Hi Brendon,

Looking at the size of that package you better first re-think the giveaway contest rules as far as geography ... it'll cost a fortune to shi[ that lummox internationally ... oh, wait, for you, no problem ha ha.

Seriously, two ideas for the contest:

First ... the sort of "standard" of today's blog contests .. a raffle where a person gets one chance for making a comment, a second chance for posting on their blog about it, a thrid chance for subscribing to your RSS feed... etc. (I'm already in for two chances then)

Second ... an essay competition where interested folks write in and tell you why they want the kit and how they plan to use it. The catch? The winners must agree to write detailed weekly or monthly progress reports on how they use the kit for say a year ... on their own blog or as guest posts on yours. That's the kind of story ... remember we all like stories ... that has "legs" ... and it would be downright interesting to me (and probably 2 or 3 other people) to actually follow someone's progress and see just how successful they are and/or where they might stub their toe.

In light of your own and 2Clix's experience at the hands of vitriolic posters on a large community web forum, how about soliciting entries on the best way to handle your reputation online in the face of such attacks.

You could even use the results (condition of entry) as a new chapter in the kit!

You could even announce/promote the competition on whirlpool.

Nice suggestions Mr Starr (great first name).

Also how about a slight variation of Dave's first one with the most number of referred visitors.

Great ideas guys

I like the idea of maybe the best "This is what I did story and this was the impact." (Kind of like my little story about the garlic incident from yesterday's post.)

I really like David's post about the 2Clix/reputation management one.

Thanks again.

Yes, David, we are going to take over the world one of these days, like the Borg ;-)

I liked your thoughts about the 2clixs/whirlpool fiasco ... ought to be a lot of good comments/blog fodder in that .. if Brendon can take the heat, that is?