Last week, I launched my first contest and giveaway as part of my weekly feature for Recessionwire. Instead of proposing a potential recession endpoint, I threw it out to the readers to say when the recession would end.

Venturing into a new area was both fun and a little scary. Knowing that it’s hard to break through information overload, I was a little worried that we would get limited interest. At first things moved slowly. After a couple of days though, we got a total of 39 comments. 

The trick? Like many contests and giveaways these days, we designed the entry to generate momentum itself with ...read more