Yahoo! Search Marketing Ultimate Connection Competition
Jun 24 2007

 

I submitted an application for the Yahoo Search Marketing Ultimate Connection Competition several weeks ago in the hopes of winning $25,000 in search marketing dollars and introductions to Ivanka Trump and other top business people.  I got the automated reply saying they had received my application, and I thought they were going to notify me when the voting began but I never heard anything.  So I went back to the site to see when the decision would be made, and I discovered they had already picked the finalists and Babble Soft was not one of them.  🙁

I was hoping we would be selected because I could sure use a lot of help with picking keywords and optimizing our online advertising.  Online search is all new to me so any help I can get in making our online awareness strategy better is hugely appreciated!  I even took off the Google AdSense ads from our site (because they said no competitor ads could be running on our site during the competition).  Apparently there were over 8,500 applicants and judging from the finalists it looks like they are much more established than Babble Soft.  Oh well.  Maybe next time…

Of the 5 finalists, I decided to vote for Moms on the Edge because they had some pretty neat products plus they have a blog but it had been a while since their next to last previous post.  After submitting my vote, I noticed that Kid’s Crooked Houses was in the lead and they have a pretty neat product too.

I was disappointed that we weren’t notified of the beginning of voting especially since I am pretty sure I checked the option to be notified, but luckily I checked back and was able to submit my vote for one of the cool companies who made the first cut.  Check it out and vote for who you think should win such a fabulous award!

Aruni

Author: Aruni | Filed under: competition, entrepreneurship | 1 Comment »

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