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I am a huge fan of design, especially “green” design (and I think this might qualify!) and I have a Google reader FULL of design blogs. I would recommend that Jill put together a little blurb about the contest along with some photos of her products, and submit them to different design blogs. I have a bunch of them in a list if she’d like to email me, but she can go to google and type in “design blog” and she will find a ton of them.

There are tons of sweepstakes sites all over the web where you can post your contest. Some of the best are http://www.online-sweepstakes.com and one on About.com
(search for category)to submit. You might not attract the customers you seek, but you never know. They tend to self-select out by requiring a photo.
Also:
- team up with a national sponsor or home store or
local or national landscape chain? Or even your
stone source.
- assume you have sent to trade pubs in landscape, furniture, retailers, and furnishing industries?
- HGTV and like-minded shows for an episode or even
a series?
Good luck.

Contests are all over the place within Twitter. Zappos has done it successfully, as well as solopreneurs.

Nothing allows you to interact with your target market more directly than Twitter. With the power of retweets, your contest can go viral.

Not to mention that it makes a good case study for many bloggers to write about, increasing your publicity even more.

Thank you to everyone and great ideas! I will put them all to the test and let you know how it turns out! Thanks again!