{"id":28,"date":"2009-10-28T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/wrapping-up-the-excel-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T04:20:00","slug":"wrapping-up-the-excel-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/wrapping-up-the-excel-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping Up the Excel Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Contextures Blog, I ran a week long <a title=\"Excel giveaway\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.contextures.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/21\/very-scary-fall-giveaway-for-excel-nerds\/\">Excel giveaway<\/a>, with a nice collection of prizes from some generous sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>The entries included some hilarious Excel horror stories, and a few creative Excel Hallowe\u2019en costume suggestions. I enjoyed reading them, and the giveaway page got good traffic, so others must have enjoyed them too.<\/p>\n<p>After the giveaway deadline passed, the real work began. I copied all the names, emails and comment numbers from the blog, and cleaned them up in Excel. <\/p>\n<p>For a similar giveaway in July, I created a macro to <a title=\"draw the prize numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.contextures.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/29\/summer-giveaway-for-excel-nerds-winners\/\">draw the prize numbers<\/a> and winning comment numbers. It worked very well, so I used it again for the fall giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I wrote the prize announcement post, and will email all the winners and prize sponsors with details on how to collect their prize.<\/p>\n<p>A giveaway is a fair amount of work, but creates interest and traffic for a blog. I hope the prize sponsors saw some increased traffic too. If so, they might be willing to sponsor another giveaway, when we all recover from this one.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Contextures Blog, I ran a week long Excel giveaway, with a nice collection of prizes from some generous sponsors. The entries included some hilarious Excel horror stories, and a few creative Excel Hallowe\u2019en costume suggestions. 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