The “Soul Searching” Contest for teams is an extension of the Facebook contest for a more focused drive. Now that you’re selecting and finalizing your teams, I thought I’d recap the important aspects of the contest.

How does the contest work?

• You can either lead a team or join one. Teams have to be between 5 to 10 members each.
  
• The team captains can register teams into the sheet before adding member user-names to it.
• All team members must be signed up as JV partners and their JV partner panel user-names should be added to the team’s sheet.

• Each individual in the team will participate in the essay writing contest. The collective votes and traffic of all team members will decide the winning team
• All entrants must join the Social Traffic fan page before joining as a prerequisite to submitting their entries.
• The team contest will be run using Google Forms and Spreadsheets.
• At the end of the contest, Social Traffic will manually count each team’s points (votes + traffic) and average them per person in the team. The team with the most average points per player wins the Team’s Contest.

How to participate?

All individuals within the teams have to submit a 450 word essay on;

“Who am I?

Who am I not?

Who do I want to be?

What am I going to do about it?”

What are the rewards?

The Social Traffic Fan Page will grow fans as the competition heats up, since every contestant has to be a part of the community to participate. The page itself will be used to promote the courses and books. All course sales that take place through the Fan Page will earn 40% commission through a dedicated affiliate account that we’ll set up. All of the commission earned through this will be pooled together.

Through the Facebook Social Traffic Fan Page the winners will get the following rewards:

• 1^st team earns 50% of the total commissions earned
• 2^nd team earns 35% of the total commissions earned
• 3^rd team earns 15% of the total commissions earned

With so many teams competing against each other for points (votes and traffic to their entries), this could easily lead to thousands of dollars in commission to the winning team.

To get a clearer picture, understand that only 100 sales conversions from the Facebook Fan Page would mean 100 X $800 commission = $80,000. This $80k will be given to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd teams respectively, and they will divide their rewards amongst their team members. Losing teams won’t get anything, and won’t even get commissions for the sales they were responsible for converting.

Tips on choosing the right team members:

Once your team members have been nominated they cannot be changed. If someone tries to leave a team half-way through the contest, he/she will not be able to leave until the duration of the contest is complete. This means that whoever you have in your team will remain a part of it – of he/she is a good resource then your whole team will benefit. If he/she is a negative force then this will dilute the whole team’s score.

This is why it is important to make sure that you do not invest in half-hearted people by allowing them into your team. People who have not built a reputation of a can-do attitude will have a difficult time finding a team that accepts them. Your team is like a party. The biggest and best parties are the ones where everyone wants to be, where all the good players are, and where the best music is playing. Make your team that kind of party and see the results.

If this goes viral that could be $10,000 a piece, so don’t choose your team members lightly – this is serious business. The wrong team can not only make you lose the contest, but also lose the commissions for the sales that you did convert.

The best thing is that you already know how to promote and ace this contest – you know how to market better than anyone else out there on Facebook and Twitter. You’ve learned the ropes and know the ride well.

Get started today. Pick your partners, find your best team players, and get them to join your team. It’s not every day you get a chance to be involved in a launch of this magnitude. The opportunity is in front of you.

Enter your team here

Entries close Friday 25th September.

Join the single entry competition here. Win first prize valued at $8000!

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