Announcing the Winners of The 3rd Annual JobMob Guest Blogging Contest

This year's guest blogging contest was kicked off July 6th and is now coming to a close just over 9 weeks later. Unlike in past years, this time there are a whole list of winners to announce…

A big thank you to all the participants

This year's contest had 17 entries and a very eclectic mix ranging from articles about Twitter and other social media to business advice to poetry. I very much appreciate each guest post and the time and effort that went into creating it and promoting it, and all the participants deserve congratulations regardless of the contest results. Thank you all!

And now- on to the winners and their winnings.

The 2009 JobMob Guest Blogging Contest Grand Prize winners are…

1) Grand prize winner: Israel Weisser of The Weissers’ Journey to Israel with 5 Israeli Job Search Survival Tips

• 20 hours of outsourcing time, a US$200 value. Sponsored by Get Friday
• 15 minute phone session with Gary Vaynerchuk and a Crush It! wristband. Sponsored by Gary Vaynerchuk
• A copy of the Personal Branding Magazine. Sponsored by Dan Schawbel
• US$150. Sponsored by Jacob Share and JobMob

Israel also won the US$50 early bird prize that was drawn on August 3rd, 2009.

2) 2nd grand prize winner: Mirko Humbert of Designer Daily design blog with 9 Tips To Finding A Job With LinkedIn and Twitter

• A Crush It! prize pack containing a copy of Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion and a Crush It! wristband. Sponsored by Gary Vaynerchuk
• A copy of the Personal Branding Magazine. Sponsored by Dan Schawbel
• US$50. Sponsored by Jacob Share and JobMob

3) 3rd grand prize winner: Yvette Francino of geekgal-yvette.blogspot.com with 7 Quick Rules for Networking To Your Next Job

• A Crush It! prize pack containing a copy of Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion and a Crush It! wristband. Sponsored by Gary Vaynerchuk
• A copy of the Personal Branding Magazine. Sponsored by Dan Schawbel

4) 4th grand prize winner: Tim Tyrell-Smith of Spin Strategy with 5 Typical Job Search Problems And How To Solve Them

• A Crush It! prize pack containing a copy of Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion and a Crush It! wristband. Sponsored by Gary Vaynerchuk
• A copy of the Personal Branding Magazine. Sponsored by Dan Schawbel

5) 5th grand prize winner: Patrick Ambron of brand-yourself.com with Your Social Media Power Belt: 5 Powerful Tools You Need For Your Job Search

• A copy of the Personal Branding Magazine. Sponsored by Dan Schawbel

Congratulations to you all. I will contact each of you over the next few days about how to claim your prizes.

Final contest rankings

Traffic-generating tactics used

Now that you've seen who won and what they achieved, let's take a look at how they did it:

• Social networks played a big part in this year's contest. Israel won mostly with traffic from LinkedIn groups, but almost everyone also used Facebook and Twitter to promote their articles.
• Social bookmarking services – StumbleUpon had an impact on the results, but only one blogger (Mirko Humbert) also tried to use Digg.
• Writing about their guest post on their own blog – many of the participating bloggers did this.
• Emailing friends, family and contacts – if a blogger did any promotion at all for their entry, this was how they did it.

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