Help from the masses

[Karl Schneider]

Hey guys,

I am looking to add a new column to the main site.

I am hoping to post it every Sunday, as that seems to be a rather boring day News wise.

The premise is one you should enjoy: Contests. Mainly Contests regarding posters or DVDs being given away on various sites.

I will eventually attach my email address to each column asking for heads up on contests, but as of now I am still waiting for the tech guys to enable my email account. Thus I come to you. The prospect of scanning the entire web for various contests makes me ill, so I am hoping that some of you will be able to help point me in the right direction.

Any help is appreciated, just link to the site that is hosting the contest in this thread.

Gracias.

:wink:

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

You can not only create a column featuring contests with low value prizes, you can offer information about much bigger contests with much more desirable prizes. Contests are usually sponsored by corporate entities, which have PR departments and PR subcontractors, a portion of whose job is to find internet sites who'll host their contests.

Start by compiling a list of companies whose advertising and PR interests fit what you want (Cinescape is a movie site, so, logically, movie studios like Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, etc., have agendas that are compatible with Cinescape). Contact each PR department and let them know the objective of your column, and ask them if they would be willing to cooperate with your needs in this regard. I don't really know what your idea is, but whatever it is communicate that to whomever you are speaking with. I have dealt with the studios and PR firms for years, and they want to help you as you are ultimately helping them with your activity.

Trust me, these people are warm and friendly when you approach them in a professional manner, and they want to help you.

My thought is you don't want to host any contests, you want to serve as a clearing house for information as to where the contests are held on the internet. If this is so, and given that Cinescape does have some form of credentials on the internet, you shouldn't find it too difficult to get what you want.

[Karl Schneider]

Oh no no.

You are right and wrong at the same time. The marketing departments are a great place to start, but will be of little assistence in what I had planned. They wouldn't provide me with a list of all the sites they give things away to, and if they did, it would be a very big list.

A lot of sites that have free contests have no marketing department and no PR department. Rather they have a fan site related to a movie and contacted a studio who offered them two or three coppies of a film.

I am in contact with most of the major studio's and you will see more contests coming to cinescape in the future months. I was just thinking about compiling a list till then of some contests. Nothing like Google Quest, just smaller contests.

I don't want anyone to go hunting for me, but if you have passed by one recently, let me know.

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

the-Trades.com, and rottentomatoes.com are two sites I write for, and they feature contests.