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July 7, 2015

“Burning Rubber, Guess Our Steps” Contest at #WPC15

Walk this Way, Walk like an Egyptian, Walk the Dinosaur, Walk On the Wild Side or just figure out how much David and Jon walk at #WPC15!

JonRiversDG_MsftJon Rivers and David Gersten will be shredding soles as they walk all around the massive Orange County Convention Center with their closest 16,000 friends at Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2015) in Orlando, Florida next week!

Do you want a chance to WIN a Microsoft Band (A $199 value)? If so, then you will want to participate in this contest!

David & Jon will be tracking how many steps they collectively walk during WPC 2015 from Sunday July 12th 12:01 a.m. (ET) through Thursday July 17th Midnight (ET).

How to Enter/Rules:

  1.  Follow these Twitter Accounts @dsgersten @jon_rivers & @brandingnoise
  2. Tweet the number of steps that you believe David & Jon will complete from Sunday 12:01am through Thursday Midnight. Also include the following hashtag #WPC15BurningRubber on your tweets to be entered. For example “I guess 72,500 steps #WPC15BurningRubber @ #WPC15”
  3. You’re entered
  4. The person closest to the number of steps will be notified by Aug 13th 2015
  5. No need to be present, just submit a guess through Twitter!
  6. Microsoft Band Ordered and shipped
  7. Let’s have some Fun!

We would love to thank Marketing Monarchs for inviting us to participate in the “Burning Rubber, Guess Our Steps” contest at #WPC15.

Good luck everyone!

David Gersten Microsoft Partner

We ran a similar contest with David for Convergence 2015.

 

 

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