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Discussion on: What is your favorite way to reward your community members?

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Loving the side-note! Please feel free to tag us in for any assistance we can provide here.

I gotta admit I'm a sucker for a giveaway. What have you won in a giveaway that you've been most excited about? I'm gonna see whether some of the Forem Team have any stories here - @carolineschettler and @jamie ? Best giveaway prizes ever?

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Ildi

Im glad you liked the side-note πŸ˜‡ couldn't resist teasing Indie Artists on here, but i've been planning and I will be sharing more info with you soon!

Some of my favorite giveaways have been things like books, music albums, merch, and event/concert tickets. I remember back in 2009 I won this giveaway that included a book by Eminem, The Way I Am, featuring private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs. To my surprise, the giveaway also included a CD copy of every single official album release by Eminem up until that year. Im a big hip-hop fan so this was a really awesome reward for me!

Another one that stood out to me was back in 2018, I was accepted in YC Startup School Online program and they gave us $20k+ in credits to use on services like DigitalOcean. The credits had to be used within 12 months but I remember putting them to good use, so that was very helpful.

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Ella (she/her/elle)

a book by Eminem, The Way I Am, featuring private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs. To my surprise, the giveaway also included a CD copy of every single official album release by Eminem

This is a really dope surprise! The book itself was a good prize, but it was amazing that you got all the albums too (and in 2009, CDs were still everything)!

$20k+ in credits to use on services like DigitalOcean

$20k on DO in 12 months is a lot of stuff!

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I won a first gen iPad at a school raffle in the early 2010s! Felt super cool - it was my first way to connect with the internet outside of a desktop.

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Ella (she/her/elle)

I love the #tbt vibes we're getting from these prize retrospectives!