There's an unused asset at your company that, when put into good use, will:
  • 1help build company spirit
  • 2"humanize" the company
  • 3advertise it and drive people to the company website
To realize what the potential asset is, hold back for a second and read this short fun story.
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Saw something
Story by InfoXpress
By Helen, InfoXpress

A young man approached a vending machine with a touch-screen. Upon paying, a menu appeared on the screen, and.... suddenly a fly landed on the display and "selected" a random item. The rattle of the can as it was released scared the insect, and it flew away. The young man, all perplexed, stood watching it silently for what seemed to be quite a while. People who saw the scene literally burst out laughing.
The fact is, everyone at your company can tell quite a few amusing stories and original jokes. SubjectsTime turns this into a contest among organizations and imposes certain rules making it attractive to a wide audience.
Note, we already had a few "warm-up" rounds with only a small number of invited participant companies. As an example, you can check out warm-up round 4.

Three Values For Your Company

Advertising and driving visitors to the company website

Statistics showed that most people who happened to see the contest during warm-up rounds, would keep coming back to follow it.
On average, 1 out of 4 people would check out the website of the company behind a story they rated high.

Building company spirit

Ann Matte, Hays:

"It does help to foster team spirit at the office. We were eager to see how we’d stack up against other organizations. That's fascinating and helps us to feel that we, colleagues, are one team behind our company."

"Humanizing" the company

Demonstrate that behind your company are nice people, with a good sense of humor.

FAQs

What are the contest rules?

Every Friday, a new round is announced. It comes with five interesting subjects, each to be addressed with short and funny stories (jokes, videos).

Next Friday, this round gets opened (and at the same time a new one gets announced). From now on, the teams can no longer submit their solutions, and it's only since now that everyone can see and rate (based on how smart, funny, and interesting it is) what each team came up with in this round.

Next Friday, the round gets closed (the one announced a week ago gets opened, and yet a new one is announced). No more votes to this round are accepted, and the final standings are published.

Every round's stories, ratings, statistics, and final standings remain publicly available on the site for good.

How much time does it take to participate?

When another subject needs to be addressed, a quick collaboration can take place among all interested collegues, making it possible to come up with a smart and funny solution quickly.

What does it cost to participate?

$35 per round.

What if our people's posts harm the company in some way?

A new round starts only once a week, and thus new stories appear only once a week. Before the new round launches our editors will review all submitted stories to check them against bad language and offensive or defamotory content. Should they spot any, they will share their concerns with the company. The editors can also suspend the ones that are harmful in some way until those get corrected.

Again, the check happens before the stories actually appear on the site.

How many clicks to our website can we get?

As it was stated above, people tend to check out websites of companies behind the stories they like. So the better (smarter, funnier) your stories are, the more people will check out your website. Even when you no longer participate (should you ever wish to quit), people will be able to see the stories in the rounds where your company took part.

How effective/targeted those clicks are?

The clicks are not targted; however they span the entire world, including your company's target area, if any.

What kind of stories/jokes/videos are allowed?

Can be real or made up.

Should be nice, funny, smart.

Must NOT be profane, offensive, defamotory, plagiaristic.

Can we advertise here?

It's only by taking part in the contest that a company can naturally advertise itself here. No 3rd-party ads ever appear on the site.
Now that warm-up rounds are over, we're kicking off once we have 25 participants enrolled.
It's easy to start
First apply for participation (only organizations can participate). Once approved, start competing. It's fun.
It's easy to go on
Everyone at your company can tell an amusing story from their life. And that’s a hidden potential your company is missing on. Put it in the right use, and your company will capitalize on it.

SubjectsTime kicks off on Friday, October 24.

Only 25 teams are allowed in a round. Once we're full, new participants will have to work their way through qualification rounds to replace the least successful ones in the main competition.

Your business can capitalize on
what you probably never thought of.