Contest Update Keller Hawthorne’s best blog design contest 2009
We have a big update and it’s good news everyone we have placed in the qualifying top 5 and have been awarded one free 70 usd value theme from a designer that sponsored Keller Hawthorne’s contest. To be frank I’m not sure what I can do with it but perhaps if I get Brian’s permissions (the designer) I can donate it towards the Blog Engage 2009 Community Contest. I think ti turned out to be a great contest and the winner is actually a member of our blogengage community.
There was a total of five finalists and I was #5. I’m pretty happy about that and wanted to thanks all my readers who took the time and voted for me.
WINNER: What A Website – 111 Votes!
Congratulations Will – You’ve Won!
5 FINALISTS:
Each of our five finalists gets to grab the StudioPress WordPress Theme of their choice. Congratulations to…
1. Dana Slatkin – 53 Votes!
2. Only the Valiant – 51 Votes!
3. Ryan Hanley – 47 Votes!
4. The WordPress Chick – 47 Votes!
5. SEO Mkt – 44 Votes
Newbie Blogger with Most Votes
Our Newbie Blogger winner is the nominee who began blogging in 2009 and received the most votes. Their prize is a FREE review of their blog on FresheVenture.com. Our Newbie Blogger winner is…
Dana Slatkin – 53 Votes!
Hey, Brian,
Thanks for featuring us on your blog. Congrats on being one of the finalists! Keep in touch and best wishes,
Dana
Hi Dana it was a great competition. I’m glad to see you made your way buy my blog and decided to comment.
There was many great contenders so I’m very happy with my placement.
Taker easy and and well see you around.
Vote for me over ta blogengage if you want to join our community. The button is up top.
Congrats Brian. The third one sucks lol. He must have a lot of readers and friends.
.-= Asswass´s last blog ..Have you ever had an Office Romance or Fling? =-.
Yeah I guess they do have a lot of readers. Or perhaps posted all over the net requesting votes.
Better luck next time I guess.
Congratulations. A close call there with only 10 votes. This is the times when we should have thousands of dedicated followers.
.-= Stefan´s last blog ..Organize Google Reader =-.
Yeah it was a close one. I don’t think the contest actually worked. The person who won and the runner ups didn’t really have nice blogs.
The contest should had been 2009 most popular blogs and that would had suited the contest better.
Good work Brian glad you won something. Yes I like Will he’s seems like a nice guy but I been to his site a couple times and I don’t get it or what he trying to do. Might be a UK thing we in the States just don’t get it.
I should have hacked the contest I could really use a better theme just didn’t feel right about cheating.
.-= Jared P Little´s last blog ..Free Website Articles =-.
I’m glad you didn’t cheat. I imagine you were only joking when you said that. Personally I don’t know what I’m going to do with another blog theme I’m definitely not starting another blog.
Hi Brian,
It’s a great site you’ve got here – and really was my first choice for the contest. Head and shoulders above everything else in my opinion. My own site, as I wrote to Keller, only won because I networked more than anyone else and got people to vote for me. Which , in a way , is a travesty of justice. I mean the site certainly isn’t the “Best WordPress Design 2009″.
So – why did I enter the contest only a few weeks after starting to build my site? Well, I came across Keller – and thought she gave out great information & good ideas – especially for someone like me who is completely new to blogging and still learning the ropes. I’m also sure she’s a very nice, genuine person & that she’s going to be very succcessful with her site. Basically then, I imagined the contest would be a good kick-start to an initial awareness campaign for “What A Website” & good free publicity for the future should it be one of the 5 finalists. So I went looking for votes.
The downside of all this – again as I told Keller – is that it would have been better (for me ) if she had started her contest in November … as by then I might ( might !) have developed a site/concept worthy of such a grand sounding title … Really. I’m far from surprised that Jared doesn’t really get the concept yet. I haven’t really had much time yet to present it properly ( work in the real world etc etc) – but I hope ( and maybe expect) that things will change quite a lot over the coming months.
One of the positive changes that would be great to see, by the way, is for this site ( & Blog Engage) to be included!
Cheers
Will
P.S- I also wrote to Keller in the “follow up” that a contest title such as “Best WordPress Blogger 2009″ would have been better/more appropriate. Asking friends/contacts for votes hasn’t really got that much to do with a design contest (which you won)
.-= Will McCulloch´s last blog ..Ninetynineways.net =-.
Either way we look at it you have won the competition fair and square and that’s all that matters. You work hard on your blog and have gained the voted from networking and no one has the right to take that away.
Perhaps now you can pick a nice theme and truly will her blog contest of 2010 if she runs one.
Congrats on the victory Will and thanks for stopping by my blog.
Congrats Brian for bagging 5th place amongst very good design blogs. Looking forward to your new site.
.-= ZXT´s last blog ..Tweet your way to $100 and more =-.
Congrats on getting into the top 5. We also entered a couple of our niche blogs but didn’t make the grade, but it was fun to enter.
.-= Paula from Affiliate Blog Online´s last blog ..Blogging Using the WordPress iPhone Application =-.