Speed Linking Edition Contest

Ed Lau of ededition dot com is holding a contest giving away some fabulous prizes.

The Prizes

* Prize #1: A JohnChow.com stripe ad for 1 month, which usually costs $250. This is the ad that appears at the top of the site. Sponsored by John Chow.
* Prize #2:A 125×125 ad (this is the box ad you see to the top right) on my site for 3 months, a 2GB USB Flash Drive from Gigabyte.
* Prize #3: Apple iPod Nano 2G Black 8GB. I was going to give this away a long time ago but forgot about it. Still brand new. Not as pretty as the new 4G Nano but still an 8GB iPod Nano. Also, a 2GB USB Flash Drive from Buffalo.
* Prize #4: A box DVD of the 1st season of one of my favorite TV shows How I Met Your Mother and a 4GB USB Flash Drive from Sony.

How to Enter

* Follow Ed on Twitter Everyone already following is already entered: 3 entries
* Blog about Ed's blog. Review my site. Blog about this contest…anything. Include a linkback: 5 entries
* Any comment in any post starting with this one. To avoid spam, only one comment per person, per post will be counted. Comments will only be counted for 24 hours after posting: 1 entry per comment.

Ed has not decided on the contest closing date but it won't be long before he made the drawing and pick the winners. So hurry along and get entered!

UBD 1 Year Anniversary Contest

Unique Blog Designs is celebrating its one-year birthday with a UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest.


Grand Prize - Brand New 8GB iPod Touch ($299 value) and One (1) Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme (coming next week).

Three (3) runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme.

How to enter?

For one (1) contest entry - just reply to the contest post with a comment. Only one comment per person will be counted.

For five (5) contest entries - write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to the contest post. If your blog post does not appear under the “Pingbacks,” leave a comment with a URL to the post.

The contest runs from 12:00AM PST Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to 11:59PM Sunday, August 31, 2008. The winner will be randomly chosen Monday, September 1st, 2008. Contest is open to everyone world-wide.

You Can Make A Difference

Do you wanna help someone out in their fund raising for Breast Cancer research and get a chance to win a Nintendo Wii or a Flip Mino video camera? Here's a contest where you can make a difference… and win a Nintendo Wii and a Flip Mino.

Jason of The University Kid is running a Market Leverage sponsored contest to gather support for two affiliate managers at Market Leverage - Debby Phillips and Jen Fluker, in their drive to raise money for breast cancer research. They are harnessing the power of the Internet and the collective drive of the blogging community to champion a good cause towards medical science and humanity, how cool is that? I salute them for their effort and that's why Market Leverage and TUK rock!

First place winner will get a Nintendo Wii. The Wii is one of the most popular consoles around as it not just allows people to face off against each other by physically playing games, but can also be a good way to get into shape. Market Leverage will ship one to your door if you win.

Second place winner will get a Flip Mino. The Mino is a the most advanced Flip camera, with rechargeable batteries, a sleek look and USB enabled so that you can plug it into your computer after taking videos or pictures.

Ways To Get Entries

• Subscribe To Market Leverage via email - Two Entries - COMPULSORY

• Subscribe To The University Kid via email - Two Entries

• Blog about this contest and mention one reason why Market Leverage and TUK rock - Ten Entries

Winners will be announced on August 15th, 2008 and the winners will have 24 hours to collect their prizes.

Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS Giveaway Contest

Mark of MeAndMyDrum is running a contest with a huge prize list that is sponsored by many sponsores.

Here is the list prizes:

GRAND PRIZE

Garmin nuvi 350 GPS navigation system - This cool prize is sponsored by Market Leverage. I’ve seen this thing go for upwards of $320 on some sites. Take it with you in the car or walking around town. Never get lost again. You won’t find this on any other contest they’re involved with!

Prize 1

Apple iPod Nano 4GB Silver¹ - Hey, it’s from Apple and it’s an iPod…need I say more? Valued at $149. Sponsored by MeAndMyDrum.

Prize 2

WOW-Pen Joy - These aren’t available in stores yet, so one lucky winner is going to be among the first to receive this superior ergonomic PC mouse. I’ve been using another model made by the same company and love it!. Sponsored by WOW-Pen.

Prize 3

1-hour Consultation with Garry Conn - Garry continues to provide great tips and information about how to make money online and does so at an incredible rate. He has created untold numbers of blogs for a variety of market niches and has become very successful at it. If you’re interested in making money online, then make it a point to get to know my friend Garry. This hour he’s giving away will no doubt change the way you blog. Valued at $250.

Prize 4

Free 1-year Membership to LifeFoc.us - this prize, valued at $324, is generously offered by another successful online entrepreneur, Aaron Abber. This recently launched online community is already off to a great start and is sure to provide you with encouraging tips on planning and achieving your goals, both online and offline. Happiness can be found in many different areas of your life and LifeFoc.us can help you find them.

Prize 5

1 Market Leverage 2GB USB Pen - Another prize sponsored by MeAndMyDrum, this is something I won from another contest that I’m throwing into the mix. It’s brand-spanking new!

Prize 6

Free ebook: Success With WordPress - Written by Kyle Eslick of Hack WordPress, this hasn’t even been released yet, so the winner will be among the very first to grab a free copy and become even more successful with using WordPress.

Prize 7

Free ebook: Blog Adrenaline - Written by John Moston of DNXpert, this is an 80-page ebook that also includes a 24-page guide to building WordPress themes, AND a “skeleton” WordPress theme that can be customized and given away for building backlinks.

Prize 8

2 Market Leverage Rewards Cards - These guys came through again with another popular prize. Each card is worth $20. There will be 1 winner per card.

Prize 9

Advertising on KeithJamesLock.com - Keith is offering some great advertising opportunities on his blog. One image ad will be placed beneath each of his posts on single post pages as well as beneath the post on the home page. Size can be up to 400×250. He’s also offering a text link up to 50 characters in length. Both will have do-follow links which can be affiliate links if desired. ²

Prize 10

Niche Adsense Themes for WordPress - Created by Mark Mason, this rising star in the Internet marketing world is someone I’ve been following closely. His recent release of these specially designed WordPress themes has been well-received in the online community. Do yourself a favor and get to know Mark so that you can carve out your slice of the make money online pie.

Prize 11

Free ebook: Article Domination - Written by Josh Spaulding, this has been a best seller in the article marketing world for a while. It’s packed with step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions to making money online using articles and article directories to drive qualified traffic to your site or blog. Valued at $39.

Prize 12

125×125 ad on BlogAboutYourBlog - a $20 value, Matthew Henrickson is offering ad space at the top of BlogAboutYourBlog for one month. His blog gets a lot of traffic so your ad will certainly get a great deal of exposure.

Prize 13

Free ebook: Written Prompty Everyday - Written by Christine Senter, this is an inspiring book designed to help you get your creative juices flowing and get over your writer’s block. It lists some very creative prompts that will help get you that spark of creativity you’re looking for.

Prize 14

Free 1-year Membership to I’m On A Budget - My friend Joe Swopes has launched a great new membership site called I’m On A Budget that provides its members with very affordable videos, software, and audio products that cover a wide variety of topics. Valued at $60.

There are many different tasks available for you to earn points. The more points you earn, the more chances you have of winning something! Check the contest post on how to enter.

Here are a few contest rules to take note of. This contest starts on July 26 and ends at midnight Central Daylight Time August 15. Winners will be chosen at random using the aptly named random.org website. The two prizes that MeAndMyDrum is sponsoring will be shipped at Mark's expense as long as the winner lives in the continental United States.

American Express Gift Cards Giveaway Contest

Hank from My Investing Blog dot com is running a contest giving away 3 American Express gift cards for $150, $100, and $50, which are sponsored by Market Leverage.

The winners will be chosen by Random number generator on August 6, 2008 @ 12pm Pacific Standard Time(PST). There are many methods to gain entries in this contest and one of them is to provide a writeup based on the question “If you were given $50,000USD (tax free) today, what would you spend it on?”and post it on our blog.

Well, if I had a windfall of $50,000USD (tax free) today, I would make use of it to fulfill one of my dream. First of all, I would set aside half of it for my kids education fund before I think about how to spend it. As I am kind of risk averse when it comes to investments, I would put the $25,000 in a fix-deposit account. Then I would donate $5000 to a local charity serving the old and poor.

Next I would use a small portion of the money to get a high-end HD camcorder and also budget $10,000 for a 2-weeks tour of Beijing for 2 to experience Summer Olympic Games. I’m sure the HD camcorder will really come in useful to record this once-in-a-lifetime Olympic experience.

After the trip, I’ll use whatever balance amount to pay off my housing mortgage. When the money is all set aside and spent, I’ll get back to real life and STOP dreaming!

It was a good dream while it lasted for the length of this post!

For a full list of methods to gain more entries, check out MIB contest post.

Flip Video Ultra Camcorder Contest

There’s a contest going on at Million Dollar Portfolio where one lucky blogger stands to win a brand new Flip Video Ultra camcorder.

To enter to win the Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, you have several choices to enter.
1. 1 entry is given for simply commenting on the contest post.
2. 2 entries are given for subscribing to MDP full RSS feed.
3. 5 entries are given for blogging about the contest and tracking back to using the keywords “million dollar portfolio”.

The contest runs through the end of July and the winners will be notified on August 1st. All qualified entries will be put into a hat on August 1st and one winner will be chosen to win the grand prize of a Flip Ultra.

Tickle My Funny Bone

It's not everyday that you get to make fun of the evil dot com mogul and still stand a chance to win a big box of cool computer stuff. So when Michael Kwan offer this blog contest, I just have to grab it with both hands.

All I got to do is edit the below picture(s) - Add, remove, distort, supply captions… do whatever it takes to make for a funny picture. You don't need to be a Photoshop expert or creative guru to take part, most importantly is to have fun. So here goes my submission.

Promotional Pens Plus Flip Video Contest

John Chow and his friends at Bic Promo Pens are holding a really cool contest. They will be giving away two Flip Video cameras to two lucky winners, one Flip Video Ultra and one Flip Video Mino. The winners can also expect a few Bic Pens as well.

The great thing about this contest is how easy it is to enter. You earn one entry by simply commenting on the contest post. Easy, right? But there’s more! You can earn five more entries if you blog about this contest and link to the contest post and the sponsor.

You have until July 31 to send in your entries. Good luck!

Win A Brand New iPhone 3G Contest

The ultra cool iPhone 3G will be released on 11 July in 22 countries, and I really want to get my hand on this sexy phone. Unfortunately, the local market here will not be among the first to release it in July. It will only be available at the end of the year.

I really crave to own this sleek gadget and thanks to Market Leverage, it has sponsored one to be given away to one lucky John Cow dot com reader.

You only have to subscribe to John Cow’s RSS feed via email to stance a chance to win the incredibly cool iPhone. If you want to increase your chances of winning, then check out the contest post for ways to earn more tickets.

Contest entries ends Thursday July 3rd at 12:00pm eastern time and the draw will be Friday July 4th. Winner will be selected by random draw and the more tickets that you have, then the more chances you have of winning.

If There Was No Internet

Market Leverage sponsored contests are all over the net and their promotional marketing campaigns are sure making waves in the blogosphere. Dat Money dot com is also running a contest with prizes sponsored by Market Leverage but Jason, who also owned iBlogtoBlog.com, has made his contest with a creative twist to make it more fun to participate instead of that typical “Please subscribe or write about the contest, blah, blah, blah.” kind.

In order to earn 10 entries to the contest, I’m writing on the topic “If there was no internet, what would you be spending your time doing?”

This is a very interesting topic and a scenario I can’t imagine happening in this age and time. I mean, the Internet is so deeply integrated into our modern lives, from online banking, researching information online, video conferencing, IM chat, blogging, twitter, Facebook etc. Without the Internet, Google probably won’t exist and I’ll not be blogging and entering this Market Leverage Sponsored Contest: Win a iPod, Flip Mino, $200 Gift Card or USB Pen.

But for the contest's sake, lets assume the internet really got shut down....

If there’s no Internet, I would probably care more about the people around me, my surroundings, and the environment at large. I will exercise more and read those books that I always wanted to but never seems to find the time since most of my time during and after office hours is spent in front of a PC on the World Wide Web!

If there’s no Internet, I’ll be forced to call up friends and meet them in person, instead of simply super-poking them on Facebook and/or just seeing their blurry image through IM video chat.

Come to think of it, it’s not such a bad thing after all. Without Internet, life would probably be much simpler like the good old days and relationships will be more personal again.

For a complete list of the different method to gain more entries, check out the contest post.

Jonathan Volk Contest

Jonathan Volk is running a contest on his blog with prizes sponsored by Market Leverage. This contest is going to be a point based and many / most of the entries are easy to earn. This point based contest is not the traditional most points wins type contest. Therefore, the more points you have the more entries you get into a drawing and the higher chances of you winning those cool prizes.

There are so many different ways to accumulate points, for the complete list, please check out the contest post.

Jonathan has decided that there will be 3 winners in this awesome contest:

· 1st Place - $200 Amex Gift Card AND Flip Video Camera!
· 2nd Place - Ipod Touch!
· 3rd Place - Market Leverage USB Flash Drive Pen

The contest ends on Monday, 30th June. After which you have a few days to tabulate and submit the points to Jonathan so that the winners can be drawn! Submit the points via EMAIL to jon (AT) thanvolk.com.

As one of the method to earn points is to create a video about affiliate marketing and post it on Youtube. I've make a video and share it with you below.

Affiliate Confession Fantastic Giveaways

Alan LeStourgeon of Affiliate Confession dot com is running a blog contest giving away cool gadgets sponsored by MarketLeverage, Vat19.com and himself.

The prizes are worth over $500 and will be given away to one lucky winner around 12 noon on Wednesday June 25th.

One very very lucky blogger will win these:

Sponsored by Affiliate Confession:
Nintendo DS Lite and 2 games
Affiliate Confession t-shirt

Sponsored by Market Leverage:
Flip Mino video camera
iPod Nano
$50 Market Leverage Rewards Card
2GB USB Pen

Sponsored by Vat19.com:
USB Missile Launcher
Banana Bunker
Ambient Water DVD Video Aquarium

To enter the contest, you have to write a post announcing it and link to the original contest post and link to the 2 sponsors listed above. You also have to leave a comment on the contest post as it is considered your official entry.

Win Fabulous Prizes At Bloggernoob

MarketLeverage sponsored contests are all over the web and Bloggernoob is also running one of such fabulous contest. If you don’t already make money online, this is a good chance to get rewarded for your blogging troubles. Like all of their contests, this one will be easy to enter.

There are two ways to enter. First, all you have to do is leave a comment in the contest post. Say something funny. Kiss my ass a little. Tell me how great i am or something.

Second, link to the contest post. That is all, easy right?.

Four lucky winners will be selected at random on 19 June to win these fantastic prizes:

4gb Ipod Nano(plays video)
2gb USB pen
Flip video camera
$50 American Express Card.

Good luck everyone!!

Xbox 360 Elite, PS3 or Wii Giveaway Contest

To celebrate its Grand Opening, a brand new website called GamerzReviewz.com is giving away a brand new game console of your choice to a lucky winner!
If you want to be entered to WIN a brand new Xbox 360 Elite, PS3 or Wii all you have to do is simply subscribe to its RSS Feed Via Email to be registered for one “Ticket” for the giveway.

To increase your chances of winning, you can earn multiple tickets performing these actions (optional):

- Blog about the contest linking to the contest page.
- Add them as a Friend on Facebook
- Once approved as a friend on Facebook, post on your wall about the contest.
- Follow them on Twitter
- Tweet about the contest

You can complete all tasks to earn a maximum of 41 tickets. The draw will be conducted on June 18th at 12 noon eastern time and the selected winner will be announced via email and you must still be an active subscriber to qualify.

Good luck to one and all.

MacBook Airs and Cash Giveaway

To get the word out about his new blogging methods, Mike Huang of Bloggin-ads dot com, which is famous to doing blog reviews, is holding a massive contest offering prizes worth over $4000!

To be precise, the contest prizes are:

· 2 x MacBook Air (a value of $1,799 each)
1.6Ghz Intel Core Duo
2GB Ram
80GB Internal Drive
13.3″ Display
Built-In WiFi and Bluetooth

· 10 winners x $100 (a value of $1,000)

These sweet prizes are sure to make some lucky contestants feel as though they are walking on air. There are a few ways to earn entries, more entries means more chances of hitting the jackpot! Let’s take a look at how we can enter this contest.

Subscribe to Feed via email (1 ticket)

Participate In 2 of Mike’s Forums (max 10 tickets per forum per day)

Comment on Bloggin-Ads (1 ticket per comment/limited to 5 tickets earned per day)

Blog about the contest (10 tickets)

Stumble / Digg / Propel the contest post (3 tickets)

BONUS ENTRY - (5 tickets) - Post the contest banner on your blog’s sidebar/blogroll.

There will be a total of 12 winners randomly drawn. The first 2 names drawn will get the MacBook Air and the $1,000 will be split among the 3-12th winner ($100 each)

Contest will end on June 13, which is Friday the 13th!
Good luck to all of you and have fun!

SweetHacks Is One Year Old

To celebrate its first year anniversary, SweetHacks is running a fantastic contest where readers stand a chance to win cash and banner ad spots.

It is a simple contest to enter, you only need to leave a comment to get your name thrown into the hat for the random draw. To increase your chances in the draw, you can earn multiple entries by blogging about the contest (2 entries) and/or subscribing to SweetHacks via email RSS (1 entry).

The deadline of this contest is on 13th June 2008. So get busy now. Good luck!

Gift Card Contest Time

Charity Lynn is running a blog contest where a lucky winner stands to win a $20 gift card of your choice of the following:

Chili’s
The Olive Garden
Red Robin
Starbucks
Wal-Mart
Target
Barnes & Noble
Hot Topic
Amazon.com

Now if you don’t have any of these places near you, or if you live somewhere they don’t ship, then it will be Amazon.com gift card or $20 USD via PayPal.

How to enter

- comment on the contest post to gain one entry.
- to double your chance of winning, you can also blog about the contest first and then leave a comment with a link to your entry - this gets you 2 entries.

This contest will run until 12:00AM Central Time on April 29, 2008. On April 30, 2008, one lucky winner will be randomly drawn using Random.org. Good luck everyone!

Xbox360 Elite plus a copy of GTA4 Giveaway Contest

The latest contest to come out of the barnyard this April is an Xbox360 Elite plus a copy of GTA4 giveaway contest. This sweet prize bundle is sponsored by Top Hosting Center which is the new web host of John Cow dot com.

The Xbox360 is the console of choice for the famous cow, look up on XBOX Live with gamertag JohnCowdotCom if you want to engage in a virtual duel with the cow. Over at the barnyard, you can expect nothing but the best. Best fresh milk served daily, best blog name, best prizes offered in contest.

Let’s get back to the contest proper and see how we can enter. The winner will be picked via a lottery and you can choose how many tickets that you have in the draw! The more tickets that you have, the greater chance of winning! Here’s how to get your tickets:

250 tickets - Write a 100 words (minimum) post about this contest on your blog, making sure you linkback to the prize sponsor and to the contest post so your readers can find it.

250 tickets - Become an affiliate with THC for free and put up one of their banners on your blog. Affiliates earn 50% commission with each sales made and with a few sales, you can get your own Xbox360.

25 tickets - Every comment you leave on another blog’s latest post about this contest will get you 25 tickets, as will leaving this link in a new forum thread somewhere, or when you mass message your myspace or facebook friends. Perhaps even use Twitter to let all your followers know.

25 tickets – Subscribe to JohnCow RSS feed and THC’s blog feed.

The contest will run until the 30th of April, good luck folks!

Mini Contest Worth $100

The Juggler over at The WWW Observer is juggling a mini contest in April giving away $100 cold hard cash (via PayPal) to a lucky winner. He called it a mini contest because he is preparing a bigger and better contest coming up in May and he wants to get word out early.

By dangling this $100 “carrot” in this mini contest, he has set the bar high for the bigger contest as far as the values of prizes are concern. I’m sure many people (including myself) will be waiting in great anticipation for the announcement of the bigger contest.

In the meantime, let me show you how to enter this April contest first. There are 2 options to earn entry into this contest:

1. Blog about this mini contest (linking to the contest post) and tell your reader about his upcoming bigger contest happening in May (like I did above); or

2. Subscribe to The WWW Observer RSS feed via email.

If you do both (blogging about the contest and subscribing), you’ll get three entries. That’s one bonus entry for you. Only one blog post per person will be allowed. Closing date for this contest is on 20 April and the winner will be announced on 21 April.

Blog To Win a 16GB iPod Touch

Datepad.com is a 100% free to join online dating site which provides the best online opportunity to meet like-minded people in the internet community dating scene. Register to become a DatePadder, create your pad, engage in online dating fun, find love and stand a chance to win a dream vacation valued at $5000 in the DatePad Dream Date “Showers of Love '08” contest for being an active Datepadder.

Besides this “Showers of Love ‘08” contest, Datepad.com is running a blog contest where they are offering the blogging community a free 16GB iPod Touch worth $400!

To stand a chance to win the free 16GB iPod Touch, all you have to do is write about this blog contest on your blog (post must be at least 150 words in length), include a short snippet about what Datepad does and you will be entered into a raffle.

The deadline for submitting your blog entry is Sunday, April 20th. The contest is open to everyone, and there is a maximum of two entries per person.