Best Idea Competitions: Deadline at end of year (which is real soon!)

By Steve Outing • December 30th, 2008 • E-mail this post E-mail this post

Just a last-minute reminder: The deadline for ReinventingClassifieds.com’s Best Idea for Reinventing Classifieds competitions (one for media/advertising pros, one for students, each with a $500 cash prize) is the end of the day on Dec. 31, 2008.

We’re not looking for lengthy proposals (though it’s possible one might win). We’ll judge on the merits of the idea. So if you can bang out a couple paragraphs of absolute intellectual brilliance about how the newspaper industry can revamp and get back into the classifieds game and get it submitted by the deadline, we could be sending you some money.

Remember, we’re not asking you to envision how to magically make printed newspaper classifieds successful and relevant again. (Good luck with that!) Think more about how online and mobile technologies can be leveraged alongside print. But don’t let that limit you. Be creative.

Pro contest entry form

Student contest entry form

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"Best Idea Competitions: Deadline at end of year (which is real soon!)" by Steve Outing was published on December 30th, 2008 and is listed in Ideas, Reinventing.

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