Archive: Blog Battle Royale
The Blog Battle Royale IV Champion has been determined, and it is the owner of Besenjimom.com. The post she submitted for the contest is: http://www.basenjimom.com/2008/02/19/blog-battle-royale-pancreatic-cancer-awareness/.
The all-around awareness raised for Pancreatic Cancer, coupled with this blogger's recent experience of loss of her mother to the disease, were the determining factors in being named the Champion. If you have a few moments visit her blog and click on the "Pancreatic Cancer" category to read about her contribution to this cause.
We'll be working with this blogger in contributing $1,000 to the charity she supports! Please join me in offering-up congratulations.
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Several folks have been wondering what's going on with the latest round of the Blog Battle Royale contest. Well, the Finalists have been determined (by myself, Karen, and Glennis), and they are (in no particular order):
Submission #1
Title: Blog Battle Royale - Pancreatic Cancer Awareness
url: http://www.basenjimom.com/2008/02/19/blog-battle-royale-pancreatic-cancer-awareness/
Submission #2
Title: Why I Walk
url: http://www.3daymom.com/2008/02/22/why-i-walk/
Submission #3
Title: What cause does Family Caregiver Info support?
url: http://familycaregiver.info/what-cause-does-family-caregiver-info-support
We've reached out to some of our Advertisers who have previously run charity Opportunities/campaigns within our marketplace to help us decide on a Champion! We'll announce that individual at noon (12pm EST) next Wednesday, March 19th.
Great job on all the posts, and thanks to all who submitted an entry! Keep up the good work on supporting your causes, and please feel free to continue sharing your blogs with us.
For our three Finalists, please e-mail me directly at ashley[at]izea[dot]com with your mailing address and t-shirt size so I can mail out your Finalist PostiePack.
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Just a reminder that if you plan on submitting a post for round four of Blog Battle Royale, the "charity edition," it is due by 6pm EST this coming Monday (2/25). We've already received a couple of good ones, and I know of several others that are "in the works." This is a great opportunity to show others if you use your blog to champion for a specific cause, and to get others involved in your cause as well.
Just over a month ago we posted about our intention to get more involved with charity initiatives. And actually, Guest Blogger Skeet's post this past Friday was just the kick in the pants I needed to get things going.
The last Blog Battle Royale contest finished-up in January. It's been quiet on that front since, as we've been trying to think of some ways to reinvigorate the program, and make it more interesting and appealing to a larger audience. So here's what we've decided to do...and I truly hope our bloggers and advertisers will find it worthwhile.
Several months ago we published a post about Postie Drew and his use of his blog to support a specific cause. This really got me to thinking about other bloggers who utilize their blog for charity or support causes they believe in. It also seemed many Posties responded to donating to Habitat for Humanity over the holidays. So given that we'd like to kickoff the next round of Blog Battle Royale with a "charity twist," and want you all to get involved.
If you currently use or have ever used your blog to support a cause, or promote a cause or organization you believe in, craft and publish a post about it, and share it with us by leaving the post link in the comments field. The blog doesn't need to solely exist to support charity, but it should have at some point been active in supporting a cause. And please note the cause should be not-for-profit. In your post, tell us how exactly how you've used your blog, and any successes and/or accomplishment as a result. As always, the more creative the post the better response it will get, and the winning blog will ultimately be determined based on creativity and interest.
If you intend to participate in this round of Blog Battle Royale, please have your post submitted no later than next Monday, February 25 at 6pm EST. That's a full week and weekend to think about how you want to approach your post.
At this time five (3) finalists will be selected by myself, Karen, and Glennis -- the IZEA "Charity team -- and then a Finalist will be determined. The Champion will have $1,000 donated in their name, to their cause by IZEA.
Any questions? Feel free to leave them here in the comments section. We look forward to your involvement.
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Votes are in and the Blog Battle Royale III Champion remains undefeated: Postie Courtney. Congratulations, Courtney!
Courtney's the lucky recipient of: a customized badge to post on her blog, a badge on the IZEA blog linking over to her winning post, a Blog Battle Royale Champion t-shirt (signed by the entire IZEA team), and automatic inclusion in the next round of the competition.
Have you participated in past Blog Battle Royales? What have you enjoyed about it? Have you thought about participating but haven't ever taken the initiative? Tell us if you have some ideas or suggestions about how to improve this contest. We're always up for hearing innovative concepts.
And stay tuned for details on the next round of Blog Battle Royale...coming soon.
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5...4...3...2...1... The countdown has commenced! Believe it or not round three of the Finalist voting for Blog Battle Royale is finally here (in leiu of a couple of challenges). All of the Finalists have received their iPod Touch and have had a chance to spend some time with it.
Their posts talking about their experience with the iTouch can be found listed below, in no particular order. If you would like to vote for your favorite you'll need to head over to the PayPerPost Boards. The links there correspond to the ones found on this post. If you're not registered on the boards you'll have to take a moment to do so, but it's well-worth your time. PLEASE read through all five posts, and vote based on the one you think truly deserves the title of Champion. I know it's easy to vote for someone simply because they're a friend, but all five bloggers put time and energy into their post, so they at least deserve a read.
FINALISTS:
1. Apple iPod Touch – An Epic Product Review
2. Perfection - The First Day of My Life With The iTouch
3. In The Land of Don’t Touch, Comes iTouch
4. My iPod Touch: It Ain’t No Walkman.
5. iGot my iPod!
Voting for this round will remain open through Friday, January 4, 2008 at 12pm EST. That's one week, and plenty of time to encourage your family, friends, and blog buddies to participate. Remember, voting should really be based on the creativity of the post, and how you feel the blog author presents their experience with the product.
Good luck, Finalists!
This contest is still alive-and-well! As I mentioned earlier in the week there was a slight mix-up with a couple of the shipments from Apple to the bloggers, but for the most part we've got things sorted out. One blogger is still waiting to receive her iPod Touch replacement but it should be in her hands very shortly. Given that, our Blog Battle Royale III Finalists should have their posts to us by Friday, December 28th @ 12pm EST. You can either submit the posts here in the comments field, or you can e-mail them directly to me at ashley[at]izea[dot]com.
Our current Blog Battle Royale Champion has won both previous rounds, and this is soley because she has taken the time to be creative and think outside of the ''blogging box!'' So try to be clever with your posts -- let's make this a true ''battle.'' As a reminder here are the prizes at stake:
- Blog Battle Royale III Champion title
- customized brag badge to display on your blog and/or website
- badge here on the IZEA blog with a link back to your winning post
- a Blog Battle Royale Champion t-shirt with IZEA teammember signatures
- automatic inclusion in the next round of BBR
- and of course, your iTouch and $50 Subway card
Not a bad deal, huh? Good luck! And may the best blogger win.
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Some of you may have been wondering what's going on with Blog Battle Royale III. The finalist voting round was originally scheduled to occur a couple of weeks ago at the beginning of December but, unfortunately, there was a little...well, challenge. Two of our finalists accidentally received iPod Classics instead of iTouches (mix-up with the order from Apple), so I've been working with them to have the Classics sent back and replaced with the correct item.
I've been in continuous contact with the finalists over the past couple of weeks, and they're standing-by with their review posts. Right now the iTouch replacements are [supposedly] in route to the two bloggers who received the Classics, and should be receiving them any day now. As soon as they get them I'll publish a new date to have the posts turned-in to me. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that'll be sometime next week (before Christmas).
I apologize for any inconvenience, and truly appreciate our finalists being so patient while this situation is being rectified. (Hey, they're not complaining -- they got a $50 Subway gift card and a free iTouch!) Trust me...I've already had several phone calls with Apple!
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Update! Update! Update!
The Blog America Tour is over, PostieCon was a success, the BCA winners have been revealed, and I'm back in the office now to carry on things with the Blog Battle Royale extravaganza! Having said that, I have received the addresses and t-shirt sizes for the following:
- All Hail The Sammich Artist
- To to Incorporate Subway into a Hypnosis Session
I am, however, still in need of the information for these bloggers:
- Fresh Fit In West Virginia Means- Your Cottage Cheese Thighs Look Nice In Spandex.
- Diving Into My Own Sub
I apologize if you've already sent these to me. For some reason I haven't received them yet, but if you'll contact me directly at ashley[at]izea[dot]com I'll get things out immediately so you can start your review.
As a reminder, each of these folks receive an iPod Touch, a $50 gift card to Subway, and the potential of being named the third Champion (which comes along with a fantastic brag badge, courtesy of Marty).
Since the items just came in and you'll need some time to play around with them, let's make your review post due no later than Monday, November 26th at noon (EST). This will allow for the products to be shipped to you, and give you a little extra time since the Thanksgiving holiday is coming up.
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Submissions to Blog Battle Royale III closed this past Monday, at noon EDT. All posts have been reviewed--this time by the Customer Love team--and have been narrowed down to four (4) Finalists. Now remember, our current Champion gets an "automatic in" for this round, so that's a total of five.
The Finalists are (in no particular order):
- Fresh Fit In West Virginia Means- Your Cottage Cheese Thighs Look Nice In Spandex.
- To to Incorporate Subway into a Hypnosis Session
- Diving Into My Own Sub
- All Hail The Sammich Artist
As a reminder, each of these folks receive an iPod Touch, a $50 gift card to Subway, and the potential of being named the third Champion (which comes along with a fantastic brag badge, courtesy of Marty).
I'm still waiting on the iPods to be delivered to the office but as soon as they are I'll send them out. Given that, please e-mail me directly at Ashley[at]PayPerPost[dot]com with your mailing information (no PO Boxes), as well as your t-shirt size. To give enough time for your items to reach you, and for you publish your post on the product review, final posts are due Wednesday, November 14th by noon (EDT); you can send them to me via e-mail, or post them here. If for some reason the items don't reach the Finalists by then, we'll make accommodations.
Congratulations to our Finalists! Thanks for participating. Stay tuned for updates....
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I never thought it would happen in a million years, but Courtney has taken the title of Blog Battle Royale Champion twice in a row. She did a fantastic job with her Roomba review and the review of the Dell Photo 926. She has now grabbed a new Roomba robot vacuum and a new printer, not to mention the fact that she automically gets the next product to review for Blog Battle Royale III (which is awesome). Will she make it three in a row? Only time will tell.
If you are not familiar with the Blog Battle Royale here is how it works (there are some slight changes here):
1. Write a blog posting about the subject below.
2. Post the URL to that blog posting in the comments or in the trackback of this post by next Monday at noon EST.
3. Four finalists will be chosen from all the submissions by Customer Love.
4. The four finalists will then receive a physical product to review and
keep. The finalists will also receive a limited edition Blog Battle Royale T-Shirt.
5. The winner will be chosen by popular vote on our blog. The winner gets a special champion t-shirt, a badge for their blog and a badge on our blog promoting them as the winner. They also get a buy into the finalist round for the next Battle meaning they get a free product to review in Blog Battle Royale IV.
This months qualifier blog topic is the Subway Fresh Fit site. The site is hilariousness. I love the commercials and wasn't even aware that they had a special site that went along with them. I would like the Badonkadunk Butt please.
What did you order? Are you tired of how nasty fast food burgers makes you feel? Do you eat at Subway? If so what do you get? We have a Subway right down the block and I get the same thing at least once a week:
- 12" Sweet Onion Teriyaki Chicken on Wheat
- American Cheese
- Tomatoes
- Banana Peppers
- Oatmeal cookies (only if I was good and went for a run that day)
- Lemonade (only 5 calories!)
Feel free to talk about this special site or Subway in general. I am just giving you some ideas. If you are a Subway fan show your colors. In high school I ate my fair share of Subway meatball subs. Maybe we can share one on my way to Vegas!
I want to see one of you chowing on a 6ft sub. That wouldn't really jive with the whole fresh fit thing, but it would be funny.
Now... how about the physical product review? Check this out... if you make it to the final 4 not only do you get a $50 Subway Card, you also get a brand new iPod Touch. You'll be eating your turkey sub while watching the latest episode of RockStartup. Freakin' awesome.
I wish you all luck. This a fun topic with a fantastic prize. Courtney has enough t-shirts... somebody needs to step up and be crowned the new champion. Where's Cass... Chad W. Smith.... Colleenie Weenie.... Techie... Jules... Marcus....???!?!? I need some old school guns to step up to the plate.
The Blog Battle Royale II votes are in and we have a winner! Postie Courtney, our reigning Champion, has won again by having the highest number of votes for her post Beast of a Printer - The Dell Photo 926. Courtney will get a cool brag badge to post on her site (different from the badge she got in the first round), a badge on our blog homepage pushing back to her post, and a Blog Battle Royale Champion t-shirt signed by the PPP Team! (Last time I forgot to have everyone sign!)
Congrats, Courtney, and thanks to everyone for their participation! Stay tuned for information on Blog Battle Royale III.
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Ladies & Gentleman, start your engines! Well, really I just need you to put on your game hats and vote for your favorite Blog Battle Royale II Finalist! Each finalist has received their Dell printer, and had a chance to review and post about them.
If you'd like to read the posts here they are (in no particular order):
- Dell 926 All-In-One printer
- Got My New Dell Printer
- Mail Call
- The Dell Printer Review: Paying it Forward
- Dell Photo All-In-One Printer - a writer's review of the 926 printer
- Beast of a Printer - The Dell Photo 926
Once you've had a chance to read each post you'll have to head over to the PPP boards to cast your vote. Voting will remain open until 12:00pm (noon) EST on Friday, October 19th. At that time the Blog Battle Royale II Champion will be named, and awarded their brag badge. We'll also put the Champion badge on our blog, with a link back to the winner's blog.
5...4...3...2...1...let the voting begin!
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Just a quick reminder to all the Blog Battle Royale II Finalists that your posts on the Dell All-In-One Inkjet 926 are due in by noon today (EST). If you haven't already you can send them directly to me at Ashley[at]PayPerPost[dot]com. Once I receive them all I'll post them so others can read them and vote on their favorite!
It's cheesey, I know, and completely outdated by now, but I'm not a morning person and it's the first thing that came to mind! Anyway, all of the the Dell All-In-One Inkjet 926 printers--along with the Finalist T-shirts--will be mailed out to the Blog Battle Royale II Finalists today (most of them actually went out yesterday). They're being shipped DHL ground, so the Finalists should be in receipt by mid-next week...Thursday at the latest.
Given that, the blog post about the printer should be due the following Monday by noon EST. That's Monday, October 15th. Please leave the post urls in the "Comments" section in this post -- you're also welcome to e-mail them directly to me at Ashley[at]PayPerPost[dot]com. I'll then collect the post urls and display them in a new post, along with a link to the boards so that voting for the new Champion can commence.
Remember, be as original and creative as possible! The September Blog Battle Royale Champion had an awesome [original] video imbedded in her post, and it's probably one of the reasons she won!
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I just realized that one of the "tie" votes is our Blog Battle Royale I Champion--who automatically receives the printer anyway--so there's really no need to have a tie-breaker! I'm going to pull the poll down. Sorry for any confusion!
Once the finalists have received their printer, had a chance to experience it and blog about it, I'll display the posts here. Then the Blog Battle Royale II Champion will be determined. If you take any photos wearing your shirt, and would like to share them with us please feel free! And if you'd like to send them to us in a frame we'll hang them on the The Great Wall of Posties!
Blog Battle II first-round "Finalist" voting has ended. Well, sort of. We actually have a tie for the fifth spot, and we need to have a tie-breaker! Remember, each finalist will receive a Dell All-In-One Inkjet 926 (within the next week), as will our Blog Battle Royale I Champion Courtney (click here if you missed her post).
With that, the two posts tied for the final spot are:
- Ask Yourself… (http://totaldismay.com/2007/09/22/ask-yourself/)
- Where has Jeeves Gone? (http://phantascene.blogspot.com/2007/09/where-has-jeeves-gone.html)
Please click here to visit the message boards, and vote for the post you think is most original & creative. That blogger will then be the final person in the top five. Voting will remain open until 12:00pm noon tomorrow (Tuesday).
For the following Bloggers, please e-mail me directly at Ashley(at)PayPerPost(dotcom) with your home address (where I will ship your printer) as well as your t-shirt size:
1. ask.com: new and improved!
2. Search Engine Showdown
9. ASK.com
12. Ask...and you shall receive
Just a reminder that voting for Blog Battle Royale II ends on Monday at noon (EST). If you haven't already, head-on over to the boards to vote for your favorite post!
The top five finalists--along with the Blog Battle Royale I Champion--will be sent a Dell All-In-One Inkjet 926 printer to blog about!
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Submissions for Blog Battle Royale II have been received! Thanks to all who participated, and for your creativity! Don't forget, the top five will be finalists, and will be up for the chance to be the next Champion!
Here are the post submissions:
1. ask.com: new and improved!
2. Search Engine Showdown
3. From AskJeeves.com to Ask.com
4. Answer Me a Question
5. Who do I ask?
6. Ask.com: We're on TV!
7. Ask About The Best Online Search Engine
8. Ask Yourself…
9. ASK.com
10. As Good As Google
11. Apostolos Gerasoulis and Ask.com
12. Ask...and you shall receive
13. Where has Jeeves Gone?
To vote for your favorite click here. Or you can visit the "Blog Battle Royale II: Ask.com" thread on the message boards*. Voting will close on Monday, October 1st at 12pm EST.
* You must log in or sign-up on the message boards to cast a vote.
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We've had some great entries come in for Blog Battle Royale II but I think many of you have been afraid to enter because you think you don't have enough traffic to win. This competition isn't about traffic, its about quality and creativity. Courtney, winner of Blog Battle Royale I doesn't necessarily have a ton of traffic. What she does have is the ability to write a great post. As she says:
"It's not about being popular, it's not about having the readership, if your work is good, it will shine among the other entries."
I agree Courtney, well said. In fact, if I was a lesser known blogger I would see this as the perfect chance to put myself on the map and grab some new readers. The odds of getting into the finals are pretty good as of today. You have a better than 1/15 chance of grabbing one of 5 new printers. So what are you waiting for? Go check it out and make your post.
