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.

 

 

Tags: Blog, BlogEngage, bloggers, Gold Membership

Blogging is a great way of beginning your own online business. The start-up costs are minimal and over time, you can get a loyal and impressive readership. When you monetize your blog, you will be able to make a decent income.

A blog can be set up in different ways. You could design your blog using Blogger, WordPress or any other site which will give you a free blogging account. Alternatively, you could build your blog from scratch under an original domain name.

Making Money From You Blogging

If you wish to make good money through blogging, you need to have total control over your blog. Free blogging accounts, which come with many terms and conditions, will not give you this kind of freedom. Many people have set up blogs only to have them removed weeks or months later without notice. Buying your own domain name and hosting your blog will cost you as little as $25 a year. This will buy you complete freedom over your blog.
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Tags: Blog, bloggers, Google Adsense, Wordpress

A lot of you that read Blazing Minds will have seen me harp on a few times about Blog Engage and I’m going to start talking about it again today, this time I’m bringing you news about “The Blog Engage 1000 USD Best Blogger of 2011 Contest.

There are some brilliant sponsors for this amazing prize and they are listed below:

It’s really easy to enter the contest, just follow these simple rules to be in with a chance of winning at the end of the year:

How To Win

1.Register for an account here and fill out your bio info. Please note this is separate account compared to your initial Blog Engage account. Contact Brian at admin (@) blogengage dot com letting Brian know your username and he will upgrade your account.

2. Login to our WordPress back end, write your Guest Article and submit it for pending review. At this time you can also e-mail me your article about our contest, help us promote the contest and link to Blog Engage. (500 bonus points) Once your Guest Article is published on Blog Engage you can start marketing and promoting it.

3. Guest Articles must be at least 450 words.

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

5. Spread the word about your Guest Article through all your social media channels: Twitter, Blog Engage, Facebook, , etc. A high value will be placed on number of Tweets and overall social media promotion.

Brian will then total it all up and from that he will determine who will be awarded the 1000 USD best guest blogger of 2011 award. This is going to be the most exciting event for us in 2011.

It’s that easy, so stop on over at Blog Engage and join in the Guest Blogger competition as soon as you can, also why not enter the Blazing Minds Birthday Bash Contest for you chance to win even more great prizes as Blazing Minds celebrates it’s third birthday.

Good luck Everyone

Tags: Blazing Minds, Blog, bloggers, social media, Wordpress

 Good grief time is flying by this year and now that it’s July @bbrian017 over at BlogEngage is running another brilliant contest, so I’m going to get my backside into gear and get entering this one, with its brilliant prizes, I’d be made not to enter it.

So the big questions are how to enter and what are the prizes? Well folks it really easy, just follow the guidelines below and get entering.

The Prizes

First Place, 200 USD, Free Month Business RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Second Place, 100 USD, Free Month Platinum RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Third place, 100 USD, Free Month Gold RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Fourth Place, 50 USD, Free Month Gold RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Fifth Place, 50 USD, Free Month Gold RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services

How to Enter

Now that’s easy, just click on the link and you’ll be magically transported to all the information on how to enter the BlogEngage contest, if you’re not a member of BlogEngage, then simply join here! Ok Time to enter The Blog Engage Blogger Spotlight Contest for July 2011 and good luck everyone

 

Tags: BlogEngage, bloggers, blogging tips, Social Bookmarking

Greetings readers of Blazing Minds, I’d like to bring you a Blogger Interview and this time it’s with blogger Todd Walton from The Hip Hop Democrat, which incidentally relaunches on June 15th, so let’s get on with the interview

Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?

First off, I would like to say thank you for reaching out to me and adding me on Twitter, it’s a privileged to engage with you and everything your doing with Blazing Minds. To formally introduce myself my name is Todd, but I also go by Fokus which is my stage name. I would consider myself to be a “Social” Entrepreneur, being that a lot of the things I’m involved with I see to be ultimately for the greater good of someone other than myself. Well, not everything I do is directly for other, but I would say most, lol. I started out in music back in 2005 putting out a project entitled Fokus: Presents Chicago’s Kid Vol. 1. which had a pretty good turnout for a premiere independent release. Music from the project was also used for commercial/publishing purposes including some music I did for Playboy, which was fun, lol.

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Tags: Barack Obama, bloggers, hip hop, Todd Walton

To some when you mention DragonBlogger they will say “What!” But to the majority of well-travelled bloggers out in the world they will reply with “Ah yes, that’s Justin’s brilliant blog“.

I’ve read DragonBlogger for some time now and the information that comes from the blog is second to none.

It’s one of the first places that I visit to find out about some of the tech that’s coming our way, movie reviews and much more, but not only that, DragonBlogger has great collection of article of other subjects and not one post goes by that is not interesting.

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Tags: blog engage, bloggers, Dragon Blogger, Promote Your Blog

Yes folks it’s time for another Blogger interview. This weeks interview is with The Struggling Blogger himself Roy, so sit back and please enjoy the Blogger interview and please don’t forget to pay a visit to his blog …

Q: Please tell my readers a little something about yourself?
A: I am Roy, a 42 year-old blogger from the Philippines, and father to three wonderful children. I can call myself a lot of names – a self-proclaimed poet, an entrepreneur-wannabe, a frustrated writer, an aspiring songwriter, and a dreamer. It is through blogging that I am able satiate all those frustrations, as I shared my poetry, my business experiences, attempted short story writing, sang my original compositions, and tell of my other dreams and aspirations. After three years of active blogging, my passion never waned and I am still looking as to how far this so called “love for writing” will take me.

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Tags: author interviews, bloggers, interviews, Struggling Blogger