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We Want to Promote Your BigCommerce Store to 70,000 People

Published on December 8th, 2010 by Mitchell Harper

Mitchell Harper
About the Author

Mitch (@mitchellharper) is the co-founder and co-CEO of BigCommerce. Way back in 2007 he built what eventually became BigCommerce as you know it. Today he runs the company alongside Eddie and along with our 100+ team members, is passionate about helping businesses succeed with e-commerce. Mitch spends time between our Sydney and Austin offices and is giving the keynote at TechConnect 2012 in Sydney on April 19th.

As a thanks for being a BigCommerce client, we want to share some of our website traffic with you, so here’s what we’d like to do:

  • Our blog gets over 70,000 visitors a month
  • We want to share some of that traffic with three randomly selected BigCommerce clients
  • We’ll post on our blog with a link to your store (we have a PageRank of 6), a few screenshots and details of what you sell

MAKE NO MISTAKE: this will drive a LOT of traffic to your online store during the holiday period. And because our blog has a high PageRank, your search engine rankings will start to improve too.

To go into the draw, all you have to do is share our Facebook page with your friends by following the steps below:

  1. Go to our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/BigCommerce
  2. If you haven’t already, then click the “Like” button to become a fan
  3. Click the “Suggest to Friends” link on the left under the BigCommerce logo
  4. Choose which of your friends might be interested in fanning us – the more you choose the better your chance of winning
  5. In the “Add a Personal Message” box, paste this text:
    BigCommerce make pretty sweet shopping cart software that I use to run my website. If you “like” them on Facebook I’ll go into the draw to win a prize that will really help boost my business, so *please* help me out and “like” their Facebook page!
  6. Click the “Send Invitations” button on the Facebook popup and you’re done

On Thursday the 16th of December (8 days from now) we’ll randomly select three of our new Facebook fans and if any of them were referred by you, then you win.

If you’re selected, we’ll send you a message on Facebook to ask for the following:

  • Your BigCommerce store link
  • A paragraph about the products you sell

We’ll then put together the post (including a link back to your store) and set it live on our blog. All stores that are featured on our blog or in our live store showcase typically receive at least a few hundred (and in some cases a few thousand) visitors, so it’s a great way to get more exposure.

That’s all there is to it.

Good luck!

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Comments

  1. 1.

    Lim Kah Wai, Chris (December 9th, 2010, 2:01 am)

    Hi Mitch,

    Love your work. I’m interested in participating but i don’t want to resort to ‘bugging’ my friends in order to make up the numbers. I think your focus here should be more on quality rather than quantity. Surely a showcase of your clientele’s best sites since coming aboard bigcommerce will give a better introduction or boost to your product rather than ‘random’ selection based on who can invite most people.

    Good tidings mate,

    Chris

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    December 10th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    Hi Chris. There’s different ways to look at it. We’re experimenting with ways to grow our fan count while helping our clients, so if you’d rather not enter that’s of course completely fine.

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    Ben (December 9th, 2010, 10:27 am)

    We are so excited about this contest. We have four sites with BigCommerce and are addming more everyday. So far we have http://ColorFaucets.com , http://Shower-LED.com , http://HandTrucksOnline.com and http://TobaccoPipeStore.com . With a chance like this to boost our traffic, we will deff take advantage of it.
    Thanks for the opportunity BigCommerce and great job on the ecomm software; we love it!
    -Ben

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    david heath (December 9th, 2010, 11:44 am)

    Hey there

    Just tried this and on Facebook your “suggest to friends” link doesn’t seem to be working

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    david heath Reply:
    December 9th, 2010 at 11:49 am

    ok – working now

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    December 10th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    Hey Dave. Give it another try. Facebook can be flaky sometimes.

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    Frank Burton (December 9th, 2010, 12:11 pm)

    nice job Mitch keep up the good work

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  5. 5.

    David Lipschitz (December 9th, 2010, 3:37 pm)

    Hi guys. How do you know who I referred? I have been thinking of doing something similar, but haven’t been able to work it out. Regards, David.

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    December 10th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Hi David. We will simply ask them. Simple, but it works.

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    Staff Response: Mitchell Harper (December 10th, 2010, 5:25 pm)

    Hi Brady. We don’t need to be. We’ll choose 3 of our newest fans and simply ask who referred them. If no one, we’ll keep asking until they tell us who referred them. We’ve done it before and it works well.

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    Tom Whitworth (December 13th, 2010, 11:45 pm)

    Great idea. I can’t wait to try it out and hopefully win.

    Thanks,

    Tom

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  8. 8.

    dotcomweavers (December 22nd, 2010, 1:26 am)

    Really A Good Idea… Thanks for the Share

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    Samantha (December 24th, 2010, 3:33 pm)

    I can see the point of view Chris holds if soliciting personal contacts. Many of us have personas that support and promote our businesses. I wouldn’t approach my family either, but this proves that the effort of a persona is worth it. Thanks for the tip, BigCommerce! Good work.

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