Sweet Business Blogging Contest: SugarTone

A very cool contest for the busy professional who wants to create a strong online presence.
Do you write articles to share your expertise, establish credibility and gain online visibility? Do you blog for your business? Do you read business articles online?

If you do any of these you can win a few cool prizes for business professionals while gaining visibility to your website and business.

Bloggertone has teamed up with bizSugar to bring you the Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest. This contest helps give your articles extra online visibility and rewards your social networking. The Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest is an opportunity for you to win prizes to help you promote your business.

  • Anyone can join the competition including current Bloggertoners and bizSugar members!
  • You’ll have lots of chances to win
  • Prizes valued at nearly $7000

2 Ways You Can Win

#1 Do you write business articles?

Submit a business article to Bloggertone Between Monday March 15th and Wednesday March 17th

All votes and comments for the articles will take place on bizSugar, the social bookmarking site for businesses.

#2 Do you like to read business articles?

You too can also win prizes simply by voting and commenting on the Sugartone articles posted on BizSugar.

Top 10 Titles & Top 10 Commenters

There are prizes for two different categories of winners:

  • Top 10 Titles – for the articles with the best titles (yepp, the best TITLE)
  • Top 10 Commenters – for the people who vote the most and provide the most insightful comments 

Prizes already lined up for busy professionals just like you.


There are prizes for both the Top 10 Titles and the Top 10 Commenters

1st Prize Winner – TOP 10 TITLES

Lead Page Machine

Lead Page Machine software runs on Windows XP, Vista and version 7.

(valued at 3500€ – this is about $5200).

Lead Page Machine is designed for the everyday non-technical small business to be able to create, launch andLead page machine manage their own lead pages (aka ‘name-squeeze pages’) to help you build a massive list of email subscribers.

Within 15 minutes or less you can create and launch multiple separate lead pages for each category of customer or client you want to attract.
Advanced ‘Clone’ facility lets you create duplicates of your most successful lead pages and launch an unlimited number of variations for different traffic sources (e.g. different lead pages for Google Adwords, print advertisements, article marketing, forums, etc.)

Lead Page Machine is the brainchild of Ed Rivis, author of The Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy and E-Mail Marketing Dynamite.

Click Millionaires

6 month membership (valued at $174)

This friendly social network is dedicated to helping solopreneurs and small business owners upgrade their online marketing efforts to make more money online.

  • “Ask Scott Fox”: Private online access to best-selling author Scott Fox
  • Click Millionaire Resource Bank with money-making strategy documents, skill-building articles, research reports, and publications.
  • 24/7 Success Coaching Forum personally moderated by Scott Fox
  • The e-Riches 2.0 MP3 Interview Library:
  • Click Millionaire resources to help online entrepreneurs worldwide to attract more customers.

Click Millionaires is Scott Fox’s private online marketing success coaching community.

5 Critical Tactics for Business Blog Success

1-Hour CD plus 33 page Report Reveals Exact Tactics You Can Easily Implement to Make Your Blog a Winner! (valued at $97)
When you study this program you will discover:

  • Why you need a blog for your business
  • 4 keys to creating compelling content
  • How to manage your blogging time
  • 3 sites to syndicate your blog content to drive more traffic
  • An essential tactic for attracting business with your blog

Denise Wakeman is an Online Marketing Advisor and Founder of The Blog Squad. She helps service professionals and small business owners leverage blogs for their business, as well as strategically use social media tools to boost online visibility to get more traffic, leads, customers and opportunities.

1st Prize Winner – TOP 10 COMMENTERS

Animoto

1 Year Subscription (valued at $249)

Animoto.com is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button.

Users simply choose a song and images. Animoto then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same.

Many of the post-production techniques that the founders used while working as producers for MTV, Comedy Central & ABC are used in Animoto’s patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor and director. The resulting video is produced in a widescreen format, containing the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

Animoto Productions is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Traction Call With Gary Barnes

45 minute call with Traction Coach Gary Barnes (valued at $175)

Gary helps you to quickly get some “sand under your wheels” so you can move forward toward the life you want to live.

  • Stop running your business with “one foot on the gas and the other foot on the brake”
  • Live a life of vision and purpose, instead of exhausting yourself on the same old treadmill
  • Create more financial success and abundance (without working yourself into the ground)
  • Learn to market your business with integrity and authenticity
  • Have a lot more fun in your business and your life!

Gary Barnes is called The Traction Coach and his mission in life to help people find more creativity, passion, fulfillment, and, yes, wealth in their businesses.

Click Millionaires

6 month membership (valued at $174)

This friendly social network is dedicated to helping solopreneurs and small business owners upgrade their online marketing efforts to make more money online.

  • “Ask Scott Fox”: Private online access to best-selling author Scott Fox
  • Click Millionaire Resource Bank with money-making strategy documents, skill-building articles, research reports, and publications.
  • 24/7 Success Coaching Forum personally moderated by Scott Fox
  • The e-Riches 2.0 MP3 Interview Library:
  • Click Millionaire resources to help online entrepreneurs worldwide to attract more customers.

Click Millionaires is Scott Fox’s private online marketing success coaching community.

2nd – 5th Place Prizes for both TOP 10 TITLES & TOP 10 COMMENTERS

Start-Run-Grow

All you need to start, run, and grow your business included in one software package (valued at $49.95)

Over 45 essential business tools and services for 3 different phases of your business.

Start Your Business: From designing your logo to getting set up online, all the information you need to get up and running is just one click away.

Run Your Business: Improve your productivity and run your business more efficiently. Proven resources and tools help you stay on track and on budget.

Grow Your Business: Good marketing is essential to the health of your business. Bring in more customers, and more profits, to continually grow your business.

Start-Run-Grow runs on the Adobe Air platform so it’s both PC and Mac compatible and can be seamlessly updated as more tools are added.

These prices were kindly donated by Formspring.com

All Winners – TOP 10 TITLES & TOP 10 COMMENTERS

Books

All Top 10 Titles and Top 10 Commenters also get a mini library of 3 books/ebooks which will be chosen at random from this selection

Wordtracker Masterclass: Blogging For Business – 50 Steps to Building Traffic and Sales by Chris Garrett (5 books valued at $39)
Sociable by Shane Gibson & Stephan Jagger  (5 books valued at $25)
New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg (5 books valued at $16.49)
Guest Posting by Chris Garrett (5 ebooks valued at $10)

Badges

There will be badges for all of the winners to display on their blogs or websites.

Here’s How It Works

Everything starts on Monday March 15th at 4pm GMT / 9am EST.  This is when you can:

  • Submit your articles on Bloggertone
  • Vote for them on bizSugar.

Article Submission Deadlines: Monday March 15th at 4pm GMT / 9am EST through Wednesday March 17th 4pm GMT / 9am EST

And to give some extra time to vote on all of the articles, the voting will continue on for 2 more days after the article submission deadline.

Article Voting Deadlines: Monday March 15th at 4pm GMT / 9am EST through Friday March 19th at 4pm GMT / 9am EST

Bloggertone’s standard guidelines outlined here.

Participate In The Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest

Don’t miss your chance to win these great prizes.  Anyone can enter the Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest.  All current Bloggertoners and bizSugar members are invited to join in too!

Start writing your business articles now and be sure to craft an attention grabbing title. Then come back starting Monday March 15th.

SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLES

Click here between Monday March 15th at 4pm GMT / 9am EST and Wednesday March 17th 4pm GMT / 9am EST to submit your articles on Bloggertone.

VOTE ON THE ARTICLES

Click here between Monday March 15th at 4pm GMT / 9am EST and Friday March 19th 4pm GMT / 9am EST to go to bizSugar to vote on your articles.

Smallbizbee Contest to Win a HP iPAQ Glisten

Small Biz Bee has a great contest running until February 21, 2010 at 11:59pm PST. Yepp, you only have about a day from when this is posted to take your chance at winning a great HP iPAQ Glisten.

The HP iPAQ Glisten is a pretty cool looking 3G smartphone built for professionals who need to stay connected to the people and information they care about. A former Microsoft employee, I have long been a fan of the smartphone.

This quad-band (read ‘works anywhere’)  world phone, runs Windows Mobile 6.5, easily moves between work and play with advanced mobile email capabilities, multiple connectivity options, built-in Wi-Fi and GPS functionality and rich multimedia features and applications. Once stranded, in 2001, without a network connection I easily connected my smartphone to my PC and used the phone for my computers network connection. Microsoft makes some serious software.

The AT&T 3G network is available in more than 350 major metropolitan areas. AT&T also offers 3G data roaming in more than 100 countries, as well as voice calling in more than 215 countries.

The iPAQ Glisten features a full QWERTY keyboard for fast, easy and accurate messaging, including SMS/ MMS, instant messaging and e-mail.

A touch-enabled AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) screen delivers a crisp, clear display that easily allows you to navigate through menus, windows, and links at the touch of a finger.

Through HP’s partnership with AT&T and Microsoft, the iPAQ Glisten customers will have access to a wide variety of applications, music, ringtones, games, etc through the AT&T AppCenter and Windows Marketplace.

Go to the Small Biz Bee sight and post a comment and Tweet to enter the contest.

Win a HP iPAQ Glisten From Smallbizbee

From the HP Page

When you’re moving fast, doing a million important things each day, you need a phone that can help you keep up with all of it. You need the HP iPAQ Glisten.

Touch Screen & QWERTY

BOOST PRODUCTIVITY—WITH YOUR FINGERTIPS
• AMOLED TOUCH SCREEN 2.5″ diagonal touch screen not only provides a brilliant viewing experience, it also streamlines the way you work.
• QWERTY KEYBOARD With a five-way directional pad, it works just like a PC keyboard, making email and texting fast and easy.

Key Features

PART PHONE. PART PC. ALL BUSINESS.
• Syncs easily to your PC via Active Sync or Microsoft Exchange1
• Integrated Visual Inbox for more streamlined communications
• A single, consolidated contact list syncs to your PC for easy contact management
• Optimized Web experience lets you work–and even play–on the run1
• 256 MB SDRAM/512 MB Flash for high-speed multi-tasking
• Assisted GPS navigation2 to keep you moving in the right direction

3G with AT&T

KEEP WORKING–CROSS-TOWN OR CROSS-COUNTRY.
Connect faster, and in more places, than ever before. Send email and text at hyper-speed on the nation’s fastest 3G network.1 Take your productivity to a whole new 3G dimension.

Windows Mobile 6.5

WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY ON THE GO.
Microsoft’s latest and greatest mobile OS, Windows® 6.5, offers great new features designed to keep you connected and more productive, including a new touch interface with gesture recognition, an integrated inbox for all your recent emails, calls and texts, and a rich, optimized Web experience with Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1

Microsoft Office To Go

TAKE YOUR OFFICE WITH YOU.
Get more done on the run with the full suite of Microsoft® Office Mobile applications, including all the software you’re used to using, like Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

FaceBook Statistics I Found Interesting

February 6, 2010

Company Figures

More than 350 million active users
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
More than 35 million users update their status each day
More than 55 million status updates posted each day
More than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
More than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news [...]

Read the full article →

Guest Posting

February 5, 2010

You might have heard of my friend and blogging consultant, Chris Garrett. He wrote the Problogger book with Darren Rowse as well as three books on programming (Chris Garrett Amazon page).
Chris has a new ebook out (Guest Posting: for Quality Links and Targeted Traffic) that tells you everything you need to know to get quality [...]

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Wear sunscreen

January 3, 2010

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 99
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen
would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved
by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more
reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this
advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty [...]

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Life Without The Internet

December 7, 2009

The idea of life without the internet is beyond my understanding.
I am not talking about living without the internet, of course we can all do that. I just can’t imagine how anyone can say that the internet connection that they need – for example, for a home business – is down for a week or [...]

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We Build Your Blog Contest

November 9, 2009

Andrew Rondeau just told me about his first contest ever on building my blogs.

Andrew has some great prizes available for bloggers.  There isn’t much more one can say when faced with such an easy choice.  Simply download Andrew’s FREE Report and either send out a Tweet, Digg the post, or leave a comment and you’re [...]

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How to Unsinstall Toshiba Flash Cards

November 6, 2009

I had a constant problem with Toshiba Flash Cards which interfered with pretty much everything. Windows would crash and I was forced to restart five times (at least) a day. I wanted to disable this ‘feature’ that I never even used.
The Control Panel provides no way to disable this (waste of resources and a constant [...]

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Have You Ever Been Lost In Tokyo? People Will Help You Find Your Way

October 13, 2009

I lived in Japan back in 1984 and 1985 while serving in the Marine Corps.  While there I took a ten day vacation around the main island and while in Tokyo I stayed in a rather nice hotel, unfortunately I forget the name. I was on vacation because my dad had come to visit me [...]

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Project Management Sayings

September 10, 2009

I heard a good comment by a project manager recently which led me to collect a list of Project Management Sayings. Enjoy.
“A wise man does not repeat his mistakes and he does not repeat another man’s mistakes”~ Confucious.
The best nine women cannot deliver a baby in one month.
Work expands to fill the [...]

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