Comp 1 of 10 - $20,000 in Prizes

[Fergal]

This competition is now closed.

The winner is - Webestrian
The runner up is - bojomojo

I'd like to say a big thanks to everyone who participated!

[Fergal]

Approved Entries



bojomojo (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2345) - Section for successful business owners to coach other members
pendelton (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2346) - Mentoring programme
Webestrian (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2348) - BAF newsletter, fun sub-forums, rank members, provide webservices, plus more
Cynthiab (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2349) - Tutorials with task-a-day play along
scifi (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2350) - Add business consultancy services section
omniserve (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2354) - Add country specific forums and reward members with points
Nazreen (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2356) - Run competitions and encourage members to promote BAF
devilbatista (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2358) - Small competitions, reward useful posts, business polls, regular theme changes
realitybites.in (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2360) - Revenue sharing, POTW, POTM, MOTM, referral prog., reward regular posters, + more
man2008 (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2351) - Fun games and newsletter.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and congratulations on having your entry approved. We still have a space for one more entrant.

Please send me a PM if you would like me to change the way I've described your entry, before I create a poll for voting, but please note that I hope to keep the description to one line.

[Fergal]

How to Enter
Start a new thread in the BAF Suggestions Forum (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8) with your best suggestion to improve Business Advice Forum.

Once I have approved entries from ten members, I will start a poll for our members to vote on the most helpful suggestion.

The member whose suggestion gets the most votes will win $20 and an entry into our draw for $10,000.

The member with the second most votes will get an entry into our draw for $10,000.

Click Here (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=835) to view payment confirmations from members who won our previous competitions.

Eligibility
This competition is only open to members who have made at least ten non-spam posts on our forums. You should also have made at least two other posts on the day you make your suggestion.

Good luck and remember that the winner and runner up in this competition will get a free entry into our draw for $10,000.

[man2008]

Will the participants be eligible to vote on poll?:)

[scifi]

Approved Entries
1. bojomojo - New theme and coaching programme
2. pendelton - Mentoring programme
3. Webestrian - BAF newsletter, fun sub-forums, rank members, provide webservices, plus more
4. Cynthiab - Tutorials with task-a-day play along
5. scifi - Add business consultancy services section
6. omniserve - Add country specific forums and reward members with points
7. Nazreen - Run competitions and encourage members to promote BAF
8. devilbatista - Hold regular small competitions, reward useful posts, hold polls for business issues
9. realitybites.in - Revenue sharing, prizes for POTW, POTM, MOTM, referral programme, reward regular posters, + more



Its really great to see my name here..thank you Fergal!!!!:D

[Fergal]

Will the participants be eligible to vote on poll?:)

Yes participants will be eligible to vote and I hope they do vote, but they will not be allowed to vote for themselves.

[Webestrian]

I have got a few suggestions for poll.
1. Make it mandatory for all members whose entries have been submitted to vote on the poll (coz,i doubt only a few of them would vote,as any +1 to other means -1 to his suggestion);
2.Only 1 vote per member,i personally don't like multiple voting option!; and
3.Disable the view poll results option until the poll is completed,otherwise,people naturally tend to give biased opinions :)

P.S. Fergal,Drafting and posting a poll would really be a serious challenge for you,specially when you would conduct polls for mega prizes later on ,coz, otherwise people tend to blame the polls as unfair! And unfair poll would take the members away from the forum,rather than bringing more activity to the forum!

[scifi]

Good suggestion Webestrian...Lets see what is Fergal's point of view.. I am sure he must have some excellent plan already on this issue..:)

[Fergal]

Thanks for the suggestions Webestrian. I agree with all three of your points and they will form part of the poll.

Not all future competitions will involve polls, and I do take your point re people believing that polls may be unfair. I'll give that serious consideration for when we get to the bigger prizes.

[snoop1990]

Oh I love that kind of competitions ;) that is one of the things you should repeat more often.

The other thing I would be interested in is coaching, meaning not coaching like you know it from some of the other sites where you either pay a lot for personal consulting or other way are left alone with thousands of ebooks. More over I would be interested if a group of five or ten members at business advice Forum run a project together by posting each day about the issues they run into for all registered members to read. These are my first suggestions, need more ? feel free to contact me :D

[Nazreen]

I have a question too on who gets credit for suggestions. There are some suggestions that are almost or exactly the same. Take for example the suggestion on a Marketplace or "Buy and Sell" subforum, I think 2 or 3 members have already suggested this. There's also the rare case of the suggestion on coaching and mentoring, where Pendelton and Bojomojo wrote their suggestions at almost the same time.

I also agree with Webestrian's suggestion on making it mandatory for participants to join the poll. If not, they'll immediately be disqualified from the that particular competition involving polls.

[Fergal]

...who gets credit for suggestions. There are some suggestions that are almost or exactly the same...

I will be posting a poll along the lines of post 2 (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showpost.php?p=12878&postcount=2) in this thread. I will be asking voters not to just cast their vote based on the description on the poll, but to visit each of the relevant threads so that they can read the members' suggestions in full, before they make their decision.

[man2008]

Approved Entries



bojomojo (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2345) - Section for successful business owners to coach other members
pendelton (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2346) - Mentoring programme
Webestrian (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2348) - BAF newsletter, fun sub-forums, rank members, provide webservices, plus more
Cynthiab (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2349) - Tutorials with task-a-day play along
scifi (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2350) - Add business consultancy services section
omniserve (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2354) - Add country specific forums and reward members with points
Nazreen (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2356) - Run competitions and encourage members to promote BAF
devilbatista (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2358) - Small competitions, reward useful posts, business polls, regular theme changes
realitybites.in (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2360) - Revenue sharing, POTW, POTM, MOTM, referral prog., reward regular posters, + more
man2008 (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2351) - Fun games and newsletter.

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions and congratulations on having your entry approved. We still have a space for one more entrant.

Please send me a PM if you would like me to change the way I've described your entry, before I create a poll for voting, but please note that I hope to keep the description to one line.

Thanks Fergal, putting my name in the list.

Now I am one of the participants.:)

[devilbatista]

Webestrian, Good points there. I liked your ideas for the poll. :)

[Fergal]

The poll has been posted here (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2374).

Good luck to all participants.

[Webestrian]

Thanks for the suggestions Webestrian.


Webestrian, Good points there. I liked your ideas for the poll. :)

Thanks!!!!!!! :)

[Nazreen]

I cannot see some of the competition entries by some of our members in the poll Fergal. I think Wussa and DEADMAN's names are not there. Have they missed some of the eligibility requirements for this competition?

[Fergal]

Nazreen, I had limited this competition to ten entries and I accepted the first ten entries that met our requirements.

However, I will be posting a new competition once this one closes, and it will be open to more than ten entries.

[DEADMAN]

Nazreen, I had limited this competition to ten entries and I accepted the first ten entries that met our requirements.

However, I will be posting a new competition once this one closes, and it will be open to more than ten entries.

Fergal, My intention was not only to take part in the competion. As you can see I've also mentioned some serious issues about how forum degrades when they lack basic factors as mentioned in my thread. [ BUSINESSADVICEFORUM - IMPORTANT ISSUES AND SUGGESTIONS - http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2372 ] As well as I intend to post for BAF today too thou I've been going through exams.

But, you didn't notice what I said "Give time to each of the competition no matter how low prizes are they worth of". I hope your goal is make people of the world (newbie) join & stay at BAF and make BAF reputed and best for business issues and advice. This might be because I posted late or you quicked the competition. I don't know what was running to vein.

Each competition should have been opened for everyone but unfortunately you made limitation for first one and I see newbie aren't looking around competion 1! And they even don't know when next competion gets started. Luckily, you managed for voting of comp. 1 so quickly. So, you must rush to next competiton and WHY DON'T YOU KEEP UPDATES OF COMPETION AT MAIN LOGO OR OPEN A UPDATE CENTER FOR BAF?

Anyways, I got your private message and thank you for the honour.

Hi DEADMAN,

I really do appreciate you taking the time to post such detailed suggestions.

Unfortunately we had ten entries before you made your most helpful post and your entry will not be entered into our competition. This has nothing to do with the quality of your suggestions, which are great, it's simply that unfortunately I had limited the draw to ten entries.

Thanks again for your suggestions and please note that we will be posting a new competition very soon.

Fergal

[wussa]

Fergal, My intention was not only to take part in the competion. As you can see I've also mentioned some serious issues about how forum degrades when they lack basic factors as mentioned in my thread. [ BUSINESSADVICEFORUM - IMPORTANT ISSUES AND SUGGESTIONS - http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2372 ] As well as I intend to post for BAF today too thou I've been going through exams.

But, you didn't notice what I said "Give time to each of the competition no matter how low prizes are they worth of". I hope your goal is make people of the world (newbie) join & stay at BAF and make BAF reputed and best for business issues and advice. This might be because I posted late or you quicked the competition. I don't know what was running to vein.

Each competition should have been opened for everyone but unfortunately you made limitation for first one and I see newbie aren't looking around competion 1! And they even don't know when next competion gets started. Luckily, you managed for voting of comp. 1 so quickly. So, you must rush to next competiton and WHY DON'T YOU KEEP UPDATES OF COMPETION AT MAIN LOGO OR OPEN A UPDATE CENTER FOR BAF?

Anyways, I got your private message and thank you for the honour.


Likewise ;) As I mention no prob. Anyway there are like a lot of other opportunities next time.
Cheers :)
Wussa
p/s- I am going back to university next week for the new semester. You are just gonna start your exams?? :D

[Fergal]

Thanks DEADMAN and wussa, I will take your feedback on board for the second draw, which will start after we announce a winner for Draw One, certainly within the next week to week and a half.

[wussa]

I have voted ~~
Anyway I can only get into that poll via this thread, its not visible at the main board? No wonder there is so little vote. Maybe you should put at the header, First poll!! Vote here!! :)
Cheers
Wussa

[Fergal]

I have voted ~~
Anyway I can only get into that poll via this thread, its not visible at the main board? No wonder there is so little vote. Maybe you should put at the header, First poll!! Vote here!! :)
Cheers
Wussa

Thanks for the suggestion. I will email all members with a link to the thread to give it a bit of publicity.

[DEADMAN]

Fergal, it would be good if you keep [ Vote for Competition 1 ! ] in header of BusinessAdviceForum, some members may not check e-mails or come directly to visit BAF.

[Fergal]

Thanks for the suggestion DEADMAN, as you can see I implemented it.

[Fergal]

The poll has now closed and the winners are as follows;

The winner is - Webestrian
The runner up is - bojomojo

Webestrian, please PM me with your PayPal email.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated. I greatly appreciate your valuable suggestions and as you can see by our new design and other changes, we have started to implement them.

[Nazreen]

Congratulations Webestrian. Keep up the good work.

[scifi]

It is nice to see that webestrian, you are the winner of the competition..Cheers..Congrats to you bojomojo...
:D

[DEADMAN]

Congratulation to both Webestrian and Bojomojo.

Hope to see more of you!

[Webestrian]

Thanks Every One :)
I seriously feel; A lot is still required to be done by BAF :)

[Fergal]

I agree, we've a long way to go but we are getting there.

[pendelton]

Webestrian, very well done, congrats.
Bojomojo., well done to you too.

Keep it up, both of you.

[Kay]

Many congrats to Webestrian and Bojomojo from me too! :)

[devilbatista]

Congratulations Webestrian for winning the first competition!

[CJM2009]

I came too late :confused:
This competition is now closed!

[Fergal]

Yes, but you can view details of our other contests here (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?p=12674).