I’m pleased to announce that last week’s comments contest winner is Lodewijkvdb! Lodewijkvdb has won a copy of one of my favorite books, The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. Congratulations and thank you (and everyone) for your wonderful comments.

This week’s prize is coming up- but before I introduce that, let me introduce another new opportunity! We are really excited about getting more readers in order to (hopefully) impact more people and generate even more lively discussions.

Refer a friend and win up to $250

To boost subscribers, David has decided to offer $100 to one random person who refers one of their friends to subscribe to CBG. The more people you refer, the more opportunities you have to win the cash. And if we reach 250 new subscribers, the amount you can will be raised to $250. Sweet!

All you have to do to be entered to win is to refer your friends and have them send me an email letting me know that you referred them. They’ll also receive one chance to win just by subscribing.

If you refer yourself, just let me know that you subscribed by emailing Christine [at] createbusinessgrowth [dot] com. Remember, the more people you refer, the more chances you have, and the more people that subscribe, the greater the chances are of upping that ante from $100 to $250. What could you do with an extra $250?

The “refer a friend” contest will run for 6 weeks and end on September 21st – good luck!

This Week’s Comments Contest Prize

The winner of this week’s comments contest will receive another Jack Canfield Book titled The Aladdin Factor. All you have to do to be eligible to win, is speak your mind by adding to the discussion (comments).

Take a look at some of these customer reviews on Amazon:

Somebody stop me! I am in the midst of further changing my life for the better and found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in the book The Aladdin Factor

This is a power-packed book that’s worth a number of reads. After I read this book the first time through, many new doors opened up for me due to my simply asking!

This book opened Pandora’s Box for me, not only giving me “permission” to ask, but demonstrating through the anecdotes, insights and powerful stories, how it can be done. And it works!

Why Do We Offer So Many Incentives?

In a very busy, crowded world where there is so much information to digest, a little incentive can’t hurt. I’m a writer and consultant, David’s a trainer and consultant, Fred is a consultant- we can’t help it- we like to share thoughts and ideas and we like hear your thoughts and ideas by engaging in discussions. We understand that it’s our responsibility to keep you interested with useful content once you subscribe and take this quite seriously.

What do You Think?

Have you ever held a contest on your blog? What were the results? Have you ever won a blog contest? What are you going to do to improve your odds of winning the cash?

And by $$ I mean more ability for profit and possibly cost as well. Announced August 8th Google will be making “an improvement to the top ad placement formula.” This change is supposed to bring “increasing control for advertisers.” However this means that they will swing focus on “actual” CPC to maximum CPC. In the past your CPC/actual CPC has been a large factor of what those BELOW you have been bidding. This new formula means that “your ad’s eligibility to be promoted is no longer dependent on the bids of advertisers below you” but more so on how high your Max CPC is. Don’t worry Quality Score is still a big key to your CPC and Position. Although we may see more CPC’s near our maximum bids instead of where they are now. For several of my clients our CPC is always about 1/2 of our Max bid, and we place in the top 3 every time. From my understanding this could mean that what you put down as your max will be what you pay, or closer to. We will have to wait and see how this really affects things. For some of my clients it could mean a lot of cash in increased CPC, the need to use position preference, and closer monitoring day in and day out. They say “We anticipate that most of your ads will continue to perform as they have in the past.” But only time will tell on this change. It could be really cool at the same time. It may mean that some of my clients competitors with a little bit better quality score that have a lower max CPC we can now beat out in position. And that could mean a lot more cash in profits in the end. Please comment on any changes that you notice in your own campaigns. More feedback from other AdWords advertisers on the results of this change could help us all.

Quotes from: Inside AdWords The official source for information about AdWords

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie

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