Ryan McLean from Smarter Wealth is giving away a brand new Flip Mino HD to one lucky reader. This will be the easiest Flip Mino HD to win because barely anyone is going to enter meaning more chances that you can win. The Flip Mino HD is the coolest gadget around. You can shoot one hour of video in HD (so you can play it on your plasma) and you can even edit your footage right on your device. This device is so small that it will fit in your pocket so you will never miss capturing a moment ever again. To enter all you have to do is sign up for Ryan’s newsletter and post about the competition.

Check out all the details of how you can enter the Win a Flip Mino HD competition now.

Good luck!

Hello! Two weeks ago I announced a little contest which I’m going to give away 500 busiess cards, courtesy of UPrinting. Well, the time is up and I got a winner through Randomg.org!

And the winner is Adrian Rosulescu! A guy from Romania who will use the cards to promote his auction website StoreEbay.ro.Congratulations man you have won 500 business cards!! You will be contacted soon by the sponsor…

Thank you very much everyone for participating!

With the passing of time, our businesses start growing and growing up, until a point that we need to identify us when we meet with people related to our businesses. What a best way to be a serious entrepreneur that having your own business cards?

Introducing UPrinting

For over 25 years, U-Printing has been a trusted leader in online printing, featuring its signature easy-to-use website and the famous Free Project Review, a complimentary proofing service which requires no upfront payment. Besides calendars, posters and a large list of products, U-Printing offers business cards printing customization so you can adjust the specs according to your needs.

They offer many pre-made designs which you can find here, but you can also create a full custom design with their awesome online tool.

Business Cards GiveAway

To take part in this contest, you need to meet the following steps:

1. Become a Fan of Business Cards by logging into Facebook.com and going to the page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Business-Cards/40330644877

2. Leave a comment at the end of this blog post, giving your Facebook name/username and tell me what you would use the business cards for.

The Prize

There will be only one winner of 500 business cards, who can choose from any business card of their stocks, including the eco-friendly SFI certified cover stock (13 pt. Cover Uncoated – Recycled – This paper comes from sustainable forests grown for paper production so you know your paper is coming form a legal and responsible source.) or the the 14 pt. family in Matte, AQ, or UV at any custom size they offer such as square cards, odd sizes or the standard size.

Winners in the United States and Canada qualify for free shipping. Shipping fees will apply to winners outside these areas.

Deadline

The winner will be chosen on Saturday 20th, using the service provided by Random.org.

Good luck!

There are many ways to boost your blog that you can use to increase your subscribers, visits/month, pageviews, etc. In this contest, I will make a study of what I did in my last contest, how I do it and what were the results of applying different techniques…

Promote Something

It’s good to do giveaways without a reason, but it’s even better if you have a reason to do it. If you have a product or service that you want to promote, do it! I recommend you to offer free samples of them, this way you will attract many people, making them stick to your site just because of the product/service. In my case, I was promoting my ebook The Affiliate StartGuide, which the people could get for free by signing up for my newsletter.

Remember something, people love to get things for free. So if you offer them something without charging a penny, you will attract masses…

Find Sponsors

The major of the blog contests on internet are based on Entrecard Credits. That’s not bad, but there are so common and at least that you give away a big amoung of credits, 50k or even more, people won’t pay attention to you.

How can you make them think something different than “bah! It’s just another entrecard contest…” ? Giving uncommon prizes. The first thing you need to do before launching a contest, is to find sponsors for it. Contact companies and bloggers related with your niche asking them for sponsorship.

How I did it? I contacted them by using the following email:

Hi Company/name of the blogger,

First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Javier and I manage a blog on http://mrjavo.com, which is related to blogging and internet marketing tips.

Recently, I launched Mr Javo dot Com 2.0, which have some new features, including an ebook and a newsletter.

In order to promote the new features, I’m holding a contest which has over $XXX in prizes, sponsored by companies like XXXX,YYYY,ZZZZ among others…

How does it work? To take part in the contest is simple, the users will need to sign up for my newsletter. Once they signed up and verified their mails, they will receive a copy of my new ebook. As you see, is very simple. I will pick 10 lucky winners through a drawing using the service provided by random.org.

What do you get? By sponsoring this contest your website, product or service will be exposed in front of thousand of users, making it a win-win situation for us. This is something big, and I will sponsor it through many ways, including social media networks, forums and blogs, among others…

Let me know if you want to sponsor something, a service, product or anything else is very well welcome!

Best Regards,

Mr Javo.

In this email, there are some important aspects that you need to clarify:

• Brief introduction of yourself, how you are and which’s your blog.
• Why are you asking for sponsorship?
• If you count with other sponsorships, mention them.
• How the contest will work?
• What will a sponsor get by sponsoring your contest?

If one of these aspects are not especified in your email, you have the risk of being ignored, and even more when you deal with big companies… You can use that email format or improve it even more.

Something is sure, the bigger your prizes the more the BOOM that will cause your contest…

Spread The Word

You have different ways to spread the word about your contest. Adding the post of the contest to social media networks (such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Mixx, etc…) is a great way to do it, because of the infinite users that you can contact over there. If your contest is good enough, your friends will share it and the other people too, being a big chain read by several people.

By talking of your contest in forums like Digital Point can help you a lot, because there are many users that are looking for an opportunity to get something for free. But something that I highly recommend you is not to ask to your readers to share your contest. Why? When you do something good enough, you don’t need to ask to, and also, it will be more legitimate.

Invite People… directly

Another way to get more participants is contacting the people directly. As the email that I wrote before, I also wrote a letter of invitation, which I spread through the contact forms of the blogs. I invite directly some bloggers, who replied me with an affirmative answer…

Have Fun

Don’t take it so serious. Don’t stress or feel bad if you don’t get great sponsors, it could be a difficult task. In my past experience I contacted many people, getting rejected or ignored by some of them. So, don’t feel bad and keep contacting another people, hopefully you will get great prizes for your contest…

Analyzing My Results

Everything I told you in this post seems to be great, but how was the performance of it? Well, first of all, let’s review the changes in the RSS counter:

When I started the contest, I had an average of 240 subscribers. As you can see, in the first 3 days the number of subscribers jumped over 300! Getting a big peak of 500 in a week (the 7th day). At the present time, I’m handling 450 subscribers, which means that I increased over 100% the number of subscribers!

If we talk about the number of followers on twitter, mybloglog and other social sites, I can’t give you an exact number but I can tell you that I have had a good reaction too.

At the end of the month, I ended with over 100 subscribers listed in my newsletter, which means that I increased that number over 100% again!

To conclude, I can say that I boosted my blog more than 100%, increasing my followers by RSS, newsletter and social media networks. That’s a great thing, it means that I expanded my brand and now, I’m being read by more people than before, helping me in my future actions, contests and projects.

So do you have doubts of my success? I don’t think so… If you need help to hold your own blog contest, don’t doubt on asking me, I will be glad to help you .

Hello people,

First of all I want to thank to all the people and companies that sponsored this contest! All the prizes are valued over $2500, and today we will meet the 10 participants that won the awesome prizes! To remember which were the prizes, visit the post of the contest.

As I promised, I recorded a video to guarantee the transparency of the sweeptakes. I don’t know why, but the video presents a delay between the audio and the video after some minutes of recording… I recorded it 3 times and I got a the same result, so I apologize for that… The important thing is that there are 10 winners!

Congratulations!

I will contact the sponsors to let them know that you won in order to claim your prizes! Thank to all the participants and good luck for the next contest!

Updated PS: I have contacted the sponsors of the first 5 prizes. Due to there are several sponsors is a hard task for me to contact all of them! So, to claim your prize, go to the post of the contest, visit the sponsor’s page and contact them directly. Tell them that you have won XX place in my contest and that you want to claim their XX prize.

Sorry for that, but it’s hard to handle something of this magnitude…

Hi everyone! As you may noticed Mr Javo 2.0 is live and it brought with itself many changes, which considerable improve the old theme.

In order to promote Mr Javo 2.0 and my first eBook titled The Affiliate’s Start Guide, I have prepared a contest for you.

What is this all about?

With my eBook you will learn the basic things which will let you create a website and start making money with it, specially with affiliate networks.

This guide explain step by step everything you need to do to start making money online, and it can be understood for any person without preview experiences in the matter.

So then I though it would be good idea to make a contest, giving away prizes which could make easier the process of creating an online business.

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

Wow! writing all those prizes took a long time! What do you think huh? 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 my newsletter by using the form provided below:

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 my 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 my 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 in 1 month, so it will be on Nov 16th at 22:00 GTM -4. I will make a screencast of the drawing to guarantee the transparency of the process! So come back in  month and check if you are a winner!

PS: How to use the script? The “script” is just a .txt, you need to copy and paste it into your post editor in HTML mode, click publish and done!

Good Luck!