ContestMachine reviewed on sweepsgoatblog

Angela of SweepsGoat has written up a balanced review of contestmachine. She's also given us some great feature suggestions. Check it out here:

How to Run a Blog Contest: ContestMachine

Results of a recent contest

Our friends at Daily Home Renovation Tips just ran a contest, and posted some interesting stats with a nice writeup. Check it out!

Anatomy of An On-Line Contest - Home Depot Tool Rental Gift Card Contest Results

If you have some interesting stats from your contestmachine contests, do let us know at info@ our domain. Thanks!

Speed Demons

Contest Machine is experiencing some heavy load right now, so we're making a few upgrades to ensure a fast and friendly experience for all of our contest runners and entrants. We may have a few moments of downtime in the next 24 hours -- but you probably won't notice :) and our site should be fast and snappy again soon. Thanks for your support and happy new year!

Testimonials Page

Do you have any good testimonials for us regarding your contestmachine experience? Check out our new testimonials page here http://contestmachine.com/site/testimonials and add yours by emailing us at info [@] contestmachine.com. Thanks and happy holidays!

Check out our Tour

We just posted a tour of ContestMachine's basic functionality. Check it out! Should answer most of your questions too.

Some updates and RSS feeds

So we've been making lots of updates in response to feature requests and bug reports. The list of ideas and potential integrations with other services keeps growing every day. If you have suggestions please send them to us, so we can prioritize what we should work on. ;)

One feature that users have wanted for a while is the ability to 'close' promotions easily, especially if you've received a winner's mailing address directly through email. You'll find that it's now easy to set a prize as delivered, and when all prizes are delivered, the promotion closes. This should help users who have promotions 'stuck' on the active tab.

We also have added and tweaked several RSS feeds on our Live page that let you keep up with current promotions and winners on our network. Here they are as links:

Live - Ending Soonest - RSS

Live - Newest - RSS

Live - Top Ten by Entries - RSS

Live - Recent Winners - RSS

Live - Random - RSS

Let us know what you need, and thanks again for your support!

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