Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on November 29, 2007

Last week, we ran a competition where 2 lucky winners could win a copy of Adii’s new Premium News Theme for Wordpress.

Adii got back to me with the names of the winners today. The winners are :

  • Ian for this comment

    “It’s gorgeous and feature-rich, yet I cannot afford the theme. This is contributing to my already low self-esteem.”

    Reason : Hope the theme improves Ian’s “supposed” low self-esteem

  • Thomas from ThomasSinfield.com for this comment :

    Because I want to offer it as a prize to my readers just like you are to build some more traffic

    Reason : Clever,…

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on November 21, 2007

Adriaan Pienaar emailed me the other day as he was interested in advertising his new Premium News Wordpress Theme on BloggingTips. Not only that, he also wants to give away 2 copies of the theme to Blogging Tips readers (worth $99 each).

More info on the Premium News Theme

The Premium News Wordpress Theme is a professional looking wordpress theme which was designed for magazine and news type sites. You could forgive anyone for forgetting this is a Wordpress theme as the site looks like it is being powered by an expensive content management system.

Premium News Wordpress Theme

Adii…

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on October 23, 2007

Tyler Cruz emailed me yesterday to let me know about a posting competition in his Publisher Forums and since I lost our RSS feed bet I figured I’m kinda obliged to tell you all about it ;)

Publisher Forums Contest

Contest Details

At the moment the contest has $3,619 worth of prizes up for grabs. Instead of giving all the prizes away seperately (a la Pro Blogger), Tyler has decided to split the prizes into 12 packages. The top package is worth over a thousand dollars and includes a custom wordpress theme for your blog (courtesy of…

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Written by Deborah Ng from Freelance Writing Jobs on October 14, 2007

I had a couple of interesting experiences with contests recently. One, was a success while the other was mildly disappointing.

Why have a contest?

Contests are a great way to create a buzz and send traffic to your blog. They’re great linkbait too. I dabbled a bit with contests a year or so ago, but it’s only recently that I achieved some success. While all experiences are different, it’s my experience that blogs without a lot of existing traffic don’t do well with contests. If your blog is popular, the results…

Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on October 2, 2007

Darren has just posted the full details of his massive $54,000 ProBlogger Giveaway. Infact, he points out the total is probably closer to $60,000.

Darren has achieved this by asking for sponsors from the blogging community to contribute prizes for competition.

BloggingTips contribution is the G15 Logitech gaming keyboard (worth $80-$100). You can see a pic of the keyboard below.

G15 Logitech gaming keyboard

Make sure you stay tuned to ProBlogger over the next few days as Darren will be rolling out details of how you can win a prize.

Link : The $54,000 ProBlogger Giveaway - Prizes and…

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