I would like to thank everyone who participated in my simple contest to win a 4GB SDHC memory card. The entries have been tallied, sorted, sifted, rinsed and hung to dry for a little bit but I have managed to randomly select a winner with help of Miranda from the iPRGroup. Even though I enjoy working with the people from the iPRGroup, they did not have anything to do with this contest, but I wanted to randomly select a person and Miranda is always there to help out their clients.
How does one randomly select a winner?
I went into geek mode to select my contests winner. I generated a MySQL query to pull the list of comments for the contest, sorted through them to remove my comments loaded them into excel and inserted an extra entry if you wrote a blog post about the contest and linked back to it.
Having Miranda select a random number between 1 and the total number or entries I manage to come up with the person who won the 4 GB SDHC memory card.
And the winner is…
Bright Star (B*) of 2008brightstar365.blogspot.com
If you are into photography check out the Bright Star photo a day blog to see some exceptional captures on a daily basis.
Congratulations! I will be contacting Bright Star via email.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this contest. It was so far the best contest yet that I have personally run. Expect more contests to be run in the near future. If you are wanting to be notified of the next contest to win free stuff then make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
RodAug 21, 2008 at 09:35:49
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Congratulations to BrightStar.
WebTrafficROIAug 21, 2008 at 09:44:56
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Congrats to the winner ..4 GB card is a great deal
Bright Star (B*)Aug 21, 2008 at 19:46:21
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Thank you!
It’s really nice of you to run a contest like this. Also, I liked the explanation of how you chose the winner.
RaulAug 22, 2008 at 06:48:35
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Congratulations to Bright Star (B*)!
Tyler Ingram August 22nd, 2008 at 07:01:49[Link]
@Bright Star no problem! I like running contests, I just need to get more stuff to give out! lol
Paul RomeinAug 25, 2008 at 00:15:20
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Congrats! I just wanted to point out though that the link to the website in the post doesn’t work… should be “blogspot.com” instead of “blogpost.com”
haha – real similar words!
Tyler Ingram August 25th, 2008 at 06:06:23[Link]
@Paul Thanks for correct me! Not sure where I got that other URL from since I probably did copy&paste it from somewhere.