Peter Shankman » Contests

Today’s VLOG – Contest time!

Peter Shankman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:23:39 +0000

About to board a flight for 15 hours home to NYC – So I’ll leave you with a contest: Watch the video, and leave your answer in the comments. The best one wins some SWAG.

Let’s All Be Of Good Chair!

Peter Shankman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:47:45 +0000

Be of Good Chair! Ha! I slay me! OK, but seriously…

So for all those who don’t know, I have the worst back in the world. My L4/L5, and L5/S1 Vertebra have never liked me. In fact, they go out of their way to hate me. It could be anything – Lifting, at the gym, a bad step off the curb… You name it – Doesn’t matter what it is, but my back goes out about four times a year, and usually takes a week or so to heal. If I laid down inverted for six months and never moved, that might solve the problem. But in the meantime, since that won’t be happening anytime soon…

I was approached by the amazing people at Relax The Back, who asked if they could hook me up with a chair that might make sitting at my desk on a daily basis easier to do. Who am I to argue with that logic? But I also asked them if they’d be so kind as to award one to one lucky member of my audience. They said they would!

So… I’ve got a chance for you to win the Lifeform Ultimate High Back Executive Chair! It’s a chair that starts out at $1,750! That’s a serious chair! Check it out:

To win it, all you have to do is the following:

1) “Like” Relax the Back on Facebook. You can find them here.

2) Tell me below, in the comments, WHY you need this chair. I want to hear a sob story here, people. Tell me about how your boss whips you daily and makes you sit on a spiky milk crate. Tell me how you have to update 47 websites a day, all while standing on an open fire pit, barefoot, while Alanis Morrisette songs play on repeat. I want to hear the best ones.

3) The saddest story wins the chair!

You gotta agree to this, though: After you get your chair, you have to send us some photos of you in it – We’re going to want to put some photos of you up on the site! So if you’re cool with that, go “like” them, then give us your story! We’ll pick a winner around the first week of February or so. Let’s hear it!

Big props to Relax The Back for this awesome giveaway!

Update: Winner!

Tracy and TJ Mehan:

I’m actually hoping to win this chair for my husband. Six months after we were married (in 1998), he was injured in a night jump while he was serving in the 82nd Airborne division of the Army. When I got to the hospital to see him, he had his toe tags on because they thought he had torn his aeorta. In fact, he broke 8 vertebrae in his back and lost 3 inches in height from the spinal compression. We joke now that we got the “for sicker and for poorer” part of our wedding vows out of the way early in our marriage but in reality he lives with pain every day. He recently started working from home and the chair he has is making the pain worse. I’d love to be able to give this to him for our 15 year wedding anniversary. Pick me! Pick me!

I’ve got a UClear Boomless Mic (Helmet Communicator) to give away!

Peter Shankman — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:11:03 +0000

Hey skiers, skydivers, anyone who wears a helmet – Check this out! I’ve got a UCLEAR Boomless Microphone, a Helmet Communicator, with Extreme Wind/Noise Cancellation, and High Fidelity Sound to give away! This one is designed for skiers – It’s the UCLEAR HBC120 – And it’s yours to win! All you gotta do is tell me, in the comments, the worst possible place you’ve ever been in your life when you had to make or receive a mobile call you couldn’t ignore. I.e., “I’d just finished eating an undercooked piece of sausage when my boss called with all six of the board members on the phone. As I was running to the bathroom, I had to offer facts, figures, and status updates on all six product lines!”

Win this!

Is yours worse? Let me know in the comments. The best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) story gets the HBC120. Check these guys out on Facebook, as well! And hey, it goes for about $230 on Amazon, so this is kind of a serious giveaway here!

I Feel Like Giving Away a Winter Jacket!

Peter Shankman — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:12:45 +0000

I love the fact that I sit on boards. It means I get to give away super-cool free stuff.

Today, I get to give away a Winter Jacket (just in time) at ScotteVest. Like the kind I have. Want to win A Fleece 5.0? ScotteVest? Perfect for winter?

Here’s all you have to do:

Someone tweeted me this morning with a speaking opportunity – But they did it to @peter. When they didn’t get a response, they tweeted to @shankman. By this point, I was notified by more than one person that this tweeter thought I just wasn’t replying. *Facepalm.* So it occurred to me that I might want to do a better job branding my Twitter name. That’s where you come in:

Here’s the contest: Write down my Twitter handle: @petershankman – Then, put it somewhere visible, and take a photo of it. Tweet the photo to me (@petershankman) or leave it on my Facebook page.

The craziest location I see my Twitter name wins the jacket. It’s that simple. Contest ends November 1, 2011.

And by the way… It’s an awesome jacket.

Have fun!

Twitter Trivia Contest, Hurricane Irene Edition!

Peter Shankman — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:44:55 +0000

Hey gang! Remember Boxing Day 2008, where I held a massive all-day trivia contest on Twitter, giving out prizes to everyone who had to work that day? Remember the one I did on the HARO anniversary the following year? They were both a ton of fun, and there were awesome prizes to be had!

Well, I feel like doing it again this weekend, for as long as we have power and connectivity! We’re all going to be home and chilling anyway (at least those on the east coast) and in NYC, all outdoor events (including the two races I was going to run) have been cancelled. So why not give out some prizes?

It won’t be as massive as last time, since I don’t have the awesome Meagan Walker to help me, but I’ll do as many as I can over the course of the weekend. (She’s home tying down her three foot inflatable pool, but follow her on Twitter here – Perhaps she’ll give out a prize remotely!)

We’ve already got a bunch of great prizes donated in the past ten minutes, but we need more. Want to get your company in front of a lot of people? Shoot me an email – peter – at – shankman – dot – com – and tell me what you’re willing to give away. Tell me your Twitter handle or FB Fan Page address as well, so I can mention it in the Tweet. Then, I’ll direct the winner right to you, and you can handle getting them their prize.

Sound fun? It was the last time we did it – So let’s make waiting out Irene a bit more tolerable, and take our minds off the constant “It’s going to be horrible!!” soundbites we’re hearing nonstop on the news.

Stay tuned to me on Twitter – The contest will start sometime Saturday morning, East Coast time!

And be safe this weekend, wherever you are!

-Peter Shankman