The Race to a Million is set to begin on August 16th 2010 at 12:01 am. You can join the countdown by keeping an eye on the clock on the right side of this page.

The race to creatively parlay an initial investment of $500 into $1,000,000 promises to be entertaining, informative and profitable for fans of the show.

Our social media components are now up and running and we invite you to like… follow and subscribe to our Facebook page, our Twitter feed and our You Tube Channel. Click any logos below to go straight to our pages.

Our Facebook and Twitter accounts are already sharing a ton of information and our first You Tube videos will be up this week!

We hope you are planning on joining us for the “Social Reality” experiment that will give you some great money making strategies as you follow along with our teams… and we are sure you will have some fun watching and reading along too!

Even though the contest hasn’t officially begun… believe me when I say that we have already seen and heard of some incredibly creative strategies from some of the teams! All the teams are chomping at the bit to get started on August 16th.

We’ll see you at the start line.

Cheers from the Race to a Million team!

Executive producers of Race to a Million, Peter Cameron-Inglis and Dean Pierson are pleased to announce the addition of videographer and editor Jordan Nicholson to the team. Jordan will be responsible for videotaping and editing various components of Race to a Million for our online video presence.  Jordan brings with him years of experience and an energetic vision of how the online videos will look.

To see some of Jordan’s work……visit his production house web page at www.cjnvideo.com

Our You Tube channel is now up…..but not quite yet running. We hope you will “subscribe” to the channel and you’ll know as soon as new content is posted. www.youtube.com/raceto1000000

We anticipate our first introductory video to be up for the world to see this week.

Welcome to the team Jordan!

Videographer and editor for Race to a Million- Jordan Nicholson

The Race to a Million team

After much deliberation we have chosen a winner for the RacetoaMillion.ca logo design contest! The logo is now in the top left hand side of the site. What do you think?  We felt it did a great job of including multiple concepts from our design brief including … social media, video, and a race, while keeping the domain name clearly readable. We are very happy with the results of the contest with 160 logos entered from designers around the world. So, without further adue… congratulations to Andreas Santoso (andreastan) for creating a fantastic logo for the competition. Let the race begin!

The contest officially closed this evening with a total of 160 logo entries over 7 days from 47 different designers.  Now we have 1 week and six days remaining in allotted time from 99Designs.com in which to choose our winner. It is interesting to note some observations about the contest.

There seemed to be several well thought out and creative submissions very close to the end of the contest which suggest that some designers may be employing significant strategic thinking to dealing with contests on 99Designs.com.

While 99Designs.com encourages the contest holder to give a lot of feedback and to rate the designs frequently during the contest it would appear on the surface that this interaction can have negative implications. It was during this time that we experienced the largest number of designers withdrawing all of their submitted designs. We experienced no such negative impact when we ceased providing ratings and feedback to contestants. Other interesting developments include receiving emails from professional designers trying to shame us into pulling support from the controversial practice of “crowd-sourcing” design work and some negative posts between designers accusing each other of stealing design concepts and ideas.

While we received a lot of amateur designs which were completely outside the realm of possibility it is good to also note that there were many varied, professional, unique and creative submissions.  Several of us who are organizing the Race To A Million event have different first choices which makes the process rather exciting.

Stay tuned … we’ll be letting you know the winner soon.

Canada’s Mastermind Development Corporation is embarking on an exciting new experiment in entrepreneurship, mastermind group facilitation and social media with RaceToAMillion.ca.

First, we have launched an initial 7 day logo design contest on 99designs.com and will be selecting our logo design winner in a little over 5 days from now.  You can see all of the creative work being entered here.  Here is the Design Brief that we shared with the graphic designers for the logo design contest.

Title:

Creative Logo for new Social Media meets Reality TV website

Subtitle:

A new social media phenomenon is about to unfold and you can help to add to its uniqueness.

Design Brief:

Visitors of RacetoAMillion.ca will be able to follow along and interact with contestants as four teams of entrepreneurs race to be the 1st to parlay $500 into $1 Million. Read posts and view weekly video feeds about the innovative ways in which each team has chosen the activities and investments that they make, what the results have been, what returns have been yielded, what they plan to do next and who is on the leader board.

Contestants will adhere to a set of investment rules which include social responsibility, environmental responsibility, and sustainability while not repeating any investment opportunity they have already utilized.

The public will communicate with individual teams, become fans, offer advice, participate in polls, give feedback to teams, and participate in discussion threads and offer investment opportunities and opinions of their own. They can even play along with their own investments to see what works and what doesn’t. How many millionaires in waiting will there be?

The race will end Canada day (July 1st 2011) or once all groups have reached $1 Million, whichever comes first.

Target Audience:

Our target audience is the general public users of social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google Buzz, especially people who would like to start a business of their own but lack the motivation, ideas, or inspiration to do so. This includes people seeking a second income, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and business professionals

Requirements:

1. Must be a creative logo where the domain name can still be clearly read.
2. Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
3. Incorporate more than one of the following concepts: social media, social responsibility, environmental responsibility, sustainability, a Canadian identity, Reality TV, mastermind groups, a race, and making profit
4. Please use your own creativity.
5. We need a Print file format
6. Web file format – .jpg, .gif and layered .psd (RGB) as well as pdf
7. Any other essential formats. In color or black and white and color.
8. We are big fans of these logos http://designm.ag/inspiration/creative-logos/

Cheers

Peter Cameron-Inglis
aka kamloopsdotcalm