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Here are the July top 10 contests for registrations, submissions, and sweepstakes entries.  Go ahead and check them out!

Top 10 Registrations:
1. WJW-TV Beautiful Baby 2011
2. Lincoln Journal Star‘s Ultimate Wedding
3. WMEE-FM’s Most Beautiful Baby
4. Sarasota Herald Tribune‘s Cutest Canine Photo
5. WLUK-TV’s Oneida Casino Cruisin’ & Cash
6. Palm Beach Post‘s Very Hungry Caterpillar Trivia Quiz
7. St. Paul Magazine‘s Live Like a Real Twin Cities Housewife
8. The Signal‘s Best of Contest
9. WLUK-TV’s 2011 Packers Family Night Ticket Giveaway
10. KDVR-TV’s Cheyenne Frontier Days Ticket Giveaway

Top 10 Submissions:
1. Summit Daily‘s Best of Summit 2011
2. Our State‘s Summertime in North Carolina Photo
3. Dothan Eagle‘s Best of the Wiregrass 2011
4. San Diego Union-Tribune‘s Dog Days Of Summer
5. Breakfast Television’s Keep cool prize pack
6. The Record‘s The Best of San Joaquin – 2011
7. WMME-FM’s Most Beautiful Baby Contest
8. WJW-TV’s Most Beautiful Baby
9. The Journal-Times‘ Best Of
10. Chattanooga Times Free Press‘ Best Of

Top 10 Sweepstakes:
1. The Washington Post‘s Papa John’s Promotion
2. KTLA-TV’s Chevy Cruze
3. WLUK-TV’s Oneida Casino Cruisin’ & Cash
4. Where Traveler‘s 75th Anniversary Las Vegas Sweepstakes
5. Our State’s REEDS Jewelers Sweepstakes
6. Boys Life Magazine‘s Badge Magic Stick With Us! Giveaway
7. WDAF-TV’s Kenny Chesney Tickets
8. WITI-TV’s Noah’s Ark Ticket Giveaway
9. Our State‘s Win a Fearrington Getaway!
10. Creative Crafts Group‘s AmericanWoodworker.com Contest

For quite some time now, we’ve been preaching that contests are the fastest way to grow your email list. FloridaGoGo Giveaway from The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, FL) is a prime example of that. By entering this sweepstakes for a chance to win a weekend getaway, users are opted in to receive the paper’s FloridaGoGo travel email. This simple sweepstakes contest grew the Post’s email list by 333%!

If you have a list-building contest to show off, let us know by leaving a comment.

Are you running a deals program? Check out our “How to Build Your Deals List” webinar for insights on how to power your deals program to the next level.

With summer vacations in full swing, July is a great month to run a vacation contest like the one from our friends at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Whether its a photo contest or a simple sweepstakes, summertime is a great time to reach out to advertisers looking to attract new customers before the summer comes to a close and school starts. Here are some great summer travel contests to get you excited!

- JackFM’s Family Summer Vacation Photo Contest
- The Day‘s Summer Days Giveaway
- WTVC-TV’s Design Your Own Dream Vacation

Contest of the Month July 2011: Carefree Vacations from The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune has teamed up with multiple sponsors (Apple Vacations, Pleasant Holidays, Princess Cruises and many more) to giveaway four exciting vacation packages! Not only will three professional photographers vote on the winners, but one winner with the most votes will also get a vacation package!

Schools out for summer! With the arrival of June comes summer vacations, hot weather and outings with the family! Take advantage of all the fun activities your community has to offer by having a sweepstakes for tickets to baseball games and summer concerts. Don’t forget about all the awesome pictures people take on vacation! How about a “Memorable Moments” or “Beach Baby” contest?

Talk to your local advertisers about “Staycation” giveaways that can run in conjunction with your Daily Deal offers! Example: “Enter to win a summer pass to White Waters! Like us on Facebook and Sign up for our Daily Deal emails and be entered five more times!”

For more great summer contest ideas, check out our June, July and August archives.

WROC-TV (Rochester, NY) is running UPICKEM’s national golf challenge contest. To get viewers tee’d up for the challenge, the station ran this promotional video (check it out on Facebook here!) featuring Scott Hetsko from their weather team and John Kucko from their sports team. Thanks for sharing!