What’s art mean to you? The Progressive Guest Post Contest.
I’ve been curious about doing a contest around here for awhile, but I hate the concept of judging a contest, so I decided to open it up and let readers be the judge through the comments.
It’s progressive because I figure, the more page views, the better the prize will be (because I get paid for page views). There will be only one winner for this contest, but the prize will just get better for each level of page views.
Let’s go through the prize list* first of all.
- 1,000,000 page views - Nikon d40x
- 750,000 page views - Photoshop
- 500,000 Page views - 80gb iPod
- 250,000 page views - 22″ LCD Monitor
- 100,000 Page Views - Original Art from Josh Simpson, small megaplanet
- 50,000 Page Views - $50 via paypal
* winner can choose to also take the equivalent in a cash prize via paypal.
Here’s how it will work. To enter the contest, all you have to do is write a post for Artist Hideout of 150 - 250 words on the subject “What does art mean to you?” Make it funny, make it memorable, and make it creative (videos accepted). Email it to: william@b5media.com with the subject title “What art means to me“
Then, you can ask friends, relatives, readers of your own blog to come and comment over on your guest post and share what art means to them too in the comments. Each comment works as one vote for you.
At the end of August, I will tally up the votes to see who has the most and send out the prize earned by page views.
So the more people you have post comments, the more page views and the better the prize.
Pretty simple right?
So get writing and sending me your submissions.
Feel free to ask questions below too.
Certain restrictions may apply, such as these have to be family friendly and informative. No junk posts. Everything will be read before it is posted.
Clarification on Page Views can be found here.
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22 opinions for What’s art mean to you? The Progressive Guest Post Contest.
William Lehman
Jul 31, 2007 at 2:40 pm
oh, and don’t forget to include your URL if you have one, and I’ll be sure to link back to you.
Shai Coggins
Jul 31, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Wow. Can anyone join the contest?
William Lehman
Jul 31, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Yep Shai. Jump in. Even though you are an Artist, it is open to non-artists too.
I am encouraging everyone to participate and even get people to come comment to help them win.
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Aug 1, 2007 at 9:18 am
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William Lehman
Aug 1, 2007 at 9:22 am
By the way, prize will be mailed around the 15th of September to the winner.
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kevin
Aug 3, 2007 at 2:08 pm
What an excellent idea to do a contest on here. I might have to try this on one of my b5 blogs.
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Dan
Aug 5, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Hi William - great contest.
I just opened up EmptyEasel for guest writers as well. Good luck with this, I might send something in. . .
William Lehman
Aug 5, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Please do Dan, I only have one entry so far. Feel free to post about it on EmptyEasel too (I’ll return the favor sometime) ;)
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Aug 10, 2007 at 2:13 pm
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Jennifer
Aug 14, 2007 at 3:21 am
Holy, I don’t think I’d want any of the prizes (not me type stuff) so I won’t enter; but I must say the entire idea is genius. Letting the readers set the prize pace and what not. Very nice plan. I get artist types at Offbeat a lot. You’re so darn clever I’ll plug ya. (maybe not tonight … must sleep… but soon, perhaps sometime tomorrow).
William Lehman
Aug 14, 2007 at 8:36 am
Jennifer, glad you like it. Remember, the prizes can also be a cash equivalent via paypal. I only have one person who has submitted anything so far, so the chances are 50/50 at this point if you submit a post. ;)
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Jessica Doyle
Aug 16, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Jeese William! I may come out of sabbatical early from Blogging to enter this contest. Nice idea and nice prizes. :)
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