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One of my friends is in the Blogging Idol Contest & has $30K of  prizes so far with more coming in all the time.  His blog is about marketing, so drop on by Big Jason’s Big Marketing Blog and sign up for his feed to get blog updates (at least while he is running the contest!).

I’ll tell you what a few of the prizes are in a minute, but perhaps you’re not sure what a feed is.

Don’t be scared of a feed.  It’s just a way to have the content you want delivered right to you.  What this means in terms of the contest is that you’ll receive his blog updates by email.

OK so what are the prizes?  Go to the site to read them all, but here are a few.  Some of my favorite people are offering a prize, and what Jason is about to find out is that I’m giving one too.  I won’t tell you what it is yet.

Here are some of many prizes from the biggest name dropper I know.

Quoting Big Jason on  his blog…”

Complete Website and Copy Critique with Million Dollar Copywriter Ray Edwards ($4500) - Ray is a Direct Response Copywriter, Speaker, Author, and Marketing Strategist. His clients include Jack Canfield, Alex Mandossian, Frank Kern, and Mark Victor Hansen (there are more, but jeez, then it would start to sound like name-dropping)Ray is going to give your website and sales copy a thorough critique and record everything on video for you to keep. And that $4500 value is the initial value. I’m not going to speculate on the long-term value of this prize because you’ll probably wet yourself.

Complete Website Copy Critique and 1hr Private Consultation with Rachel Rofe ($2000) - Rachel is a direct response “copywriter to the stars”. She’s been endorsed by some of the world’s top copywriters and has been responsible for the copy behind several six figure launches.Rachel is going to give your website copy an in-depth critique, as well as an hour consultation to discuss your marketing, call to actions, and overall message.

2 Copies of Word of Mouth Transformation from Mark Joyner ($997) - Mark is known as the godfather of internet marketing.Find out the difference between inspired and incentivized word of mouth. Then discover how to get more of the right kind of word of mouth for your products and services.

1hr Private Consulting with Ben Mack ($600) - Ben Mack is the author of the best selling business book, Think Two Products Ahead, a two-time American Marketing Association award winner and visionary online entrepreneur. Credited with taking Yomega Yo-Yos from $8 million in sales to $120 million in one year as a former corporate advertising executive, Ben Mack will teach you branding secrets the big ad agencies don’t want you to know and how to leverage those secrets for bigger profits.Forget everything you think you know about branding and prepare to have your profitable business mind ripped wide open.

1hr Blog Consultation by Ritu Pant of Axiium.com ($500) - You may have not heard of Ritu before now, but I found out about him from Ms. X..Ritu will help you take your blog to the next level.

1hr Facebook Consultation by Mari Smith of Facebook Fortunes ($500) - Mari is a facebook business coach.

You’ll work together with Mari in her private Webinar room where she’ll walk you through the entire process of setting up and optimizing your Facebook Profile and Facebook Page. You’ll implement the steps real time so by the end of the sessions you know what to do on your own to build a loyal following of people interested in your products and services.

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When you are playing a game, I imagine you’re in it to win it. But how?

What is your strategy?

Do you go for the multiple win so that even the “loser” can be a winner too?

Do you look out only for yourself and screw the rest?

Listen to some of the contestants as tehy received the call from Thor Schrock saying they made it to the show. (mine isn’t up yet).

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 Thor Schrock Calls Big Jason Henderson: Download
 Thor Schrock Calls Ty Hurd: Download
 Thor Schrock calls Jonathan Van Clute: Download

Wow do I have a story for you today! Yes it’s about Top Affiliate Challenge, as you can no doubt tell from the title…and well they say money doesn’t buy happiness, but throw enough money at the show and you can get on even if your average vote is less than a 3 out of 10. Oh yes. You can check out this audition and see for yourself. I’ve got nothing against this contestant. He’s a delightful person.

So how does someone whom the voting public does not favor make it to the top 10? He’s in a voting triumpherate, and they’re throwing a LOT of money into super votes. I would like to thank my most worthy “adversary” Ty Hurd for pointing this out on his blog post “Top Affiliate Challenge - Pay to Play???”. i had not looked at the statistics in a while. And I bet this is one reason the servers had been slow as molasses in January for several days.

3 of the top 10 have 160 super votes or more as I write this. $5 X 160 (the lowest of the 3) = $800 We have people spending over $800 for super votes

What Are Super votes?

Ty goes into this in great deatail, so you can also check out his blog pos… Super Votes allow you to pay $5, which goes toward production costs of the show, to boost the score of 3 contestants. yes you pick 3, and each of them gets 25 perfect 10 votes. A number of people have bought them for me. Now I have not pushed people to buy votes, though I am giving a $500 course away to one of those who does!

hey, Big Spender!

Some people have taken the buying of votes thing to a whole new level. It makes me think of the joke about Chicago politics - vote early & vote often. Throw hundreds of dollars at the show and you’re in. This is all well and good for the ones who buy their way to the top with super votes, but not for everyone else.

The sun will still rise Sunday morning no matter who is in the top 10, but let’s be real about what’s happening. If you want to see anyone’s stats, you would click on their audition and look at the upper right corner where it says “show stats” in small letters.

What Does It All Mean?

Ty Hurd is in first. He got the highest video base score of 9 out of 10 and his “open vote” average (meaning taking out the perfect 10s for the super votes) is 6.47 as of now.

Big Jason Henderson, in 2nd, has an average of 5.25 and 200+ super votes.

Jonathan Van Clute, in 3rd, has an open vote average of 7.07 and 100 super votes.

Chad Van Norman is currently in 10th and has an open vote average of 5.85. Now he has done something that is earning him some low votes from a bunch of people. He is the one who complained about Molly Flagtail having an audition and taking votes from others because of I’m on the show, so is she. Well she may be boycotting. I’m told by a number of my fans that they don’t like his video and don’t like that he goe Molly off the show. Of course, Thor Schrock shot the original audition video and sanctioned her inclusion in the first place, so… ??? Molly had over 40 super votes, and let me tell you - those votes did not transfer to me when her audition got unceremoniously dumped from the show. Read about that here.

Chad video got an 8. In it he makes fun of most of the contestants on the show and acts as if he’s eating a bagel out of the toilet. Very mature. Two other contestants got an 8 as the judges base score for eating things out of the toilet too.

And What’s up with the Fluctuations?

I wrote about voting strangeness in the post: “Your Vote Counts - Or Does it?” yes OK the scores are supposedly daily averages. Yesterday my score dropped more than 8 full points for several hours, then came back up. (that’s full points, not hundredths or tenths.) I was in 11th, then 20th, then 8th, then 11th. Numerous members of the organization I am supporting with part of my winnings from the show have emailed me and the Chairman Emeritus about the slow servers, the difficulty voting, and the fluctuation of my score.

One of the officers of the World Association of Persons with DisABILITIES is convinced that the show is a scam because of the fact that dozens of people were trying to vote for me between Saturday and Tuesday, and the server was so slow that many had to give up. I can’t blame them. He thinks the super votes and the fact that the money goes to the show makes it a scam. He even said, without seeing all the stats, that the show must expect people to buy their way in.

A scam? The show will happen. Thor has some amazing sponsors and prizes lined up. but imperfect - you bet! The producers seemed to defy their own words in th e strategy guide as to how the judges’ base scores would be determined. When you see some of the scores under statistics, you’ll understand what I mean. Some of the best videos got lower scores than one would think they should based on the strategy guide.

What about the Story lady?

So what about The Story Lady? How do I stack up against the rest? My stats are that I FINALLY managed to get a 7 for my last video, miracle of miracles. My open vote average is currently 6.99, even accounting for the fact that I know some other contestants are doing their very best to vote me down. I have 40 super votes, mainly from other people and a few from 3 of us going in together to support each other.

That means I’m getting higher popularity averages than 2 of the 3 the potty video creators. My open vote average is higher than most of the top 10 (Gaj, Jani, Chad, Carl, Tom (4.6) and even Ty.)

I made my own videos and am among the highest open vote average contestants, and I’m currently in 11th where 3 have bought their way to the top. Hmmm…

Now I feel even better about how I’m doing in Top Affiliate Challenge. I humbly ask you to vote me a 10 today, tomorrow and Saturday.

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The fur is starting to fly in the heated Top Affiliate Challenge competition!

Thor blogged about me getting into the media yesterday. Read the post here. That’s nice because the paper isn’t online, so he put in the jpg of the article I had sent him as proof. I found myself wondering what kinds of responses I’d get from other contestants. So far it’s all good.

Here are a couple of “tame” interviews:

Tracy Repchuk interviews Big Jason Henderson

Tracy Repchuk interviews Thor Schrock

Incidentally that is in no way a slam…I just ppening on the Top Affiliate Challenge Official Blog:

But this blog post really stirred the pot. It was one about voting fraud on the show.

This is the most commented post, as far as I know.

There is yet more voting fraud. Here is an excerpt from the post:

(Thor Schrock wrote:) “There are still fraudulent votes in the system, and they are being detected and rooted out every day. The top 10 is pretty pure at this point. If you are hell bent on cheating, please remember that every single vote is going top be inspected by human eyes before ANYONE is selected for the show. You will eventually be caught, even if you make it to the end.“The sad thing is that some of the best videos that were submitted were submitted by less than ethical people. I was personally saddened to learn that some of my favorites that were doing so well did not belong in the top 10 at all.”

Now there are over 30 comments, many of them anonymous because a couple of folks don’t have the guts to own up to their comments.

One contestant makes a veiled accusation at the Gutz community:

“Wes Wyatt Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

WOW! It would take a lot of GUTZ to cheat like that!”

Part of one of the anonymous comments is:

“Anonymous Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 8:29 am

I contend that there are only about 20-30 people voting anyway. “

This anonymous comment is made fun of in later comments…

“Anonymous Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:16 am

I think this makes perfect since, so pay close attention……”

Chad, Van Norman, the first contestant to receive an 8 (for appearing to eat a bagel out of the toilet) has a fun video where he teases the rest of us. I love it, but if you haven’t been following the competition, it won’t make since…er…sense (snicker). This is what he has to say:

“Chad Van Norman Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 11:47 am

“I have been keeping track of peoples stats. If most of the contestants brought up your base scores, they would be in the top “10″!

For a while there was only an 11 point difference between 1st and 10th.”

Yes, Chad, you’re right. Now if they would EVER process my new video, I suspect my score will be higher.

Later he adds:

“Chad Van Norman Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

“I’m gonna kick someone in the crotch on the first episode to add some shock value. lol

“Any takers? ROTHLMAO

“Chad”

OK Chad I don’t have family jewels but I’d still prefer not to be your victim. Maybe the biggest whiner should get the kick???

“Eric Green AKA The Digital Gangster Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

“lol… Yeah this is just drummed up contraversy… We know who started it… I mean these people are taking this stuff to seriously. I think it’s really funny myself… I laughed 33 times already…

DG”

Sure we love drama, right??? And those anonymous comments - what fun.

One of our dear anonymous posters even wrote:“I noticed you didn’t mention about contestants talking about their disabilities on each video…. this is the same as video with gimmicks, flash, and wildly scripted. ”

I’ll let you check out my comment over there, but I don’t personally think mentioning a disability is any different from mentioning anything else that is part of your story. Talk about people you’d like to kick in the nuts!

So I’m still waiting to see something better from the Digital Gangster. I can’t imagine that’s the best he’s got. Also I know that Big Jason Henderson has plans and I’m eager to find out what he has in store.

Interestingly, on that interview with Tracy I KNOW he is underestimating me under the false assumption that everyone in the top 10 has very little skill.

I now know that Thor Schrock has a thing for eating stuff out of the toilet. After all, Chad and Jon Ryan both used that trick in different ways and got an 8. Can we say potty mouth??? Hey just teasing you, Thor! You’ve got a toddler at home and I think it’s gone to your head…or is it just a guy thing???

This will be interesting and heaps of fun.

There’s still time to get an audition video put together and submit it…though time is running out. You’ve got about 2 weeks of submission time left. Maybe eating your own poop out of the toilet will get you a 9.

The Story lady

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