RenaisNet

The January contest to award my entire end of month EntreCard balance is over. The winner of 10,066 EntreCard credits (roughly a $100.66 value) is Mark Fulton of DotSauce Magazine.

There were a total of 24 entries from 6 entrants, so anyone who took the time to enter and follow the rules had a good shot at a prize worth roughly $100. And they are all automatically entered 1 time in the next contest where Everybody Wins! That's a lesson worth learning for the current contest where the top prize is $50 cash, 2500 EntreCredits (worth roughly $25) and a year text link. Plus, every website/blog owner who enters gets something of real value just for entering - a nonreciprocal link, the most valuable kind. Everybody who enters wins. You just can't beat it. The lesson - ENTER!

Anyway, congratulations to Mark and thank you to these folks who followed the rules and sent their entry email:

• Brandie from BrannRay.com (site down - I'll put a live link when it's up and running)
• Erz from Blog Paradise
• Kent the EntreBanker of My Internet Marketing Adventures fame
• Debbie (link to follow)
• Andrew who blogs at Environmentastic - the best of several great conservation blogs focused on personal action that I've run across through EntreCard.
• Sweet Mummy of It's OK to be WEIRD!, who is «(striving to be) a wife of noble character.»

To those who recognize that they entered and aren't on this list, a consolation prize - send me the entry email you didn't send to start with and I'll enter you in the next contest (where Everybody Wins!)and add your link to the list.

A few odds and ends:

I used the random number generator at Random.org to pick the winner. This generator uses atmospheric noise to create a true random number instead of the pseudo-random numbers typical of software randomness generators.

I listed the entrants and assigned them one number for each entry.

My original plan was to generate a random number between 1 and the number of entries and count down to the individual email it represented. With a large number of entries that would have been a quick and workable solution. Since the number of people who sent the email was so small, quick and workable wasn't an issue, fortunately.