Three weeks ago, I officially announced the launching of the Revolution theme affiliate program. I am very pleased with results so I decided to run a contest with it that will last the entire month of March. See the contest prizes/rules below.
1st prize - 4 night Bahama Cruise & $500 spending cash
Sailing out of Miami, Florida, Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas will stop in Nassau, Bahamas; CocoCay, Bahamas; Key West, Florida. I will personally book the cruise with you and an official Royal Caribbean certified vacation planner to ensure that you get the best service. This is a cruise for two, and available dates to take this cruise are Oct 06, Oct 13, Oct 20, Oct 27, Nov 03, Nov 10, Nov 17, Dec 01, Dec 08 - all dates in the year 2008.
2nd prize - Samsung 19″ Flat-Panel HDTV, Revolution All-Inclusive Package or $500 cash
The Samsung HDTV, featuring a built in high definition TV tuner and a Game mode, which enhances dark areas and sharpens the picture for a lush, realistic experience from your favorite console. The Revolution All-Inclusive Package will give you lifetime access to all of the current Revolution themes, as well as any future themes. Or you can take the $500 cash prize, which will be sent to your Paypal account.
3rd prize - $250 cash or gift certificate to your favorite online retailer
Receive a $250 gift certificate to your favorite online retailer - Apple, Best Buy, Target, The Gap, Old Navy, Sports Authority, Amazon.com or any place of your choice. Or you can take the $250 cash prize, will be sent to your Paypal account.
Contest Rules:
- The contest will begin on March 1st, and run until 12:00 midnight March 31st
- The people who generate the 3 highest amount of affiliate sales (in US dollars) throughout the course of the month will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes
- To enter the contest, you must be a Revolution affiliate - you can sign up here to become one
- You must post on your blog and linkback with the details of this contest
- Self-purchases made with your own affiliate code will NOT count
- You can use any of the affiliate banner images from the Revolution site
Feel free to be creative with promotion of the Revolution themes and this contest - you can use PPC advertising campaigns such as Google AdWords, write up a detailed blog post and submit it to Digg, have your friends write posts as well with your affiliate code and use your networking abilities to spread the word in any way possible.
If you have any questions about this contest, please feel free to contact me. I wish you all the best of luck, and look forward to the contest. Remember, the contest will begin as the clock strikes midnight on March 1st!
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Sounds like an interesting contest! I’m up for the challenge.
Wow that just totally outplays my $5000 competition. Eeek, good luck everyone!
PremiumWP - good deal, looking forward to having you in the contest!
Jacob - how can that outplay yours? Your prizes still total more than mine, and besides, it’s thankfully not a contest competition between us!
Outstanding promotion!! It’s a great way to promote your affiliate program AND it serves as link bait as well.
Good luck with the contest! I wish I could say it’s inspired me to become an affiliate… but I had already done so. (BTW: I was pushing your themes to my clients without the affiliate program though! They’re just that good!)
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Hi Kathy - thanks for the comment, and for the post on your site - it’s a shame we never got the chance to work together on your client projects, but I suppose we’re both too busy, right? A good problem to have. (And I appreciate your comment about the theme’s being too good!)
Brian,
I’m still awaiting the go ahead with that client on the commencement of her custom blog theme… obviously it’s been more than a year! And THAT is why I put a 90 day time limit on all my proposals!
Which is why I think selling a theme and allowing other designers to customize it is positively BRILLIANT on your part!!!
Then again, I should expect as much from a Colts fan!
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Brian,
This is a great contest with great prizes! Post has been published
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Great contest. Awesome prizes.
Not to throw a wet blanket on things, but the NCAA and the Illinois High School Association own the trademark to the term “March Madness.”
You might wanna huddle with a lawyer to make sure you’re not violating it. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t say for sure. But I do seem to recall the trademark holders have successfully sued car dealers that used the term.
Hi nice contest.
But Darren with Mimbo Pro is introducing some very interesting features. Will you follow up the race?
* A custom script that automatically crops and resizes images
* Google Analytics and Feedburner options in the control panel
* Advertising management in the control panel
* A built-in contact form with control panel options
* Control panel options for the carousel, lead story and featured stories  total homepage control, no more editing templates manually!
* Attractive custom templates for: search results, date archives, sitemap, contact, author archives and category archives
* Author highlighting and gravatars in the comments section
* Tabbed separation of comments and trackbacks
* Printer-friendly rendering of single post pages
* Custom image gallery template that pulls from all uploaded images
* Dynamic subpage menus for parent pages
Haha, of course not but a holiday wouldn’t go astray! I will post a link about it this week! It is a good way to run a competition, you don’t usually see these types.
Thanks everyone for your comments - I did change the name of the contest, to avoid and legal issues.
Ellie, in regards to your question, I am slowly working towards various things with my themes. Some of Darren’s features are contingent upon his themes, and wouldn’t apply to mine. I am beginning to implement theme options, as seen in the Pro Media theme.
Another thing I am doing is coding phpBB3 forum templates (available for free) for all of my Revolution themes.
OH wow Brian, what a great contest. I am going to have to get my oars in order and sign up for this one. So exciting indeed. Good luck with your contest!!! (The dates in October for the Cruise, one of those days is my birthday that would be something else)
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What a difference a year makes. Brian, I’ve been admiring your work for awhile now and just purchased your Revolution Pro Media theme.
This is off topic - but out of curiosity, I visited archive.org to see what your site looked like a year ago. Here it is:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070103220838/http://www.briangardner.com/
What a difference a year can make when someone follows their passion with commitment! Congratulations on your success!
Best Regards, Sean
Revolution and Mimbo are two different approach and concept to a magazine style content with WP. Revolution, Mimbo, WPRemix has started to expose the capabilities of WP as a content platform.
Brian, now that you’re thinkering with PHPBB, would you also consider bbPress?
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Brian: Thanks for hosting such a fantastic contest! It sounds like great fun. I wrote a post about it and linked to this contest page.
http://thesuccessspace.com/2008/03/01/march-revolution-affiliate-contest/
Best of luck to everyone!
Lisa - no problem, I just got done reading your post, even before you left the comment. Great job!
Hey Brian,
You know I LOVE your themes.
I was therefore thrilled to hear about your new affiliate program and glad to share the news about your contest with my readers. Best of luck to all!
Cheers,
Ros
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This is exciting. I am already running a Revolution banner on one of my sites. I just need to write about the contest to be eligible to join.