Don’t you just love competitions? And @Bbrian017 over at Blog Engage has another amazing competition running through February, yes, that’s this month and as usual with any of the Blog Enage competition, this one has some truly amazing prizes up for grabs!

Anyhoo, enough of the chit-chat let’s get on to the do’s and don’ts on how you can win in this brilliant big prize competition and a mention of the sponsors.

Start Date

February 1st, 2012

End Date

February 29th 2012

Prizes

First Place – $250 USD
Second Place – $150 USD
Third Place – $100 USD

The Rules

First let’s discuss some of the rules. It’s very important you read and follow these rules as it will determine if your going to be included into the contest or not. In order to enter you have to write an article about the contest including our sponsor links on your blog. You can find the sponsor link code below. Please if you are entering our $500 USD guest blogging contest make sure to write about our contest and link to our sponsors prior to posting your guest article on our blog.

Who can participate?

All Blog Engage members can write for us and have the opportunity to win any prize offered in this contest. We only ask that you have a valid paypal account to accept your winnings and prizes. If you are not a member please purchase an account and or sign up to a RSS and Marketing Package.

Post Guidelines

1. Guest posts must be at least 900 words, not to exceed 2000 words.

2. You may have as many links as you wish in the body of the content. However, please limit links to your projects or websites to your bio. Absolutely no affiliate links allowed.

3. Your bio must have a Gravatar. Please use a picture of yourself and not a logo.

4. Keep your post relevant to the overall theme of this blog. You can write about any of the following topics Making Money Online, Blogging Tips, Traffic, Design, Social Networking, SEO, Marketing, Technology and other industry or niche specific topics you think blog engage members would be interested in reading.

How To Win

• You must be a member of the blog engage community

• You must write about the contest including the contest sponsors links When done e-mail Brian the link

• Register for an account here and fill out your bio info Also please get a gravatar if you don’t have one.

• Contact Brian at admin (@) blogengage dot com letting him know your username

• He will review your account and upgrade it so you can write for the blog

• Write your post, save it and it will be reviewed and published

• A high value is placed on the number of and quality of comments received on your guest post. Also, be sure to interact with and respond to your commentators. This will help you win! Ambiguous and/or spammy comments will not help you.

• Spread the word about your post through all your social media channels: Twitter, Facebook, Sphinn, etc. A high value will be placed on number of Tweets and overall social media promotion.

The Points System

Tweets, 50 points per tweet up to a max of 15000 points
Linked In Votes, 50 points per vote, up to a max of 15000 points
Facebook Likes, 50 points per tweet up to a max of 15000 points
Google Plus, 50 points per Plus up to a max of 15000 points
Engages at Blog Engage, 100 points per Engage (vote) Unlimited points
Comments that provide value, 10 points per comment Unlimited Points

Meet the Blog Engage Bloggers Contest Sponsors

SEO and SEM services
Wholesale Greenhouse Supplies
Hydroponics Equipment
Greenhouse Equipment
Greenhouses
Garden Gifts
Gardening Articles
SEO Agency UK
Deal of the day

 

So why not enter the competition as soon as you can, the quicker the better and good luck

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Hey folks a bit of great news for you all, if you’ve been reading my blog some time you will have seen the posts that I have made about BlogEngage and  a couple of the giveaways that I have ran on this blog with thanks to @Bbrian017 over at BlogEngage, well now it’s time for another amazing BlogEngage giveaway and this is going to blow your mind!

Win Free Traffic And Backlinks To Your Blog With The 2012 BlogEngage Contest

This amazing competition with give 5 lucky entrents a chance of winning a free Blog Engage account (worth $29.99 each) and one of the five will also get free gold membership service for one year (value $59.88). Now how cool is that!?

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Now some time back I was reading though the blog over at BlogEngage about a contest that was being run “Four $50 USD prizes to win at blogengage“, it’s also where I noticed that Brian was using RaffleCopter to run the competition, which I do like the look of and may use it myself sooner or later, anyway I digress.

So I gave the contest a shot and tweeted, likes, followed etc to do what I could to enter in to the BlogEngage contest, I must say that I was able to follow some brilliant bloggers that are on BlogEngage through the contest and it was fun doing it

What A Brilliant Way To Start 2012 With An Announcement From BlogEngage

Then today I had an email of Brian, I was one of the four that had won a rather tasty $50, now how brilliant is that

Those of you that do read my blog will have seen my articles on BlogEngage and how I use it to find some interesting articles to read and also as a source of inspiration and help from fellow bloggers, it’s a community of a lot of give and less take than some other communities you could find and it’s the friendliness of everyone there that has kept it going in the years that it has been running.

So I would like to say a big, big thank you to Brian and BlogEngage for making my day today and I would also like to congratulate the other three winners of their $50, so it’s a big congratulations to:

• Mohammed Salmanbaig
• Zain Ali
• Jeevan Jabob John

And thanks again Brian and BlogEngage for a lovely surprise and a great start to the New Year

Tags: Blazing Minds, BlogEngage, Contests, Writers Resources

Hey everyone, it’s another month, so it’s time to let you all know who has commented the most in October here on the Blazing Minds blog.

So October’s lucky winner has bagged themselves an amazing prize, just for stopping by and getting involved with the blog, not only have they been commenting, but they also submitted their very first Guest Post to the blog as well.

Top Commentators Prize!

So congratulations to Thomas from Techwork for being Top Commentator in October and your prize which has been kindly sponsored by Brian from BlogEngage and is: A free Blog Engage Account (29.99USD Value) and a free year of our Gold Membership RSS Services (59.88USD Value). 

Check out Thomas’ blog it’s an IT blog with tips, tricks and reviews and certainly an interesting and informative read, I personally visit it a lot myself and have learned several things from it.

 

 

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First of all I must say a very big thank you to @Bbrian017 from BlogEngage for sponsoring last months Top Commentator Contest with a brilliant prize.

So last month I announced that we would be having  Top Commentator contest to find that one person that finds the time to stop by and comment on the blog posts here on Blazing Minds and comment well.

The Prize!

As I mentioned the prize was kindly sponsored by Brian from BlogEngage and is: A free Blog Engage Account (29.99USD Value) and a free year of our Gold Membership RSS Services (59.88USD Value).

Which I have to say is an amazing prize and something that all bloggers could do with to help promote their blogs to the world.

Ok! Who’s Won The Top Commentator Prize?

I wasn’t really that surprised to see who had won the September Top Commentator Contest, as I know that he is always posting here on Blazing Minds and has been doing for a good while now, his comments never stray from the topic of the blog post and he even finds the time to reply back to comments that have made a reply to his comment.

So without further ado, I would like to say congratulations to …..

John from the website PayDayFinancial

We Are Going To Do It Again For October!

Yes folks, we are going to do all this again this month, I’d like to see some fresh Gravatars in the top 10 commentators, so keep commenting with non-spammy comments and you’re in with a chance of getting the superb prize mentioned above that has kindly been sponsored by Brian at BlogEngage.

So good luck everyone in the October Top Commentators Contest

Tags: Blazing Minds, BlogEngage, Contests, top commentators

After the success of the last contest that I ran here on Blazing Minds, it’s now time to bring you another one and this time the prize has been supplied by the amazing @Bbrian017 from BlogEngage (I want you to throw a contest on your blog right now!).

What Can You Win?

As I mentioned the prize is from BlogEngage and it is:

• A free Blog Engage Account (29.99 Value) and a free year of our Gold Membership RSS Services (59.88 Value).

Now this is superb prize and as a lot of you know BlogEngage is a brilliant place to get your blog seen, read, commented on and generally spread around the internet like wildfire, so this prize is worth it’s weight in gold.
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Tags: Blazing Minds, BlogEngage, Comments, Contests, top commentators

As promised folks today is the day that I announce the winners of the Blazing Minds Birthday Bash Contest which has been running lately in celebration of the  blogs third birthday yesterday, so now it’s time to see who has one and what they have one.

Choosing The Winners

Over the time that the contest was running I took all the entrants and added their details and entries in to a database to keep a record of them, each entry was given a unique number and it’s this number that was used to pick the winners.

Then it was over to random.org to generate the numbers for the winners and their prizes this way the numbers were indeed chosen at random.

And The Winners Are

One Months Advertising Here On Blazing Minds:

@rickychewdotcom

One Months Business Membership to BlogEngage

@kayeshayne21

100 USD From @Bbrian017 from BlogEngage

@mani0993

50USD From Ileane from Basic Blog Tips

@DragonBlogger

25USD From Metallman

@DrRus

Congratulations To The Winners

So congratulations too all the winners and thank you to everyone taking part in the competition, I will be contacting the winners over the next couple of days with regards to your prizes.

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