Posted by Doug Caverly

An ecommerce contest is almost ready to reach its conclusion. Earlier this week, BigCommerce announced that it has narrowed down the field of competitors to five, meaning the winner of its $35,000 Ecommerce Makeover Contest should be announced rather soon.

The five finalists are CoastCityStyles.com, GorillaSacks.com, KettleBellsUSA.com, LatinPopShop.com, and OverTheMoonRibbons.com, and so represent a pretty eclectic mix of organizations.

As for what one of them stands to earn, prizes include a professional store redesign, a Google AdWords audit from one company, and a marketing consultation with another. Plus a fair amount of publicity (along with a few other things).

Then here’s the interesting part: pretty much anyone who would like to influence the outcome can do so. Voting is open on the BigCommerce site and a Facebook page through July 9th, where videos submitted by the different businesses have been posted.

Of course, those videos can also help other ecommerce specialists see what how the finalists achieved their success.

Even organizations that never entered the competition or have already been eliminated should be able to benefit as a result. Then perhaps faithful ECommNewz readers will have better luck the next time a contest of this nature rolls around.

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