How they did it: Building the Best of the Best of Contests at Omaha Magazine

At Omaha Magazine, the number one driver of email subscribers – currently 200,000 in a DMA of just over a million – is the Best of Contest, which still gets 60,000 to 70,000 votes a year. Lemke shared his best practices developed over 42 years of running the contest.
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