Posts Tagged ‘contest’

Posted on September 12, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Foursquare & Twitter at the MTV Video Music Awards. Foursquare user checkins to win VMA tickets

Tonight during the 2010 MTV Video music awards members from the Foursquare team was tweeting for everyone to watch during the pre-show to see something special.

What was the big news? One lucky Foursquare user who checked into the MTV Video Music awards red carpet won tickets to the VMAs. Cool right? Tristan Walker, business dev. for Foursquare recorded the contest give-a-way and posted it the clip to youtube. Take a look.

What did Foursquare fans think of the contest?

It looks like Foursquare isn’t the only startup at MTV Video Music awards. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams @EV tweeted he was as the 2010 MTV Video Music awards show too.

Posted on September 7, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Win 30 days of free coworking at Design Box via Shovemedia’s what would you do with 30 days contest

We’re excited about the BetaBox spaces services at Design Box to provide an opportunity for startups, entrepreneurs and those who are looking to escape the coffee shop or home office a place to work. Fellow Design Box member Jon Williams of shovemedia is so excited he’s launching a “What would you do with 30 days of free coworking” contest. Watch the contest video below and submit your ideas to shovemedia at gmail dot com.

The contest ends Friday, September 17 at 11:59 P.M. Good luck to everyone and for more information about coworking at Design Box visit our Work Here page or contact us at 919-834-3552 or email info at designbox dot us

Design Box
323 W Martin St
Raleigh, NC‎, 27601
Web: designbox.us
Ph: 919-834-3552
Email: info at designbox dot us
Twitter: @DBRaleigh

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Posted on July 19, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

Two NC Startups partner to offer location-based check-in contest: @TriOut and @Shoeboxed

It’s good to see local startups working together! Originally posted on TriOut’s blog

Since we launched back in February one of our goals has been to work with local businesses to offer a check-in learderboard contest each month. Previous contest have included working with Empire Eats, Arrichion Hot Yoga , Golden Corral and today we’re excited to announce that TriOut has partner with the Durham startup Shoeboxed for a top 5 check-in leaderboard contest.

“Shoeboxed is the easiest way to get rid of your paper clutter. Send receipts, business cards, and other documents to them in postage paid envelopes or via mobile phone and Shoeboxed will scan, data enter, categorize, and upload everything into your secure online account. Download expense reports, PDFs, or enjoy unlimited organized online storage at no extra charge. www.shoeboxed.com.

For the Shoeboxed top 5 check-in learderboad contest, the top 5 TriOut users for the week of July 19 – July 25 will win a 60 day free Classic trial Shoeboxed account and a Shoeboxed T-Shirt. The winners will be announced on Monday, July 26 via the @TriOut twitter account.

The Leaderboard is based on our check-in points systems and you can earn extra points for checking in at locations with specials. You can see all of the locations with specials here: http://trioutnc.com/specials/. For more information about the TriOut points system read: TriOut Points System.
You earn more points the following ways:
5 points for each check-in per location, per day.
3 points for each photo.
3 points for each review.
10 points for checking into an event.
10 points for checking into a location with a special.

We’re excited to be working with the Shoeboxed team and would like to congratulate them on their continued success as a NC Startup. You can find more about Shoeboxed and connect with the company via their online profiles below:

Web: Shoeboxed.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Shoeboxed
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shoeboxed
Phone: (888) 369 4269 |

Good luck to everyone and thanks for using TriOut. We’re working with other local businesses to provide more sponsored leaderboard contests in the future. If you’re interested in sponsoring a TriOut leaderboard contest please email wayne at TriOutNC dot com or call 919-200-0933.

Posted on June 15, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

A free coffee or espresso waiting on you at Cafe Helios. Just scan the Stickybits barcode to collect

Last night while looking at old business cards from SXSW I realized I had a box of Stickybits barcode stickers. I remember meeting a few of the Stickybits team  members (I think he worked at Stickybits) telling me how they had big plans for 2010 and looking now at their progress from March to now, he was right. So I started updating my Stickybits profile and looking QR Codes vs barcodes and came up with a idea/contest to use my pack of Stickybits in the Triangle. Here’s are the details for the contest.

• There are 3 @TriOut business cards on the wall at Cafe Helios.
• One of the cards has a Stickybits barcode sticker on it.
• Scan it with either the Stickybits iPhone or Android app (I think red laser  app works too).
• After you scan it, look at the comments.
• There will be instructions on it for you win a free coffee or espresso or anything up to $3.00 at Cafe Helios.

You can download the Stickybits iPhone app or Andriod app here: [iPhone ] [Andriod]

Note: Stickybits or Cafe Helios or TriOut are NOT sponsoring this contest. It’s just something I wanted to TriOut

Good luck and let me know your thoughts about Stickybits and the idea in the comments.

Posted on May 10, 2010 - by Wayne Sutton

@TriOut partners with Arrichion ( @Arrichion_girl ) for a Check-in Leaderboard Contest

As TriOut continues to grow, we want to thank our users by partnering with local businesses to offer prizes through various TriOut leaderboard contests. Some of our previous leaderboard check-in contests have been $25 Gift Cards to Empire Eats properties, $10 iTunes gift cards and movie tickets. This week we’re pleased to announced the Arrichion Hot Yoga TriOut Leaderboard Check-in Contest. The top TriOut user to be announced next Monday via Twitter will win one month of free, unlimited training at Arrichion Hot Yoga, an $89.00 value.

Arrichion, which provides wrestling, hot yoga, mixed martial training and more, is located at 8606 Jersey Court, Raleigh, NC 27617 , and managed by TriOut user Quinn Reynolds @Arrichion_girl. Take a look at the videos below to see Arrichion instructors in action.

How does the contest work? Starting today, the TriOut points you accumulate from Monday, May 10, to Sunday, May 16, at midnight will enter you into the contest. You earn points the following ways:

• 5 points for each check-in per location, per day.
• 3 points for each photo
• 3 points for each review.
• 10 points for checking into an event
• 10 points for checking into a location with a special.

Note, you can see all of the locations with specials here: http://trioutnc.com/specials/. And yes Arrichion Hot Yoga has a check-in special: 10 consecutive days of yoga practice for $10. Meaning if you want to gain points for the check-in competition you could take advantage of the 10 consecutive days of yoga practice for $10 today and get 10 points for checking in during each visit. You can read more about how the TriOut points system works here: TriOut Points System

*Contest Rules:
Winner must use the one month prize by the end of August
Your one month starts the day of your first visit
No check-in cheating…

You can keep a track of your points on your new TriOut profile page (login on http://TriOutNC.com ) and the check-in leaderboard to see how well you’re doing.

Good luck to everyone and thanks for using TriOut. We’re working with other local businesses to provide more sponsored leaderboard contests in the future and would like to thank Arrichion /Quinn for sponsoring this week’s contest.

If you’re interested in sponsoring a TriOut leaderboard contest please email contact at TriOutNC dot com or call 919-200-0933.

*Disclaimer: I’m a partner with TriOut where I serve as the business development/marketing strategist.