With 41 Retweets So Far, You Could Have A Decent Chance of Winning $100

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)

I started my contest on impulse. I wanted to avoid overthinking it, and just see what happens.

With approximately 14 hours to go, I have 41 Retweets for the main prize ($100 + post payout), 152 upvotes for the $50 upvote prize and 38 reblogs for the other $50 prize. Assuming nothing changes, a retweet could be a 2% chance of $102. The chances could lower with more retweets but the prize could also rise.

Lessons learned so far (I would like your thoughts too on how to do this better):

Pretty sure every retweet is a Steemian. A redo might need either a more well known or better presented Twitter user profile. It is not yet gaining attention outside Steemit.

Something like this needs whale support. I did get upvotes from @donkeypong, @anyx and others for which I'm thankful. A repeat should probably talk to people with major upvote power before the post goes out so that it's not lingering on pennies for a while. Perhaps I need to be better trusted or known by the whales as well.

Requiring retweets for entry was a mistake. The point I tried to make on Twitter was that your attention is worth real money, but a retweet represents the attention of your followers, not yours. A repeat should live by its own philosophy by allowing a 'like' to be an entry as well.

I also got a bunch of followers on Steem and Twitter which was unexpected and cool.

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Since it's for a good cause, take my upvote and use it for the pot. I hope this contest works out. We need more outside marketing.

Oh man, now this post has a higher payout than the contest. I'll update it that the prize includes related posts.

That works for me. Let's make this place popular so STEEM can go full moon!

EoinCarroll50 Eoin Carroll tweeted @ 09 Dec 2016 - 18:20 UTC

To prove that your attention is worth money I will give $100 plus the payout of this post to a random retweeter.

steemit.com/steemit/@demot… / https://t.co/yEAzgjJh2k

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