With a brand spanking new contest that’s how!!

One of the things I’ve been pondering over the past few days is how to attract as many visitors as I can to my site. I’m pretty sure I can produce decent content after all I’ve been using the King’s English since I was a wittle kid. I have a very active over imagination and a devotion to sharing those thoughts with others. These are just a few of the reasons I think this thing called blog could be such a fun thing to do but as we all know business is still business. Starting a blog as a business means you need to know what you are talking about, as well as making it fun for both you and your readers. I like to refer to this as the mullet experience. Yes, much like the haircut of many in my neighborhood its business up front, party in the back. So on to business. As I said in a previous rather generic post at the time contests are one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site. Being new what could I possibly give away that would make my readers want to keep coming back? A meticulously worded review of your site? A brand new shiny gadget? Advertising for 6 months? Well all these would be great to have but last time I tried to pay my utilities bill with a free review my water got shut off. So get ready to pass go and collect a bunch of dollars.

50% off all blog profits will go to one winner a month for a minimum of 6 months. That’s right ladies and gentlemen every penny every month will be split fity-fity with one lucky winner picked at random every month! All you have to do is write a small post telling what you would do with the money won and link it to the contest page. Simple, sweet, and hands down the easiest money you ever made.

Now even though I will run the contest monthly you only have to enter once because that’s how we roll at The Running Total dot com. I’ll be announcing the winner via me feed so make sure to sign up. The winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize once announced. In the event that the winner doesn’t contact me another name will be randomly drawn until a winner is picked. To make it easy to track all the entries either email me at contest@therunningtotal.com or just leave a comment in this post. I’ll post a video of the drawing to show everything is fair.

Now get out there and get your contest on. I’m looking forward to seeing how this little experiment turns out.