A recent trend in the blogosphere involves contests. Luckily, many of the contest bloggers are smart enough to allow non-bloggers to enter.
As a fun change of pace, here's a selection of ongoing contests. Good luck!
Contests for Bloggers
US$1800 in Help For Your Blog
John Chow is offering some great prizes for people linking to his site and signing up to his RSS feed.
Beanbag Chairs for Telephone Job Interviews
The Beef Jerky Blog wants you to get comfortable with their comfort contest giving away fuf chairs to 2 lucky winners.
You Deserve a Gift Today
Macs Money Blog's contest is trying to promote its new site FinanceFavorites.com. The bait is a US$50 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
Learn How to Job Hunt Only 4 Hours a Week
The Male Wail blog is giving away Tim Ferriss's terrific book The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
Grow Your Sphere of Influence
Lady Influence's blog is about Making Money Online. It's one of the most generous contests I've seen in terms of all the benefits she's giving to participating bloggers.
A Good Blog Deserves a Good Logo
The Prize Blog is offering you a shiny, brand new blog logo if you win their contest.
Free Blogvertising
Gadgettastic are hosting a competition where one lucky winner will win three months free advertising on their website.
Contests for the Rest of Us
Do You Take Cash?
BloggingContest.com is a new blog about blog contests (go figureā¦). You can win a US$75 cash prize for participating in this BlackStork.com-sponsored contest, and it only takes a comment on the their contest post to enter.
Improve Your Memory
Try winning The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play by leaving a comment with the phrase āĆ¢ā¬ÅMemoryMonthĆ¢ā¬? below the contest announcement.
Terrific Headphones for Your Job Search Music
Win a pair of Bose headphones from One Man's Blog simply by subscribing to the blog via email.
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Thanks for the link to our contest. Iām looking forward to Memory Month in Novemember!
Thanks for the mention!
thanks for including my contest. which post would you like me to stumble and digg. leave the url in my blog so i can stumble and digg it anytime.
Itās so crazy how many contests are happening right now. I can hardly keep track. I just wrote about 2 contests happening in the Jewish world on israelplug ā http://www.israelplug.com
Rebecca, Iād heard about the Brandeis contest. I think thatās a good idea in itself but like you, I also donāt like the thought of moving to the Boston area even temporarily. I hope it still gets alot of promotion outside the USA
Someday soon I will make a contest too! so watch me š
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I have won lots of neat stuff through contests, but my favourite one was when Jo Michaels bought and reviewed my book āLove from Planet Wine Cooler.ā
I ended up writing a blog post about her!
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3458899-learning-to-use-energy-wisely