Meet The Team Members – Segment 6 will be airing Monday, August 16th, 2010! Here’s your chance to get to know all of the team members and their charities … don’t miss it!

Here’s a background video from CJN Productions that explains more about how and why the Race To A Million came to be.

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We’re running a t-shirt design contest on 99designs.com offering a $795 prize. 64 designers have submitted over 190 designs and we’ve narrowed it down to these eight, help us pick a winner by voting for your favorite!

https://99designs.com/t-shirt-design/vote-d09a3

Our fourth YouTube video is up… check it out and subscribe!  Subscribe and watch it on YouTube directly by going here. don’t forget to check in next week when we cover the kick off event for the contestants!

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We’ll be shooting another segment for the Race To A Million today at 3PM in Riverside Park starting at the Rotary Bandshell… come on out and watch if you’re interested!

While you’re all waiting for the exciting news and information to start rolling in after August 16th about what the teams are working on we thought we’d hold another little small contest.

The logo design contest that produced the fantastic RaceToAMillion.ca logo went so well that we’ve decided to hold another design contest to produce some awesome looking t-shirts for our fabulous fans and supporters.

We’ve setup this new t-shirt design contest with 99designs.com and hope to be able to announce (and show) a winner at the kick-off night for contestants on Wednesday August 11th between 6PM and 8PM. Designers from all over the globe will start submitting concepts soon,
however don’t worry if you don’t see many in the first 2-3 days as it can can take a while for designers to think through their concepts.

In the meantime if you’d like to follow along and see all of the great submissions that will be submitted for consideration over the next few days feel free to click on the following link and then come back to our site and let us know which ones you like best.

If any of you are designers please feel free to read the design brief at the address below and enter your designs to be a part of this great experience and be part of our winning team!

https://99designs.com/t-shirt-design/contests/great-t-shirt-social-reality-show-media-realitytv-50318

Cheers everyone

Pete & Dean

Canada’s Mastermind Development Corporation (CMDC) will be announcing it’s choice for awarding the Race To A Million BIGGEST Fan prize on June 6, 2011 for Season One.  Winners will travel to (and stay in) beautiful Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada with all expenses paid for the wrap up celebrations of the Race To A Million on July 1, 2011. These winners will have the opportunity to participate in the celebrations and receive additional prize packages containing many items from the beautiful Thompson / Okanagan region of British Columbia. To enter just keep doing what great fans do … become a Facebook Fan, Follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our YouTube Channel, subscribe to the blog on www.racetoamillion.ca, post comments and replys on the website and Facebook Fan page, post fan photos on the RTAM Facebook Fan page, tweet and retweet about RTAM, post videos and video replies to the RTAM YouTube channel … follow the principals that we adhere to for our contestants… be responsible both socially and environmentally, get creative … AND, have fun … we’ll notice you we promise!

Here’s 3 Race To A Million apparel slogans. Which one do you like? Do you have other ideas? We wish to convey positive messages about what we’re doing with the Race To A Million: sustainable business, socially responsible, environmentally friendly & fun!

1. The Human Race… Join Us! www.racetoamillion.ca
2. Nice People Can Finish Firs…t! www.racetoamillion.ca
3. An Exercise in Social Reality www.racetoamillion.ca

Our third YouTube video is up… check it out and subscribe!  Subscribe and watch it on YouTube directly by going here. That’s all the videos for this week … check in next week for more!

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Our second YouTube video is up… check it out and subscribe!  Subscribe and watch it on YouTube directly by going here.

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A few of you have mentioned some questions and comments that we would love to address… Where does the other percentages of the money go? The organizers of the event (CMDC)? If they are charging for advertising then is it really right that they keep some of the money from the teams?

First of all, thank you for the questions and comments from everyone so far.  This exciting opportunity would be nothing without the participation of you, the public!

In answer to your questions and for the purpose of this clarification we’d like to ask you to not forget that Canada’s Mastermind Development Corporation is also  matching all of the charitable donations dollar for dollar. AND none of the individuals from any of the teams are permitted to take ANY financial risk… CMDC has put up all of the money for the contest INCLUDING the $500 for each of the five teams.

As the organizing company of the Race To A Million, CMDC have a lot of large audacious goals. We’re looking for a way to create even more good for even more people across the country and around the world (for individuals, charities, entrepreneurs and the business community as a whole).  Obviously all of this costs money. As the organizers of this experiment in positive social media and reality TV (for which we’ve coined the term “Social Reality”) we need to cover the costs of lawyers (who don’t work for free) in order to protect everyone involved, not to mention all of the associated expenses of servers, staff, marketing, prizes for the public, office space, and the list goes on. Of course all of these costs need to be paid for without ever touching the money that is in each bank account managed by each team … and that is regardless of whether each team succeeds or doesn’t succeed.

The people involved, the charities, the city of Kamloops, the sponsors, and the public who participate around the world all deserve to have only the best possible chance for success and that means we must make all of this work and run as a business and not a volunteer effort. Advertising revenue only covers a small portion of the overall costs and we must hope that all the teams succeed in producing a successful first season in order to expand the positive impact that mastermind groups can have across the province of British Columbia, across the country of Canada and perhaps across the world.

Again, thank you for allowing us to clarify… please keep the questions and comments coming … we’re always more than happy to explain and discuss the many aspects of this fun entrepreneurial experiment with everyone.

Cheers

Pete and Dean
Canada’s Mastermind Development Corporation

Our first YouTube video is up… check it out and subscribe!  Subscribe and watch it on YouTube directly by going here.

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The Race to a Million team would like to welcome Team TRU to the contest as our 5th and final team. The organizers of the race are excited to have this “control” group in the contest. Comprised of mostly SIFE students from Thompson Rivers University… team TRU will bring youthful enthusiasm and some fresh business ideas to the competition. Stay tuned to the Teams page for bio information as it is made available.

Here is this week’s summary for the Facebook Page: Race to a Million

• 71 Monthly Active Users (up over +1,083.3% vs. last week)
• 43 total Fans (up over +616.7% vs. last week)
• 10 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week
• 264 page views this week

You can visit our Facebook Fan Page by clicking here. Don’t forget to become a fan!

Not bad for our first week on Facebook! Please tell your friends and share the page(s) with them to help us grow this exciting experiment in entrepreneurial social media while trying to make a difference in our businesses, our communities, and the world!

Remember: Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last … Nice People Can Finish First too!