Quick Update on the Dorm Room Biz Contest

Written by Chris on September 5, 2008 – 9:00 am -

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It has been almost two full weeks since the contest went live and I must say, WOW what a response! This started off a bit slow but by the end of the first week there were about 10 entries. Now, we are at more than 40 comments and entries for the contest! That is awesome. There is a trick to how I got such a large jump in the last couple days, and I’ll share that either this weekend or next week with a video blog.

With the new entries came a few new offers for sponsorships. These two addition books are now up for grabs:

• Great Failures of the Extremely Successful - Mistakes, Adversity, Failure and Other Steppingstones to Success by Steve Young
• Ten Minutes to the Job Interview - Your last-minute guide and checklist for securing a position, a promotion, a paycheck by Rachel Ingegneri

Digg It! If you haven’t already, please give the contest a Digg. Although we won’t make the front page or anything, every bit of exposure helps to grow the site and get more people involved!

Also from the new entries, I have been getting some great emails from new readers that love the site and want to help it grow, so thank you to everyone for your support! With this, I will be conducting some new interviews and other having some new posts to work on.

If you have already entered by leaving a comment on the original post, then your next step should be to blog about it and send a track back to the page about it. Without sending a trackback or leaving a comment with the blog post URL, I won’t know about it…so be sure you get me the address of the post!

If you are a new reader and visitor to the site - welcome! If you like what you see and the target audience for the site, I am always looking for guest bloggers. So if you have a post in mind you’d like to write, get in touch with me.

Tags: Contests, updates
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Bic Promo Pens and John Chow Launch Flip Video Camera Contest

Written by Chris on July 7, 2008 – 12:00 pm -

The evil John Chow has partnered with Bic Promo Pens to launch a new contest on his blog this month. The contest is for a new Flip Video and Mini Flip cameras. As usualy with John’s contests, leaving a comment on his blog will get you entered into the contest with the hundreds of other people. On top of that, you can write a post, like this, talking about the contest.

I am sure you guys know all about promotional items that you get from companies when they are trying to sell something to you or when you attend a conference, well Bic Promo Pens is no different offering promotional pens and similar items. I am a fan of promotional items, because many of them I use. I used to get a package once a month from a promotional products company that did printing for me a couple times on different items. Each month they would send me some different sample products, and always included pens. Besides the markers, sticky notes, coffee mugs, and cups that they sent I usually enjoyed the promo pens the best; simply because I could use them daily and it saved me from needing a stock of pens incase I left one on campus somewhere or lost one.

If you’ve got a blog, make a comment on John’s blog and write a post about the contes for a chance to win!

Tags: bic promo pens, Contests, flip video, John Chow, john chow contests
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Win $50 from SmartyPig Towards Your Savings Goals

Written by Chris on July 3, 2008 – 9:45 am -

After a great interview with Mike and the folks at SmartyPig, they were kind enough to send me a $50 gift card for SmartyPig. As a user of SmartyPig, that would be a great little bonus into my own account and to be put towards my savings goal. However, I thought it would be more fun to give it away to someone who sets up an account at SmartyPig. Now, before you get too excited about winning a free $50, this gift card can only be used at SmartyPig.com to be added into your account and go towards one of your goals.

So, here is how things will work. First, you are going to need an account with SmartyPig. So, head over to www.smartypig.com and sign up for an account and set up a savings goal. Then leave a comment with your email address that you used with your SmartyPig account. This will let me check to see that you set up an account and see what people are saving for. By signing up for an account and leaving a comment here on this post, you will be entered into the contest.

Here are a couple other ways to get more chances to win:

• Subscribed to the Email Feed for Dorm Room Biz
• Write about the contest on your blog providing a trackback to this post or leave a comment with a link to your post.

It is as easy as that! The winner be chosen randomly and will be annouced on July 15, 2008. After the contest ends, I’ll contact the winner to get their address and send the gift card off to them!

I look forward to some participation in this contest, and more contests will be coming soon!

So, who wants $50 to save towards their goal?

Tags: Contests, mike ferrari, savings, smartypig
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Market Leverage Is Ruling The Blogosphere With Contests!

Written by Chris on June 12, 2008 – 12:00 pm -

If you have been following some of the more popular bloggers such as John Chow, Ian Fernando, and Tyler Cruz, you will have noticed that they all launched contests on the same day with the same prizes sponsored by the same company - Market Leverage. Seems like they may be trying to make a statement and make a push to get some more people signed up for their great affiliate marketing service. As you also probably noticed, I have signed up with them but that was a week or so ago and am not eligible for some of the contests.

If you are interested in signing up for Market Leverage, I’d love for you to sign up through my affiliate link but of course it’s not required. If you want to participate in the contests being run by Tyler and Ian, you will need to register for Market Leverage through their referral - a sneaky way for them to make extra money as you compete to make as much money as you can in a time period.

However, if you do want a shot at a Nike duffel bag full of Market Leverage stuff, then check out the contest that John Chow is running.

All you need to do is blog about the contest and send a trackback - its that easy. Then, you just hope that you get picked as a winner of one of the great prizes. See any of the many contests happening around the net to see what is being given away!

Contests are also happening at Balkhis and CashTactics.

Tags: affliate marketing, Contests, ian fernando, John Chow, market leverage, Market Leverage Contests, zac johnson
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