It seems like only yesterday I blogged about reaching 16,000 tweets, and the wins of focused tweeting, but the day before yesterday I’ve already crossed the 17,000 mark, and am now approaching a major milestone — that of 4,000 followers. And, as tweeted yesterday I’ve decided to put together a contest around it.

The idea is simple: guess the date and time when I’m gonna reach 4,000 Twitter followers — get the prize.

Here are the full rules:

Conditions: Through the “Comments” area below attempt to guess the date and time, ensuring your time is listed in EST (i.e. GMT – 4:00)

Deadline: 12:00 pm EST on October 25, 2011

Prize: Autographed copy of any one of my 3 books.

Restrictions: No more than 2 guesses per participant. Will ship within U.S. only. Rest of the world – electronic copy.

Now, since with tools like TwitterCounter, it is fairly easy to pinpoint the date, it is essential that you list the time to participate. The person whose guess ends up being closest to the reality, will win.

Three days ago I’ve put together a new contest where I asked you to guess the time and place where these photos were taken.

We’ve had 10 guesses made (from the Great Lakes to the Black Sea) but only one was extremely close to the truth — EZM’s guess has almost hit the nail on the head! The correct answer is:

Location: Komarovo, Russia
Date (wasn’t required): June 26, 2011
Time: midnight

Surprised? No, there’s no typo there! The location was fairly easy to pinpoint if you’re following my tweets, and EZM obviously is, but the time was the tricky part of the contest. It’s that time of the year when the famous Russian “white nights” make St. Petersburg and its surroundings even more special. Some perceive them as romantic, others — as alarming… I personally belong to the latter group…

For you to be able to visualize this better, the arrow shows where exactly this place (Komarovo, Russia) is on the below map:

The original contest rules were:

The person whose answers end up being the closest to the reality will receive a free copy of my newest book, Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day…

So, congratulations to EZM (email me your mailing address for the book!!), and thanks to everyone who has participated. I hope you’ve had as much fun as I did.

It’s been a while since I have had a contest that didn’t require you to do much but post an answer to a question/riddle… So, I’ve decided to put one together for you today.

Below you will find three photographs which have been taken within a 10 minute period. You want to guess the place where they were taken, and the time… The person whose answers end up being the closest to the reality will receive a free copy of my newest book, Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day… So, here are the pictures:

IMPORTANT: Every participant may post up to 2 guesses. The winner will be announced as soon as the correct info is posted, or by midday (EST) of July 1, 2011, whichever happens/comes sooner.

Happy guessing!!

A month and a half ago I announced a photo contest for the best picture with my newest book, “Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day” [details here]. Thank you to those of you who participated. The day has come for me to announce the winners (based on the votes cast here).

……..and the winners of our awesome prizes are:

FIRST PLACE — Dan Herman from Florida with his “best affiliate marketing book at the best beach” picture:

SECOND PLACE — Stephen Daimler from Pennsylvania with his below baby alligator picture:

To both of the above guys: I’m honored that you have made me (or my book) a part of your vacation!

…and THIRD PLACE — Eric Nagel from New York state (I believe, Eric’s was actually the very first customer picture posted on my book page; so, thank you for starting it all!):

All winners, please email me to claim your prizes. We have some amazing ones there for you! Thanks again for your participation, congratulations, and see you at Affiliate Summit East 2011 in New York City!!

Many of you have already heard of my newest book, Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day, a step-by-step manual on setting up, launching, and managing affiliate programs. It has already hit bestseller lists, received a number of interesting reviews, and I am excited to see all of this…

However, to make things exciting not only for me, but also for my readers, I have gotten together some sponsors, and decided to put together a contest around the book. It’s gonna be a photo contest, and we’ll utilize Amazon’s capability of uploading customer images with a product in it:

The rules are simple:

1. Upload your picture with the book (try to be innovative!) by May 31, 2011.

2. The winner(s) will be judged by the number of votes received.

3. Voting will naturally begin on the day you upload the picture, but the winners will be announced on June 15, 2011.

The total prize fund exceeds $1,600 $1,700 (see the edit at end of post), and here’s are the prizes and how they’ll get distributed:

FIRST PLACE:

• Gold Pass to Affiliate Summit East 2011 (value:$279-$549)
• 2-year subscription* to Search Marketing Standard (value: $66.48)
• 1-year subscription to Visibility Magazine (value: $39.80)
• “Marketing with Social Media” Wiley book set, which includes 4 books from An Hour a Day series: Social Media Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Twitter Marketing, and YouTube and Video Marketing (total value: $80-$120)
• Autographed copy of any three of my books (value: $18-$20)
• A copy of Always Be Testing autographed by Bryan Eisenberg (value: $20-30)

SECOND PLACE:

• Gold Pass to Affiliate Summit East 2011 (value: $279-$549)
• 1-year subscription to Search Marketing Standard (value: $34.99)
• “Marketing with Social Media” Wiley book set, which includes 4 books from An Hour a Day series: Social Media Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Twitter Marketing, and YouTube and Video Marketing (total value: $80-$120)
• A copy of Always Be Testing autographed by Bryan Eisenberg (value: $20-30)

THIRD PLACE:

• 1-year subscription to Search Marketing Standard (value: $34.99)
• “Marketing with Social Media” Wiley book set, which includes 4 books from An Hour a Day series: Social Media Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Twitter Marketing, and YouTube and Video Marketing (total value: $80-$120)
• A copy of Always Be Testing autographed by Bryan Eisenberg (value: $20-30)

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*All magazine subscriptions are U.S. domestic for print versions or digital editions for the rest of the world

Looking forward to your entries!!

[EDIT of 6:05 pm EST] Bryan Eisenberg, author of foreword to my book, has just tweeted that he’ll throw in a couple of signed copies of his bestselling Always Be Testing for the winners. Thank you, Bryan! Now, our prize fund exceeds $1,700!!

The day has finally come and today we’re drawing 3 winners of the Gold Passes to Affiliate Summit West 2011.

We’ve had over 30 entrants. So, everyone had a 1 in 10 chance of winning.

Even if you haven’t won, I hope you will enjoy the video of the drawing:

The winners are:

1. Ken Karlen
2. Andrew Pincock
3. David Aktary

Congratulations to the winners (check your emails!), and thanks to everyone who participated! This was fun.

We’ve received 20 entries for the 400th Day Contest: Computer & Internet Jokes. It’s time to choose the winners, and I need your help with this. I’m posting a public poll below, and inviting you to vote for your favorite joke(s).

The poll will be open from now until 02/25/2010, and it is a multiple options poll — so please check all of the jokes that you like before hitting that “Vote” button:

Best of luck to all the participants, and looking forward to announcing the winners!!

It seems like this has been just yesterday, but another 100-day period has passed, and since in the course of it I have consistently blogged at least once a day, I feel like it’s a good time to celebrate. Yes, we’re gonna have another contest!! This time we have over $1,000 worth of prizes from 7 different sponsors, and I would like to thank them all for contributing.

On this 400th day of my non-stop blogging I think it is good to have some laughing fun, and the contest I’m starting now is going to be about jokes. The details, rules, and information on prizes may be found below…

– CONTEST RULES –

1. Topic: computer & Internet-related jokes (jokes about developers, webmasters, online marketers, web analysts, and anyone related to computers or e-commerce qualify!)
2. Restrictions and details: 1 joke per comment, no more than 3 jokes per contestant
3. Deadline: to participate in the contest, post your jokes by February 19, 2010
4. Further process: once all entries are in, I will post a poll so that people could vote for their favorite jokes. The poll will run from 02/19 till 02/25/2010 which is when the winners will be announced
5. Prizes: we will have three prizes (details below)

– PRIZES –

1st Place

• Gold Pass (~ $280 value) to Affiliate Summit East 2010 [affiliate program: on ShareASale]

and:

• Course of your choice (value $249-269) from Legacy Learning Systems [affiliate program: on ShareASale]

2nd Place

• $100 gift certificate from JensonUSA.com [affiliate program: on ShareASale]

and:

• $100.00 gift certificate from UpscaleLighting.com [affiliate program: on ShareASale and Google].

3rd Place

• $50 gift card from DaySpring [affiliate program: on Commission Junction]

and:

• $25 gift card from LCI Paper [affiliate program: coming up]

Additionally, each of the above three winners will also receive an Estrella Journey ring (~$90.00 value + free shipping) from TopJewels.com [affiliate program: coming up].

Looking forward to reading your entries!