Interested in going to Blogworld in Las Vegas but weren’t able to register in time? Why not let MailChimp send you!
We’re giving away one registration, and all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling us why we should pick you! Of course you’ll still be responsible for your hotel and travel expenses, but we’ll make sure you can get into the only industry-wide trade show for the blogging and new media communities. You’ll have up to 24 hours, or until there are 150 comments on this post– whichever comes first– to convince us you’re the person most deserving of the free registration. The winner will be announced late on Tuesday afternoon, and we’ll contact you via email. (So make sure you use a valid email address when you comment on this post.)
And of course, if you’ll be attending Blogworld October 15-17 or just happen to live in Las Vegas, don’t forget to find Chief Twitter Officer Amanda and say hello. She’ll have a limited number of MailChimp tshirts, stickers and pins to give away. Keep an eye on the MailChimp Twitter feed as well as our Facebook page for more details during the conference.
–UPDATE–
We’ve selected a winner! Congratulations to Joe Wunderlick of Wundercreative. He charmed us with this pic of Freddie:
I am the first to comment. I certainly deserve the free registration for that. :)
I should win because:
1) I’m the first person to leave a comment.
2) MailChimp is an amazing and robust tool!
3) I run an online magazine/blog, and this would help me explore new avenues of blogging and network.
Thanks!
Kunal
I will travel half the world not only to visit Blogworld but to meet the great Chief Twitter Officer Amanda in person!
Can’t wait to show off with all the promo stuff of MailChimp!
Hope you contact me soon …
Grtz
Stijn
Errp, read story first, then post. Sorry.
Why should I go to Blogworld (aside from my impeccable grooming habits and love all things simian-related)?
Because I understand how MailChimp can be a boon to people in the non-profit world. Dedicated email contact apps can be expensive, and getting sued for CAN-SPAM violations even more so.
Plus I want to go to the MailChimp booth and see if indeed they do have actual apes running the joint.
I have worked hard to use blogging tools to make our church website a viable communication tool for people. I would love to know more about how to communicate using the internet. Plus, sending a pastor to Las Vegas sounds like fun, huh?
Not going to be attending Blogworld, but really enjoy the way you guys engage your clients and audience. Maybe next go around I will be able to attend.
twitter – @th73
Convince you that I’m the best candidate…well hmm I’m not a plate spinner or trapeze artist. I am however interested in attending BlogWorld to hone my skills! Muchas Gracias!
Tanya
dear mail chimp,
plees give my mommy the pass to goto bloggy wurld. she works real real hard. she never gets a brake. she sings real good. I bet she wood sing for you if you wantd her to. maybe she cood trade for the pass. I only have 3 dolars in my piggy bank. I wood give you all of it. plees.
tank you.
jaedyn
my mommies kid
I’m trying to learn as much as possible and have limited funds. Mail Chimp would be doing a service by helping to a) Get out of Ohio for a while and b) Network at Blogworld.
I’m currently working as an IT VISTA (volunteer in service to America) which is a federal Americorp program to help organizations better fight poverty. Needless to say it is required we live at the poverty line, but I would be there with out the fine help of Americorp.
Thanksful that my job provides a laptop, which provides my ability to blog. Would really benefit from going. Thanks for your consideration.
I would love to have the Blogworld pass — I would benefit from learning the best techniques in increasing blog traffic, which I could in turn provide great guidance to my clients, a number of small businesses that are also tring to expand their customer base. I love conferences where I can learn best practices. The exposure would also make me a better blog, with specific ideas and critiques. Finally, as a recent Mailchimp client — I am still trying to grow my customer base to issue email (sad), I can best represent Mailchimp as needed because I am enthusiastic about the product. I would love to have an opportunity to meet Chief Twitter Officer Amanda, and to Tweet after a great interaction at Las Vegas.
Thanks for reading my comments.
ofcourse i like a free blog!
Much better to type longer texts than Tweets :)
I am bootstrapping my start-up (using mail chimp for both myself and all of my clients) and would love the opportunity to network with other industry members, however the conference ticket makes the event out of my price range. Having the ability to attend this year would allow me to increase my visibility and readership so that at this point next year I could be sponsoring someone to go myself.
I love MailChimp and recommend it with abandon to all of my clients and potential clients.
I have gone to every Podcast Expo since the first one in Ontario, CA. While I watched it change from Podcast Expo to New Media Expo and now combined with Blogworld Expo I also made some changes. I went from intense podcast fan to Podcaster to New Media Professional.
When my husband lost his job last spring I was lucky enough to find one representing a local water park in Social Media. I feel so incredible fortunate to have had that experience but now the season is over and we are both looking for work again.
I am going to the expo because I know I need the emotional boost. The meetings in the hallways and impromptu meet-ups have always been the best part of the expo but now I feel that I need but can’t afford the sessions.
I would also like to launch a new podcast from the expo, AlopeciaCast. I recently blogged at MeganEnloe.com about my hair falling out. Yes, it sucks! No, I’m not letting it get in my way! It is just another chance to follow my motto, BE HELPFUL.
About 1% of the population gets Alopecia but each of us feels alone, at least at first. Blogging, Podcasting, and all other forms of New Media offer a huge community I didn’t have 20 years ago when I first dealt with Alopecia. I want to go to the Expo so that I can add every tool to my tool box that will make that and every community I touch stronger and more helpful to it’s members.
I would sincerely appreciate the opportunity to attend BlogWorld. I promise to rock out the MailChimp brand in a positive manner for maximum expsoure. Ironically enough I just learned about MailChimp a couple days when looking into killer mail services. Saw a tweet moments ago refering to this mini contest. All my friends are going and I just didnt have the cash. I could cover the airfare and stay with my buddy if the ticket was comped so this could fate! :)
Thanks,
Todd
I’d be awesome to attedn to such event and even more awesome to attend on MailChimp behalf!!!. Hope I’m in time for the registration.
You should pick me because I’ve finished up several crazy-hectic projects and am deserving! If that weren’t enough, I’m a crazy-monkey that’s monkey-crazy for MailChimp.
I must be selected because not only do I blog personally and professionally, but I need a trip to get out of the office or my brain could very well explode. Vegas would definitely fit my needs – blogging education AND drinks by the pool? Sign me up.
Actually, don’t sign me up because I can’t afford it. Sign me up if I get the freebie.
Okay here goes:
1. I will be in Vegas from the 15-19th anyway and have sooo many friends that will be at BWE!!!
2. I would love to meet the peeps behind the Mail Chimp tweets.
3. BWE is THE conference to be at and winning something like this- well, I just wouldn’t be able to be quiet about Mail Chimp for, like, ever!
Good luck to all!
I currently am a webmaster in house for 3 regional print publications, we have been trying to help bring attention to our website and blogs using mailchimp. We have discovered that we can reach more people by delivering precise and targeted content to specific interest groups and reeling those visitor’s back in to our site.
We love mail chimp’s simplicity and yet overall powerful features.
It would be an absolute benefit to myself and our publication to learn as much as possible through this conference and how we can help better remedy the disconnect between our print and online prescense.
We understand and appreciate the importance of both blogging and direct mail campaigns and would love to learn as much as possible to help sustain our business. Thanks!
-robert
I simply would love to go to Blogworld, just like all of the others :) Actually I think some of the other folks have some good reasons, but I’ll give it a shot anyway.
One of the reasons why I should be the one going to Blogworld is that I have a big passion for blogging, and the web in general. I am a big fan of microblogging such as Twitter, and I work on bringing the power of blogging even more into our company’s online strategy – Even though I live in Denmark, where blogging and Twitter is not that big yet, so it’s a big fight :)
So if I am the lucky winner of the ticket, I wil travel half the world to be a part of this fantastic event.
Even if I’m not going to win the ticket, I think that it’s a great idea MailChimp. You guys simply rock. With your product, your webinars and also with all of your “different”, but great, events. I specially think of your “stunt” with the free t-shirts and now this.
I’m gonna be there, but I only afford the cheap seats
I really didn’t think about going to Blogworld until the monkey asked me about it…
http://wundercreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/blogworld.jpg
Because I’m from England and sending me all that way would be a really extravagant way of spending your competition fund in one go! Of course I can bring my English stiff upper lip and some cucumber sandwiches along too.
Oh… and Mail Chimp is amazing.
Hi Amanda. Please pick me! I can actually travel to Las Vegas for BlogWorld. I have a MailChimp account and I’m following MailChimp on Twitter and I will wear a MailChimp t-shirt in Vegas. Woohoo!
OOOH! Yes, MailChimp should absolutely send us because Piper is the coolest, cutest, and youngest podcaster across the Internet! She hosts her own show and already has permission to end…but not the ticket! We can do one ticket…but they want Piper to have her own also….and, let’s face it, TeamPiper CANNOT go to BlogWorld without Piper!!! It would be asymmetrical…disfunctional…and make Piper sad! We’re in drivable distance to the conference! We just need help on the admission end! We’re counting on you, MailChimp…and so is the free podcast & blogging world!
Ooops! to “end”? That would be to “enter.” See! We’re so excited, we can’t proofread (another good thing about video podcasting!)
Because I look “Marvelous” and I “Deserve a Banana Break”
MailChimp says this, not me…
Sounds like the decision has been made then?
I adopted six children (siblings) three years ago, which made me richer for family but poorer with cash, supporting all the things these great kids have never had. If you sent me to Blogworld (I can’t afford to pay for the conference but I live 5 hours away), it would inspire me more on how to make a living entirely on the internet which in turn would allow more time to spend with my kids! And even if you don’t pick me, MaiLChimp has been the one service I have been able to count on to help me with growing my internet business!
Silly people, don’t you know contests are for Chimps? A free pass to Blogworld will include promoting the Monkey.
Cause I look good in MailChimp shirts.
Please pick me for free registration because
1) I follow mailchimp and have paid a vendor to use mailchimp for me
2) I love web technology and email blasts are my thing
3) I want to learn more but I have to pay for my own continuing eduction as my firm can’t pay this year
4) I will tweet about mailchimp every week for 1 year
Thank you.
I would love to attend – thank you MailChimp!
First of all… We have been using MailChimp for about a year now. I really wish we would have leanered about it sooner. It has helped our sales and has grown our clientele!
But I believe this conference would help my company expand their services by learning more about the “blogging” world.
Plus.. Isn’t 30 a lucky number? : )
First of all, let me say that I love MailChimp and want to marry it (Yes, I am aware that he is a married chimp, and it does break my heart). Heart break aside, I know the product well and would be an excellent ambassador.
Second, I work as a blogger in the nonprofit and philanthropic sphere, and this would be a great chance to represent that industry (which is a quarter of the US economy!) at the conference.
Here are some of my handles if you want to check me out:
@dbcary @MCNandMCF
Pick me and I will go to Blogworld dressed as a monkey and eat bananas for 24hours. In addition I heard Tarzan would be there and I miss him so much. It would be like a Maury reunion for me to bump into my old jungle buddy.
because I really really really really really really want to go!
I was looking forward to blogworld so much I thought I had a closing that was going to cover the cost, but it fell out of escrow last minute and with it went my hopes for blogworld. I live in Vegas and can so use this. I am hard working and a Realtor at this time. Trying to break into the blogging world and I really need this to advance my goals. Thank you for having this contest, I am new to mail chimp but will now learn all I can about it. Whoever wins God Bless you for doing this.
a) I just blatantly promoted mailchimp on my Twitter account @mjbarter
2) I have a sense of humour and would make a great travel buddy
iii) I did actually just choose mailchimp as our email list service of choice after evaluating the competition.
d) I can meet a deadline!
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