Announcing The Oprano Challenge !

[sarettah]

A smackdown dragout site building sales melee.

4 teams, each with an experienced sales pro and a site builder competing in the only way that really matters.

Earning The Most Cash, Money, Bling, Dough.

Each team will build their best sales generating site and then will receive 10,000 hits to sell as much as they can to.


The contestants are:


Trev the Tyrant mentoring Becki the newbie

BillPMB The Mega Sales Master coaching Nick "whos your papa" Papageorgio

EclectiXXX the Energizer helping Jizz the Bizz the newbie wizz

and Mister X assisting Sarettah the sales midget


The contest:

The building period for the contest will begin RIGHT NOW, Wednesday, April 27.

The building period will go until May 11, 2005 when the hits will start to be delivered.

The hits will be delivered over roughly a 3 week period ending approximately June 1st.

The sales period of the contest will end when the last hit is delivered and has been processed.

The contest will be judged on 3 criteria.:

1. Total conversions (include free sign ups that might not generate sales) and email addresses collected (25% of contest points)

2. Total number of sales (25% of contest points)

3. Total sales dollars (50% of contest points)

The prizes (so far):

Can Now Be Found Here: http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index...howtopic=18067

(if any advertisers, sponsors or individuals would like to add to the pot, hit me up)

Rules:

Teams may build whatever they want, no holds barred. The only rule is the site(s)
cannot have existed prior to the beginning of the contest.

Modification: April 29: After discussing it among the participants, it has been decided that toolbars, scumware, adware, spyware (and associated ilk) are not allowed as saleable products.

The sites will NOT be submitted to SE's or Lists/TGPs in order to limit the outside
traffic as much as possible.

The sites may be tweaked throughout the sales period.

Content:

Teams may use whatever content they want, their own, sponsor content, whatever.

In addition, to help level the playing field,

Bestat of Exclusive Content


and

MaDalton of Amazing Content


have agreed to provide content sets to contestants that may need them.

Thank You Bestat and MaDalton.

In addition to that anyone using Depraved Dollars or Cloud9Cash as sponsors can get access to some special "Contest Only" sponsor sets that Red and Vick have graciously provided. Thanx Guys !!


Sponsors

The following Oprano Advertisers and Family Programs are recommended as sponsors in the contest:

AlMighty Content
Amateur Webmaster
Homegrown Cash
Pussy Cash
Rectal Revenue
Yanks Cash
VOD TopBucks
SPA Cash
AEBN
PornMegaBucks
Cloud9cash
Live Bucks/Private Feeds
Evil Genius Cash
MacDaddyBucks
Depraved Dollars

(If I have missed any advertisers or Family Programs, I apologize. Please hit me up and I will add you to the list.)

Modified April 29 to reflect a group discussion. All sponsors my be used. While Oprano advertisers and family programs are preferred, sponsor selection is part of an overall sales strategy and should not be restricted. Further Teams do not have to reveal which programs they are using until the sales period of the contest kicks in.

Hit delivery:

Hits will be delivered beginning May 11th to a landing page on a url that will not be revealed. A script on the landing page will control the delivery of hits to each team's site.

In addition, each team may point their exit hits at a recycle landing page that will allow the team to receive trades on a one to one basis. Trade in a hit, get a fresh hit back.

Throughout the contest, there will be a pinned thread in either the main forum or
the help forum where builders will make daily progress reports on their efforts and may request help, advice and reviews from the general board population.

Judges-Umpires

There will be 3 umpires assigned to help verify the results and to be decision makers in any disputes that arise.

Currently the only official umpire is Dravyk of Content God and AllOfem but by the time they are needed we will have more on board.


So, Builders, Mentors, ARE YOU READY ????

Get your asses in gear and lets roll !!!!!!!


I would also like to thank Joesho, Inabon and Boldy of Remotethumbs.com

Joesho for the hit delivery and Inabon for volunteering Boldy's scripting skills...

Thanks Guys, you rock !!


edited in: Thanx for the heads up Red, all fixed now :I hope