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!

Anyway, this post is not about Twitter. Did that surprise you at all? This post is about a cool contest organized by Cool Site of the Day.

It is very easy to enter this contest, just follow Cool Site of the Day on Twitter and tweet the following to your followers:

“I just entered to win some cool prizes from Cool Site of the Day! You can too-just follow @cnotes and retweet http://budurl.com/twitterprize”

Yes, it is as simple as that and anyone with Twitter account can join this contest. Here are sneak previews of the prizes:

Week 1: Winners:

- 5 Cool Site of the Day T-Shirts

- 1 One-on-One The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting

- $50 Amazon.com gift certificate

Week 2: Winners

- 5 Cool Site of the Day baseball caps

- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso

- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting

Week 3: Winners

-  Cool Site of the Day T-Shirts

- $50 Amazon.com gift certificate

- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso – TBD

- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting – TBD

Week 4: Winners Announced April 24

- 5 Cool Site of the Day baseball caps
- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso
- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting

Week 5: Winners Announced May 1

- 5 Cool Site of the Day T-Shirts
- 1 One-on-One Website Review with Mike Corso
- 1 copy of The Fat Free Guide to SEO Copywriting
- $50 Amazon.com gift certificate

There is also an additional bonus prize to be won if you are a blogger and you blog about this contest. One lucky blogger will be selected randomly from those blog posts that link to the contest post and will be rewarded with $100 through PayPal.

Hurry up now, not much time left. Good luck

Ben Pei has come up with a no brainer contest on his make money online blog Pei Profit Dot Com. It only requires you complete four simple tasks like copying and pasting. The only reason that he is making it so simple to bring home those attractive prizes is that he wants to make winning easy for his readers. Prizes include $50 cash prize via PayPal, Atomic Blogging 3.0, Ultimate Blogging Theme, Banner Ad On GarryConn.com and 1 Year Membership On AdTracker.

Well if you are not heading over and grab your chance, others will! No more complicated reviews, no more linking to 10,000 sponsors. ONLY copy and paste and you could walk away with these big prizes!

Check out all the details of how you can enter the Ben Pei’s No Brainer Blog Contest now.

As is the tradition with this site, I am proud to participate in and introduce to you the first contest by Great Site to Visit. It is very simple to enter this contest, you could win the prize of $100 or Amazon Gift Card or Visa Gift Card of the same value just by blogging about this contest and linking to Great Site to Visit using the pre-determined anchor text, such as what I am doing below:

Great Site Reviews

You can double your chance of winning by following Great Site to Visit on Twitter and posting a tweet about the contest.

You should hurry up now to be eligible for the contest, it is ending 30th April 2009. Good luck!

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!

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”

Let’s save some time and talk about the prizes straight away:

1st Prize:

-A multi use package of the Citrus Theme from Unique Blog Designs(Same guys that have designed the current theme in this blog).

This package allows you to use Citrus Theme on unlimited websites and blogs. This package also comes with all six (6) color schemes – Mandarin Orange, Lemon Lime, Pink Grapefruit, Blueberry, Tangerine and Rotten Tomato.

-”Work Smart, Get Rich” ebook from The Net Fool, a $15 value.

-A 125×125 banner ad on Rauru, for a whole month, a $8 value.

-6 months of VM-3 VPS hosting, $19.95/month value, 30GB DiskSpace, and 300GB, 384 MB of Guaranteed Ram, from Norted Solutions.

2nd Prize:

-A 468×60 banner ad on Garry Conn.com for a whole month, a $69.5value.

-”Work Smart, Get Rich” ebook from The Net Fool, a $15 value.

-A 125×125 banner ad on Hedge Against Speculation for a whole year, a $180 value.

-6 months of VM-1 VPS hosting, $9.95/month value, 10Gb of DiskSpace, 100GB of Monthly Bandwidth, and 128 MB of guaranteed RAM, from Norted Solutions.

3rd Prize:

-Reseller hosting from FeatherHost.com, free for two months, a $9.95/month value. 10 GB Disk Space, and 100 GB Monthly Bandwidth.

-”Work Smart, Get Rich” ebook from The Net Fool, a $15 value.

-A 125×125 banner ad on Blogict for two months.

-A 125×125 ad on Number 39 for a whole month.

4th Prize:

-Shared Hosting from Feather Host for three months, a $3.95/month value. 5 GB Disk Space and 50 GB Monthly Bandwidth.

-A 125×125 ad on JargonCliq for a whole month.

Addon Prizes:

5th prize: +A free banner or graphic design for free, from Aziz GFX.

+A 125×125 banner ad on Blogging Kid!
How to participate?

• subscribe to The Money Making Blog newsletter (compulsory) – 5 points
• write about the contest on your blog – 4 points
• write a general review about The Money Making Blog – 10 points
• other ways please refer to original contest post

This contest will end on 31st January 2009. There are other rules and participation methods, please visit the link below to get the full information to participate. Good luck

The Money Making Contest

I have stumbled upon Raymond.CC Blog more than a year ago and now the blog is more popular than ever. Raymond is a Malaysian blogger. No doubt, I regard his blog as the No. 1 technological blog in Malaysia, I believe there is no other Malaysian blogger with over 50,000++ RSS feeds subscribers.

According to an interview of Raymond done by a fellow Malaysian blogger, I believe Raymond to be a polite and humble person. He does not chase for fame and glory and prefers to remain anonymous. I think this policy of his will only get harder and harder, considering the fame of his blog which is still definitely on the rise.

This is indeed the hallmark of a truly great blogger, provides great content and enjoy the blogging process. No hype, no air of superiority and no veiled attempts at getting unsuspecting readers to make him more money (through sign-ups, purchase, affiliate link baiting, etc.). It is blogger like Raymond we want in the blogosphere, not someone who generates traffic through scandals, hype and various other unethical tactics. Kudos to Raymond, you are a blogger I look up to and aim to emulate. I hope your blog become more and more successful.

To readers who have only just heard about Raymond.CC Blog, I suppose my earlier description is not enough to do justice to the wonderful blog. In short, if you like anything related to IT, software, anti-virus, operating system, how-to articles and web applications news, you have to visit Raymond.CC Blog now!

Lastly, if the last paragraph is still not convincing enough, let’s just say there’s so much benefits you could get from Raymond.CC Blog. There are many giveaways and free tips that could benefit you, even if you are not faced with a particular computer problems right now. For example, I myself have got a free premium image hosting account due to Raymond’s tip. At other times, he also let us know how and where to get free license for some anti-virus softwares, how to troubleshoot a certain computer problems, how to make use of technology to make it easier to complete your manual everyday job, etc. Lastly there is a free forum on the site too, for like-minded individuals and I think if you have a computer problem, you may ask your questions there and hope somebody come to your rescue (who knows, it could be Raymond the White Horse Prince, hehe…)

Unfortunately, this will be the end of this review, I have the principle that says, “it’s useless to speak more, action is louder than words”. I hope I got the translation from Chinese language right

Visit Raymond.CC Blog Now!

P.S. Professional graphic designer Gary Simon is currently sponsoring a contest on Raymond.CC Blog with prizes ranging from 1 custom logo design worth $99.95 to 5 free accounts to his video tutorials (now cost $49.95 per account).

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

What is this all about?

Mr Javo had improved his blog, adding new features including a Newsletter. This contest will help him to promote his enhanced Blog, as well as his eBook The Affiliate’s Start Guide

The Prizes

Until now I have over $1800 $2000 in prizes, which I will distribute among 10 lucky winners!

1st Place

• $200 filled into an advertiser account on Bidvertiser – Value $200
• A custom blog design courtesy of Canadian Web Design – Value $195
• One hour consultation with Mattaw of MoneyBites – Value $50
• One copy of OIOpublisher – Value $47
• One copy of the Traffic Rush Course, courtesy of Caroline MiddleBrook – Value $47
• One copy of the SEO eBook Don’t Get Banned by The Search Engines – Value $40 NEW!
• One year VIP membership on CreateBanner.com, courtesy of Xavier Media – Value $35
• 50,000 BlogUpp! impressions, courtesy of BlogUpp! – Value $30 NEW!
• One copy of the eBook Work Smart, Get Rich!, courtesy of The Net Fool – Value $15

2nd Place

• No Compromise Logo Design Package, courtesy of Logo Design Team – Value $229 NEW!
• A professional audio Intro / Outro for your Podcast or an Audio Introduction for your Blog by Mary-Lynn at Bigg Studio – Value $150
• A copy of the UBD Citrus Theme, by UniqueBlogDesigns – Value $79
• One hour consultation with Benjamin of Big Ben Patton’s Place – Value $50 NEW!
• One copy of OIOpublisher – Value $47
• One copy of the Traffic Rush Course, courtesy of Caroline MiddleBrook – Value $47
• One year VIP membership on CreateBanner.com, courtesy of Xavier Media – Value $35
• 30,000 BlogUpp! impressions, courtesy of BlogUpp! – Value $17 NEW!
• One copy of the eBook Work Smart, Get Rich!, courtesy of The Net Fool – Value $15

3rd Place

• One WordPress theme from PremiumThemesNow.com, courtesy of Daniel Scocco – Value $50
• One hour consultation with Benjamin of Big Ben Patton’s Place – Value $50 NEW!
• One copy of OIOpublisher – Value $47
• One copy of the Traffic Rush Course, courtesy of Caroline MiddleBrook – Value $47
• One copy of the Instant Blog Traffic eBook, courtesy of Ben Pei – Value $47 NEW!
• One year VIP membership on CreateBanner.com, courtesy of Xavier Media – Value $35
• One month of 468x60px advertising on Big Ben Patton’s Place – Value $20 NEW!
• One copy of the eBook Work Smart, Get Rich!, courtesy of The Net Fool – Value $15
• 20,000 BlogUpp! impressions, courtesy of BlogUpp! – Value $10 NEW!

4th Place

• One WordPress theme from PremiumThemesNow.com, courtesy of Daniel Scocco – Value $50
• A blog review on Shanker Bakshi dot Com – Value $50 NEW!
  
• One copy of OIOpublisher – Value $47
• One copy of the Traffic Rush Course, courtesy of Caroline MiddleBrook – Value $47
• One year VIP membership on CreateBanner.com, courtesy of Xavier Media – Value $35
• One month of 125x125px advertising on Big Ben Patton’s Place – Value $20 NEW!
• One copy of the eBook Work Smart, Get Rich!, courtesy of The Net Fool – Value $15

5th Place

• A pre-made toon, which is a guy with a laptop “making money” while on the beach, courtesy of Vic Ocampo – Value ?$50
• One copy of OIOpublisher – Value $47
• One copy of the Traffic Rush Course, courtesy of Caroline MiddleBrook – Value $47
• One year VIP membership on CreateBanner.com, courtesy of Xavier Media – Value $35
• One blog review by Benjamin of Big Ben Patton’s Place – Value $30 NEW!
• One month of 125x125px advertising on iDesignStudios.com – Value $20 NEW!

6th Place

• A paid review on Balkhis, courtesy of Syed – Value $80
• Two months of 125x125px advertising on Direct Sales Web Marketing, courtesy by Dennis Edell – Value $50
• Thirty-minutes of blog consultations with Jim from The Net Fool – Value $30
• One blog review by Benjamin of Big Ben Patton’s Place – Value $30 NEW!
• One month of 125x125px advertising on WebTrafficROI.com – Value $20 NEW!
• A link after every post during one month on Piggy Bank Pie – Value $10

7th Place

• Thirty-minutes of blog consultations with Jim from The Net Fool – Value $30
• A blog review, a 125x125px advertising for a month and 1000 EC by Louis Liem – Value $30
• One month of 125x125px advertising On Mr Javo dot Com, courtesy of Revvenue.com – Value $25
• One blog review on Niessuh.com – Value $20
• One month of text-link advertising on WebTrafficROI.com – Value $10 NEW!

8th Place

• A Blog review on SponsoReview.com – Value $30
• One month of 125x125px advertising on IndoContest, 2500 EC – Value $20
• 1000 EC from Give Away City
• 1000 EC from Danandmash In Oz

9th Place

• One month of 125X125px advertising on Work From Home Business Blog – Value $10
• One month of 125X125px advertising on Blogging From Scratch – Value $3
• 1000 EC from KisahberuanG.com

10th Place

• 1000 EC from ThemeLib
• 1000 EC from Cash In Style

As you can see, if you are among the top 5 winners you will have everything to start a blog and make money online!

How To Participate

The winners will be chosen of a drawing using the service provided by Random.org. To take part in this drawing you need to sign up for Mr Javo’s newsletter.

By signing up and confirming your email , you will get 3 tickets!

You can also get TWO additional entries by writing about this contest in your blog, using the script provided here. Notice that you won’t get this 2 additional entries if you don’t sign up for the newsletter!

And if you don’t have a blog but you want to get additional entries, there is a solution for you. You can get ONE additional entry for subscribing to Mr Javo’s RSS feed by email. Notice that you won’t get this additional entry if you don’t sign up for my newsletter!

To claim the 1st prize you need to have an Advertiser’s account on Bidvertiser. Get your account now!

Deadline

This contest ends on Nov 16th at 22:00 GTM -4. Mr Javo will make a screencast of the drawing to guarantee the transparency of the process! So go back to his blog in a month and check if you are a winner!

PS: I recommend you to periodically check the contest’s page because could be more sponsored prizes for you!

Good Luck!

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.