Contest Radar

Gyutae Park from Winning The Web, a blog about internet marketing is hosting a contest and is giving away more than $13k worth of stuff. The stuff includes items that will turn out to be extremely for internet marketers and also cash. The contest runs till the end of the month and there are numerous ways to enter the contest. Here is a look at the prizes that are at stake

• $650 Cash from Azoogle Ads
• $500 Cash from PepperJam Network
• $250 Cash from NeverblueAds
• $200 Cash from BidVertiser
• $200 Cash from AffSpy
• $100 Cash from The Social Millionaire
• $50 Cash from Web Hosting Resource Kit
• Ipod Touch 8GB from Shoemoney ($299 value)
• 1 Full Conference Pass to Affiliate Summit East ($949 value)
• 3 Month Membership to Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program ($300 value)
• 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value)
• 12 Month Subscription to RankSense Professional ($630 value)
• $2,000 in email marketing services from Software Projects ($2,000 value)
• 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan from Purple Internet Marketing ($800 value)
• The Secret Classroom from Joel Comm & Next Internet Millionaire ($497 value)
• Autographed Copy of Kris’ Jones Upcoming Book on SEO ($20 value)
• Copy of the SEO Handbook 2008 from HuoMah ($10 value)
• 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value)
• 1 Year Membership to Hlola ($354 value)
• 2 Year Subscription to GoStats Pro ($180 value)
• 1 License to Website Optimal Performance ($97 value)
• 5 Licenses to OIO Publisher (5 winners - $37 value each)
• 3 Licenses to WP Auctions Gold (3 winners - $25 value each)
• 3 Licenses to OptIn Comments (3 winners - $77 value each)
• 2 Exclusive Blog Themes from Unique Blog Designs (2 winners - $100 value each)
• 2 Revolution Wordpress Blog Themes from Brian Gardner (2 winners -$80 value each)
• Wordpress Coding from CSS Rockstars ($209 value)
• Custom Blog Design from Pixel Jig ($500 value)
• Logo Design from Xologo ($100 value)
• Custom made blog theme from Uzzz ($350 value)
• Custom web design from Underground Web Designs ($325 value)
• Custom Wordpress design from Future ROI ($200 value)
• 1 Year Swamp Plan Web Hosting from Host Gator ($150 value)
• 1 Hour Blog Optimization Consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips ($175 value)
• Blog Consultation Report from Jay Francis Hunter of Scribbles and Words ($90 value)
• 1 Year Sponsored Category Listing & 1 Year Premium Upgraded Membership from Blog Catalog (2 winners - $300 & $72 value)
• 3 Fast Passes, 3 Featured Statuses, and 5000 Credits from Entrecard
• 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on AndyBeard.eu ($100 value)
• 1 Month Text Link Ad on Ades Blog ($90 value)
• 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on John Cow ($125 value)
• 1 Month 468×60 Banner Ad on Bloggin-Ads.com ($60 value)
• 6 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on JonLee.ca ($300 value)
• 2 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on Affiliate Confession ($70 value)
• 2 Month 125×125 Banner Ad & 2 Reviews on Internet Babel (3 winners - $130 value)
• 1 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on Blog About Your Blog ($20 value)
• 4 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on Hammad Bhatti ($100 value)
• 3 Month 125×125 Banner Ad on The World of Office, XP and Vista Tips & Tricks ($90 value)
• 4 $25 & 50 $5 Pre-paid Calling Cards from Pingo (54 winners - $25 & $5 value each)
• 1 Paid Review on Winning the Web - sponsored by 1 Cool File ($100 value)
• 20 Winning the Web T-shirts (20 winners - $9 value each)

The details are available on the contest post, so do check out the post for more details on this one.

Scott Wainner, an internet entrepreneur has written an interesting article about research into the process of aging and steps that need to be taken in order to effectively manipulate the aging process. Basically, he has pitched in favor of increasing funding into the field of longevity research and why it is important in today’s world.

Longevity research involves the idea of biologically living as a 20-something indefinitely without experiencing age related disease or decay. Though this sounds as an interesting topic of discussion, people refrain from giving much thought towards it. However people need to understand about the importance that it holds out in the future.

If you would like to support this cause as I am doing now, then simply blog about the issue at hand and also make a post in support of this. The first 100 bloggers who blog about this will get themselves $20 via PayPal. Check out the article for more details.

Contest Name: Newsarama’s Capture the Witchblade Sweepstakes
Contest URL:
Click here to enter
Deadline: March 21, 2008 12 pm EST
Prize:
Grand Prize-
A Cameo Role in hit comic series Witchblade
A new character in Witchblade will be inspired by one lucky grand
prize
winner.
Second Prize-
One lucky second prize winner will receive a rare original drawing by
Witchblade cover illustrator Stjepan Sejic.
Third Prize-
100 lucky third prize winners will each receive a copy of the
Witchblade
Volume paperback autographed by writer Ron Marz.
Eligibility
Must be 18 years of age or older and a legal resident of one of the 50
United
States, the District of Columbia or Canada (excluding Quebec)
How To Enter: Complete online submission form at official URL
How To Win: Winners will be selected at random
More Info: Good Luck!

Jacob Cass from Just Creative Design is putting up a big contest on his site and is giving away over $5000 worth of prizes. There are numerous ways to enter the contest as well.
The main way to enter this contest is to write a post on graphic design and post it on your blog. This will get you 15 entries into the contest. There are ways to get in bonus entries as well and they are as follows

• Already Subscribed - If you are already a subscriber to Just Creative Design you will receive 3 free entry points. A free reward for you regular readers.
• New RSS Subscription - Subscribe to JCD by RSS and get 2 free entries.
• New Email Subscription - Subscribe to JCD by E-Mail and get 3 bonus entries.
• Link to Prize Sponsors - For every 4 sponsors you link to, you get 1 entry.
• Subscribe to blogs that have written an article - Gain 3 entries per blog. For this you will have to keep returning to this article to check out the new article submissions.
• Write a blog post about the competition - Gains you 4 entries. Provide The Link.
• Add sites to your blog roll - Add any of the author’s sites to your blog roll. 3 Entries per site added.
• Digg The Contest - Digg this article and receive 2 entries.
• Design Float The Contest - Design Float this contest and receive 2 entries.
• Save To Del.icio.us - Save to your del.icio.us favourites and receive 2 entries.
• Stumble and Review The Contest - Stumble this contest with a short review and receive 4 entries.

After doing any or all of this, simply leave a comment on the contest post letting Jacob know what you’ve done or send him an email

All entrants via the main entry will get a link back as well. The winner will be chosen at random from the entries. The contest ends on March 4th.

Here are the sponsors of this contest

1st Prize Package - The Guitar Package

An Electric Guitar and all accessories - Rafie from mohdrafie.co.uk is our main prize sponsor, generously donating his electric guitar and accessories. Why? Because he wants to focus on his design skills and he wants it to be passed onto another designer.

2nd Prize - The Stock Package

 

• Go Media Vector Packs - Ultimate Vector Collection 1 - 597 Vectors royalty free. (Worth $523) This was donated by myself for the project and comes direct from Go Media. You can view what’s in the packs here: Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5
• Adobe Photoshop Brush Pack - A collection 80 quality royalty free photoshop brushes.
• 55 iStock Photo Credits from PJ, who owns a Premium Wordpress Theme showcase which shows attractive customisations of WordPress Premium Themes.

3rd Prize - The ReDesign & Advertising Package #1

 

• Design Consultation with David Airey. David Airey is a well known blogging graphic and logo designer from Scotland and he is offering feedback on a corporate identity and how this is implemented on a respective website. David has recently opened a logo resource blog called Logo Design Love focused purely on logos so he knows his stuff!
• Logo design OR blog header design. Hopefully after the design consultation with David, I can improve your blog or logo. If you are unaware of my designs, you can check out my portfolio)
• One 131×63 advertising space on Estetica Design Forums which gets 25,000 visitors a month. A kind donation by Toon who runs the forums and who is a regular contributer with over 14,000 posts.
• 2 Months Free Advertising - Seven 16×16 pixel squares on Just Creative Design. Will go to only 1 person. Check out my advertising page for more details.

4th Prize - ReDesign & Advertising Package #2

 

• Logo Design by Vivien from InspirationBit who freelances as a Web & Graphic Designer based from Canada. A very kind donation, thank you.
• Web site or blog critique - also donated by Vivien. The winner can choose between Vivien’s review by email or on her blog Inspiration Bit, with a link back to the winner’s site.
• 1 hour consultation on Wordpress’s Theme Customisation over Skype, or AIM, or MSN. This prize was also kindly donated by Vivien.
• One 131×63 advertising banner on Estetica Design Forums which gets 25,000 visitors a month

Bonus Prizes

 

Each singular prize will go to a unique person. ie. Blog review to one person, header design to another person.

• One hour blog optimization consultation with Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. This consultation will cover design, SEO, monetization and blogging strategy, coming from the author of one of the most respected and useful resources in the blogosphere. Sure wish I was getting this!
• A Blog Header design by Audee from from Graphic Identity. A kind donation, from Audee who writes tutorials and reviews mostly around Adobe Photoshop & Ilustrator on her blog.
• A Blog Review from Bloggeries - A review from Bloggeries is a great opportunity to expose and advertise your blog to a wider audience. Bloggeries is PR5 and receives heavy traffic everyday so a blog review can help improve your traffic and feed subscribers. Rob, the blogger over at Bloggeries, will give you some useful tips and constructive criticisms to help you improve your blog as well.
• Two Months Free Advertising - One 16×16 pixel square on Just Creative Design. See our advertising page for more details. A small and sweet prize.
• Sandisk USB Multi Memory Card Reader for Mobiles - You have heard of multi memory card readers that read all types of memory cards, well this one is especially built for mobile phones or pdas. This memory card reader can read MicroSD Cards, All three types of MicroSD HC cards, all types of M2 Cards and SIM cards. A pretty nifty tool for anyone who has a lot of media on their mobile or pda. This prize was donated by myself, with free world wide postage.
• Save 39% off any magazine subscription from www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk - For a Christmas present this year I received a 12 month subscription to the Computer Arts magazine (I love it) and with it I received a ‘39% off any new magazine subscription’ voucher and I am giving this as a prize… Save 39% off your next magazine subscription.
• Ultimate WebMaster Pack - Building A Blog Empire eBook, Ultimate Super Tips eBook, Internet Marketing eBook, 114 Flash Banners, 100 Website Templates, 78 PHP and Perl CGI Scripts plus lots of other small goodies. This has been kindly donated by JasMate from Digital Point Forums.
• 260×120px banner for 1 month on Freelance Folder. Freelance Folder is a great resource for freelancing graphic designers. Freelance Folder has over 2000+ Subscribers so you are guaranteed a lot of visitors. A kind donation by Jon, owner of Freelance Folder.
• 160×240 advertising spot on the MintyFerret for the months of March+April (two months). The Minty Ferret (a design blog) has gotten about 20,000 visits in the last month, making up 35,000 page views. Thanks Jillian.
• One Year Flickr Pro account - A kind donation by Lauren from Creative Curio. Creative Curio is a blog focused around graphic design and has very resourceful articles ranging from tutorials to general discussions. Thanks again Lauren and hope your well
• Indepth Blog Critque and Review- Ruchir from Technomoney, which offers blogging tips is offering this blog critique for this prize draw. Thanks!
• Three gold subscriptions good for one year at GetAbstract.com - worth $299 each. GetAbstract contains over 4000 abstracts to business books. Thanks to Meryl for this kind donation.
• 30 minute Skype type chat discussion on industrial design or product design consultation for graphic designers interested in designing/making/selling their own products) from Design Sojourn.

Nick Sullivan is trying to get more subscribers for his blog and is putting up a contest to do so. To enter the contest all you need to do is to subscribe to his blog via email and you are in. The winners will be chosen from all the email IDs. The contest ends on March 5th. There will be a total of 6 winners and here are the prizes you can win:

Here’s a list of the sponsors and package details:

Sponsor 1 - ICDSoft.com

ICDSoft have offered up an incredibly generous 3 years of free hosting.

Prize(s) from ICDSoft

1 Year - Business Package + Free domain($125 total value)
Full details of this package here.

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1 Year - Universal Package ($75 total value)
Full details of this package here.

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1 Year - Universal Package ($75 total value)
Full details of this package here.

Sponsor 2 - WireNine.com

WireNine have given up 1 year of free hosting!

Prize(s) from WireNine

1 Year - Personal Hosting Plan ($69.95 total value)
Full details of this package here.

Sponsor 3 - BudgetHost.ca

Last but not least. BudgetHost have offered two 6 month packages, totaling 1 year of free hosting.

Prize(s) from BugetHost

6 Months - Webmaster ($131.40 total value)
Full package details here.

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6 Months - Standard ($37.90 total value)
Full package details here.

Finally, here is what the winners will win…

1st Place: ICDSoft Buisness package for 1 year + free domain.

2nd Place: ICDSoft Universal package for 1 year.

3rd Place: ICDSoft Universal package for 1 year.

4th Place: WireNine Personal Hosting Plan for 1 year.

5th Place: BudgetHost Webmaster hosting for 6 months.

6th Place: BudgetHost Standard hosting for 6 months.