Guest Blogger, Donna DeClemente
As most of you are aware by now, this year's 2011 BlogPaws will be held in Tysons Corner, VA, on August 25 - 27 and BlogPaws is back with a new promotion to generate awareness and exciement about the event.
To help promote the first two BlogPaws events and create some awareness and buzz about the new community, I worked with the BlogPaws team to develop some online promotions. For the first event we ran the BlogPaws or Bust Sweepstakes which offered one lucky participant a free travel package to Columbus including airfare, hotel and a conference pass. It also gave three second place winners free conference passes. For the Denver event we held a BlogPaws or Bust Video Contest which gave away two travel packages to attend the event. We had some great quality videos, but the number of entrants was low, especially compared to the sweepstakes.
The team came back to me this year and they wanted again to give away a travel package for a lucky winner to attend this year's event. So we decided to do another contest and wanted to keep it fun, but simple. The 2011 BlogPaws or Bust Photo/Caption Contest has just launched this weekend. What's different about it is that we are asking for the pet (or pets) to tell us why their human just has to be at BlogPaws 2011, along with a photo of the pet(s).
We are again utilizing the Wildfire Application to run the contest. Participants can enter from this link off of the BlogPaws website or from the BlogPaws Facebook page. All submission must be in by June 30th. Participants can submit a one word caption or can have up to 50 words to state their case. A panel of judges will review all the entries and pick a winner based on the originality and creativity of the submission. People are invited to view all the entries as they are submitted, so do check it out. I'm sure we'll get some adorable pet photos to match their "voices".
We had a somewhat quiet launch today in order to make sure we had any bugs worked out and we already have over a dozen great submissions. I was the first one to enter with this submission from my golden retriever, Golden. So check out and view entries we've received so far and get yours in soon.
There is still plenty of time to register for the event as well. You can find all the information here on the website. Anyone who is a winner will have their registration fee credited to them. We'll be sure to give you an update on the contest results and announce the winner sometime in July.
In the article it says there are 2 links for the contest, one on this website and one on FB. I need the one from this site...where is the link located? Thanks...
Posted by: Linda | 06/06/2011 at 07:32 PM
Looks like the web team hasn't added the link yet Linda. Here it is:
http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/127285
Posted by: Donna DeClemente | 06/07/2011 at 05:50 AM