Does having a large number of social networking followers increase your odds of selling more products, getting more page views, and boosting your advertising revenue? Absolutely! Here’s why.
Boost Your Social Networking Followers
Apple TV Giveaway
Over at the Web Hosting Show website, some of you might have noticed I have a little giveaway going on there. Just in case you missed it though, I thought I would share it here. Want to win a free Apple TV? All you need to do is subscribe to Ping! Zine, one of the greatest web hosting magazines out there today. Check out the details on how to get your chance at the free Apple TV over at WebHostingShow.com. A free magazine subscription, a chance to win a free Apple TV, does it get any better?
300+ WordPress Themes from Lunarpages
Doesn’t hurt to plug your boss every once in a while, right? As a result of the three WordPress theme contests Lunarpages has had, they have had over 300 themes submitted to them. Now most people might toss all these great designs to the side – but not Lunarpages. They are providing them for free for anybody to download.
Lunarpages WordPress Contest Themes – Series One = 95+ WordPress Themes
Lunarpages WordPress Contest Themes – Series Two = 134+ WordPress Themes
Lunarpages WordPress Contest Themes – Series Three = 90+ WordPress Themes
Thanks to Lunarpages for providing a spotlight for all of these great WordPress themes!
Lunarpages Now Providing 229 WordPress Themes
I’m proud to say that Lunarpages (via several design contests) has done a lot to perk up the WordPress theme design area of the Web. Between two contests they are now highlighting 229 different themes that are all available for download.
Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest – Series 1 Entries
Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest – Series 2 Entries
So if your looking for a little insperation on your next WordPress theme design or your stressing over finding a great one to use, check ‘em out. Lunarpages is also currently holding it’s third WordPress design contest right now – so if your a designer you got to check that out too.
Another WordPress Theme Contest?
Lunarpages is putting on another WordPress theme design contest! The last one was fun as an innocent bystander because I got to see tons of unique and awesome designs day by day. Here are the details for this time around.
The rules have changed a bit to include mention of the exact schedule for voting and submissions (also noted below) as well as voting by Lunarpages Staff, ensuring all votes are tracked and accounted for.
The prizes, however, are just as juicy:
- First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
- Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
- Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
Entering is just as simple as before – just Submit Your Theme and you’re in. We’ll post the top 5 Best WordPress Themes each week starting April 21 right here on the Blog for our community to vote on.
Go submit your own WordPress themes!
WordPress Theme Design Contest
Lunarpages has just launched one heck of a cool contest that anybody can appreciate.
Lunarpages is having a WordPress Theme Contest!! All you need to do is design a unique WordPress Theme and upload it to our site for the chance to win! Just about anybody (with a few exceptions) can participate in the contest and the prizes are amazing!
What are the prizes?
First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
Along with their logo design contest – things are really starting to get creative and fun over at Lunarpages. Oh yeah, might be worth mentioning they are one heck of a good web host too!
Lunarpages T-Shirt Design Contest
The Lunarpages people have just announced a really cool contest.
Lunarpages is holding a contest for our new t-shirt design, and you are all invited to submit your designs via our community forums. Currently we have black t-shirts with a white design on the back and we would like something a bit snazzier.
Please post your entries on this forum thread as images or a link to your design, and on December 17th we will close out the contest and spend the following 11 days voting as a community on the best 5 entries.
What is the prize? The winning prize is a Xbox 360 or $400! Get more information about the contest over on the Lunarpages forums.
$10,000 Blogging Scholarship
I always love getting surprises in the ol’ e-mail inbox.
This is Shannon Prue, Scholarship Coordinator for the Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation. Just this morning, we started accepting applications for our 2nd annual Blogging Scholarship.
The Grand Prize this year is $10,000 and will be presented at the Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, this upcoming Nov. 8-9.
We are looking for well qualified applicants, so if you think any of your readers would be eligible, then please let them know about this opportunity. Full details are at CollegeScholarships.org:
http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/blogging.htm
What are the requirements to enter?
- Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are passionate about. No spam bloggers please!!!
- U.S. citizen
- Currently attending full-time in post-secondary education; and
- If you win, you must be willing to allow us to list your name and blog on this page. We want to be able to say we knew you before you became a well educated, rich, and famous blogging legend.
I would say this is an open door that can’t be passed up for any young writers out there that have a blog and a skill at the written (or typed I guess I should say) word.
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