Small Business Software Accelerator - Red Letter Day Competition Winners
During the exhibition at the Business Startup Show we ran a couple of competitions.
There was the 'business card in a bowl' competition - Basically if you put your business card into our bowl then you entered a draw to win a gourmet meal for 2 at a wide range of restaurants across the UK.
There was also another, less successful 'Twitter retweet' competition. To be entered into this competition you needed to retweet one of our tweets on 17 & 18 May. Practically no one did this so the chances of winning were great!
The selection process
A number of people I have spoken to think that this sort of competition is always a fix. We totally disagree with this. At the risk of sounding like a politician, the Small Business Software Accelerator stands for totally free, fair and transparent running of competitions. Here is how the selection worked:
I typed all the names and businesses from the business cards into Excel.
I numbered each name from 1, 2, 3 etc.
I used a number randomizer website to generate a random list.
The highest number won.
Simples!
The Twitter competition worked in exactly the same way.
In the end there were only 9 retweets! A complete waste of time really. Except for the lucky winner!
(I start to suspect that Twitter itself is a useless, time wasting tool. We will persevere a little while longer to be absolutely sure.)
For any doubters who are unconvinced that a competition like this can be run with integrity, please get in touch and I will forward you the spreadsheets with the selection process details.
The winners
Business Card Competition - Barnet Youth Business Incubator
Twitter competition - British SME magazine
Well done to the winners. We hope you have a great meal courtesy of the Small Business Software Accelerator. Thanks to everyone else that entered the competition and all the interesting people we met at the Business Startup Show. It was an excellent event! Maybe we will see some of you at the next one.
