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By Andrew Ballenthin |
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How do you really know if the person advising your company on social media has the capability to deliver? One way is to find out if if they've participated in a Blog-Off contest. A Blog-Off contest offers social media enthusiasts and professionals the opportunity to be independently assessed by judges and statistics on their capability of implementing the fundamentals of social media marketing. On December 1-12, 2009 28 people from 5 countries entered Blog-Off II to find out how they measured up: following are the results.
Blog-Off II 2009 Winners
Congratulations in your demonstration of excellent social media fundamentals in this contest.
1st Place - Sean Nelson
2nd Place - Sam Diener
3rd Place - Tim Ruffner
These top 3 performers will be lavished in $45,000+ worth of prizes and a few more goodies that have been added since the contest started. Their exploits and success stories will be publicized across 5 countries and have an audience reach of several million people. What a great finish to 2009! Click here to see prize details on the original contest entry page.
What Did They Have To Do To Win?
The top 3 winners had to excel in quantitative statistics and superior writing capability to the satisfaction of our panel of 7 independent volunteering judges, the Dream Team. The 3 winners excelled in:
- Captivating blog headlines - unique and relevant to the content of the article
- Article quality - originality, depth and quality of writing
- Traffic - the number of page visits were they able to generate
- Dialog - the amount of comments and how well the writer engaged their audience
- Length of visit - the average amount of time visitors stayed on the post
What Were The Top 5 Blog-Off II Posts?
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Title |
Page Views |
Minutes Viewed |
Total Comments |
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Sean Nelson |
6,183 |
6:17 |
107 | |
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Sam Diener |
2,913 |
4:36 |
117 | |
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Sam Diener |
2,107 |
5:55 |
106 | |
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Sean Nelson |
1,930 |
5:09 |
103 | |
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Tim Ruffner |
923 |
3:07 |
35 |
Upcoming Publicity Schedule
Watch this page for details on the winners media campaign that starts January 4th, 2010. Their story will be covered by bloggers, online talk shows and news releases and more. To be directly notified of the upcoming schedule or request more information on this event email the contest founder and director at [email protected].
Statistics On Blog-Off II
- Preceded by Blog-Off I in May 2009. This event had 15 entrants from 4 countries of which 9 became occasional writers for the Community Marketing Blog.
- Blog-Off II ran from December 1st - 12th, 2009
- 28 people entered the contest from 5 countries
- 7 judges from 3 countries volunteered to asses competitors
- 10+ businesses sponsored over $45,000 in prize value
- 110 blogs were posted on a wide variety of topics
- Over 27,700 page views were generated during the contest
- Visitors stayed from 1.61 minutes to over 6 minutes
- 1,262 new comments were generated between readers and writers
- Readers came from over 30 countries
- Referring traffic: 52.5% LinkedIn, 22.2% direct, 3% Facebook, 2.2% Twitter
Who Were The Top 10 Bloggers?
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Sean Nelson |
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Sam Dien |
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Tim Ruffner |
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Lucia Brawley |
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Steve Martile |
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6. |
Therran Oliphant |
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Janet Barclay |
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Mike Browne |
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9. |
Elizabeth Thomas |
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10. |
Laurie Dillon Schalk |
What's Next... Blog-Off III and MasterMind Session
Watch for Blog-Off III coming in the first half of 2010. Sponsors and media partners are already signing on. Contact [email protected] if you would like to participate. This event promises to be larger and more spectacular.
On January Thursday January 14 at 11:00am EST we will be holding a MasterMind conference call for the contestants to talk about the event, share success secrets, ask for help and network. If you would like to listen-in email [email protected] and request details: a $50.00 USD fee will be applicable to non contest participants.
Special Thanks For Your Support
Mike McClure - Creative Director The Yaffe Group, Mark Sinclair - Founder and Executive Producer yourBusinessChannel.com, Jon Hansen - Author and Acclaimed Talk Show Host of PI Window on Business, Conrad Hall - Three time author, Patrice-Anne Rutledge - Author of of 28+ books, Shadrah Sharma - Founder and editor YourStory.in, Ted Morris - Managing Director 4ScreensMedia, Andrew Jenkins - Principal Volterra Consulting, Julie Tyios - CEO Red Juice Media, Leon Hill - CEO uSocial.net, Ginevra Kirkland - Community Manager Six Apart, Jim Love - CEO Chelsea Consulting, David Newland - Social Media Director Canoe.ca, Hugh Reilley - Talk show host ThatChannel.com, Daintry Springer - President Black & Sharp Company, Tami Magaro - Principal Mindeliver Media, Paritosh Sharma, John Robinson - Joyspoon, Joseph Thornley - CEO Thornley Fallis
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Posted by: Auto Marketing | July 27, 2010 at 06:01 PM
Very nice blog
Posted by: Quality Research Service | January 02, 2010 at 04:07 PM
Congrats to the winners, the participants and everyone involved, especially you, Andrew! I enjoyed being a part of it - and even picked up some good tips along the way.
Posted by: Mike McClure | January 01, 2010 at 09:56 PM
Sean,
Way to go and a very hardy congratulations!!! You are the man. The content you chose to write about was awesome (over 6 minutes on a page) and your hard work paid off.
I look forward to your future blogs!
Keep up the great work.
Scott T. Dunn
SONARconnects
Posted by: Scott T. Dunn | December 27, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Thank you all for your congratulations. This sort of success is truly humbling. If there is anything I can do for any of you in the future, please don't hesitate to bring it to my attention.
Sam
Posted by: Sam Diener | December 27, 2009 at 02:36 PM
Congrats to the winners. Happy Holidays and every blessing to all of you in the new year!
Posted by: Lucia Brawley | December 26, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Congratulations to Sean, Sam, and Tim. You were awesome and well deserving of this honour.
Posted by: Janet Barclay | December 26, 2009 at 09:39 AM
WTG, I am so proud of you my dear friends. Congrats and of course I knew you were the winners just by reading your outstanding work.
Darlene Sabella
Posted by: Darlene Sabella | December 24, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Congrats Sean and Sam, You both deserved it. Sam you especially, you did a great job interacting with the rest of the bloggers, your posts were unique and most importantly you had the desire to succeed. Kudos Sam. Anything you write I will read!
Once again, Great Job!
Posted by: Tim | December 24, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Congrats to the winners!
A nice experience, participating.
Waiting for the next.
Aditya
Posted by: Aditya Sinha | December 24, 2009 at 09:19 AM