A Tale of Contests or when People don't followup on their Promises

In December last year I stumbled on two interesting contests in the blogosphere. The first at Pimp Your Work promised some fabulous prizes (a copy of MindManager etc.) to enter the contest you had give them your best working tip. My tip was a review of my favorite GTD tool - MyLife Organized. The contest ran until Dec 20. On Dec 22 Trish posted a note saying the contest was over and they would award the prizes within the week. Since then silence. This sucks, you baited us to write content for you; you got us to read your blog. Now follow-up and announce the winners.

By contrast Cameron and Neil at Pronet Advertising have run a far more honest contest: "Pimp Your Links". You submit a link to your website/blog and they will choose one a week to feature and criticize. Like clockwork they've reviewed one week ever since. Their analyses have given me a few new ideas - now if only they would focus on my own humble blog.

Tris and Scott - will you ever post a list of winners or at least tell us whats going on? BTW Other annoyances there isn't a email link on your blog nor do you appear to support trackbacks. Blogging is supposed to be about a conversation. You're making it next to impossible to engage in the conversation.

Update: Leaving my second comment on their blog this month finally got a reaction. Scott said that the contest is still very real and they're just behind. My suggestion to Scott and Tris: communicate. Write a short blog posting to tell your readers whats going on.

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