Ok, so it looks like every man and his dog is in on the act.

Following my recent post about Kieran’s competition, it seems like everyone in the online marketing blog is offering a competition. Most of them revolve around the principle of “you write a review of my site and link to me, and i’ll link to you plus you might win prizes.”

This is a great idea, so I’m joining in again

This time, Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim fame is asking people to write a post about why they read his blog.

Well, the answer is quite simple and has been alluded to by many others already. Basically Andy does an excellent job of keeping his ear to the ground with regards to a large range of marketing stories, and subsequently writing about them including his own original thoughts.

Andy covers a wide range of niche topics within the overall marketing arena in over 20 categories. the info ranges from the latest scoop to beginners guides and anything in between.

I’m a particular fan of his regular (weekly, i think) summary post “Pilgrim’s Picks” in which he blasts out a number of useful or interesting stories, posts, snippets etc from around the world. I usually find at least one brand new blog worth subscribing to every time Pilgrim’s Picks are published.

Why do I read Andy Beal’s blog. because its full of good stuff and updated all the time.

Disclaimer: I’ll admit, that i might not have been motivated to write this review without the incentive of a link back (well, not just yet anyway), but this is another example of the many things you can learn from Andy. I’m sure he’ll also be keeping us up to date regarding this competition, the results, what worked, what didn’t etc.

I’ve already covered the many reasons why Andy might want to run this competition in this post, so i wont go over them again. However, with andy’s unique take on it he’s going to get some fantastic information about what his active audience likes/dislikes. all for $500. the extra link love that he’ll get from competition participants is well worth $500 all on its own.