012
Interest in both co-founding and sponsoring this contest is so high that we have too many sponsors already to list in this post. So tonight, I am announcing the contest and introducing you to our two title sponsors:
Gushcloud is the power to move anyone to action. Built as a crowdsourcing platform, businesses can post tasks that consumers can complete on gushcloud.com for a reward. These tasks include word-of-mouth marketing, blogging, surveys, downloading applications, completing trackable actions on apps and websites and more.
Participating bloggers will receive $50 in Gushcloud credits for the purpose of creating a task on Gushcloud to promote their own blog or a good cause. [Subject to availability.]
Gushcloud has not yet launched in the U.S. and anticipates a mid-May launch which is perfectly timed for the announcement of the winners.
My regular readers know that I have been using and recommending the services of Universal Business Listing (UBL) for over three years now.
UBL is simply the most efficient, effective way to get listed in all the major local search directories, niche directories, and major databases including InfoUSA, Acsiom and D&B that feed GPS systems, smart phones, and other handheld devices.
Our starting sponsor lineup is simply amazing and sponsors are still pouring in as is support from across the blogging community. This is the first public announcement of the contest.
Those interested in sponsoring or promoting the contest are encouraged to contact Gail using the method of their choice to be sent a Word doc with full details on the contest. Skype is fastest – and the earlier you get in, the higher on the page of sponsors your information will be displayed.
CONTEST CO-FOUNDERS:
The contest is being co-founded and promoted by (in no particular order):
GrowMap
JustRetweet
Basic Blog Tips
CommentLuv
Blog Engage
MyBlogGuest
MySEOCommunity
Your Virtual Assistant
Search Engine Marketing Group
Traffic Generation Cafe
New Biz Blogger
Murray Newlands
Influence People
iBlogZoneWatch for additional posts introducing you to our media sponsors, our other sponsors, and all the juicy details about how many winners there will be, the non-cash bonus prizes, and especially how much higher the cash prize will have grown by then.
Details on all our sponsors, co-founders, entries, prize distribution, bonus prizes, and judging will all be published over the next few days.
Follow @SMBcontest on Twitter for updates or use and search for hashtag #SMBcontest to follow the buzz.
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Another great contest to advance my business. Thanks for giving us so many great opportunities. Not only is your blog informative, it gives us a good way of making some extra profit, and an easy way for extra cash and prizes. I stumbled across your blog by mistake, but have quickly become a big fan and passed it along to my business associates. I appreciate all you are doing to help businesses like me survive in such hard times. Thanks!
Marketing a newly built business is not that easy. There are factors that you should consider before taking an action. I have been surfing the net to find the solution for this problem, and so far this post is what I have found. For a novice like me, this will be a great help. I don’t want to be like Mr. Glaxo Smith Kline who paid $3b for off-label marketing.
Really great contest and i first time came across with such small business beneficial contest. Participating in this contest means to boost and double the business because small business owners can easily get the solution of every small business queries. Thanks Gail for sharing useful information for elevating small business.
Twitter: another_blogger
April 14, 2012 at 6:49 am
Hi Gail, this is very interesting contest, and I saw few friends support the contest, Brian Belfitt from BlogEngage, Andy from CommentLuv, DiTesco iBlogzone, Ann Smarty, Anna from Traffic Generation Cafe and more
I think this will be a blogging contest of the year, great!
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April 9, 2012 at 4:20 am
This might be a good plan to organize all online marketers, businessman and bloggers to work hand in hand and to reach a specific goal.
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April 5, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Oh wow. I’m impressed by this contest. I really like the idea because it helps to bring the blogging community together and introduce us to new blogs. So, thanks a lot for promoting this project by writing about it on your blog.
Twitter: GrowMap
April 7, 2012 at 7:03 am
Hi Paul,
My primary goal is to encourage small businesses and bloggers to work together to create stronger economies and more jobs. The infographic in my post about how the CommentLuv WordPress plugin shows the effect of supporting local businesses – how much more money stays in each economy to create jobs, support needed services, maintain infrastructures and improve the standard of living for many more.
I encourage supporting both local and online small businesses and diverting money that is being hoarded by the wealthy back into growing our economy. By building strong communities people will already have relationships with each other so that if the buying power of the dollar sinks too low they can barter, or timebank, or simply help each other through what will be the worst depression America has ever seen (or worse).
What happens to the dollar and America will be felt in countries around the world so all people everywhere need to be doing the same thing – stop relying on multi-national corporations and banks and become self-sufficient again.
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I would love to take part in this and the companies involved are great. I think everyone should enter this contest.
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April 4, 2012 at 3:17 pm
This contest is a great idea. looking forward to it.
This sounds really cool, but what do you need to do to enter?
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April 4, 2012 at 1:09 pm
woww this contenst is seems nice specially that big blog like blogengage, basic blog tip i am regular reader of this blogs and offcourse your
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April 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm
I love this… I’m in.
Where do I sign up?
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Twitter: GrowMap
April 7, 2012 at 9:17 am
Hi Ryan,
We’ve been busy registering SMBcontest.com and the matching Twitter account @SMBcontest and getting all the content up and ready.
Updates will be posted in this post, on that new site and in that Twitter account and spread across the blogosphere by our now NINETEEN media sponsors!
Much more soon so stay tuned. The kickoff is April 15 and we’ll be adding many more sponsors and details between now and then.
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This contest is very interesting, it proves that blog is one of the main communication tools we have.
Contests are actually one of some of the ways that can help evry site a blogger has and only few people know about it…I am sure this can help a lot…
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Hi enjoyed reading your post.
I will be honest I am a bit new to this. I will also admit I had never heard of blog contests. That’s why came on to your blog to have a look. Got me intrigued now. Will have to look further into it. And see what sort of blog wins .
Thanks again learn something everyday.
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I am glad to know that there some who gives contents, I just wished I had been able to participate.
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April 4, 2012 at 2:52 am
They Is A Good News and Awesome Contest ….thanks for sharing this contest
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