Craziest Blog Contest Ever Ends with a BANG – Are You a Winner?
April 2, 2008 - Written by Gyutae Park
So about the Hummer… That was an April Fools joke. Hopefully none of you were fooled too badly, but the way things are going with this contest, a Hummer in the prize pool is hardly unbelievable.
It’s been a long 3 week contest with unbelievable results. Racking up all of the entries, putting the data into spreadsheets, and randomly selecting winners in Excel took nearly 10 hours. Its 6 AM here and I’ve been up all night doing this. I guess a crazy contest deserves a crazy ending, no? Anyway, without further adieu, here it is… The winners of the Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen!
- Yebot – $650 Cash from Azoogle Ads
- Eric Nagel - $500 Cash from PepperJam Network
- Tevin Anderson – $250 Cash from NeverblueAds
- Lori of Blogging Cents – $200 Cash from BidVertiser
- Michael Heindel – $200 Cash from AffSpy
- Emma of It’s Write Now – $150 Cash from Max Bounty
- Andrew Pavelski – $100 Cash from The Social Millionaire
- Gerri – $50 Cash from Web Hosting Resource Kit
- Christopher Marsh – Ipod Touch 8GB from Shoemoney ($299 value)
- Jason Berlinsky – 1 Full Conference Pass to Affiliate Summit East ($949 value)
- Alan LeStourgeon – 3 Month Membership to Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program ($300 value)
- Wisdom Teeth Removal – 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value)
- Jon Lee – 12 Month Subscription to RankSense Professional ($630 value)
- Flimjo – $2,000 in email marketing services from Software Projects ($2,000 value)
- Mike Maring – 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan from Purple Internet Marketing ($800 value)
- Tyler Cruz – The Secret Classroom from Joel Comm & Next Internet Millionaire ($497 value)
- Collin LaHay – Autographed Copy of Kris’ Jones Upcoming Book on SEO ($20 value)
- Carl Thomas – Copy of the SEO Handbook 2008 from HuoMah ($10 value)
- Hitesh Shah – 1 Year Social Marketing Course from Ka-Boom-Marketing ($588 value)
- Joel Escol – 6 Month Membership to Affiliate Teachings ($150 value)
- Wisdom – 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value)
- K-IntheHouse – 1 Year Membership to Hlola ($354 value)
- BZ – 2 Year Subscription to GoStats Pro ($180 value)
- Irish – 1 License to Website Optimal Performance ($97 value)
- Jamie Harrop, Hafiz Dhanani, Tom Barrett, Shotgun Spratling, Andrew Pavelski - 5 Licenses to OIO Publisher (5 winners – $37 value each)
- Tim of Yimto, Chris of Wise Blogging, Mike Cobb – 3 Licenses to WP Auctions Gold (3 winners – $25 value each)
- Bunny, hts, Epiphany – 3 Licenses to OptIn Comments (3 winners – $77 value each)
- Louis Liem & Marios Alexandrou – 2 Exclusive Blog Themes from Unique Blog Designs (2 winners – $100 value each)
- DotDriven & Ryan Knuppel – 2 Revolution Wordpress Blog Themes from Brian Gardner (2 winners -$80 value each)
- Jason Bacchetta – Wordpress Coding from CSS Rockstars ($209 value)
- Wisdom – Custom Blog Design from Pixel Jig ($500 value)
- Eric DeLabar - Logo Design from Xologo ($100 value)
- Jake Cohen – Custom made blog theme from Uzzz ($350 value)
- Ronda Story Lady – Custom web design from Underground Web Designs ($325 value)
- Jcyreus – Custom Wordpress design from Future ROI ($200 value)
- Marc of Residual Income – 1 Year Swamp Plan Web Hosting from Host Gator ($150 value)
- Jason Bacchetta - 1 Hour Blog Optimization Consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips ($175 value)
- Erica DeWolf - Blog Consultation Report from Jay Francis Hunter of Scribbles and Words ($90 value)
- Chad Coronato, Anuj Seth – 1 Year Sponsored Category Listing & 1 Year Premium Upgraded Membership from Blog Catalog (2 winners – $300 & $72 value)
- narendra.s.v – 3 Fast Passes, 3 Featured Statuses, and 5000 Credits from Entrecard
- Bernard Griffiths – 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on AndyBeard.eu ($100 value)
- Kay Frenzer – 1 Month Text Link Ad on Ades Blog ($90 value)
- unTECHy – 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on John Cow ($125 value)
- Cecile Pryor – 1 Month 468×60 Banner Ad on Bloggin-Ads.com ($60 value)
- BZ – 6 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on JonLee.ca ($300 value)
- Michael Zebold – 2 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on Affiliate Confession ($70 value)
- Crystal Super Goddess, Pingo, Santosh P – 2 Month 125×125 Banner Ad & 2 Reviews on Internet Babel (3 winners – $130 value)
- Michael Heindel – 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on Blog About Your Blog ($20 value)
- Thuan – 4 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on Hammad Bhatti ($100 value)
- Eric Gray – 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on The World of Office, XP and Vista Tips & Tricks ($90 value)
- Derek Salyers – 1 Paid Review on Mixed Market Arts ($40 value)
- Top 54 - 4 $25 & 50 $5 Pre-paid Calling Cards from Pingo ($25 & $5 value each)
- Carol B. - 1 Paid Review on Winning the Web – sponsored by 1 Cool File ($100 value)
- T-shirts coming soon as well.
Congratulations to all of the winners!
If you see your name above, you have until Sunday night to claim your prize. Contact me and I’ll get your prize set up for you. Otherwise, I’m sure a lot of people would love to have it. I’ll be out of town for the next 5 days so don’t freak out if it takes longer for me to respond.
Now I’m off to bed, then flying to San Francisco for the Elite Retreat tomorrow afternoon. I’ll keep you updated.
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Wow…just in time! Was off to bed myself, and figured I’d check to see if any new posts were made. Wasn’t expecting to see the winners already. I won too! Gratz to everyone who won something.
Thanks Gyutae for the effort you put in to make this contest happen. Was definitely fun, and I know it served its purpose. WTW and all the sponsors got a ton of exposure I’m sure. I’m currently using Twitter and Pepperjam now because of it.
By the way, have fun at the Elite Retreat!
Thank You Gyutae & all the sponsors that made this contest one of the best ever.
Michael
YESSS!!! It’s my theme! MY THEME!!! gyahahahahhaha…..!!!!
Thanks for the contest, Gyutae!
Awesome! I won one of the prizes
HOLY COW!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!
Thank you so much Gyutae, BIDVERTISER, and ALL the other sponsors! I can’t believe I won something!…I just want to cry:)
Congrats to all who won something!
Great. Congrats to all winners..
I won kaboom marketing
Awesome and congrats to all the winners as well as to Gyutae and all the sponsors for such a huge finish. Can’t wait to see the next one Gyutae though I assume it will be hard to top this…unless you really do find a sponsor to cover a hummer lol
. Also can’t wait to see your post contest reports and stats and new tips. Bet you are glad you can almost get started back to “regular” blogging again lol.
Thanks Gyutae and all the sponsors!
PS I sooo wish I was able to go to Elite Retreat with you lol. Maybe by next year I will make enough to pay for it…or get lucky and win a ticket heh.
Have fun and be sure to share all that you learn with us
I didn’t win. Next time then
hi thanks for choosing me but i won 3 Fast Passes, 3 Featured Statuses, and 5000 Credits from Entrecard!!! and and BIG news than this contest for me is that i won $500 from Kontera as best video!
but am happy with both contests! 
WOW!! I won a prize!!
Gyutae, thanks for setting up the best and craziest contest I have seen and also to all the sponsors who made it possible.
Yes! Thanks Gyutae! Thanks AzoogleAds!
Yes I won! Thanks Gyutae Park for this crazy yet very awesome
contest. For those who didn’t win better luck next time.
woot! I won! Awesome!!!
Thanks for the contest, and thanks to Pepperjam for sponsoring this great prize!
Congrats to all the other winners, too!
Congrats Eric, that’s a pretty sweet prize. I won a pretty decent one as well. Congrats to everyone else too.
Easily the best contest ever! Thanks for the prize, and congrats to all who won!
What an exciting contest!! I had lots of fun.
Congrats to all the winners!
Thanks for pulling my name for the review by the “Winning the Web”. I can’t wait to see it.
I WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES YES YES!!!!
Christopher Marsh – Ipod Touch 8GB from Shoemoney ($299 value)
ILL TAKE IT WOOOOOT
Woot! Woot! Woot! That’s one woot for every month of the prize that I won. Looking forward to learning from Aaron Wall and his SEO book and training. I’ve won more stuff entering contests on the net than I have my whole life. Cool!
3 wins? cool! I recently won an iPod, too. Looking for the next contest…
Actually it’s just one prize that lasts for 3 months, therefore the 3 woots!
This is awesome, shout out to Gyutae for running an amazing contest & the social millionaire for sponsoring my prize
One more big shout out to OIO publishing for my other prize! Awesome
Nothing for me this time around
I won a prize, thanks Gyutae
I won “The Secret Classroom from Joel Comm & Next Internet Millionaire ($497 value)”
Does anyone who won an Ipod Touch from Shoemoney ($299 value) want to trade? E-mail me at tylercruz@gmail.com if you do.
lol.
Now wait for the spam attacks.
I would like to trade too
Booooooooo
Just kidding, congrats to the winners!
dang all those prizes and I get nada.
Congrats to the winners and the one who won my prize!
Congratulations everyone, and thank-you for my prize 150$, very cool.
I didn’t see a trackback this morning so I assumed I wasn’t a winner. So I was pleasantly surprised when I read your list of winners. 
Thanks, again, Emma
I did not win anything, oh well ^_^
Grats to all the winner!
Wow – I won! This was a fun contest and I learned about some sites I’d never heard of before. Thanks to Gyutae Park and all the generous sponsors.
I won again! Thanks WTW!
Congrats to all the winners! I thought I won something when I was searching for the name “MIKE”, but I guess there’s more than one
Anyways, may the winner please contact me on my blog and I’ll get you set up
-Mike
W00t!
Thanks to Gyutae and NeverBlueAds for my $250. Congrats. Take a day off. You deserve it
Contest was well done!
Congrats everyone.
I may have emailed you from my other address to claim the ASE pass…could you shoot me an email at whatever address won?
Jason
Wow! I won! I’m going to be on the Cow for 1 month!!!! I don’t comment there but I am a frequent visitor and long time admirer of both Cow & Chow. I never dreamed of being on Cow’s site!! Now I just have to come up with a 125X125 banner…
Congrats to all who won, and to those who didn’t – You’re still a winner to me
Woohoo! I won a $10 ebook!
Dammit! Eh, I guess I’ll go back to playing the lottery?
Jay
Congrats to all the winner.
Great Contest Gyutae!!!
I won something? I thought I won’t get anything…This contest is really great!
And the cool car goes to whom?
Nothing
(
Thanks and Underground Web Design, Gyutae!
And Gyutae, I’d love to interview you on my radio show about this contest and what you’ve learned. It would make a great product for YOU to use.
Ronda.
We want to hear the full scoop on Elite Retreat! Don’t party with Shoemoney too much, he’s liable to get you in trouble.
I am going to spam you contest non-winners to join my contest *evil grant from Gyutae! haha! To those who have not won anything from Gyutae, it’s time to move on and join other blog contest.
There are so many winners here today, congrats to all!
Just like putting your business card in every ipod giveaway at trade shows. I never win.
Well congrats to the top 50+ winners that also get a Pingo phone card. Try it out and let me know what you think of the service. I hope we can establish an affiliate partnership.
Brian
Affiliate Manager
Pingo.com
I won the 8GB Ipod Touch I have sent address details to your email. Thank you for having such a great contest.
Christopher Marsh
I won the hostgator hosting package so I’m stoked. Fairplay everyone – seems like this was a big success.
This contest bring happiness and pleasure to many people…Gyutae, I forget to say thank you for the great contest and prize. Enjoy your time on Elite Retreat…
Won the internet babel combo, thank you!
Waiting for my prizes
thanks to all the sponsors.
Wooo!!! I won the internet babel combo too.. COngrats you all.. I really had hopes to win an Ipod.. anyways all it matters I got something out of nothing..
Amazing thank you sponsers and winning the web..
Congrats everybody for winning.
Once again many thanks to all involved in this contest.
Michael
Some people just have no courtesy. If you have a problem with Gyutae, you should take it up with him instead of smearing his reputation on his own blog.
Thanks for the back up Keith. I actually received an email that the comment was posted by an imposter.
Please see my below comment regarding impersonation of myself.
That post was not made by me…someone is impersonating me. I have emailed Mr. Park about its deletion.
Jason
Crazy…:D
Good job verifying it up Jason
Gyutae park is the man 
Some people are just to jealous 
No, some people are just…ya know….morons. Like the kid who posted under my name.
Jason
Btw whats the update with the t-shirts?
do i get a t-shirt atleast for participation?
Who won the H2 Hummer?