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***Winners Announcement***
Free Ticket Contest Results
Congratulations to the winners of the Social Media Success Summit Free Ticket Contest 2015.
Kelley Stephenson (@StevensonKelley) won the written contest, with a humorous description of her biggest marketing challenges that starts, “So I'm a ‘milennial' and I'm supposed to have this whole social media game figured out already…” Read Kelley's full winning entry here.
Teressa Morris (@teressamorris) won the Twitter contest by random selection.
Kelley and Teressa will be enjoying admission to the Social Media Success Summit–the online mega-conference designed to empower and inspire you with social media marketing tactics, brought to by Social Media Examiner.–for free!
Thanks to everyone who entered our 2015 contest.
NOTE: This contest is now closed.
Want to win a free ticket to the largest online social media marketing event of the year?
Social Media Examiner has worked hard to bring you our seventh-annual Social Media Success Summit. This is our best event ever!
And we’ve come up with two fun ways for you to get involved.
First, what is this event?
Social Media Success Summit 2015Â is the world's largest online conference dedicated to helping marketers and business owners master social media marketing.
Thirty-five of the world's most respected social media experts will share their strategies with you.
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GET THE DETAILSJoin more than 2000 of your fellow marketers and business owners who have already registered! Here's what one had to say: “This was one of the best investments I have made career wise. the presentations and the people providing them went above and beyond to provide value for the audience. I can't say enough about the quality of this event.” -Kira
How can you win tickets?
We have three free tickets to the Summit valued at $697 each, plus the opportunity to be promoted to more than 400,000 of your peers! And remember, this is an online conference—so no travel is required to participate.
Two ways to win:
There are three tickets up for grabs and two ways to win:
#1: Twitter Entry
Simply click the button on the right or tweet what you see below for a chance to win one ticket:
You can tweet up to two times per day. Each tweet is an entry to win. We’ll randomly draw the winner of a free ticket. All tweets must have the #winSMSS15 hashtag included.
#2: Written Entry
The winner of our written contest gets two tickets PLUS a mention in the Social Media Examiner Newsletter (400,000+ subscribers)!
Simply write about your biggest social media marketing challenge in the comments box below (scroll down).
 
 
The judges (Mari Smith, author of The New Relationship Marketing, Ian Cleary, social tools expert, and Peg Fitzpatrick, co-author of The Art of Social Media) will select the winning entry. Their decisions are subjective and final.
What You Need to Know
- You can enter to win either or both prizes.
- Tweets must contain #winSMSS15. (Maximum 2 tweets per day).
- The deadline is Friday, September 18, and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter.
- If you’ve already registered, no worries. If you win, we’ll either give you a full refund or you can give your spare ticket to someone you really like.
- No purchase is necessary to win.
We look forward to seeing your comments and tweets. Good luck!
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