Two weeks ago, I held a small contest.
All you had to do to enter was subscribe to my RSS feed by email.
The prize was 1,500 Entrecard credits, with everyone sharing equally in 1,000 credits and one lucky winner getting an additional 500.
The contest generated 17 RSS by email subscribers, to whom I just sent 58 Entrecards each.
To decide the winner of the 500, I went to this site and asked it to give me 1 random number between 1 and 17. The result was “3″, so I picked the third email address on the list and sent that person an extra 500 Entrecards (for a total of 558).
Breakdown Of The Results
For 1,500 Entrecard credits I gained 17 new RSS subscribers. That’s a cost of 88 credits per subscriber. Considering the recent sale of 10,000 Entrecard credits for $61 on eBay, it works out to 54 cents per new subscriber. I’d call this contest a winner!
Want to run the same contest? Go over to PowerDropping.com and you’ll have 1,500 new Entrecard credits in just 5 days!
Thanks to everybody who participated. Try not to spend your credits all in one place 
either by Full Feed RSS or by email. Thanks!
Entries (RSS)
February 10th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Thanks for the creds. Walt.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
My pleasure…thanks for subscribing (and for the post on PowerDropping!)
February 10th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Thanks for the credits
February 11th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Hey, hey, hey!
I was the one who got lucky!!!
We were discussing this one in the forums earlier cause we were surprised how this happened hehe.