Or, Why i’m F***ED in the Cogaoke Competition

Why am I doing this competition? I do like Karaoke.

A lot.

But I’m also way more than a little curious about response rates in social media.

Climbing a BIG Hill

I appreciate your votes friends, but let’s take a look at what your friendly, neighborhood Schneider-man is up against.

I need to be in the top 15 to be in the competition. Let’s assume that I have 50% active following. That would be ~1350 people.

• I currently have 218 votes and sit in 28th place.
• TonyBGoode is in 15th place with 583
• RogerNiner is at the top with 1153.

This means I need 365 incremental votes just to overtake Tony and 935 to get to Roger.

Awesome! If my active followers each have (on average) 2 browsers and are savvy enough to use them, that means I need between a 14 and 35% response rate to get into the game! And this all assumes that people stop voting for anyone but me! There are still 3 days left and you can vote from each browser daily.

Recent efforts from me and from friends (I love you people) have resulted in between .01 and 1% response rates depending on their audience sizes. Yes, I’m counting responses as votes, not just clicks on the URL.

So. Who wants to help prove the numbers wrong? What response rate ranges have you documented for similar requests?

Here’s the URL: http://bit.ly/smcogaoke if you want to promote it. Or click here to vote now