Want To Win Another $100 Worth Of Summer Fun?

Maybe you need the $100 to fill your car with gas. With gas prices through the roof, who couldn't use a free couple of tanks. Well, one tank if you drive a truck like mine. What else can you buy for $100 that will contribute to your summer enjoyment?

• A couple of really nice lawn chairs
• A new hammock
• Several cases of paint balls for your paintball gun
• A competition Bocce Ball Set
• A couple of used Xbox 360 games?
• A fire pit
• A whole bunch of Tiki torches with fuel
  

If you win what do you plan on spending the $100.00 on?

Oh wait, I almost forgot to tell you how to enter.

- Make a comment of value (not just “i agree”, etc.) on a post = 1 entry (remember to comment on all blogs)
- Subscribe to RSS via email = 2 entries (per blog you subscribe to!)
- Write a post about the contest on your blog (must include a link to this page and the links below to participating blogs) = 25 entries

And these are the guys and gals I've teamed up with to give you the green!
- JoeTech.com
- Link Bait
- Gorilla Sushi
- CK Marketing
- The Big Bald Blog
- Jason Boom
- Mr Javo
- AFrogToKiss.net

See, I'm even making it easy for you to leave a comment of value. Just tell me what you would do with the $100 if you won it.

The winner of last month's contest will be announced soon so stay tuned.

 

The Chow Is Giving Away 10,000 Entre Creds!

I have been trying to pick and choose what contests I enter lately so as not to consume my posting with entries. However, here is one that's somewhat worthy of your attention.

John Chow, or the guy I affectionately refer to as, The Big Cheese is running a contest that I thought I had better enter. He is giving away 10,000 Entrecard credits and since I am an Entrecard member this is worth the entry. AND for those of you who don't have any idea who I am talking about, Mr. Chow is one of a few top ranked bloggers and he makes a TON of Money doing it.

John posts his earnings every money and right now he is making about $30,000.00 per month doing nothing more than blogging. Well, it's a little more involved than that but it's still a big chunk of change.

Signing up for Entrecard will definitely toss some traffic your way. Entrecard and SiteHoppin continue to send me a significant amount of traffic every month.

Anyway, all you have to do is post about the contest and cross your fingers.

I wonder...Hmmmm. Now that I have linked to John Chow with the anchor text of "The Big Cheese" I wonder how many other links it would take to have the him index well when the big cheese is searched. Who's up for a little experiment?

Good luck everyone.

 

The Winner Of The March $100

Here it is, the moment you have been waiting for. We can now finally announce our March winner. This month, the winning entry came in the form of a comment posted on GorillaSushi.com.

After gathering up all 1,740 entries, we drew our seed numbers and averaged them to find the winning entry, which was entry #606. That entry belongs to diggnfordiamonds.com. Who will be getting $100 cold, hard PayPal from me as soon as he or she replies to my email.

I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering where your hundred bucks is, right? Keep entering and we’ll keep handing out money. April is already half over, so we’re gonna give out another wad of cash in just a few weeks.

TIP: The posts people make about the contest usually make up around half of the entries. Write a post about the contest and drastically increase your odds of winning.

This prize was provided by:
- JoeTech.com
- Link Bait
- Gorilla Sushi
- CK Marketing
- The Big Bald Blog
- Jason Boom
- Mr Javo

Thanks to everyone for participating. Good luck this month.

 

Another $100 - NO WAY!

Yes it's true! We are giving away another $100. I am a little late on the posting but hey, better late than never right?

The winner for last month's $100 will be announced soon.

What do you have to do for some cold, hard cash? It's simple.

- Make a comment of value (not just “i agree”, etc.) on a post = 1 entry (remember to comment on all blogs)
- Subscribe to RSS via email = 2 entries (per blog you subscribe to!)
- Write a post about the contest on your blog (must include a link to this page and the links below to participating blogs) = 25 entries

Where is all of this money coming from you ask? The following rag-tag band of bloggers are the ones that are putting up the kitty.

- JoeTech.com
- Link Bait
- Gorilla Sushi
- CK Marketing
- The Big Bald Blog
- How 2 Blogger
- Jason Boom
- Mr Javo
- AFrogToKiss.net

BUT, I need your help. When you comment with your entry make sure you: Give me the link where you posted about the contest AND leave me your email so I can verify it. If you don't want to leave your email in the comment drop me a line at over at the contact page.

Thanks again to everyone one who has been playing and good luck this month.

 

$100 Contest Winner!

Yep, I am a little late on the draw here. WE do have a winner. Gorilla says the announcement delay was caused by a malfunctioning tube sock sensor on the dilithium capacitor, I think that it was something else. But what do I know, I don't know a lot about electronics so I guess he could be right.

Each and every entry was given a number, the total of which was 1831. Each of us then went to random.org and generated a random number. We then calculated the average of those numbers and came up with 875. The owner of this number is Rina, the author of AzrinaAznan.com and so she is our winner. She wrote a blog post about the contest, landing her 25 easy contest entries (entries 852-876).

The February and March contests are sponsored by...

• JoeTech.com
• Link Bait
• Gorilla Sushi
• CK Marketing
• The Big Bald Blog
• How 2 Blogger
• Jason Boom

Make sure you get entered in the most recent contest that is running right now. Thanks for playing and good luck this month.

 

It's Time To Give Away Another $100

The winner for last month's $100 will be announced soon. But until then, here's your chance at another $100.

What do you have to do for some cold, hard cash? It's simple.

- Make a comment of value (not just “i agree”, etc.) on a post = 1 entry (remember to comment on all blogs)
- Subscribe to RSS via email = 2 entries (per blog you subscribe to!)
- Write a post about the contest on your blog (must include a link to this page and the links below to participating blogs) = 25 entries

Where is all of this money coming from you ask? The following rag-tag band of bloggers are the ones that are putting up the kitty.

- JoeTech.com
- Link Bait
- Gorilla Sushi
- CK Marketing
- The Big Bald Blog
- How 2 Blogger
- Jason Boom
- Mr Javo

BUT, I need your help. When you comment with your entry make sure you: Give me the link where you posted about the contest AND leave me your email so I can verify it. If you don't want to leave your email in the comment drop me a line at The Big Bald Blog at Impact MT dot com.

Thanks again to everyone one who has been playing and good luck this month.

 

Do You Like Cigars?

Here's a little secret about me. I love to kick back and have a cigar every once in a while. There's nothing better than sitting out on the deck on a warm summer night and drawing away on my favorite smoky treat.

A while back, I ran across a site called CigarJack.net. It is a nice resource for non-biased opinions on cigars and other cigar related interests. The other day Cigar Jack contacted me and let me know that he has something special going on.

Celebrating 1 year of writing cigar reviews Cigar Jack is having a contest sponsored by Camacho. Every day in March Cigar Jack is giving away a 5-Pack of Camacho Cigars and a Camacho Hat. The best entry submitted will win a box of Camacho 10th Anniversary Corojo Cigars. Entries are now being accepted and you don't have to be a cigar review expert to enter. Check out the contest page on Cigar Jack's Cigar Reviews and News to enter.

Go ahead and check it out. I think that I will submit some of my favorite cigar and beverage parings.

 

And The Winner Is...

The January $100 giveaway winner has been announced. It is Mark from 45n5.com.

Last month and every month this year, an illustrious group of bloggers (including The Big Bald Blog) is giving away $100.00. The participants include:

1. Mixed Market Arts
2. JoeTech.com
3. Link Bait
4. Gorilla Sushi
5. CK Marketing
6. The Big Bald Blog
7. How 2 Blogger

This month the $100.00 contest is running again so make sure you get entered. Special thanks to all the people that participated last month. We had a total of 2045 entries this last time around.

Congrats Mark!

 

Contest Haters

What do you do when you don't' want to have a contest? You have an anti-contest. Yep, you go all out in full protest and have people email you something. Well at least that's what Andy (the other one) did.

I was making my way through some of my favorite blogs and Andy over at Stationatomica.com was having what he referred to as an anti-contest. You don't have to subscribe to anything, blog about anything or even leave a comment. You simply have to draw a picture of a unicorn or Arnold Schwarzenegger and email it to him.

So I picked the unicorn. As I was inking out my glorious work of art in MS Paint, something flashed in my memory. It was an adventure story about a unicorn named Charlie. A tale of friendship, a tale of discovery and a story of deception. I searched long and hard in an attempt to rediscover this lost tale of my youth. Then there it was in all its glory.



Use this as a guide by which you live your life. "Shun the non-believers, shuuuuunnnnnnnnnn."

 

Make Money Online With This Contest.

Here it is again the next $100 dollar round. Joe Tech should be announcing the winner of last month's $100 contest soon so make sure you keep checking back. For those of you who are just hearing about this, here's the skinny. We want to give you money. Yep it's that easy. How do you enter?

To gain entries into the contest, just do any of the following:
- Make a comment of value (not just “i agree”, etc.) on a post = 1 entry (remember to comment on all blogs)
- Subscribe to RSS via email = 2 entries (per blog you subscribe to!)
- Write a post about the contest on your blog (must include a link to this page and the links below to participating blogs) = 25 entries

How much easier can we make it? So you can sneak in with just one entry by simply posting a comment here, you can increase your odds by reading and commenting on a few more posts here and at one of the blogs below and maybe subscribe to a couple, or you can really up the odds and subscribe to all all of our blogs (which you’ll enjoy reading anyway), comment on a bunch of posts, and blog about this contest. The more entries you earn, the better your odds, of course. If you’re going to post about this contest, just grab the image and code from here.

The deadline for this contest is 12:00 AM March 1, 2008.

Who wants to pay you?
- JoeTech.com
- Link Bait
- Gorilla Sushi
- CK Marketing
- The Big Bald Blog
- How 2 Blogger
- Dot Sauce Magazine
- Jason Boom

Good luck everyone!

 

Very Cool!

This is great!



For those of you who are just joining us, Dave, the owner of MaleWail won the grand prize package from the contest that we recently ran.

Dave is now fully "Big Pappa-fied." Thanks for the love! You can check out his post here.

Stay tuned, I have another contest coming up in the next month or so. It is going to take some time to put it together but it is going to be extremely entertaining. It's going to be the grand daddy of all contests, I assure you.

 

HUGE CONTEST.

Happy Saturday Big Bald Bloggers - I just ran across this HUGE contest that Mike is having over at Bloggin-Ads.com.

Seriously, he must have been working a month to get all of these other blogs to sponsor prizes. Head on over and take a look or for your reading pleasure and convieniece, I have included the prize package details and rules below.

Contest Duration - 1/11/08 ’til 1/31/08 (11:59:00PM PST)

Prizes

There are going to be 12 different groups of prizes, which means there are going to be a total of 12 different winners. By adding up the value of all the prizes, I would say it is worth a least $1,000. Just for Max’s sponsorship of “500″ One Buck Wiki pages total a value of $500, which makes it one heck of a contest.

*Group 1*

• 1 Month blogroll and 125×125 ad spot (Blog About Your Blog)
• Detailed blog review (Yimto)
• 1 Month 125×125 ad spot (Google Is Not God)
• License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
• 50EC (Julianas Lair)
• 4 Hour Week Workbook (Money Relations)

*Group 2*

• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Peter Foti)
• 500EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot (3rd World Blogger)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
• Blog review (Belolats)
• eBook - Wealthy eBook (University Kid)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Mixed Market Arts)

*Group 3*

• 1 125×125 logo, 125 ad spot, blow review, and 3 backlinks (A Frog To Kiss)
• 1 month 100×100 ad spot (Lankapo)
• 500EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Web Blog Money)
• 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Flat Water)

*Group 4*

• License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
• 3 months 468×60 ad spot (Ryan Yockey)
• 200EC (Aims Graz)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
• 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (To The PC)

*Group 5*

• Harmonica DVD (Blog Money Wiki)
• 1 month 300×250 ad spot, 3 month blogroll link (VolkDefense)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Scholarpreneur)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Ben Spark)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (I Make Money On Facebook)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Mixed Market Arts)

*Group 6*

• Domaining Manifesto eBook (DNXpert)
• 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
• 100 One Buck Wiki pages (Zedomax)
• eBook - Wealthy eBook (University Kid)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (EZ Money Online)

*Group 7*

• 250EC (Dorm Earning)
• “The Baby Jesus Butt Plug” book (Cyber Fizzle)
• License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
• 250EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot, 1 month rotated text link (Ez DIY Electricity)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (PixToo)

*Group 8*

• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (My Blog Contest)
• 1,000EC (Article Snatch)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Wired Kayaker)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (JTPratt)
• 125×125 ad spot until April 1st (1 Man And His Blog)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Mixed Market Arts)

*Group 9*

• 200EC, 1 month text link via RSS feed (Slyvisions)
• 50 EC, 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Ideas and Money)
• License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Sean)
• 1 month ad spot (size up to 336×250) (That Single Guy)

*Group 10*

• 1,000EC (Toast & Egg & Me)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Blogging 4 Cash)
• Blog review (Andrew Benton)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Ben Spark)
• License for PopUp Loser (Semmy)

*Group 11*

• 1 entry to Sam’s Superbowl Contest (Controversial Marketing)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Orange Inks)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Blogigs)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Singapore Entrepreneur)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Gorilla Sushi)

*Group 12*

• 500EC, 2 month 125×125 ad spot (ABC)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Contest Time)
• 1 Month 125×125 ad spot (Read To Me Dad)
• 1 month 125×125 ad spot (Rhyan)
• Blog directory submission (5 keyword phrases) (SEO News)

Here is how you enter:

• 3 ticket - Subscribe to Bloggin-Ads.com via E-mail (CLICK HERE)
• 10 ticket - Post about this contest by using the post link and you must have all the groups and prize sponsors’ blog URLs in tact on your post
• 1 ticket each - Post a comment on any one of the prize sponsors’ blog (Limit 5)
• 1 ticket - Stumble/Digg the post (you must post a message on StumbleUpon/Digg)

What the heck are you waiting for? Get on over there.

 

AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

Drum roll please!

The winner of the GRAND PRIZE package is...(suspense builder)...DAVE from Malewail.com.
Dave gets the iPod Touch, the Blog Review, the 500 Entrecredits and the BigPappa apparel package.

The second place winner is Jason from GorillaSushi.com.
Jason gets 250 EntreCard credits and a BigPappa Shirt with some stickers.

So how did I pick. I went to Random.org just like everyone else, put in my list and, voila (waalaa), I had the winners.

Dave and Jason make sure you drop me a line at: The Big Bald Blog at impactmt dot com and let me know where I need to send the goods. Also guys, let me know what size shirt you wear. I have up to 4XL or 5XL in some colors... What? Well, it is BigPappa Gear.

I am getting ready to transition over to my new 3 column design and as a bonus, just because I am feeling very generous, both of you will get a 200 x 200 pixel ad for free for one month on The Big Bald Blog. So send over your ad that you would like. Make sure it is a .png, gif, or jpg at 72 dpi or at the lowest resolution that you can get it to me in. Also make sure you include the link that you want the ads to go to.

Thanks SO much to everyone that participated in this first ever BBB contest. It was a tremendous success.

I already have my next idea for a contest in the works so make sure you keep on top of things at the Big Bald Blog.

 

Contest Update

I know who won.

 

You Still Have Time

The contest ends today at 4. I will draw the winner tonight and will announce it either Saturday or Monday. Depends on how I feel. Is that evil?

 

Contest Update!

This Friday is the Day! For those of you who haven't entered yet, make sure you do by Friday at 4:00 CST. I will be drawing the winner that night. Since I have reached my goals already for this contest, I might as well report what I have accomplished.

One of my goals for this contest was to increase RSS subscribers - CHECK

For some reason this number is never correct. I actually have 80 email subscribers and 32 other subscribers. Giving me an actual total of 112. Given THAT number, I more than doubled my subscribers.

Another goal was to increase my Technorati authority to over 100 - CHECK


Some side effects of the contest were loads of traffic. Ok I will say CHECK to that one too.




The Alexa screen shot was taken last last Friday before I took off for the weekend. Bottom line is that all of my goals have been reached for this inaugural contest on The Big Bald Blog.

In the end my traffic for the month of December amounted to 32,344 Unique visitors which is obviously a new high.

To say thanks I am giving an additional 250 Entrecard credits away to a second winner making it a grand total of 750 credits. That's just how I roll. ALSO as a late add-on bonus, anyone who has "faved" The Big Bald Blog on Technorati by the time the contest closes, will get an extra entry.

Remeber it's all about YOU, the reader. Without you, none of this is possible. Thanks again!

 

$100 Per Month For The New Year

I am sponsoring a new kind of blog contest. I have joined forces with a band of bloggers (listed below) to give you some cold hard cash. If you want to earn some easy money this year then this post is for you.



It’s easy to enter! To enter the contest, just do any of the following:

1. Subscribe to RSS via email (2 entries per blog)
2. Write a useful comment (1 entry per comment on each blog listed below)
3. Write a post about this contest on your blog (25 entries if you link to this post as well as mention all of the other sponsors)

That is it! Feel free to leave your comments on this post and earn an entry and possibly the easiest $100 you have ever won. If you really want to increase your odds, make a blog post and subscribe to the sponsoring blogs and contribute comments actively on them. Who knows… making new friends might just earn you some more moolah!

Contest Deadline:
12:00 AM February 1, 2008.

Who wants to pay you?

1. Mixed Market Arts
2. JoeTech.com
3. Link Bait
4. Gorilla Sushi
5. CK Marketing
6. The Big Bald Blog
7. How 2 Blogger

Happy New Year!

 

I Am Giving Away An iPod Touch And More.

It's time to celebrate! As of today The Big Bald Blog has exceeded over 15,000 unique visitors for the month. This is a new record for us (due in part to StumbleUpon) and in order to celebrate we are offering up some glorious prizes for you and yours.

If you have found your way here for the first time, welcome! You have stumbled upon a historic event. The first ever Big Bald Blog contest.

First, let me tell you what I am giving away. ONE lucky winner will be walking away with the following:

1. An 8 Gig iPod Touch
2. 500 Entrecard Credits
3. A total blog review from Mike over at Bloggin-Ads
4. Some cool Big Pappa Worldwide gear. You'll get shirts, shorts, stickers and if you are female we even have some "boy shorts", ringer shirts, tanks and thongs that we can throw in on the deal. Guys, we will throw in an extra "Road Trip Rules for Guys" shirt.

The reason: This is an attempt to increase RSS subscribers and my Technorati authority. I was going to set some goals on how much I wanted each to increase but I decided against it. I really just wanted to give this stuff away to the readers of The Big Bald Blog.

So how do you get in on this celebration?

Simple, you follow THE RULES.

To qualify you MUST:

• Subscribe to The Big Bald Blog's RSS feed via the email subscription so I can track you as an entrant.
• Blog about this contest linking back to this post with the anchor text of: "The Big Bald Blog" and the word "contest".
• Leave a comment on this post with the link to your post about this contest.

Bonus feature - If you have done what it takes to qualify for the contest and you are a member of Entrecard you will get 1 extra entry for every Entrecard I see in my dashboard from now until the close of the contest.

If you have any questions regarding the contest feel free to email me at TheBigBaldBlog AT impactmt dot com.

The contest will end on January 4th at 4PM Central Standard Time. All entries will be randomly sorted and drawn that night. I will announce the winner on Monday January 7th.

People of the blogosphere rejoice for this is a glorious day as you bear witness to these unprecedented events. Too much? OK, how about this, good luck and thanks again for stopping by the Big Bald Blog!

 

Pre-Contest Alert!

The Big Bald Blog is going to be running it's first contest! We're giving away a prize package that makes the contest definitely worth entering. Later this week or early next week we'll be announcing the rules and conditions.

Here's a little hint.

Plus a whole lot more - Stay Tuned!

 

Want To Win $1800 Worth Of Stuff?

I just ran across the Thor Schrock’s Secret Classroom Blog Contest. He is giving away some great prizes! First place, are you ready for this, is $1000 via PayPal. Second place is A Copy of Joel Comm’s Secret Classroom DVD Set and third place is a22″ Wide screen Acer LCD Computer Display.

After reviewing the Secret Classroom program, it is apparent that this is the one that I hope I get. Don't get me wrong 1 and 3 are great prizes but with The Secret Classroom, you can do much more in the way of building your business. Actually I am surprised that it is not #1. However if you are going to enter make sure you do it by December 31st.

Good luck everyone!

 

Contest Reminder

Friday we announced the winners of the most recent "Every Other Friday Creative" contest. We also put up the new picture and theme. Make sure you check it out and get entered.

 

Contest Reminder

Remember the drawing for the "Every other Friday" Creative Contest will be held this Friday. The winner will be drawn and the new contest will begin. It looks like there is only one entry right now. So by default Dave may just get it.

 

The Every Other Friday Creative Contest.

Ok, here's the picture.



The company is a "carpet cleaning company."

What is the campaign?

For those of you who don't know what's going on, you can read the rules of the contest here. Make sure that if you blog about this contest, put the link in the comments so you get credit for it. Submit your entries via the comments and the winner will be drawn and announced on the Thursday the 15th. The winner gets a Big Pappa Shirt. Nothing big, just fun on Fridays.

 

Fun New Activity For Fridays.

As we were sitting around here thinking about stuff to do on the blog, we came up with a new concept that might have some merit and stay with the theme. Every other Friday we are going to post a picture and a company from a seemingly unrelated market segment. It will be your job to come up with a tag line that could be used in the ad campaign.

For example... We post a picture of a basketball hoop and then we tell you that the company is a small proctology practice in central Idaho. As you post your entries in the comments section, you are challenged to come up with the ad concept and the company name. We will sift through all the entries and the winner will receive a shirt from the Big Pappa warehouse. The winner will be drawn on Thursday and announced in the next contest post. AND as an added bonus, if you blog about the contest and you win the shirt, we wi