SUBSCRIBERS RULE!

SR! Photo Contest Winner

As I tallied the votes for our SR! Photo Contest, it struck me that perhaps I had too many “cat people” on the roster of judges.  Don’t get me wrong, I love both cats and dogs, but our winning entry from Joanna Freeman at CareerBuilder.com is a bit too sedate for my alt-rock loving sensibilities.

That said, majority rules and per the SR! philosophy — to each their own.  With that, I give you the winning entry, a.k.a. “Subscripurrrrrrrs Rule”:

The Winning Photo: Subscripurrrrrs Rule!

Joanna assures me that no foam hands or blankets were injured during or after the taking of this photograph.  I also trust that the feline pictured will be compensated with an appropriate modeling fee paid in Cat Chow and catnip (if it’s still legal in Illinois).

Thanks again to all who entered our SR! Contests, and look for more to come in 2009!

Pumpkins Rule!

Q: What do you get when you have a father/marketer, two pre-tweens anxious to scoop “pumpkin guts,” and an extraordinarily patient wife who is adept at the crafting arts?

A: The world’s first, SUBSCRIBERS RULE!™ carved pumpkin!

Enjoy the pics, and don’t forget — you have until Midnight EST on Halloween to submit your SR!-themed photos and t-shirt slogans for your chance to win one of two Sanyo Xacti HD video cameras.  Enter now!

The official SUBSCRIBERS RULE!™ Pumpkin

NEWSFLASH: Gourds are very subscriber-centric.

A Picture Worth a Sanyo Xacti?

A gentle reminder that you still have 3 weeks to enter our SUBSCRIBERS RULE! Xacti-Mundo Contest and stake your claim to one of two Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1010 high-def video cameras that we’re giving away.

For full contest rules, be sure to check out this post.  One Xacti will be given to the person who comes up with the best SR! t-shirt slogan while the other will go to the photographer who best captures the spirit of the SUBSCRIBERS RULE! philosophy (with or without one of our sought-after foam hands).

Will the fine folks pictured below at the Cheers Bar in Boston (formerly the Bull & Finch Pub to you purists) win?  No, because they are ExactTarget employees and, therefore, ineligible.  Buy you — YOU, however, could be a winner.  So what’s stopping you?

Have they captured enough of the SR! spirit to win a Sanyo Xacti?

SR! Xacti-Mundo Contests!!!

I think there’s a rule about blogging while rushed, but I’m ignoring it to get this info in your hands.  I’m pleased to announce our first-ever SUBSCRIBERS RULE! contest.  Make that TWO contests.  Here’s the lowdown:

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  Win one of two, sweet Sanyo Xactis!

  CONTEST #1: Just Sayin’ T-Shirt Contest — We’ve got SUBSCRIBERS RULE! t-shirts, but we need great, subscriber-centric slogans to go on the front.  Submit your best SR! t-shirt slogan to subscribersrule-at-exacttarget.com, and the entry judged the best will win a Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1010 High Definition Video Camera. (4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i/1080p Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom).

Being the proud owner of an Xacti HD1010, I can tell you that it is awesomely compact & extremely user friendly. It shoots both full HD video and high-quality stills–all to removable SD or SDHC cards (not included).

• CONTEST #2: Photographic Evidence Contest: Shutterbugs, rev up your pixels and submit your photos that best capture the essence of the SUBSCRIBERS RULE! philosophy.  Submit your photos or links to your photos (on Flickr, Facebook, etc.) to subscribersrule-at-exacttarget.com.  Again, the winner will receive a Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1010 High Definition Video Camera.

Each contest is open until Midnight EST on Friday, October 31st, 2008.  If you enter, please sure to include your full name, address, phone number, and email address along with your entry.  ExactTarget employees and vendors as well as their families are sadly not eligible to participate.  Void where prohibited.

All images and content submitted will become the property of ExactTarget and may be used in future SUBSCRIBERS RULE!-related stuff.  What stuff?  Don’t know.  But seriously, if you’re going to quibble about that, just don’t enter.  We’d prefer to just remain friends rather than let a little thing like copyright ownership come between us.  Plus–there’s two cool Xactis to be won!

So, fire up the creative juices and get goin’.  Subscribers need to know that we know that they are in charge of this crazy thing called one-to-one & email marketing.  This is just one small step forward in that effort.