Halloween is Upon Us
Halloween is one of the most fun and crazy holidays of the entire year! I can’t believe how much planning goes into some people’s Halloween costumes. I have several friends who from the day after Halloween start planning their costume for the next year. The creativity, the ghoulishness of it all – and the celebration of the horrifying and the terrific all make Halloween a great time in the fall.
What if… you were to dress up for Halloween as a blogger? What kinds of things would you wear? What accessories would you bring with you that would let people know: Hey, I’m blogging this. ?
Halloween is just 15 days away, folks – and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with sponsors who are friends to bloggers everywhere to bring you my ultimate Halloween “Blogger Costume” Giveaway contest! For the next 15 days, you’ll have lots of ways to enter to win this freaking fantastic “Blogger Costume” that I’ve been putting together since IZEAFest!
The Skinny
Your “Blogger Costume” is going to include:
- $100 worth of Sponzai sponsor credit towards guest posts courtesy of IZEA
- An XShot camera extender from XShot
- Two (2) Pokens courtesy of Poken Girl
- 500 high-quality business cards courtesy of UPrinting.com
- A BenSpark.com water bottle courtesy of Drew from BenSpark.com
- 10 hours of Technology Concierge Service and a copy of Crush It! by Gary V, courtesy of Raging Tech
How to Win:
- 10 Entries: Make a YouTube / Vimeo video and tell us in at least 30 seconds but no more than 2 minutes who your favorite blogger is and why you’d want to be them for Halloween! Be sure to comment here with the link and tag your video with the following keywords:
ragingtech, xshot, izea, blogger costume, uprinting, poken, twitter-yourusernamehere
- 5 Entries Each: Write a blog post (approximately 250 words or more) about one of our sponsors with a link back to the sponsor’s web site, and a link to this contest so your readers have a chance to win, too! (Make sure we can contact you, leave a comment with the link)
- 3 Entries: Sign up on SocialSpark.com (an IZEA property) to meet advertisers and other bloggers in a social networking community. Friend me, Raging Tech for your contest entry to count. Also look for opportunities by some of our sponsors (like XShot) that can earn you extra money! After you’ve signed up, be sure to join the “I’m Not a Famous Blogger” Insiders crew!
- 3 Entries: Sign up for Sponsored Tweets (another IZEA property) using this link and start making money (ethically) with your Twitter account. All sponsored tweets are disclosed with a hashtag to indicate they are sponsored.
- 2 Entries: Leave a comment below about how you would use 500 business cards from UPrinting.com.
- 1 Entry: Tweet a photo of yourself holding up a sign with the name of your favorite blog or blogger (blog her?) and be sure to mention @XShot and @ragingtech in your tweet.
- 1 Entry: Leave a comment to let us know who you’re going to give the second Poken to, and why.
More ways to win will be announced in the next 15 days. Keep checking back and follow @ragingtech on Twitter for updates.
For the Win (Fine Print and such):
The winner of this freakin’ fantastic EPIC Halloween “Blogger Costume” giveaway will be selected on October 31st, Halloween night from an Excel spreadsheet I’m going to compile of all your entries, then I will use Random.org and select a winner. The winner will be announced by midnight here on Raging Tech in the form of a blog post. Some prizes will be delivered electronically, the rest by USPS to valid deliverable mailing addresses. Winner will have 24 hours (Midnight at the end of Sunday) to respond or a new winner will be selected. I am obligated by new FTC regulations to declare that PokenGirl gave me an extra Poken to keep and review, and UPrinting.com provided me with 250 business cards to hold this giveaway but I contributed my 250 to the contest. No other sponsors provided me personally with compensation for this giveaway.
Enter to WIN your ultimate “blogger costume” from Raging Tech before Midnight, October 31st 2009!
Now this is a FREAKING FABULOUS CONTEST!!!
You're very creative Dave and the prizes are excellent.
I'll have to think about doing a video – I have such a great idea for a blogger I would be – the hair would be easy enough, but I don't know if I can master the British accent – LOL!
Hmmmm… who to give the second poken to??? I think the scary @msvayne needs a Vampire Poken!
Ha, that's awesome. You don't have to dress up like the blogger, but you certainly get creativity points! 😉
Great contest! Keep up the good work bringing us interesting topics to read 🙂
Hey Dave,
I didn't catch the pokenwave when I was at IZEAfest because I was old skool and had no problem with the business cards. Upon return I found that I was missing some business cards and my thoughts quickly wandered to Poken and how I'd have had all that information in one place. I think I would share the second Poken with someone who's blog I value and has been seen at various blogging conventions this year. That person would be Kerri of @sixuntilme.
Courtney
I'd split the 500 business cards between my two design friends, Amber Johnson & Christy Latz, because they're awesome people and deserve to have awesomely professional business cards to give out from UPrinting.com!
i would use the 500 business cards by UPrinting.com for my own blog of course; so that its easy for me to give-away during blogger events and such. i won't have the hassle to find pen and paper or bloggers to key in in their cell fon. i just need to give-away my business cards! 😉
Ok Dave, here we go, the blogger dress up video 🙂 I had a blast making it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLunnvxeWuE
Okay Courtney's video is AWESOME! I want to transfer my points to her so she has bigger odds of winning 🙂 45 minutes to go???
Okay Courtney's video is AWESOME! I want to transfer my points to her so she has bigger odds of winning 🙂 45 minutes to go???
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play. You have to hit the S–>key & the D–>key S=Left D=Right it's pretty fun to play.
good deals