When using a contest to attract new customers and new visitors to your site, always follow up by giving out the prizes and telling who won them. Here's why

In a previous tip of the week, I mentioned one way to attract visitors and new customers to your web site is to have a contest and give away free prizes.

For example, you could offer a weekly prize give-away to members of your site.

And that's exactly what we have done at www.bmyers.com, and it has been a great success.

Right now we're nearly half way through our $6,000 give-away of video tools from ZKad Productions, and several lucky bmyers.com members have been randomly selected as winners and have had their prizes shipped to them via UPS.

And in the coming weeks, we'll continue to award prizes to members of our site. To be eligible, just be a member of our site and post or reply to a message in our forums.

Find full details at http://www.bmyers.com/public/1822.cfm

By the way, the prizes in this contest have been donated by www.zkad.com, developers of video production tools and animations.

During the contest period, you can get 25% off all phone orders placed with www.zkad.com. Just mention you read about it on the bmyers.com site.

Finally, if you have a web site and need prizes for a contest, feel free to post a message about it in our forum. You may find DVD producers there (including me), who might be able to provide you DVDs you can give away.