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Top 5 Reasons This Writing Contest is Stupid

May 9th, 2007 · 68 Comments

Problogger.net is having another contest. It’s a Top 5 list group writing project. I thought I’d give it a shot and post up my own Top 5 list. I’m feeling kinda surly today and do not feel like posting but Lost Ball could use the extra promotion and writing helps get the brain going. So here are the Top 5 Reasons this Writing Contest is Stupid.

1) You’re Not Going to Win. Yea, somebody has to win the Chitika $1,001 grand prize. But it won’t be you. There are so many great writers participating. Some are really creative. Some write well. However, there is no way you are going to impress Darren enough to get your post recognized. You’ll have to either be stupidly funny or maybe wickidly creative with video, poems and sky writing to claim your victory.

2 ) Too many people participating. Nobody is going to read your contest entry. OK nobody is a bit harsh. How about, only 3 extra people are going to read your post than would normally. Now if you want to get people to read your entry you can always sex it up: “Top 5 Reasons Having Sex While Blogging Will Help You Lose Weight”, might get you a few extra eyeballs. It’s just stupid that the only time you can get someone’s attention is by mentioning sex or weight loss. Otherwise your entry just gets stuck between the Top 5 reasons Britney doesn’t wear panties and the Top 5 reasons M&M’s can’t be square. You’ll never be found my friend.

3) It’s a waste of time. Wouldn’t I be better off putting what little brain cells I have in operation to writing a real blog entry? This Top 5 list will hit the archives and not be read again quicker than a click to a free Adsense riches ebook. I suppose, in keeping with the theme of Lost Ball, I could write a Top 5 list of some of my favorite Internet marketing tools like Nichebot, PLR Pro, Affilorama, PortalFeeder/OrwellPro and XSP, but that would be tasteless, what with all the affiliate links and such.

4) Nobody but Darren benefits. Sure some lottery winner will win $700 (you don’t think the IRS doesn’t have a man on the inside do you? Oh yes. They’ll get their cut.) . But otherwise look at all the free publicity you’re giving to ProBlogger.net. Yea it’s a great blog. Full of helpful tips and hints on how to make money blogging. Best-of-breed, blah, blah, blah. Dude probably has the rel=no follow on the posts so you won’t get any link love anyway. They are piggy backing to success on the backs of the little people blogging about push pins and knuckle hair.

5) I sat here all of 10 minutes trying to come up with a 5th entry. That’s stupid. There is so many other things I could have done in that span of time. Like come up with the Top 6 reasons it’s stupid to sit around for 10 minutes trying to come up with a 5th entry in a stupid Top 5 writing contest.

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