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Life And My Finances Blog Anniversary Giveaway

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Derek, the owner of Life And My Finances blog has decided to organize a giveaway in conjunction with the 1 year anniversary of the blog. Derek’s blog cover topics such as personal finance, money management, life lesson and self improvement.

Looking at the Alexa ranking of Life And My Finances (60,000++ from my side), no doubt Derek has done remarkably well for a blog that is only 1 year old. It is my first time visiting this site but I will be sure to visit it regularly from today onwards.

About $1000 dollars worth of prizes are up for grabs in this contest. Here are the list of prizes:

1) Win a Free iPad 2 – Sponsored by Derek himself.

2) Win a $100 Gift Card to Restaurant.com and a copy of “The Millionaire Next Door” – this prize is sponsored by DollarVersity, A distinctive voice standing out from the crowd.

3) Win a $100 Gift Card to Amazon.com – this prize is sponsored by Everything Finance.

4) Win a $50 Gift Card to Restaurant.com and a copy of “The Millionaire Next Door” (2 lucky winners will get this prize) – once again, this prize is sponsored by DollarVersity, A distinctive voice standing out from the crowd.

5) Win an iPod Shuffle – this prize is sponsored by Miss T at The Prairie Eco Thrifter – Go Green, Save Money, Have Fun.

6) Win $25 Cash via Paypal – this prize is sponsored by Maximizing Money – Stretching Your Money to Its Maximum Potential!

7) Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card – this prize is sponsored by Justin from Money is the Root …of All Things Good.

8 ) Win a $20 Amazon Gift Card – this prize is sponsored by the Frugal Zeitgeist.

9) Win a $20 Amazon Gift Card – this prize is sponsored by Bucksome Boomer – money and life on the way to retirement.

10) Win a $15 Gift Card to Amazon.com – this prize is sponsored by My Personal Finance Journey – Personal Finance, Intelligent Investing, And Frugal Living Tips – Learning For Life.

It is free to enter the giveaway but there are tasks you have to complete to be given specific number of entry, where a draw will be used to determine the winners at the end of the contest. The contest ends on 30th September 2011.

To find out what you have to do to qualify for the giveaway, do read the contest post:

Win a Free iPad 2! Blog Anniversary Giveaway!

Lastly, thank you very much for the giveaway, Derek! Congratulations on your success and keep up the good work!

Vote for your favorite WP Story at WpVote

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Social bookmarking, social networking, and Twitter are definitely ruling webspheres in 2009, aren’t they? In short, social media is the focus of most trend and traffic conscious internet entrepreneurs.

At the same time WordPress‘ influence as a force by itself is also on the rise. When you combine the hottest social bookmarking site concept with the coolest and greatest blogging platform ever (individual opinion applies here), what do you get? WpVote!

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Visit WpVote now: http://wpvote.com/

Mind you, WpVote is a “Digg site for WordPress fanatics“, it is a social bookmarking site for any story related to WordPress only. WpVote is based on Digg’s voting system but totally powered by WordPress. WpVote has been totally redesigned since August 2008, and now integrates a function for users to share the stories they like through Twitter. So basically the formula for WpVote would equal:

WordPress + Digg concept + Twittering function = SUCCESS!

OK, maybe I have overhyped the success part or maybe it just too early to predict how successful WpVote will be. However, I am pretty sure that the owner’s decision to breathe a second life into the site and hang on to it is right, especially when the economy is bad, recession will devalue the price of the site in the market if he had chosen to sell it instead. Besides, as news related to WordPress continue to grow exponentially (again, am I boasting? you decide), WpVote will serve as a good repository for WP fanatics to find and read only the best and most popular stories.

How could WpVote improve further and become more popular?

I don’t mean to say that WpVote is currently not popular, it already has over 250 RSS subscribers. But I see the potential for this site, or rather this idea, to grow mainstream and attain at least a fraction of Digg’s popularity among web users.

For minor improvement, it would be easy for anyone on the street to suggest. Integrate more social bookmarking/networking buttons, promote it through established sites like Facebook (create a group or something), create a contest, a chain and viral twittering campaign, create press releases, give away some freebies, etc.

To achieve a major break though, Mr. Jean-Baptiste Jung should consider approaching prospectful investors, even big names in the web industry like Digg owner Kevin Rose and other internet entrepreneurs. Offer them a percentage of future profits or ownership or give the contributors a permanent individual page each at WpVote or something.

I think that’s about as much suggestions an insignificant (The)ContestBlogger like me could give. Good luck and I certainly hope to see a site gets its major breakthrough in my very eyes, it will be a great experience. Allow me to add some parting words to Mr. Jean-Baptiste Jung:

“You have stumbled upon a goldmine, now mine it the best way you could”

$500 Nokia E71 Contest on MomDot.Com

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Trisha at MomDot.Com is running a contest worth $500 with a brand new Nokia E71 to be given away.

It is absolutely easy to enter this contest, there are several ways to earn entries for a random draw when the contest is due to end on 16th December. Plenty of time for the shipment to reach the winner before Christmas, I just hope Trisha would not have to rush too much in concluding the contest and sending the prize out. The contest looks pretty hard to handle though, as of today there are already 1836 comments spanning 123 pages!

Here are some of the ways to earn entry for the contest:

  • 1 entry if you vote for her.  You have to vote on the walmart page through the thumbs UP after her video is there.
  • 1 entry for going to her actual youtube page and leave me a comment and a star rating
  • 10 entries here if you BLOG about this and link back so others can vote (use the 125×125 ad banner found on the original contest post to link back there)
  • 1 entry for every tweet you send out the entire contest time
  • 1 entry for STUMBLING the original contest post

It is highly unlikely for me to win the beautiful phone but I am crossing my fingers, hoping that the magic of Christmas would miraculously send the phone to me.

Anyway if you were to blog about this contest, don’t forget to link back with the 125×125 ad banner like I do below.

Good luck competing with participants who have left over 1800 comments. I wish you an early Merry Christmas greetings, I know it is early but I am going to repeat it for the coming days until Christmas, to enhance its magic. Thank you Trisha for this wonderful contest :)

Melbel’s September Blogger Bash Contest

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Melbel.com is running a contest to celebrate its new look, apparently the prizes on table is worth $250.00. Let’s have a sneak peak at the prizes available.

ENTRECARD CREDITS
3000 EC from Melbel
1500 EC from Journal of Journey
1000 EC + 800 EC worth of blog review/promotion from Webbie Stuffs
1000 EC + 500 EC worth of blog review/promotion from When I Wander
1000 EC from I Love Philippines Too
1000 EC from Best Music News
1000 EC from Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog
1000 EC from Momma Wannabe
1000 EC from Dota Hero Guide
1000 EC from Freebie Reporter
200 EC from Visionary Sports

AD SPACE:
1 month 125 x 125 ad space on An American in France
1 month ad space on Better Interpersonal Communication
1 month ad space on Gift Reviews
1 month ad space on Free Famous Quotes
1 month text link ad on Ragnarok Guide
1 month 100 X 100 ad space on Webbie Stuffs
1 month 100 X 100 ad space on When I Wander
1 month 100 X 100 ad space on I Love Philippines Too
1 month 125 x 125 ad space on Journal of Journey

OTHER AWESOME PRIZES
1 custom logo design from Blogging from Scratch
$5 GrooveShark Gift Card from Contest Live

To find out more about how to join this contest and how the prizes are going to be distributed to the winners, please refer to the original contest post. Contest ends on 30th September 2008.

TechTod Hard Cash Contest

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TechTod.com is running an easy contest. You just have to blog about TechTod.com and link back to it. TechTod.com is quite a new blog, its aim is to explore about the latest IT trends. It has regular articles on the latest IT and technological news and events. It has 2 main authors, Nickybeit and Mohan. The site has a clean and well organized layout. Now let’s talk about the contest.

This contest is based on POINTS , you get points then you deserve a gift .

Prizes offered :

Cash is offered via paypal or alertpay

For Place 1 :
25 $ hard cash + Bonus Gift
For Place 2 :
20 $ hard Cash + Bonus Gift
For Place 3 :
15 $ Hard Cash + Bonus gift

How to earn points :

Just Blog About Techtod.com . Just a few line of review with a link back to techtod.com.
Point = No of blogs Contain the Post + Blog Page Rank.
You will get points only once per blog . so Dont post in same blog .

Finally ., Email us at admin@techtod.com after you complete the task . we will update your points often .

The contest is ending 30th September 2008. Send in your entries now!

Big Ben Patton’s Place Relaunch Contest

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MarketLeverage is at it again! The past 6 months, MarketLeverage has really broken records for sponsoring the most blogger contest prizes. I am its affiliate too, wouldn’t it give me some expensive gadgets and sponsor a contest around here too?

Big Ben Patton is running a contest to award one of its lucky reader and contest participant an ASUS Eee PC 2G Surf 7? Notebook, sponsored by MarketLeverage! Read the original contest post here.

Contest participant who completed certain tasks as required by Big Ben Patton will be given a number of contest entries. Out of the total contest entries given out, one lucky winner will be drawn randomly and the winner will receive the small yet powerful ASUS Eee PC 2G Surf 7″ Notebook.

Some of the tasks include:

  • Subscribing to Big Ben Patton’s email RSS feed.
  • Blogrolling Big Ben Patton’s Place.
  • Sign up to be MarketLeverage’s affiliate via Big Ben Patton’s affiliate link.
  • Stumble and Digg the contest post.
  • Commenting on Big Ben Patton’s blog post.
  • Blog about the contest.
  • Podcast about the contest.
  • Video blog about the contest.
  • Favorite Big Ben Patton’s Place on Technorati.
  • Put Big Ben Patton’s Place ads on your blog.

The contest will be running until 30th September 2008. Refer to the original contest post for full information on how to enter this contest.

Easiest Chance to Win a Free iPhone, Ever!

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What did you do after finishing high school? It is no doubt one of the major crossroads in one’s life. Do you go to college? Do you take up odd jobs just to delay the imminent decision? Or do you prefer to work in a low paying job, opting to enjoy your life with meagre income and no special responsibility?

I don’t know about you but apparently there is a new boy in the blogosphere, his name is Avon Blake. To tell the truth, I don’t think he is new in the blogosphere at all. He could afford to buy a premium WordPress and is planning to set up 10 different dot com blogs in various niches and he also is quite knowledgable about CSS and HTML coding. He has announced himself a problogger!

According to this boy, his world domination plan has already started and the tools to advance his plan are the 10 blogs which he has been planning to set up. Well, referring back to my question at the beginning of the post, Avon Blake is 18 years old and has just completed his high school, instead of working or furthering his studies, he will use 1 year’s time to experiment and try to earn as much money as possible online. I guess depending on the results, he might change path or continue down it until the very end. I wish him all the best, would be a great inspiration to everyone if he is able to indeed find success this way :)

By the way, I do not dare to ridicule this boy’s dream. He has certainly created a bang with a controversy debut post and is now offering a free iPhone to 1 person out of the many who link back to Avon Blake.com in a blog post. A random draw will be done to select the lucky winner at the end of this month. With such a good buzzing start and daring giveaway, I pray that he would be successful, the world needs more of this kind of miracle inspiration.

Get posting now, I think the contest is ending soon. Good luck.

Out of Debt Again 1 Year Blogoversary Contest

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Out of Debt Again is running its 1 Year Blogoversary Contest. Let’s have a peek at the prizes on the table.

Prizes

1st Place: $25 Gift Certificate to Amazon
2nd Place: $15 Gift Certificate to CafePress
3rd Place: $10 cash via Revolution Money Exchange

There are various ways to participate in this contest. Winners will be selected randomly from a pool of contest entry points. The ways to earn point are:

  1. Comment on original contest post.
  2. Subscribe via FeedBurner
  3. Post about the contest on your blog and link to original contest post.
  4. Add Out of Debt Again to your blogroll.

Please don’t forget to tell the contest organizer what you have done to earn your entries. Contest will run until 27th September.

Dorm Room Biz 2008 First Contest

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Today I stumbled upon (pun intended but no, the contest is not discovered through StumbleUpon) a great contest hosted by a blog with very unique name – Dorm Room Biz. Dorm Room Biz is 3 years old now, it is hosting its first ever contest, and I must say that the prizes are really attractive, not just some EntreCard credits.

The contest will be running from 23 August to 19th September. You better hurry up if you wish to join too!

The winners will be selected randomly from contest entry awarded to participants.

How to join?

  1. Comment on this post and you will get one entry
  2. Comment on other posts throughout the course of the contest and get one entry for each comment. Comments need to be worthwhile and not just a “nice post” type of comment. Have some substance people!
  3. Write about the contest on your blog and receive 5 entries into the contest. Please provide a trackback to this post or leave a comment with a link to your post.
  4. Subscribe to the email feed and get another 5 entries for the contest.

Remember what I said about the prizes? Check them out below.

The Prizes

You can see the prizes listed for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. The other books and any other prizes that get sponsored will be given at random!

Workout IQ Contest

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Workout IQ is joining the contest craze with its first contest. Up for grabs are $50 in PayPal Cash and 1,000 EntreCard Credits.

The $50 in PayPal Cash is not a small amount, so I am especially delighted to know that we are not required to do difficult tasks to qualify for the main prize. Instead, I believe this contest could be one of the easiest ever.

The rules to join this contest:

  • Subscribe to Workout IQ blog via RSS feed or email
  • Email the webmaster (denis[at]workoutiq.com), so that he can have your email(email will be used to notify you when you if you win)
  • Winner will be picked at random on September 30th

Well isn’t this easy enough? I have managed to subscribed to Workout IQ blog while I am preparing this post. You can join too, it would barely take a minute, don’t miss out this great chance to have a go at $50 cash!