Our Week Two prize winners were offered options from all of our four Prize categories: Techie Gadgets, Cultural Experiences, Business Escapes Category and Marketing Category.  Of all the options, both winners opted for a 2 month trial subscription of YNot Web’s Blogmentation (details coming soon) service worth $400.  The winners were:

• FutureDecisions:  Kevin & Karen submitted 1 entry form, referred 2 prospects and have had several websites created and had ongoing maintenance since April 2005.
• ORIMtec: Richard & staff filled out one entry form, referred one prospect, and have been SEO/Marketing clients since February 2005.

Our next two winners will be drawn at end of business Thursday July 24th.  Have you submitted YOUR entry yet?

Our Week One prize winners had a chance to select one prize each, including options within all our four Prize categories: Techie Gadgets, Cultural Experiences, Business Escapes Category and Marketing Category.  The winners and their prize selections are:

• Meridith Krekelberg, Gold River Carpet One Floors & Home: 2 month trial subscription, YNot Web’s Blogmentation service worth $400.
  Meridith submitted 1 entry form and has been an SEO/Marketing client since December 2007.
• Janet Pickel, Sentinel Technology Solutions: Janet received season tickets to Sacramento Opera’s 2008-2009 season worth $270.
  Janet referred four clients since last year’s raffle and provided an unsolicited testiomonial on LinkedIn earlier this year.

This week, our raffle is up to 139 entries from past or current clients.  Our second week’s winners have been selected and notified of their prize options.  Once they have made their selections, we will post the results.

Results for our first chance drawing for our Customer Appreciation Raffle are in and winners are being notified.  We will update the blog with our winners names and prizes once they have confirmed their prize selection from this week’s prize options.  More winners will be pulled Thursday 17th.  If you are a past or current client, don’t forget to take advantage of one or more of the raffle entry opportunities.

Celebrating a big milestone (5 years in business!) and a big announcement (YNot Web is now a California corporation), YNot Web is pleased to present its 5th annual Client Appreciation Raffle!

Our Client Appreciation Raffle is an exclusive benefits to our customers.  To be eligible to win one of our amazing raffle prizes, you must be a client of YNot Web in good standing and you must submit an entry form.  Our first drawings will be Thursday July 10th and we will continue pulling winners every Thursday throughout July.

Our prize vault is growing, but currently we have the following gifts for our lucky winners:

• Spa and golf certificates, including a foursome at Northridge Country Club
• Sacramento cultural experiences, including Ballet, Opera, and Broadway series shows & season passes
• iPod nanos and other techie gadgets
• YNot Web’s Biz Booster packages
• $100 Google Adwords budgets
• Trial subscription to YNot Web’s Blogmentation™ service (details coming soon!)

Entry instructions will be emailed to all our clients, past and present, after the July 4th holiday weekend.  We realize that we may not have everyones’ current email addresses or that certain spam or bulk email filters may prevent this mail from getting through.  If you have been a YNot Web client and have not received an email by end of business on July 7th,  you can request a resend of your raffle entry instructions.  If you still do not receive a link to the entry form, please call us for information.

Bonus entries are given to clients who have submitted testimonials, have referred other prospects to us, or have monthly maintenance or SEO agreements with us since the raffle in 2007.

As I reported back in late-March, there has been a new crop of phishing scams now targeting both Google and Yahoo advertisers.

Google finally officially responded this week by posting “How to avoid getting hooked” on their official Google Blog as well as emailing apparently all Adwords advertisers with an email which refers people to this article as well as notification that there have been reports of phishing attempts that falsely appear to be from the standard Adwords email address.  Google reminds advertisers that Google’s AdWords team would never send an unsolicited message asking for advertiser’s password or other sensitive information by email or through a link sent via email.   They also ask that advertiser’s report any phishing email to them completing their Report Phishing Form.

Google’s post goes on to include tips on how to avoid phishing- whether you are a Google advertiser or not, I highly recommend you follow these steps to protect yourself from any phishing attempts.