Two weeks ago I started a contest over at http://www.5dollarformula.com/giveaway/ where the 1st place winner will receive a brand new iPod Touch. Well, there it is in the picture. I bought it yesterday. Now for the winner :)

And the winner is … Glenna Andree of http://gandree.info/

Congrats, Glenna! I’ll be contacting you within the hour regarding shipment details.

The winning entry was from her blog post at http://gandree.info/enter-josh-spauldings-contest-for-a-chance-at-an-ipod-touch/

If you read the giveaway page, you’ll have also noticed that I mentioned this: “… and two other individuals will win a “secret” prize on the day of the drawing as well!” I know you just wanted the iPod ;) but I think the 2nd and 3rd place winners will still be delighted.

2nd prize winner: FowlVisions (not sure of the actual name) Twitter account http://twitter.com/FowlVisions
Prize: Lifetime membership to CoachingWithJosh.com

3rd prize winner: Tanuj Lakhina
Prize: Free copies of “Article Marketing Domination” and “The Ultimate Link Building Report”

How I Picked the Winners

I’ll tell you, this contest turned out to be a HUGE time investment on my part in order to keep it fair. I manually added each additional entry for the retweets and blog posts and went through the entire list for each to ensure there were no duplicates. BUT luckily I decided early to do it all as they came in, so it wasn’t too hard.

So once that was done each person who simply entered their name and email had one entry, each person who entered their name and email plus retweeted got 2 entries, each person who entered their name and blogged about it got 3 entries and each person who did all three options got 5 entries. It was a nightmare keeping it all straight, but in the end it all worked out perfectly!

My buddy Mark Sierra helped out a bunch by telling me about http://random.org/lists/ which is what actually picked the winners once I had the list complied.

So Congrats to the winners and thanks for taking part in this contest. If you didn’t win, you still can in another way. You downloaded the $5 Mini-Site Formula and it has huge income potential, so take action on that!

I will be attempting to contact all winners. If you are one of the 3 winners and you have not heard from me, please contact me ASAP at joshspaulding1 at gmail.com

oh, and who knows, I may do more contests in the future with even cooler prizes ;) So be sure to subscribe to my feed to keep up with me.


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