Does Your Marketing Work? (Marketing Ideas Contest!)

Does your marketing work?

Do you have an innovative marketing idea to share with the world?

We’re kicking the new year off with a bang: from January 9to February 3, we’re going to showcase the 20 most innovative and effective marketing ideas (and marketers) that we can find.

The only question is… do you have an idea to put you in the running?

It could be a high-level strategy, an immediately actionable tactic, or a powerful insight into how marketing works on a really deep level… we want you to share your ideas with us, so that we can showcase your marketing brilliance to the world.

And to make it super-interesting, we’ve got some very special prizes for you to win!

Here are the details:

Here’s what’s up for grabs for the winner of our contest:

1. A cash prize of $250
2. Public recognition of your brilliance, both on our blog, and to our students and subscribers
3. Incredible personal satisfaction!

Not to mention the cool perks of being a finalist:

1. A guest post spot on Firepole Marketing (exposure to our audience, backlinks, etc.)
2. A cool, custom-designed Firepole Marketing contest finalist t-shirt
3. Public recognition as an expert marketer by Firepole Marketing

Does all this sound great? Are you wondering how to apply?

Entering the contest is easy – here’s exactly what you need to do:

1. Submit your idea. Send an email to danny (at) firepolemarketing (dot) com with the message subject “INNOVATIVE MARKETING CONTEST SUBMISSION”, and share your idea with us – how it works, and why it’s innovative. We’re only accepting a limited number of finalist ideas, on a first-come, first-considered basis, so if you’ve got a good idea, send it over right away!
2. Write your guest post. If your idea is as good as you think it is, we’ll invite you to write a guest post to showcase the idea to the world. Don’t worry about this until after you’ve sent in your innovative idea, but when the time comes, all our usual guest posting guidelines will apply.
3. Promote your post. This isn’t just a theoretical contest – we want to see your marketing skills in action. That means doing whatever you can think of to spread the word about the post – the more traffic, tweets, likes and comments your post received, the better!
4. Vote for the winner. We aren’t going to choose the winners – you are. Everyone who is subscribed to our free “Get More Cash” video training will be sent a synopsis of the top performing posts, and will be invited to vote for the best marketing idea, and the best marketer.
5. Celebrate your victory! If you’re the winning marketer with the winning idea, then victory will be yours, along with all of the prizes; the cash, the recognition, the promotion… the works!

Does that sound awesome, or what? Well, the first step is to submit your idea…

If you like what you’re reading and you want to participate, then start by submitting your ideas. We’ll be short-listing finalists as the ideas come in, and once we fill all of the finalist slots, we’ll stop accepting new submissions.

All to say that if you want to participate, you should get moving – send your idea to danny (at) firepolemarketing (dot) com with the subject “INNOVATIVE MARKETING CONTEST SUBMISSION”.

Multiple submissions are allowed, and encouraged, though we’ll only pick one finalist idea per person.

Any questions?

Danny Iny (@DannyIny) is an author, strategist, serial entrepreneur, expert marketer, and the Freddy Krueger of Blogging. Together with Guy Kawasaki, Brian Clark and Mitch Joel, he wrote the book on how to build an engaged audience from scratch.

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