An interesting observation about blog readers

Posted by stuart as

In an effort to get things rocking here again after my recent absence, I thought I’d run a competition to get people commenting here again.

It’s a pretty simple comp, where the reader had to guess what a picture was of, and I’m giving away either US$10, or a review of the readers blog right here on PMPR.

I chose this kind of comp because it takes no effort on the part of the reader to enter, and the review, especially, is particularly good value, as reviewme.com are asking $60 for a review here.

The wierd thing is that this blog has around 50 feed readers, and between 150 and 250 unique visitors a day, and only two people have so far entered the comp in five days.

This has left me wondering where I might have gone wrong. I’m asking myself whether the prize was too low? Was the competition too hard? Do seasoned blog readers just not enter competitions?

I’m really after some feedback here from you, the reader. What would you like to see in a competition? I’d love to be able to offer more prize-money, but unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. Are there things other than reviews that I could be offering as prizes? Perhaps a months text link in the sidebar?