Comments on: How To Run Subscriber-Only Competitions on Your Blog

By: Barbrine

Barbrine — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:04:59 +0000

Hmm, sorry if I’m being dense, but I still don’t quite get how it works. What happens after they get the code? What do they do with it, and how do they enter?

By: Sutch

Sutch — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:56:36 +0000

I spent 4 hours reading your site. Thanks for the good information. I’ll be back!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:57:12 +0000

Helped me out a bunch, great post!

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:32:54 +0000

Great!!!

By: George

George — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:43:16 +0000

Thanks for the info!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:52:29 +0000

Awesome post!

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:16:13 +0000

Your posts are the best! Always helpful!

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:45:51 +0000

I don’t understand this…

By: Art

Art — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:30:58 +0000

We need more posts like this!

By: Rachel R.

Rachel R. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:51:44 +0000

How do you know how many subscribers you have? I know that services like FeedBurner show how many subscribers you have that use them (FB), but what about readers who subscribe using the site’s “built-in” feed, rather than one of the mainline readers? (For instance, I used Thunderbird’s built-in RSS reader – which, btw, shows me your entire site, sidebars and all, so I still see your ads! – and manually copy-and-paste the feed address to subscribe. How can those whose blogs I read know that I am subscribed?

By: Lee Munroe

Lee Munroe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:09:08 +0000

Great tip David!

By: Galvahaha

Galvahaha — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:50:29 +0000

I have done this in the recent past and it did definitely help me increase my subscriber base, but not for long. The key here is, consistently have contests to retain the subscribers, which is never too easy. Site like totalapps can do that with hundreds of new app developers coming in every week, but for others it isn’t really easy.
I have a Mega giveaway on my blog http://techpp.com starting this week and it is “comment-and-win” ;)

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:35:00 +0000

As always I end this post inspired – thanks for sharing! Now to find some good sponsors!!

By: Surender sharma

Surender sharma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:42:38 +0000

Contests are really important to grow the blog.I have received good amount of the subscribers running the contests on my blog but I was not aware this type of solution which you have mentioned here.

By: charley

charley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:47:10 +0000

this is really wonderful. trust me if you can effectively create good competitions, your feed subscriber base will really grow in the shotest possible time.

gracias David

By: RojakBlog

RojakBlog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:45:48 +0000

Thanks for the idea. It will make my job easier without having to register an autoresponder. A method that save money a lot.

By: work at home

work at home — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:35:59 +0000

Thank you for this great new feature, I appropriate on your work.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:11:52 +0000

Hi David and Darren:

I’m glad I saw this post; it’s a lot of useful info. I’ll have to read it again simply because I’m at the library now. Running a competition on your blog can generate a lot of interest. people like to win stuff.

By: emumbert1

emumbert1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:42:05 +0000

The one thing I love the very most about this site is the willingness to share success and failures. The successes are great to read about, but the failures are invaluable.
I usually get a few things I can use out of each article. Putting my RSS and Email feeds into each post was a nugget. My site hasn’t gotten that much traffic yet, as it’s only a month old…but it will. Contest are a great way to generate interest. I’d ask everyone who registers to put it on their twitter, too.

Thanks,

emumbert1

By: Ms. Freeman

Ms. Freeman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:41:48 +0000

Super idea. One question, what do we put in the place of a12221s when we change it?

I’m not a coder so have not clue.