Take the SUCCESS Start Small, Win Big Challenge with Good Morning America's small-business expert (and SUCCESS contributing editor) Tory Johnson!

Join the challenge for a chance to be featured in the magazine and win great prizes. Both Tory and SUCCESS Publisher Darren Hardy will be online to guide you with additional tools and inspirational interviews.

This is your time to shine. So take the small steps and win big!

When to enter:

SUCCESS magazine’s Start Small, Win Big Contest begins January 17, 2012, and ends May 7, 2012, at 11:59 PM Central Time (CT), upon which essay submissions are due. The application for entry will be available beginning January 10, 2012 and will close at 5PM Central Time (CT) on March 27, 2012. By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees to the following rules of the contest and states that they are 18 years old or older.

Who may enter:

Persons 18 years old or older living in the United States or Canada except for individuals affiliated with SUCCESS magazine, including employees, interns, contractors, and their immediate families (children, siblings and spouses) and others living in their households—are eligible. SUCCESS magazine will determine winners’ eligibility.

How to enter:

The Start Small, Win Big Contest is a 3-part series starting with the February 2012 issue of SUCCESS magazine and going through the March and April issues. In the first issue we challenge readers to take the steps Tory Johnson explains, by which they can achieve big goals. Readers who participate will set goals at the beginning of the Challenge and share them online through SUCCESS.com/winbig. By entering the contest, entrants grant SUCCESS a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, nonexclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of their submissions, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any educational, promotional, publicity, exhibition, archival, and all other standard SUCCESS purposes. SUCCESS will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.

Judging:

Judging will be conducted by the editors of SUCCESS, Tory Johnson and SUCCESS Publisher Darren Hardy and will be based on what they view as progress as it applies to each contestant’s own goal or goals. Winning entries and selected finalists will be published in the September issue of SUCCESS. Decisions of the judges will be final.

A grand prize winner and 2 runners-up will be selected. The grand prize winner will be chosen from 3 finalists.

The 3 finalists will be notified of their status by August 1, 2012, and will appear on our website on August 10, 2012. The contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. SUCCESS reserves the right to cancel the contest or modify these rules at its discretion.

Prizes:

Grand Prize:
The winner will appear in a feature-length story in the September 2012 issue of SUCCESS magazine and will receive lunch and a personal coaching session with Tory Johnson and/or Darren Hardy.

Runners-up:
The 2 runners-up will be mentioned in a sidebar to the story on the grand prize winner in the September 2012 issue of SUCCESS.

Winners may receive additional noncash prizes. Winners must sign an affidavit and license and will be responsible for paying any taxes they may owe on a prize.