And we have a winner!

Henry Rivas of Las Vegas, Neveda. I will be shipping out the PS3 today so look for it Monday Henry.

Today's it. Less than 8 hours left for the free Playstation 3.

In less than 8 hours a winner will be selected. That winner will receive a free 60 GB Playstation 3. But you can't win if you don't enter. So register at earlymiser and set up a link to earlymiser.com and let me know. There's not a lot of time left

1.5 Days left on the free Playstation 3 promotion

The PS3 giveaway deadline is nearly here. It's a Playstation 3. You have till tomorrow midnight to register an account at EarlyMiser. If you want a free Playstation 3 you need to get signed up and then link to the Early Miser from your blog, MySpace or other website. Remember just 1.5 days until we give away the Playstation 3. It's getting exciting.. I mean who will win?

Only 4 days left to sign up for the free ps3

Ok the deadline for getting a chance to win a free PS3 is fast approaching. It's a Playstation 3. You have till midnight on January 25, 2007 to register an account at EarlyMiser. We have gotten a few entrants in the last few days but time is definitely running out. If you want a free Playstation 3 you need to get signed up and then link to the Early Miser from your blog, MySpace or other website. Remember just 4 days until we give away the Playstation 3. Yes I know this post is the same as the last post almost.

6 days remain to get signed up for a free PS3!

Ok the deadline for getting a chance to win a free PS3 is fast approaching. It's a Playstation 3. You have till midnight on January 25, 2007 to register an account at EarlyMiser. We have gotten a few entrants in the last few days but time is definitely running out. If you want a free Playstation 3 you need to get signed up and then link to the Early Miser from your blog, MySpace or other website. Remember just 6 days until we give away the Playstation 3

10 Days and Counting

Today is January 16, 2007. I will be announcing the winner of the Playstation 3 giveaway in exactly 10 days. So create those feeds or link from your blog or myspace profile to the site. I have gotten a little bit of grief over asking for links. Here on Fat Wallet one poster said, " A word of warning. They require you to provide a link to your MySpace page or your web/blog page so they can get free advertising from your entry. They are certainly asking a lot for only giving away a single PS3!"

Well excuse me. When I got this PS3 for the promotion they were impossible to find. I am not sure how asking for a link on a site like someone's craptastic MySpace profile which looks like Geocities ala 1997 is a big deal. It wouldn't be such a problem if I DIDN'T OFFER AN ALTERNATIVE means of entry by creating a feed at the site. Look. We are a small company - I didn't buy 10 PS3s to give them away. I bought one. I didn't pay a PR firm thousands of dollars to publicize my giveaway. I did it myself. As a result I didn't get local coverage on television and I only got word of mouth (or in this case word of blog). This means relative to a huge promotion your odds of winning are pretty good. Right now if you entry our Playstation 3 giveaway your odds of winning are currently 1 in 110. We have gotten 110 sign ups during the promotion so far. So your odds of winning are pretty fracking good. Anyway discuss it in the Playstation 3 giveaway forum.

Apologies

I recently used loudlaunch.com as a supplementary marketing effort for my recent Playstation 3 console giveaway. It seemed a great way to potentially announce your campaign to the blogosphere. There are serious problems in the way Loudlaunch.com operates and any advertiser thinking about using the service should be beware. First off you cannot specify what blogs or category of blog that will post on your subject. As a result while the individual posts are solid, the blogs target audience might not be a match for what you are looking for. As you cannot control who may or may not post on your subject. Worse yet your money may go to support terrorism! This has happened to me and my promotion for Earlymiser. A blog call Israel Watch (I REFUSE to link to them) which openly advocates the destruction of Israel and the Jews chose to blog about my PS3 promotion. I find it astounding that my advertising dollars are being spent supporting anti-semitic rantings. More importantly who knows what group is behind the site Israel Watch. I find the views on the site deeply disturbing and I didn't authorize the post. So the brand of my comparison shopping site is at risk. Can you imagine how I felt about the situation? Worst yet Loudlaunch.com doesn't have a customer service number and their whois is protected by Domains By Proxy. I have fired off several emails but haven't gotten a response. Why does Loudlaunch support terrorists?

If you use Loudlaunch, there's a good chance your brand or site will be featured on a hate site. Don't do it.

I love the Yahoo Buzz log!

Yahoo Buzz log! Here's the buzz log for January 2, 2007!

1. Kids Digital Cameras
2. Digital Voice Recorders
3. Kid Tough Digital Camera
4. Digital Frames
5. Pink Digital Camera
6. Digital Video Recorder
7. Digital Photography
8. Fisher Price Digital Camera
9. Sony Digital Picture Frame
10. Exact Digital Replica

Filed under: Shopping, Electronics

Holiday Updates - Yahoo and more

I haven't posted in a while. Development has been pretty time consuming and I am more or less tracing bugs and trying to make the code more portable and flexible. It has neither now.

Yesterday I got a very apologetic letter from the people at Yahoo Directory Express Submission. I appealed the original decision and on 12/5 I got a notice that my appeal was accepted and the site would be added to the directory in 2-4 days. Well those days came and went and the site wasn't added. I sent an email about once a week inquring about the addition to the directory. Then on January 4 I got an email from Anna Moyles apologizing for the mixup. Apparently it a simple clerical type error and my site would be added to the directory and would be visible in the next 48 hours. Sure enough it was visible today in the Virtual Malls category at Yahoo directory. So kudos for Yahoo Directory for fixing the problem.

Currently our official giveaway is for a Playstation 3. You can find the official announcement at PR Web announcement for Earlymiser.com. We plan on holding giveaways pretty frequently on the site. They will be announced here and at the news section of earlymiser.com So check back frequently - I am hoping to have one giveaway a month on the site.