I am thrilled to announce the winners of the 2016 So You Think You Can Niche contest!
Backstory: throughout the month of May I invited people to submit their niche summed up into 140 characters (that’s the length of a tweet!), and then to rate at least five other people’s niches from 1-10 and offer feedback to one another.
The results were fantastic. We had 45 niche meme entries, over 150 Facebook “likes” on those entries and more than 560 thoughtful, constructive comments.
I am deeply happy and encouraged by the quality of content and interaction. In addition to being fun, the So You Think You Can Niche contest for 2016 has been a wonderful platform for learning and a genuine success.
And the winner is:
Allison Macbeth!
Allison received an overall rating of 10, and of all the 10/10-ratings in this contest, she had the most feedback comments – thus making her our winner and proving that the amount of genuine, thoughtful, rated feedback really did matter!
My sincere congratulations to Allison – she entered a super clear niche for her work helping women to chart their menstrual cycles and balance hormones naturally.
Allison takes home the first place prize of a 90-minute coaching session with me ($450 value) + she’ll be featured on my blog in the future + a $100 gift certificate at her favourite locally owned restaurant + a free hard copy and digital copies of my book The Niching Nest + a free entry to my Niching Spiral Homestudy Course to give to a friend (she doesn’t need it ’cause she’s so smart) + $100 off my upcoming Niching Spiral Homestudy course (in case she does want to join the course herself), which will be fully launching soon!
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2nd & 3rd place:
Eloise Meskanen and Leesa Klich. Each of these women received a 10 rating overall and had the 2nd and 3rd most comment ratings of all the 10/10-ratings. They will each receive a 30-minute coaching session with me ($150 value) + an electronic copy of The Niching Nest + $100 off my upcoming Niching Spiral Homestudy course, which will be fully launching soon!
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The lovely SYTYCN contestants who placed 4th through 10th each win $100 off my upcoming Niching Spiral Homestudy course – a discount the winner can use or pass onto others. The tie-breaker for niches with the same rating was the number of comments offered on that niche.
My congratulations to these folks: 4th place: Kathryn Karpinski [10]; 5th place: Crystal DiDomizio [10]; 6th place: Jill Mahanna [10]; 7th place: Bradley Morris & Andy Freist [10]; 8th place: Sherry St. Cyr [10]; 9th place: Joyce Schafers [10] and 10th place: Victoria Vernhes [9.5].
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BEST MEME AWARDS go to people who created an eye catching, easy-to-read meme that really echoed their work or offering. This is a subjective category – I’ve looked at a lot of memes in my time and I chose memes that were striking and memorable to me, that were clear and welcoming and made sense with the niches they are supporting. These folks win $100 off my upcoming Niching Spiral Homestudy course – a discount the winner can use or pass onto others.
And the winners are: Josee Brisebois, Iona Bonamis, Crystal Di Domizio, Cara Leopold, Tomar Levine, Rebecca Llewellyn, Allison Macbeth, Eloise Meskanen, Bradley Morris & Andy Freist, Claire Sierra, Devika Singh, Victoria Verns, and Fran Westmore.
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THE BEST COMMENTS PRIZES go to the people who gave the best, most useful and insightful feedback to many others in the SYTYCN contest. They each get $300 off my Niching Spiral Homestudy course – because they’re the kind of people I want in it (this is a non-transferrable prize).
Thanks for the amazing effort and deeply thoughtful feedback folks, my congratulations go to: Lia Ayley, Josee Brisebois, Sarah Chauncey, Elfriede Krauth, Dana Leigh Lyons, Liz Massey, Solona Mead, Liz Norris, Jo Maria Vernon, and Sherrie St. Cyr.
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List of Final Ratings:
Lastly, you’ll find the list of the final ratings for everyone who entered the contest below. Congrats and thanks to all these lovely, brave contestants!
Please note: the calculation was made by finding the average score of a niche/meme’s ratings and averaging that total with my (Tad Hargrave’s) rating.
| 1 | Allison | Macbeth | 10 |
| 2 | Eloise | Meskanen | 10 |
| 3 | Leesa | Klich | 10 |
| 4 | Kathryn | Karpinski | 10 |
| 5 | Crystal | Di Domizio | 10 |
| 6 | Jill | Mahanna | 10 |
| 7 | Bradley/Andy | Morris/Freist | 10 |
| 8 | Sherrie | St. Cyr | 10 |
| 9 | Joyce | Schafers | 10 |
| 10 | Victoria | Vernhes | 9.5 |
| 11 | Tomar | Levine | 9.5 |
| 12 | Josee | Brisebois | 9.5 |
| 13 | Iona | Bonamis | 9 |
| 14 | Lia | Ayley | 8.5 |
| 15 | Liz | Norris | 8.5 |
| 16 | Fran | Westmore | 8.5 |
| 17 | Ling | Wong | 8.5 |
| 18 | Jessica | English | 8.5 |
| 19 | Courtney | Moore | 8 |
| 20 | Devika | Singh | 8 |
| 21 | Rebecca | Llewellyn | 7.5 |
| 22 | Mary | Choo | 7.5 |
| 23 | Sarah | Chauncey | 7.5 |
| 24 | Dana Leigh | Lyons | 7.5 |
| 25 | Alice | Grange | 7 |
| 26 | Jessica | English | 7 |
| 27 | Tea Silvestre | Godfrey | 7 |
| 28 | Jennifer | Badach | 7 |
| 29 | Xine | Lafontaine | 7 |
| 30 | Claire | Sierra | 7 |
| 31 | Jo | Vernon | 7 |
| 32 | Sheena | Grobb | 6.5 |
| 33 | Elfriede | Krauth | 6.5 |
| 34 | Cara | Leopold | 6.5 |
| 35 | Sabrina | Fletcher | 6.5 |
| 36 | Liz | Massey | 6 |
| 37 | Nicole | Ortega | 5.5 |
| 38 | Solona | Mead | 5.5 |
| 39 | Sharon | Love | 5 |
| 40 | Louise | Knight | 5 |
| 41 | Seth | Rainess | 4.5 |
| 42 | Jennifer | Wenzel | 4.5 |
| 43 | Douglas | Brown | 4 |
| 44 | Olga | Kaminsky | 4 |
| 45 | Dana | Pharant | 3.5 |