Increase Your Earnings with Incentive

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This post was guest blogged by Matthew Henrickson, Owner and Co-Author of Blog About Your Blog.

Tons of bloggers are using contests to increase website traffic and in turn, increase their earnings. Bloggers have also found ways to run contests, with very little cost to them.

From "re-gifting" prizes they've won, to having someone else sponsor their contests, bloggers can essentially have contests and only pay the shipping cost for the product.

Recently I attended a Make Money Online conference, and received a free day planner. I have decided to run a simple contest, and the response has been great. We've received several links for hosting the contest.

The only thing that will cost in our free day planner giveaway, will be the actual shipping cost, which should be low.

If you are struggling to get and keep visitors to your blog, try offering incentive for your readers. Whether its a contest or a limited offer, you can never go wrong.

This Post has 25 Comments Add your own!
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Anonymous - July 12, 2007 1:23 PM

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eve - July 17, 2007 5:47 PM

Great idea, I recently ran a contest on my Wordpress theme customizing blog to give out a free redesign, I ended up getting about 40 links back and only had to invest time to do the actual redesign.

That contest also produced a few clients that entered but didn't win.

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Daniela - July 18, 2007 4:21 PM

How do you go about running a contest? Do you just make up your own rules? I've seen some interesting ideas like having a video drawing of names out of a hat. Any other good/less silly ideas. By the way, there is going to be another conference about making money with blogging in November, PostieCon. Don't know where you are located but i'm thinking of heading to Vegas to check it out.

Moi - July 22, 2007 7:40 PM

Great infos here! Will read a little bit more to find contest ideas for my own blog.
Thanks for sharing!
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kyle - July 22, 2007 11:59 PM

That's a very good idea. I would like to also mention that your not just limited to physicle objects to give away, but you can also give away electronical things such as e-books. These are even cheaper because you don't have to pay the shipping and handeling prices. Also you can get some e-books with master resale rights for free.

Thanks for the post it's a great idea.

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Aryanto L. Efrayim - July 25, 2007 5:37 AM

Hmm..but, i think contest aren't working for first time visitor. They don't come to the blog because the contest, right? From my point of view, constest only working for subscribers only. But, dunno if anyone else can.

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KirkwoodDetroit - July 26, 2007 9:55 PM

Thats a really good idea, even just for link building. There are plenty of affordable but desired items out there, if you know your readership well enough you should have no problem picking out a good item.

Kersson - August 5, 2007 9:38 AM

Animals behave in the same way. My dog is not going to sit when I order her to sit unless she knows in advance I will give her some food. Offering incentives is always a good way to reach your goals.

ways to make money online - August 6, 2007 5:52 PM

I think I'll go with giving limited offers. Like for example, by giving freebies. This is like a bargain for the costumers.

Trevor Evans - August 18, 2007 12:47 PM

Hi,
This is a good post. It gives me the information I was in search of.

I have a small query - I don’t have any spam pages or websites. Still I am encountered with messages like “possible spam”, “Spam”, and so.

Do you have any idea why it’s such?

Thanks.

Robert Spencer - August 18, 2007 2:17 PM

Hi,
This stuff gives the real information one needs. One can feel like reaching the destination.

I have a query though – Usual sites like dig.com and muti.com declare “spam” when I try bookmarking there.

I don’t have any spam pages or websites.

Can you help me regarding this matter?

Thanks.

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Net Hustlin' - August 27, 2007 2:41 AM

This is a good idea. I think I'm going to try this :)

meditation - August 31, 2007 1:03 PM

i also try your ths idea this is nice and it will help everyone thaks for sharing.

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Great Idea. I know this works. Holding contests can bring alot of traffic.

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Play arcade games - January 25, 2008 8:03 AM

did a experiment a while back launching 2 fresh arcade sites one with a contest other without and gave both a simular start with social bookmarking and the one with a contest won by miles

Andy Hughes - July 21, 2008 12:58 PM

I have created a new site which has been online for about 4 weeks. I will put up a prize draw on it soon. I will let you guys know of the results and what it does to my traffic.

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