Win $100 AND Get Paid In This Thread !

[CuriousToyBoy]

Okie dokie, here's the whack.......

Of late, we have been taking constant requests from our webmasters for special and different sized banners for many of our sites.

As those who made the request would know - those banners have been supplied and are now available in the Curious Cash members area for all to use!

So for webmasters of ours who want something different, or those who have some time to kill and are good at the banner design game (or even if you are not and need the practice !), we are now asking you to design some banners for any and/or all of our sites and submit them to Curious Cash to win !!!

The winner of the best banner (as decided by Webmaster Dan) will receive $100.00.

[/i]But here is the best thing.....[i]

If you submit banners, and we decide to use any/or all of the ones you submit, for any and/or all of our sites, we will pay you for EACH one of them !!
* $5.00 per static banner
* $7.50 per animated banner or half page advertisement
* $10.00 per flash banner or full page advertisement

So what's the catch? ONLY Curious Cash Affiliates are eligible to win and/or be paid, but REMEMBER, just by joining you get an entry into our Webmaster of the Year competition - a free trip to Syndey Australia for the 2005 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras !! If you are a webmaster from the Southern Hemisphere you can even elect to swap that for a trip to Florida Internexxt 2005! You do NOT have to send ANY joins to stay in the draw!!

Click Here To Join Curious Cash now and qualify !

Competition rules are as below:

Rule #1 Competition is open to all Curious Cash webmasters and entries should be sent to banners@curiouscash.com no later than 31 June 2004 (next Thursday !!). Please attach all banners as attachments and provide a summary of banners submitted in the email text, with your name, Curious Cash Affiliate ID and PayPal or Bank Wire details.

Rule #2 You must ONLY use our images licensed to you for the sole purpose of manufacturing promotional banners for this competition. These images can be sourced from the hosted galleries, or if you need more please email webmaster@curiouscash.com for temporary access to the site you are designing banners for.

Rule #3 There is NO limit to how many banners you may submit - in fact we encourage you to make as many as possible for as many of our sites as you can ! The more we use the more you get paid, and the more chances you have to win !

Rule #4 Winner selection for the best banner and banner selection for use in http://www.curiouscash.com is at the sole discretion of Curious Cash, and no correspondence shall be entered into.

Rule #5 Payment will be made by either bank wire or PayPal at the discretion of Curious Cash.

Rule #6 Winner and successful banner submissions will be published in the Curious Cash Webmaster Update of 9th July (and here of course!).

Alright. So what has the best chances of getting selected so you get paid for your work ?

Let me give up some hints....

Insider Tip #1 What sites should I do banners for? We have quite a few new sites, banners are a bit thin on the ground for them, but yet again maybe some of the more established sites could use some new ones.... check out our current banner list, find some areas you think could be added or done better, but remember, others may think the same... Hmmmmm. Basically, it doesn't matter WHICH sites you do, if your submitted banners cut the mustard, they will be selected and you WILL be paid. Do what suits you best out of our 22 sites !

Insider Tip #2 Should I do static banners, or maybe animated or flash? We have NO flash banners presently. Go figure. We have a few animated, but maybe your angle is better? If you do static, maybe clean and simple is better than bright and busy... again, be creative as there are NO limitations here either.

Insider Tip #3 What sizes should I concentrate on? Now on this we can give some more specific hints on how to best maximize the return on your effort ! We do specifically NEED banners in 120 x 60, 500 x 80, 480 x 80, 120 x 180, 125 x 200. For half pagers go with 400-500 x 200-300. For full pagers go with 600-700 x 400-500. Odd size banners and verticals and buttons are also encouraged. If you submit "standard" banners they would usually be 468 x 60 or 468 x 90. Do what would suit you, but bear this in mind to ensure you make top bank.

Insider Tip #4 We need LOTS of new banners, so there is NO limit on how many you can submit or how many we will pay you for! The more the merrier.

Questions? Contact us. Good luck and get cracking ...........

[cj]

Lindsay ... a couple of tips ...

1) nobody here cares about winning $100 so your title won't attract the right eyes. Better would have been "Designers, we need banners" ... "and the best one wins $100"

2) this isn't gfy ... stop thinking like a gfy webmaster when you post here!!!! do I have to slap you!??!?!?!? ;-)))))

3) never post the entire details of a contest in a thread ... especially the rules and other details below the rules. it makes the post too long and many won't read it. Break it into 2 steps. Intro on the board, further details on your site.

3) what are you going to do with the webmasters who design banners that you choose not to use? They won't be able to use them for anything else if they are built for your sites ... you might piss off a few designers if you don't choose their work and they've spent a lot of time on it!!

4) $10 per flash banner or fpa?!?!?!??! yeah right!! "Tell 'im ees dreamin" LOL

5) You said 'unlimited banners' ... I could make $500 this afternoon based on that rule ... and there won't be any you could reasonably reject. Be really really careful when you give webmasters that much rope ... they will hang YOU with it!!

6) What's the difference between static and animated in *your* definition? I can make a static banner, then animate the 'click here' to flash on and off and there's 2 banners - 1 static and 1 animated. are you only going to accept 1 and not both?

7) are you giving anyone the raw psd files for the sites? how are designers supposed to get logos for the sites? cut them out?!?!? how annoying ... at least provide some tools for the designers or the banners will be shit and it won't be the designers fault.

with all that said though Lindsay, don't get me wrong ... this is an excellent idea - been thinking about a similar thing for months. its a great way to get a lot of cheap banners into your program quickly while generating some promotion. I just don't think your guidelines are very reasonable or fair ... you haven't given the designers many specifics, and knowing designers like I do many will waste a lot of time doing something which you will probably choose not to use because they interpreted what you wanted incorrectly.

Keep us posted how this goes, good job & excellent idea

[CuriousToyBoy]

I always get a headache when I see CJ's nick in my threads....

He he he.

But it is a headache easily cured with good food, good company and good wine.



I take your points, and see the logic.

But also I am sure if we pissed people off they will sound out about it... if you used that static/animated trick and we didn't pay for either/or and you wanted to have a go, a quick post of them would also be clearly logical to most reasonable people. Unreasonable people I really do not give a hoot about.

We ARE looking for a fresh approach and a fresh look, so it was PURPOSELY non-prescriptive, but descriptive and extensive enough to provide direction for peopl who are creative enough.

If we wanted cheap same-old-same-old we'd have hit up the Indian or Phillipino guys.

We want fresh.

We want people to think how they would sell it instead of us thinking we knoe how to sell it for them.

If you don't like the terms, don't enter, it is impossible to make everyone happy all of the time. Having said that, the first flash banners and FPA's have already hit the decks, so obviously some people don't share your feelings.

We rewards the relationships we build, hence why we want people who are prepared to join the program to participate - we like to

Many of your questions show you failed to read what was in the rules, they were answered there. Too quick on the reply mayhaps?

Anyways, thanks for your input, as always I depend on receiving it, and I will surely post results here and elsewhere so people know how it all panned out.

If you feel the need, slap away, just don;t use the Kangaroo fillets, they need NO tenderising :P

[Mike AI]

CJ is not ripping you, she is giving your valueable advice!

Learn from her!

[CuriousToyBoy]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Jun 25 2004, 04:04 PM
CJ is not ripping you, she is giving your valueable advice!

Learn from her!

Mike I know that.

I agree totally with SOME of her advice, and I disagree with other parts.

That is allowed isn't it?

I was just responding.

As I always do, and as I always will.

[Winetalk.com]

if you need banners and wanna spend $100,
just talk to Todd whose team designed our logo.

as simple as that.

[CuriousToyBoy]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Jun 25 2004, 07:07 PM
if you need banners and wanna spend $100,
just talk to Todd whose team designed our logo.

as simple as that.

Serge,

I agree they do great work, but fresh is the attitude we are after, so we figured why not let the people who use them to make a buck be the guiders of how they lead the surfer to make it for them.

Really looking forward to the diversity of appraches and styles that this competition should bring out.

That's why instead of just one prize we are happy to pay for worthwhile efforts.

[cj]

Originally posted by CuriousToyBoy@Jun 25 2004, 12:47 AM
Many of your questions show you failed to read what was in the rules, they were answered there. Too quick on the reply mayhaps?

They weren't answered in the rules, that's why I raised the points in the first place duh Like I said, this aint gfy!

But for being cheeky, you get punished ... Next time, make sure your advertising campaign is in place *before* you post a company announcement, or i'll ignore it

[CuriousToyBoy]

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