One of the best ways to grow visibility online for your business and get great results in the search engines is to blog. But business blogging is not always easy to maintain over the long haul. This is why it’s great to form solid social networks to help you through the tough times.
Sugartone: Sweet Business Blogging Contest
Two of these social business networks, BizSugar the social bookmarking site for business articles & Bloggertone the business bloggers community, are partnering up to put on Sugartone, the Sweet Business Blogging Contest.
And it’s going to be fun. First of all, there are lots of prizes specifically for professionals blogging to promote their businesses online. In fact prizes total $6921.
And that’s not all. Professionals are busy people, so there are 2 ways to win the prizes. All you need to participate in the Sugartone Sweet Business Blogging Contest is either:
- Write an original business article writer with a great title
- Vote and comment on the business articles submitted for the contest
$6921 In Sugartone Prizes
Prizes include:
- Lead Page Machine – a software to automatically generate squeeze pages so that you can use this to tailor your squeeze pages to specific audiences, to build your email subscribers and increase your sales conversions. Valued at: $5200
- Animoto – a year’s membership to this easy tool which creates videos from photos. Valued at: $249
- Traction Call – a 45 minute call with the Traction Coach Gary Barnes to help you to quickly get some “sand under your wheels” so you can move forward toward the life you want to live. Valued at $175
- ClickMillionaires – 2 x 6-month membership to Scott Fox’s social network helping business owners upgrade their marketing to make more money online. Valued at $174
- 5 Critical Tactics for Business Blog Success – this CD and report by Denise Wakeman reveals how you can easily make your blog a winner. Valued at $97
- Start.Grow.Run – 8 x a software package with 45 essential tools and services for the 3 different phases of your business. Valued at $49.95 each
Plus there are 2 books for both the winners of the Top 10 Titles and the Top 10 Commenters. And the books include:
- Wordtracker Masterclass: Blogging For Business – 50 Steps to Building Traffic and Sales by Chris Garrett. 5 books valued at $39 each
- Sociable by Shane Gibson & Stephan Jagger. 5 books valued at $25 each
- New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg. 5 books valued at $16.49 each
- Guest Posting by Chris Garrett. 5 ebooks valued at $10 each
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Hi Andrew, thanks a lot for helping to promote and support the event, really appreciate you doing so. Regards, Niall
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You are welcome – I hope it helps.
Andrew
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Wow! It’s great chance to participate and win attractive prize. Thanks for helping.
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You are welcome, Chris.
Andrew
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Thanks for sharing this one mate, its interesting so I’ll definitely check it out.
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