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

1. bojomojo - Section for successful business owners to coach other members
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 - Small competitions, reward useful posts, business polls, regular theme changes
9. realitybites.in - Revenue sharing, POTW, POTM, MOTM, referral prog., reward regular posters, + more
10. man2008 - 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 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 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!!!!

[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

[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 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

1. bojomojo - Section for successful business owners to coach other members
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 - Small competitions, reward useful posts, business polls, regular theme changes
9. realitybites.in - Revenue sharing, POTW, POTM, MOTM, referral prog., reward regular posters, + more
10. man2008 - 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.

Good luck to all participants.