January
20
phew, I have managed to get back to the pc after a little while away and just in time (well, close) to announce the winners of the PacktPub contest.
All someone had to do was visit the PacktPub website and choose a book they want to win, link to it in the comments and post about the contest on their site.
First winner is Dominique Goh from http://www.dominiquegoh.com/ who wins a Wordpress Theme Design book by Tessa Blakeley Silver
Second winner is Kelly from http://www.myqute.com who wins the Wordpress for Business bloggers book.
well done you two! I’ll send your email addresses to packtpub tomorrow (just time for you to change your mind about which book if you email me quickly) and they will send you your books as a PDF attachment soon after.
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November
9
The Contest did start and after my host managed to kill a nasty process eating thingy on the server, we have our first winner!
Witchypoo not content with winning the sneaky quick contest has continued rampaging through the contest blogs and leaving great comments, she ends up back here and wins again!
Look how the win appears in the comment.
The next prize will be available tomorrow but don’t rest your keyboard yet! the more comments you make on the day before the prize is available then the more chance you have of winning!
claim instructions are sent by the system to the email address registered at commentluv.com so now is a good time to make sure that you can receive emails from commentluv.com. You can do a lost password routine and not click the link sent to you to make sure you can receive emails from my server.
I see a lot of bounces come back from peoples mail boxes saying that it’s full, if the claim email doesn’t get through to you then you can’t claim. Check it today!
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February
22
There is a winner for the iPod portable speakers! I decided to let the Euromillions results decide on who would win by putting a number between 3 and 17 on each entry on this post and whoever matches the total of the two lucky stars will win (lucky stars are between 1 and 9 with no two numbers the same). If there aren’t enough entrants to cover all 15 possible numbers and the two lucky stars add up to a number higher then the winner will be decided by the lowest number that is between 3 and the last number assigned.
That winner is Maggies Musings who was assigned the number 4 which happens to be the only number that was within the range! how convenient! You need to notify me on this post or email at the address I used to comment on your blog before Tuesday to claim your prize or it goes to the next person that matches their number to the bonus on Wednesdays’ lotto draw….
Congratulations Maggie, I’ll come over and post a message to let you know…
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October
10
The Wednesday lotto results are in and can you believe it? the bonus number was 49 . OMG. that’s the only number that wasn’t allocated to anyone ! HAh! such good drama 
I mean, what are the chances of that happening??? (well, 1 in 49 actually but it feels like a million to one chance to me!)
As per the rules, if the bonus number happens to be number 49 the the winner will be whoever matches the first drawn number.
You win the headphones from Vmoda. I’ll post a message on your blog to remind you to contact me for your prize. Please leave your choice of colour on this message and email me your name and address so I can get your prize out to you! Choose colour 1,2,3 or 4 from the picture below (1 is at the top)
Well, that was exciting! I really fancy doing some more contests, I may want to have a monthly competition that involves people who comment on this blog, once my next version of CommentLuv is finished, I’ll see if I can put some code together so that commenters get automatically allocated a unique number on each (approved) comment and then have a raffle at the end of the month..
what do you think?….
oh and thanks to everyone for taking part, it was nice to see so many people make an effort with their posts and being so generous with their blog real estate. Keep watching this space for more contests!
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Contest ideas
November12
There are an ever increasing amount of comments being made every day, amazing to think it’s only been live for 4 days now!
3 people have won (1 person won twice!) already and there are going to be at least another 10 prizes to go out before 22nd Nov
I want to see if the contest page or a new one showing the current prize can attract some prize sponsors.. I put a link to buy any of the gadgets that I stock in my ebay store under each prize in the prize list and they are getting some pretty good clicks. I’ve sold more than the usual amount of memory cards in the past week and I’m sure it’s the contest doing it.
My idea is to code a widget that shows the current prize and who has donated it that can be displayed on the commentluv blogs that want to be part of the contest. I link it to a page on CommentLuv.com for the prize details including links to purchase the product at the sponsors site.
Given enough time for the contest to run, it could generate some good traffic and maybe more sales…
Maybe I can convince one of my suppliers to go with the idea and make a really good prize donation like an Asus eee PC or other fancy electronic gadget?
What do you think? I’d love to hear your opinion
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