PETER SHANKMAN

Boxing Day Twitter Trivia Contest Prize List

Updated: 16:25 12/26

A little history… I’m on Twitter as @skydiver.The morning of December 24th, I figured I could kill two birds with one stone. I figured I could clean out my office, and by doing so, give away via Twitter all the “SWAG” that I’d collected over the year from loyal HARO members, advertisers, and the like. Seemed like a good idea.

So the night before, I posted this to Twitter. Within 30 minutes, I had over 400 new followers. Apparently, everyone retweeted, and people who’d never heard of me or HARO started following me in droves. “Cool!” I thought.

The next morning, I started giving away some stuff. Some soaps from SkinFree, a surge protector from TrippLite, even some travel goodies. The minimal cost of postage was, in my opinion, worth getting my office back and making a few people happy.

But then, something weird started to happen. All of a sudden I got a call from my friend Kelly, the PR rep for the very awesome Ogio line of travel gear. “Peter, want to give away a bag?” “Um, YEAH!” So I did. And all of a sudden, people realized that hey, I just gave away a $150+ bag to some random person who followed me on Twitter! Well, that got the word out.

By 3pm, it was clear that I’d have to do this again – not because I couldn’t get through all the stuff in my office, but because offers of “Hey, I’ll donate _____ as a prize for your next question!” were coming in around one every five minutes.

So in no particular order here’s what’s going to be given away tomorrow. This is a partial list, because prizes are STILL coming in. I’m going to have to ask a question every 10 minutes or something. What hath I wrought? I should also add, note the ski trips. SKI TRIPS!!!

Three one year memberships to Boingo (Two Left) Given Away!

A one-hour private phone consult on how business/journalists can use Twitter, compliments of Laura Fitton, head of Pistachio Consulting. Given Away!

Guy Kawasaki is thowing in a copy of his newest book, Reality Check Given Away!

Eight (yes, eight!) Bags from Ogio (Two left)

Two Gift Certificates to an introductory Blacksmithing Class (How cool is this!) Check it out here. Given Away!

SanDisk is throwing in five 8GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra mobile phone memory cards and USB 2.0 compatible MobileMate readers (One left)

Two months of Business Coaching ($1,200 value) from Mattison Grey at Greystone Guides Given Away!

A gift Certificate for a custom snowboard, ski or skateboard graphic from FreshPow.ca Given away!

Four Stainless Steel Water Bottles compliments of CynerGreen Given Away!

A free Peek Email Device with 3 months free service! (Hot!) – Given Away!

Sleek MedSpa is giving twelve (yes, twelve!) $100 gift certificates to their spa, located in NYC, Boston, and South Florida. (Sweet!) (Eleven left) Given Away!


Two Child Safety Packs from My Precious Kid
Given away

A fine art print, up to 16×20, from the Italy Collection of Jen Barnett Given Away!

Two bottles of Double Cross Vodka, ($50 per bottle value!) (one left) Given Away!


Four $25 Gift Certificates to Blue Ridge Gypsy Studios Skin Care Line, including Free Shipping (2 left)
Given Away!

A pair of one-day adult lift tickets to Park City Mountain Resort, in Park City, Utah! Given Away!

Ten T-shirts from TeeCycle.org Given Away!

3 sets of two 22 oz bottles of Bosco Chocolate Syrup. Remember Seinfeld? :) Given Away!

A $50 Gift Certificate to Hooray for the Underdog Given Away!

A Reno/Tahoe Winter Escape for 2: 4 days 3 nights lodging in either Reno, Sparks, North Lake Tahoe or South Lake Tahoe, a meal or two, three days skiing with two interchangable lift tickets, and tons of swag, bags, camelbacks, etc. (How cool is this?!)

Two $25 vouchers to Razoo, an online charity donation platform. Given Away!

A gorgeous pair of Earrings ($80) compliments of Ojai Style Given Away!

A LIFETIME subscription to PearBudget, the online budgeting tool. Given Away!

Cinzia is tossing in a gorgeous pair of sunglasses ($260) Given Away!

Deb Lee is throwing in Two Hours of Professional Organizing Services to anyone in the DC Metro Area. Given Away!


Four pairs of Monkey Toes Shoes
Given Away

A free candle, every month, for a YEAR, thanks to ImageGlow Candles Given Away!

A limited edition lip gloss and fragrance set from Mary Kay cosmetics, thanks to Kat Rosati

Three Doggie Shirts, compliments of Garmutt, Rock Apparel for Dogs. Hee!


Myles Abernathy of 399 Retouch drops in a photo retouching, which he swears “will make you look good.”
Given Away!


A Signed Copy of Beth Sheresh’s new cookbook, “Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids
Given Away!

A Bronze Web Hosting Package, thanks to JTF Associates Given Away!

A Hip Chanukah Prize Package, compliments of Sara at Pop Judaica. Given Away!

Three Subscriptions to the Dream of Italy Newsletter, thanks to Kathy McCabe.

Three free tickets to any workshop at the Are You Socially Acceptable Conference Series

Two bottles of Rare Olive Oil thanks to Farmstead Wines Given Away!

Lots more coming in today and tomorrow morning – yes – even on Christmas day!

  • http://perfectmomentproject.blogspot.com/ Perfect Moment Project

    You are just the BEST.

  • http://www.dianaderosa.com Diana De Rosa

    I’ll give an 11 x 14 print of our Olympic Gold Medal Show Jumping Team raising their flowers at this year’s Olympic Games to give away.
    Diana De Rosa

  • http://twitternews.blogspot.com Jim Wright

    That is awesome. Great post and great giveaways

  • http://chellecordero.blogspot.com Chelle Cordero

    Wow!

  • http://parkcity.typepad.com Krista Parry

    I can’t wait to win cool prizes. Thanks for doing this, it’s a great idea!

  • http://twitter.com/asktheboater River Girl

    Fantastic – great idea!

  • Ivan Klok

    So cool! What a great idea!

  • http://jodiontheweb.com jodiontheweb

    I’ve been following you on Twitter for a while now. This give away is fascinating to me. I see all the lists of the coolest twitter moments of 2008 and this one should be up there- what an unbelievable thing that is occurring. Keep up the good work!

  • http://www.workathomemombootcamp.com Kristin Peoples

    Wow what a list! Great idea

  • http://beccablogfromleftcoast.blogspot.com/ Becca

    What do you have to do to win? I would love the Peek! It would be great to take on my vacation to Hawaii!

  • http://www.fruitcakerecycling.com Barbara

    What an awesome way to get lots of new followers, and reward all of them. You are amazing, Peter!

  • http://www.workathomemombootcamp.com Kristin Peoples

    What a great list. Great idea!

  • http://www.FriendlyHaven.com Jacqueline Freeman

    Great prizes! How about a few of your books, too?

  • Aliza G

    I wana something for Chanukah! Please, Peter??

  • http://www.geminigreetings.com Bayou Twin Mom

    You are one energetic & genius of a man! Love your updates and this such a great concept. I’ve already shared with Digg & Reddit. Yeah!!

  • http://www.stuartgustafson.com Stuart Gustafson

    You provide a super service, and you keep our lives interesting with your giveaways, your information, and your contacts. THANK YOU!

  • icat99

    Just saw the post on Twitter. Thank you for having this contest. Looking forward to the trivia.

  • Diana

    For those of us new to twitter can someone who is a pro explain exactly what to do when Peter announces a prize. Do you hit the reply on skydiver. I just signed on to twitter and am trying to learn the protocol. Would appreciate help here as I’d like to try and win something. Gotta be in it to win it!

  • http://sweeps4bloggers.blogspot.com/ Valerie Mitchell

    fabulous! heading over to follow you now :)

  • http://www.wendi.com Wendi

    I would also like to know where we send the answers. Anyone know?

  • http://www.linnetwoods.com/twitterhood_quiz.html Linnet Woods

    Had to laugh when someone tweeted me about your giveaways because I’ve been running a trivia quiz every day for a week or two but, of course, having less than 2000 followers, haven’t been offered quite the volume of prizes you are able to offer.

    It did amuse me though, that the person who tweeted it did so as a good idea that one could copy so he clearly hadn’t been following my tweets with any real interest! LOL

    Glad it’s working for you and giving your followers a lot of fun – although the prizes for mine are a little more humble so far, I’m certainly having fun doing it and some of my little following seems to be enjoying it too! Mind you, I don’t do it all day long, just at 22:00 GMT every day and only 5 questions.

    I think I had better follow you and try to win some things I can give away as prizes! :-)

    All the best

    Linnet (twitter.com/linnetwoods)

  • http://tbd martin keller

    do we have to wait for u to post the prize or can we say dibs to tosmething like those stainless steel waterbottles?

  • http://www.nnpublicrelations.com Courtenay

    This giveaway rocks! Thanks for sharing the Christmas spirit Peter!

  • http://www.twitter.com/DJDiG Danielle DiGiovanni

    Thanks Peter! This is a great idea. I’ve really been getting a kick out of the trivia questions. It’s making up for pub trivia being canceled this week.

  • Deb

    Wow. HARO alone was great. This is phenomenal. Thanks.
    When is the next question?

  • http://www.pamroachpr.com pam

    how do you participate?

  • http://suzanneurbandesigns.typepad.com/aha/ Suzanne Urban

    What’s “Swag” mean? Sounds like a sniglet, do you ever get free art supplies?

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  • http://bigpinkcookie.com Christine

    Hi Peter! You ROCKED it today in Houston! It was GREAT, inspired a lot of wonderful ideas and … made a difference. Thank you. Glad to see that NASA was so wonderful too!

    This post mentions that there are still two Ogio bags left. Is that true? Are there really still two bags left? Because … I would love one.

  • http://BeWell.com Cheryl Heiks

    We would be happy to give away five LLuminari Day Journals – full of inspiring and energizing quotes from our experts, Like Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Dr. Susan Love and many more. Great for people who like to record their thoughts, goals, and watch their progress over time.

  • http://www.lynnslink.com Lynn

    Hi Peter,

    Real stupid question: How do you draw those lines through your words? I’ve often wanted to do that on my screen and didn’t even believe it was possible. :)

    Thanks for the fun and interesting read(s).

    Lynn
    http://www.lynnslink.com

  • http://artpredator.wordpress.com Art Predator

    Peter, this contest is almost enough motivation to figure out twitter–especially the ski trip which seems to still be available!

    (and Lynn, it’s easy to put lines through text in posts or in comments using WordPress!)

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