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Hello fellow bloggers, readers and all round amazing people visiting the Blazing Minds blog, now if you’ve been reading the blog recently you will have seen the post I did about the Blazing Minds Twitter finally reaching 15,000 followers and the mention of a new contest, well here it is!

I put the call out the other day for some sponsors for to donate to the contest and I’m glad to say that the call was answered and so I’ve now got some great prizes in the new contest including advertising, a cash prize, blog promotion and copies of the brilliant Blogging The Essential Guide (Which I reviewed here on this very blog)

The Great Blazing Minds Contest Is Here!

As I mentioned earlier there are some great sponsors for the contest and you never know there may be some more as the contest rolls along, so there will be even more great prizes for you to have a chance at winning.
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Bono is the lead singer of a rock band renowned the world over for several decades, so it can be expected that certain sections of the media will pick up on any unique quirks in his fashion sense. It has been well documented that the U2 front man rarely appears in public without a pair of sunglasses, but is this merely a bold fashion statement, or something a little more complex?

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Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the big screen with his latest character, The Dictator is the story of a North African dictator called Aladeen who takes it upon himself to risk his own life to travel to America trying to stop democracy coming to his beloved, if what oppressed, country.

The Dictator – Blazing Minds Film Review

So I’m going to start of this review by saying that I’ve never been a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen, Ali G was painful, Borat was terrible and Bruno was just like being tortured, now I’ve probably upset a lot of his fans now and they are all sitting reading this review and foaming at the mouth, but wait, I haven’t finished yet, that just the opening of my review.

The Dictator is different from the other as it’s on a bigger budget and you can tell this from the production of the film for the costumes, cameo roles and complete style of the film compared to his earlier movies.

What I do have to say is that The Dictator isn’t afraid to poke fun and insult almost everyone and even to the point of making fun of 911 whilst on a sight-seeing helicopter ride with some American tourists, too soon, not too sure, but it does touch on a nerve.

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So today was “Tuesday Film Club day”, it was the perfect way to see a new film to review and this weeks film to review was the new Tim Burton film “Dark Shadows”.

Loosely based on the TV sitcom that aired in America on ABC in the 60′s-70′s, Dark Shadows is about Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) who is cursed by a witch, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), and turned in to a vampire and buried for 196 years, until he is released in 1972 and returns to his family home in Collinsport to find that his descendants have taken a turn for the worse and the town and family business has been taken over by somebody else.

Dark Shadows – Blazing Minds Film Review

So what we have with Dark Shadows is a typical Johnny Depp and Tim Burton film, full of dark satire, one liners, Johnny Depp looking rather odd and Helena Bonham-Carter as her usual nutty self

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Do you want to enjoy social media?

Truth be told, social media is powerful and if you approach it wisely, there is every tendency that your marketing would grow exponentially. Only few internet marketers have experienced meteoric growths from Facebook, Twitter and the rest. Other folks are just struggling to penetrate the market.

Social Media Outposts (Photo credit: the tartanpodcast)

Here are three social media strategies to keep you alive.

1.    Set A Realistic Goal

If you want everything from social media then, you’ve no realistic goal. It’s good to desire the best things of life and to see your business grow – but it takes time and focus. Setting a goal that’s tangible, smart and realistic can help you wave through the difficulty of initial stage.

There are stages of social media marketing where every step taken seems futile. But you’ve to hold on. Put your legs down and aim effectively. A realistic goal could be to generate 200 leads in 30 days from social media. Run with this single goal and give it all it takes.
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OK so this may not mean a lot to everyone, but it means a heck of a lot to me, over the last few months I was running a slight Twitter Contest, to finally break that 15,000 followers on Twitter that seemed to elude the @BlazingMinds Twitter for a while.

I tweeted out to my followers asking to RT a tweet about a draw which will be made when the Blazing Minds Twitter finally broke the 15,000 mark, quite a few followers ReTweeted the tweet and several ReTweeted it several times.

We Did It! Did What? We Finally Broke 15,000 Followers On Twitter!

So I’ve sorted out who has won an Exclusive Blazing Minds T-Shirt, which will be specially customized for the winner, the winner has been chosen from the 15,000 followers and it is someone who is still following and has done the most Tweets in promoting the contest and believe me it’s taken a while to sift through all the entries, but I’ve finally got down to a winner who has put in quite a lot of tweets and is a loyal follower.

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So It’s now official Vue has acquired Apollo Cinemas for the massive some of £20m, meaning that Vue will now have 85 cinemas across the country. The news spread across several newspaper websites such as The Financial Times, The Independent to name but a few the other day.

Vue Acquires Apollo Cinemas For £20m

Apollo Cinemas is smaller than some of the bigger cinemas franchises such as Odeon, Cineworld and Vue. Apollo Cinemas are also equipped with State of the art Sony 4K digital projection, 3D and some amazing Dolby Digital 7.1 surround systems.

Simon Gregg From Apollo Cinemas said: “I believe that the sale of my late mother’s company to Vue will place the circuit in good hands. We are very proud of what we have achieved and wish all our employees even more success in the future. Being part of Vue allows them new opportunities to progress their careers with the UK’s leading cinema company.”
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