contest
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
at 9:50pm
We’re now in to the last few days of my charity skydiving contest. It’s flown by and although i’m nowhere near my $1000 target, i have raised over $200 thus far which is respectable.
This was just one idea i had and i’ve learned a lot from it all. My strength was in finding people to sponsor prizes… the fact i’ll be printing a t-shirt with my sponsor’s logos on it went down well - that helped secure prizes.
Actually getting people to donate cash was / is the hard part. Not as easy. I wasn’t overly aggressive marketing this but then again it is all for charity and the last thing i want to do is (a) spend all of my time focusing on this (b) get to the point where i push it so much, it damages my rep.
But i’ll not be simply ‘giving up’ here… i may not actually be completing the skydive until next spring due to a variety of reasons (i’ll go into them once the competition ends), but i’ll certainly be flexing my creative muscles online again for more fun and games in relation to this skydive.
As things stand there are about 25 entries in to this competition with over 35 prizes so if you’re not in, you’re missing out 
4 x $50 cash prizes up for grabs remember + a whole bunch of other webmaster goodies.
All you gotta do is comment on this post to have a chance of winning something! If you’re feeling extra generous, why not donate a $1 or two 
The competition draws to a close on Tuesday September 30th and on October 1st i’ll be revealing a full list of entrants and their assigned numbers. On October 2nd i’ll record a screencast of me generating random numbers and assigning the prizes to people - no catches - all above board 
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
at 2:28pm
Today marks the start of siteflipu’s blog flipping contest. 5 teams of 5 people and i’m in one of them.
photo credit: Bubblewrap76
We’re called the Elite Ninja Flipping Unit and here’s who we have on board;
- Girish (Captain) - no flagship blog, but no stranger to flipping sites and i know this guy well - ultra reliable and an excellent leader for a 16 year old
- Me - I need no introduction on this blog!
- Forest - This guy is a bit crazy as you can see from his blog gears video. He actually won the last contest with frugalzeitgeist.com so he has the last laugh
- Jay - jay’s blog has over 400 subscribers and he’s probably the most prolific blogger (apart from me) in the team.
- Mark Cuda - 15 year old but with some experience behind him already. Had i started this at 15, i’d probably be a millionaire by now
As for a blog to flip, we’re gonna roll with one of my ideas which i believe is bullet proof. It can’t not work if it’s done right. We have 45 days starting today to flip this blog for as much cash as possible. We hope to have 80+ blog posts on it by that stage.
We won’t be the favourites to win, i think Bryan’s team (the contest holder) will be expected to clean up but we have other plans 
I’ll be keeping you all updated on how we’re getting along and once we get the site up and running i’ll reveal why we’ve chosen the niche and why i think it’s bullet proof.
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
at 8:05pm
I’ve joined a group of 5 web entrepreneurs to compete in siteflipu’s ‘Blogging Flipping Gone Wild‘ contest. The aim of the competition is to see who can flip a blog for the largest amount of cash within 45 days.
It’s costs $25 per team to enter and the team that wins gets to keep all the $25 entry fees, the amount they get from their blog flip + 10% of all the other teams sales.
There’s some pretty decent bloggers in this who’ve flipped blogs for 5 figures… (not in 45 days mind you). I believe we can win it or if not, come close…
I’ll let you guys know who’s in my team and what our blog will be about at a later date. There’s one blog idea that i’ve had for a while - i know it has profit written all over it and i’ve pitched the idea to the guys…
We should be looking at selling a blog for $2k+ and i’ll do my best to make sure that happens… even if we lose, we’ll get 90% of that $2k… so $1800 split 5 ways = $360. Not a huge amount of cash but at the same time not something you’d say no to
The real rewards from this though will be more exposure within the blogosphere and more contacts… hopefully, if all goes well, i can continue partnerships for future projects.
