The results are in, the smoke has cleared, and the How Low Can You Go? Help Challenge has an official winner!
Drum roll, please…
(pretend the Zopa anthem is playing, with great pomp and circumstance)
In 1st place, representing the great state of Minnesota, we have tommienocker. Congratulations tommienocker! Your $15.43/mo of new Help was a new world [...]
and the winner is…
September 12th, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Let’s take a look at the replay
September 4th, 2008 — , Fun from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Well our August promotion has come to an end. We’re a bit late posting because of labor day and its aftermath, but we officially stopped counting submissions to our How Low Can You Go? Help Challenge on Sunday.
And now comes the hard part…tallying the votes (er, the help).
Remember, we are counting all CD’s that people [...]
The Path to Glory
August 27th, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
The Olympics may be over, but the competition at Zopa is on fire.
With only 5 days left in the How Low Can You Go? Help Challenge, we’ve decided to take another peek at the race.
To all of you who’ve made the leap already, congrats! To everyone else, there’s still plenty of time to get on [...]
half-time
August 15th, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Well we’re half way through our thrilling “How Low Can You Go? Help Challenge” and we thought it’d be a good idea to post some rankings, just so you can see how things fair.
We’re not going to give away the specific amounts of help that you’re receiving. That would spoil the big finish down the [...]
Help 101
August 8th, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
We’re exactly one week into our fantabulous Zopa promotion and already we’ve seen a lot of action. People are getting help left and right. Ya’ll are doing a wonderful job. You should be pleased — pleased as punch.
For all those folks out there scratching their heads and wondering how best to get in on the [...]
CONTEST!!!
August 1st, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Zopa is holding a CONTEST! Contest = Mathegrammmatically AWESOME! OMG!!!1!!11! Free Money!!!
(phew. posting two days in a row really gets me going, apparently.)
As promised, Zopa will be holding a contest in the month of August, to see who can get the most new Help.
We call it the “How Low Can You Go? Limbo/Help Challenge,” (or [...]
A brief update from our Italian friends…
July 31st, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Periodo di vacanze per gli Zopiani, ma chi si immaginava che ad alcuni Zopiani venisse l’idea di un coast to coast con arrivo a San Francisco e visita a Zopa US?
Ebbene, un equipaggio milanese è in partenza il 2 agosto: Marco detto Ciolo - prestatore pioniere che per l’occasione ha chiesto e avuto un piccolo prestito per finanziarsi il viaggio - [...]
Surprise Surprise
July 24th, 2008 — , Fun, News from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
My, it’s been quiet around here lately. Let me just clean out some of these cobwebs…
Ahem.
Much better.
Ya’ll are in luck, because we’ve been cooking up something special for all you lovely Zopa-ites: a contest! Who doesn’t love contests? (especially ones that are ridiculously easy to win?)
It’s gonna be a chance for you to save a [...]
And the Webby goes to…
May 14th, 2008 — , Fun, News from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Zopa has just been awarded the Webby for Best Financial Services website!
This is the second year in a row that we’ve won a Webby, and all I can say is…it rocks. Seriously. I could get used to this.
For all you Webby fanatics, here’s a dramatic reenactment of how it all happened:
Webby Presenter: (opening e-envelope) …and [...]
Zopa = Best in Show!
May 1st, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
So, a week ago I was telling all ya’ll about how we’ve been nominated for that most sacred of internet prizes — the Webby (actually, 2 Webbies, even sacred-er). But while the judges are deliberating over that contest, we have some more awards-show news: (drum roll, please….) Zopa was just voted Best in Show at [...]
The internet likes Zopa
April 23rd, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
(and Zopa likes the internet, too)
Here we are minding our own business, doing our darndest to create a safe, friendly place to borrow and invest, and what happens? We get nominated for not one, but TWO Webby awards! Who woulda thunk?
To be honest, this isn’t the first time Zopa’s had a brush with Webby greatness [...]
How low can you go?
April 18th, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Hi everyone, just thought I’d post a quick note about some recent changes to our site.
As you can probably tell, we’ve gussied up our homepage a bit. Now you can keep up on what your Zopa friends are doing with the new “On Zopa Now” ticker, or search for them directly using the Borrower Search [...]
Start Your Search Engines
February 15th, 2008 — News from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Or, an Ode to Wyoming, the Equality State
Last night our tireless development team released some great new features into the Zopa jungle, and we’d like to tell you a little about them here.
One new feature is called Help I’m Giving. This feature allows Zopa investors to adjust the amount of help they’re giving to individual [...]
Bug-squashin’
January 10th, 2008 — News, Team from Luke @ Zopa Blog USA
Sorry for not posting sooner–we’ve been squashin’ bugs! This post comes to you from the depths of the QA department at Zopa–er, which would be me.
On Sunday we released a new version of the site into the wild, and it fixes a grand total of 114 bugs. Bugs medium and small have fallen before the [...]
