I want to thank everyone who participated in making the First Carnival of Financial Goals a success! The Carnival of Financial Goals had 55 participants, and more than 60 people left comments with their financial resolutions for 2008. You can read their comments on My Financial Resolution for 2008, and Share Your Financial Resolution.
iPod Entries: Each participant in the Carnival of Financial Goals and over 60 commenters were entered into the iPod drawing. The odds of winning the iPod were roughly 1 in 100. Not bad odds for a free shot at a 4GB iPod nano!
There were 34 entries in the book giveaway. The giveaway required participants to subscribe to my free RSS or e-mail feed and contact me with the “secret phrase” which was “Book Contest.” That’s it! Simple! I hope each of the subscribers continues to enjoy my daily updates! The 3 books I am giving away are: 100 Minds That Made The Market, The Maui Millionaires for Business, and The Little Book That Makes You Rich
Selecting the winners: The winners were selected with a random number generator from the website Psychic Science. To verify and label entries, I placed each valid entry in an Excel spreadsheet, assigned it a number, and then “rolled the virtual dice” so to speak. This was the easiest way to run the giveaway as I had entries coming in from multiple sources.
And now for what everyone is waiting for… the winners!
First the books:
- 100 Minds That Made The Market – Silicon Valley Blogger from The Digerati Life.
- The Maui Millionaires for Business - Pinyo from Moolanomy.
- The Little Book That Makes You Rich
And the grand prize… the 4GB iPod nano!
- Free From Broke, whose entry, We Will Retire!, was included in the Carnival of Financial Goals!
Congratulations to all the winners! I have contacted all the winners via e-mail, and I will be sending them their prize this weekend (if I have their address!). Hopefully, they will arrive before Christmas!
I sincerely thank everyone who participated and helped make the Carnival of Financial Goals such a success. Sharing your goals has made a great contribution to the on-line personal finance community – Thanks!
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Thanks so much for the prize!! What a great holiday bonus. And great job on the Carnival of Financial Goals! I don’t know how you were able to start a new carnival and host the Carnival of Personal Finance as well!! Certainly an inspiration to us all!
Congratulations, and thanks for participating!
Yes, two carnivals was a lot of work, but it has been very rewarding!
Yay!! I am so excited I won a book! Thanks so much for the giveaway and the new Carnival!!
Congrats everybody, including Ryan for launching a successful carnival!
Congratulation to all the winners. And Ryan, you did a spectacular job! Bravo!
A round of applause is in order for the winners, which by definition must include Ryan.
My heartiest congratulations.
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