Sarah
Last week we held our second product giveaway of 2013—a contest to give away a MiiR Stainless Steel Water Bottle to some lucky reader. The rules for the contest were simple: just pick a number between 500 and 750 and leave the number in the comment section for the review. The contest ended at midnight on Tuesday, January 29, 2013.
The winning number was 562 and a reader named Sarah guessed the exact number (the first time that’s happened). I’ve only been following Sarah’s blog (Sarah’s Doodles) for about two months—I found it in the WordPress Reader under the “running” topic. Sarah describes herself as “a 24-year-old yo’ pro’ living in Cincinnati with a love for running, 90′s pop music, peanut butter and everything in between.” Sarah does have more than a little sarcasm on her blog (I really admire that in people).
Winning Number
For your information, we had around 70 readers enter the contest. We used a random number generator to select a number between 500 and 750 and that is how 562 was selected as the winning number. We have several other product giveaways already planned—and unless we can think of a better way to hold a contest we will probably follow the same format we used this time (translation: your suggestions for a better way to hold a product giveaway would be greatly appreciated).
Irish Katie
January 31, 2013 at 7:56 AM
Yahhhh!!!
CONGRATULATIONS Sarah !!!!
Joboo
January 31, 2013 at 8:56 AM
Way to go Sarah; good for you!!
adventurefoot
January 31, 2013 at 11:42 AM
(unrelated to this particular blog…) I talked about your blog in my blog today… lol. So I figured I should tell you somewhere so I’m leaving a comment here. 🙂 http://adventurefoot.com/2013/01/31/not-the-only-blog-on-the-interwebs/
All Seasons Cyclist
January 31, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Thank you so much for the note — that was very kind of you!
MikeW
January 31, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Congrats to Sarah. She had the competition bottled up.
Cyclist, you got a great response to that contest. Congrats are in order.
All Seasons Cyclist
January 31, 2013 at 6:40 PM
Mike, I was really hoping for more! With only 70 or 80 people entering a contest it makes the odds pretty good for someone. By the way, I have another contest next week — it will probably only be of interest to mountain bikers due to the nature of the product involved.
Irish Katie
February 1, 2013 at 8:38 PM
omg….I loved that response…she had it bottle up lol.
sarahsdoodles
January 31, 2013 at 8:55 PM
Cyclist, thank you — both for the bottle and the shout-out! I’m quite excited about this water bottle and you can rest assured that there’s NO sarcasm there. =] Looking forward to using it!
All Seasons Cyclist
January 31, 2013 at 9:10 PM
It was sent out this morning via First Class Mail — they said you should have it on Saturday. Best wishes!
Rich
February 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM
The contest seems reasonable to me as it is…..
All Seasons Cyclist
February 1, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Thank you!