Australia’s top blogger launches blogger competition for Tourism Queensland
Australia’s most prominent blogger Darren Rowse has launched a competition for Tourism Queensland to find ten of the world’s “most intriguing” bloggers to win a trip to the state and write for the official TQ blog.
Bloggers must explain in 150 words why they would make the ideal ‘Queensland Blogger Correspondent’.
The winning bloggers will get a five day all expenses paid stay in Queensland, trips to the state’s main attractions, as well as some blogging training from Rowse.
The competition is designed to find bloggers from a variety of niches. Entrants need to submit details about their audience size and demographics. The competition is open to bloggers from anywhere in the world, including Australia. In return, bloggers must agree to give Tourism Queensland the rights to the content created on the trip in perpetuity.
Rowse claims he conceived the idea while waiting in an Queensland airport and it has taken a year to bring it to fruition.
Is there a follow up to this post? Would love to know who the winners were and where are they now 🙂
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Thanks for the interest Rene.
We announced the winners at https://problogger.com/and-the-winners-are-qldblog/. I’ve kept in touch with a few of the winners and some have grown their blogs and businesses into pretty amazing things. 2-3 I’ve lost track of and don’t seem to be blogging any more but most are.
It was definitely a worthwhile trip. TEQ seemed to get some real value from it and ended up sponsoring our event for several years after. The bloggers loved about it and I know at least a couple found what we did on the trip really propelled them forward.
We did some followup posts on ProBlogger about it as part of the promotion – featuring some of the bloggers in these posts:
https://problogger.com/new-series-where-can-blogger-collaboration-lead-qldblog/
https://problogger.com/5-lessons-i-learned-about-blogging-in-queensland-qldblog/
https://problogger.com/six-top-tips-for-success-qldblog/
https://problogger.com/from-hobby-blog-to-the-other-side-of-the-world-in-18-months-qldblog/
https://problogger.com/how-a-collaborative-critique-changed-my-brand-and-my-future-qldblog/
https://problogger.com/how-letting-go-of-expectations-improved-my-blog-qldblog/
https://problogger.com/11-heads-are-better-than-one-qldblog/
Thanks again for your interest.
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