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Winners Notified

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 7:21 PM on 11.03.08

It was really tough.  But we finally selected our category winners for our contest.
For the “Sounds Like Fiction” category – the entry entitled “But I Like How Light It Is Now” is the winner.
For the “You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me” category – the entry entitled “I Still Have Checks” is the winner.
For the [...]

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Winner of Most Popular Entry Notified

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 7:11 PM on 10.20.08

Thanks to everyone who participated.  The winner of “Most Popular” entry has been notified.  As you can see from the leader board - “Why Me??” with a total of 811 won.
But the prize winning continues.  Next week I’ll be notifying winners of the “Judges” prizes.  So stay tuned.  And thanks again for all the great [...]

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Voting is Closed

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 12:04 PM on 10.13.08

Our contest’s voting is now over and the $1,000 winner of the popular vote will be notified via email shortly.  A big thanks to all of you that voted, a few thousands times!!!
If you didn’t win the popular vote,  don’t worry.  We still have three other $1000 prizes to award in our judged categories: 1. You’ve [...]

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Entries are now closed and it’s the last week for voting

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 1:18 PM on 10.06.08

Wow, thank you for all of the wonderful entries everyone! The quality and quantity of humorous stories far exceeded our expectations. All of the stories that have been submitted and met our entry guidelines are now live on the site. Now, it’s time to get your votes rolling as we only have just under 1 [...]

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Only 5 days left to submit your stupid story!

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 6:00 PM on 10.01.08

The entry submission deadline is October 6th at 11:59am EST, which means you only have 5 days left to enter! If you’ve been polishing up your writing, or riding the fence about entering, now is the time to submit!
Voting will continue through October 13th at 11:59am EST. If you haven’t started rallying votes for your [...]

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Promote your entry on your blog

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 6:11 PM on 09.25.08

To win the $1,000 prize money you have to earn your way on to the leader board. You *are* allowed to campaign for votes to win the top spot on the leaderboard. As the competition heats up in the final days, the number of votes needed to win the competition will go up too. So, [...]

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Category - Turning Stuff On

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 2:05 PM on 09.19.08

As I went thru your entries - I was struck by how many of you get calls for help - when the basic need is to instruct someone on how to “turn on” their - pager, computer, telephone etc.   Check out the “turning stuff on” category.  (in lower right corner of this page) And do [...]

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Check Out Entries By Categories Now

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 12:13 AM on 09.18.08

Contest participants and voters - check out all the entries arranged by categories  - here on the lower right hand of this page.  We have SO many entries, and have gotten feedback people want easier way to navigate and click thru.  So if you are in insurance - you can sort entries that way.  If [...]

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ContactCenterWorld - Best Agent, Contact Center Awards

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 4:12 PM on 09.16.08

Just came across this and wanted to make you aware, looks like for some of you great agents, there is an award program sponsored by ContactCenterWorld for agents, contact centers….etc… you might want to participate in.  Check it out! 
 
p.s. drop me a note and tell me if you found this kind of info helpful.
 

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Customers Not Knowing Who They Get Service From!

Posted by Julia Ochinero at 12:37 PM on 09.15.08

Wow, over the weekend, we received a lot of entries. All these submissions have plenty of time to win, if the authors “get out the vote.”  With over 25 days left to vote – if you have 10 people who vote for you daily…you’d definitely be in the running to win.
In reading some [...]

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