So if you didn't check it out, we ran a giveaway over the last week or so where we're shipping out two of our new sweet t-shirts. If you haven't seen the final design, here's our very own Michael Phelps with his sexy model pose.
I've never really done a giveaway before, so I wanted to ensure that like Fox News, I was fair and balanced. I definitely don't want to be that corrupt t-shirt giveawayer guy. There are many other titles I would rather have such as super awesome bro, cool haircut man, funny joke teller dude, or that one guy with the stench of hotness. Yeah, those are much better titles than corrupt t-shirt giveawayer guy.So here's a little guide to how I put together our giveaway for those who are interested or may need to throw together their own giveaway in the future.
The first thing I did was compile a Google spreadsheet of each user who entered the contest. I'm on Twitter a bunch during the day anyways, so I made a saved search term for the entry and just kept tabs of every time it was mentioned. All-in-all, we had 36 tweets for the contest. Not too shabby of a number at all. We were pretty pleased with the response and are thinking about doing a similar contest for any other t-shirts we produce (thinking about a Battery Go! shirt in the future). Hats go off to MacCheetah, who definitely had the most tweets entered into the contest.So after putting together this list, I figured it would be easiest to find a Random number generator and then produce two numbers, which will correspond to those little numbers to the left of everyone's Twitter user names. For this part of the process, I've decided to go with Random.org. There, I can set some perimeters and make it an easy two second choosing process. I'll output two numbers at first and then if by chance the same person wins with both numbers, I'll select another random number until I get a different person.
So after random number generation, I'm given a nice little output page that looks like this.
Then I move on over to the spreadsheet, check out the names in those slots and get the following names as winners in the contest.
So there we go, congrats to @MacCheetah and @JoshMajestik for your wins in the first CKA t-shirt giveaway contest! We'll be in contact here soon and I'll be sure to get your shirts to you guys. You'll soon be drowning in a sea of admirers upon wearing these super sexy threads, so take five minutes to go buy a life-jacket.