Remember when I said a month ago that I was going to take a serious look at marketing this blog? Well here we go. :)

By the way, this could be the longest ever post on my blog, so if you’re not up for that, scroll down ;)

I update every day if possible, yet the money I make off this website and the amount of people that read it nowhere near matches what I feel TUK should be at… it’s time to change all that, and what better way to do that then with a kick-ass contest that gets all of you free stuff. I’d like to thank the blogosphere, for being extremely generous; I’ll be reviewing each of them personally below as a thanks for their kind prizes, some of which are pretty expensive and others that are insanely innovative – this contest would not have been big without them :) .

Alright, you’re bored of the introduction; time for the prizes, innit? :razz:

Wordpress Themes

- Two licenses for the Revolution Theme ($160)
- Two licenses for the Premium News Theme ($200)
- Two licenses for the Purple Fever Theme ($100)
- Two hundred accounts to the Themes Club ($1000)

Blog Tools

- Three licenses by FruitfulTime.com ($90)

Blog Analysis

- Full Video Review By Marcus Hochstadt ($700)

eBooks

- SEO Book Donated By The Net Fool ($80)

Blog Advertising

One Month

- Two 125 x 125 on Wayne Liew ($30)
- One 125 x 125 On Blogger Noob ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on EZ Money Online ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Affiliate Gossip ($15)
- One 125 x 125 on Rhyan ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Jim Karter ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One 125 x 125 on Life is Colourful ($30)
- One 125 x 125 on BLJConsultant ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Resell Rights World ($5)
- One 125 x 125 on Viking Blogger ($25)
- One 125 x 125 on Dot Com Mogul ($10)

- One 468 x 60 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- Five 16 x 16 on Blogging 4 Cash ($10)
- One 150 x 150 on Blogging 4 Cash ($5)
- One Text Link On Mr Javo ($7)

Three Months

- One 125 x 125 on The WWW Observer ($75)

Blog Reviews

- One Review By The University Kid ($60)
- One Review By Yimto ($20)
- One Review By The WWW Observer ($35)
- One Review By Bloggeries ($25)
- One Review By Neotrepreneur ($10)
- One Review By Life Is Colourful ($40)
- One Review By DaBlogger

Consulting

One hour consulation with The University Kid
Thirty minutes consulation with Neotrepreneur

Design

- One Custom Done 125 x 125 Ad By Affiliate Gossip
- One Custom Done Sketch By The Pencil Sketch And Art Blog
Entrecard Credits

- 2000 Entrecard Credits By Xavier Media
- 1750 Entrecard Credits By Mixed Market Arts
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Toast & Egg & Me
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Confession
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Yimto
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Site Hoppin’
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Neotrepreneur
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Affiliate Gossip
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By BLJ Consultant
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Resell Rights World
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Happier Life
- 1000 Entrecard Credits By Article Snatch
- 800 Entrecard Credits By Kirushanth
- 750 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Student
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Bud Calabrese
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Mr Javo
- 500 Entrecard Credits By ImpNerd
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Life Is Colourful
- 500 Entrecard Credits By Money Making Blogs

Total: 15,800

Cash

$100 Paypal by The Profit Hustler
$30 Paypal by Viking Blogger
$15 Paypal by Final Fantasy Fan
$10 Paypal by The WWW Observer
$5 Paypal by Affiliate Gossip

Miscellaneous

300 Stumbles + 300 Reviews from Niklas
$50.00 In Stumble Upon Advertising By Mixed Market Arts
Twenty Pages By One Buck Wiki
Domain Monetization Package By Domains Earn 4U ($100)
One featured, three regular links from The SEOTree Directory

Whew! Getting the links for all those guys was hard enough, and now I’m going to review them too :)

The Entrecard credits will all go to one person; I’m also looking at purchasing another 10,000 soon so the end result will certainly be more than 25,000. Anyone that’s sponsored Entrecard credits, please send them to my profile.

Some people sponsored more than one prize, in which case I gave you one link – don’t want this post turning into too much of a link farm eh. ;)

How do I enter

This contest will work on a points system, but one that will be a helluva lot easier than Excel sheets as I’ll be using Random.org. Essentially what will happen is that I will cut and paste your email into their list randomizer for every single point you get – the more points, the more times you appear and the more chance of winning something (or many things).

1 point – comment on this post

Comment on this post to say you’re entering and you get one entry. :)

2 points – subscribe through RSS

All you have to do is subscribe through RSS via email, and at the end I’ll export the list through Feedburner. Simple, eh? :)

3 points – end up as a top commentator in the sidebar

End up as one of the top ten commentators in the sidebar and you’ll not only get three entries, but also a nice PR3 link pointing back to your website :)

6 points – blog about this

Blog about this contest on your website and you’ll get six entries.

I have only three asks for the blog post.

a) A 50+ word paragraph review of TUK, linking to the contest post and discussing the site.

b) A cut and paste of the contest prizes. Here’s the HTML for the lazy ones out there :)

c) A 50+ word paragraph talking about the prize you’d like most and why (be creative!) :razz:

Don’t want to make this too complicated, so that’s them rules. At the end of this contest, which is April 5th, I’ll conduct a live draw (more about that later) and virtually pull the names out of a list using Random.org.

To make it better for the lazy ones out there that don’t want to blog, I’m putting up Themes from the Themes Club only for those of you that blog about this. The first forty bloggers that follow the requirements above will each get one account to the Themes Club + four more to give away on their blog to their readers – that’s a $25 value right there. I’ll also send $75.00 Paypal cash to the blog that sends the most visitors my way during the contest. :)

When will the contest finish

The contest will end April 5th, and I will set up a live draw in a chat room (probably through Meebo).

What you’ll do if you’re smart

I’ve always recommended taking advantage of a situation in advance. After this contest is over, I’ll be raising advertising prices – you can lock in at the extremely discounted rate now and enjoy the buzz of the contest to maximise your exposure. Check out the ‘Advertise‘ page for more details :)

My extremely generous sponsors

I promised I’d thank all of them, so here we go. I’ll group websites that belong to the same person in one review.

Wordpress Themes

Brian Garder is probably the man who started the whole ‘Premium Theme’ craze… with some kick-ass designs, it’s pretty easy to see why. Along with the Revolution theme, Brian has also created the Tech, Sports and Pro versions, all of which look pretty good :)

Adii is a self proclaimed ‘Wordpress rockstar’ and along with a few professional looking themes, Adii also has produced quirky, fun themes – ones that some of the biggest bloggers around use. Adii also runs an interesting blog, one that is regularly updated with the latest goings on in Wordpress and the themes marketplace.

Wordpress Themes Market does not have the history of the above two, however albeit new, they have already started making waves in the blogging marketplace, especially with their launch of a pretty kick-ass Purple Fever theme, one that could be used for any blog and just oozes elegance.

Small Potato runs a well manned ship over at WPDesigner.com and the release of his new themes club, a place that offers at least 12 themes a year for just $5 total is something pretty phenomenal – no longer will bloggers be stuck with a free theme that thousands before them have used, and they’ll have found the club pretty affordable.

Blog tools

Fruitful Time and I have have known each other for pretty long relative to the time I’ve been online… they interviewed me for another website of theirs and have been pretty friendly whenever I’ve needed help. They’ve donated three copies of their Task Manager software, which is pretty cool for keeping yourself in good time for various activities :)

Blog analysis

Marcus has donated probably the most innovative prize yet… a near-hour long video blog review of your website as well as steps on how you can improve it. With an interesting blog to read, and a prize that means he’s spending quite a bit of his time, I’d like to thank him a lot for hopefully putting the ‘oomph’ into this… you’d all love such a review, wouldn’t you? :)

eBooks

The Net Fool and I got off to a rocky start but we’re all good now; he’s donated a legit copy of Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, that normally retails at $80 and has now gone off the shelves… this could well be the last chance you get one of these. The Net Fool also recently got a redesign done, so check it out :)

Blog Advertising

Wayne Liew runs an informative blog with quite a bit of helpful content for both those that are new and old to the blogging industry – check his website out for some kick ass blogging tips :)

Blogger Noob runs a different blog compared to quite a lot of the ‘make money online’ ones out there – with personal experiences and innovative content it’s worth a read every now and again :)

EZ Money Online and Dot Com Mogul are both run by Suzanne and although they are updated infrequently they contain valuable content for the eyes of newbies to the internet marketing game.

Affiliate Gossip is run by a talented designer who is also offering a custom created 125 x 125 banner just for one of you guys in this contest; something that will gain you quite a few click throughs if you use paid advertising or a medium like Entrecard.

Da Blogger is a personal friend that I helped get started up in the world of blogging – he’s offering up a review for you guys to use on his website :)

Rhyan is a young Pinoy blogger that talks about making money online and more specifically niche marketing – if that’s your thing, he’ll probably have some posts to read over :)

Jim Karter banked $55,000 in February 2008 – if that’s not someone who knows how to make money online, then I don’t know what is. Go on and drool at those stats! :razz:

Neotrepreneur runs a personal blog that talks about making money online and his experiences on the Internet, amongst other things. He’s also donated an ad spot that should be pretty useful :)

Life in Colourful made $3,000 in February – a figure I’ve been aiming to reach for a while now. The blog is about Life, Technology, Reviews, SEO and t’Internet.

BLJ Consultant, Resell Rights World and Happier Life are all run by the same person, who has donated 3,000 Entrecard credits as well as advertising – something that should help you get some decent exposure to your website :)

Viking Blogger is not just a friend, but also a now regular advertiser on here, who runs an interesting blog and beat me to getting tshirts done. Gaah! :twisted: Seriously though, it’s a nice interactive community :)

Blogging 4 Cash talks about well… blogging for cash, and how you can make money online with a blog as well as a few other things :)

Mr Javo runs a blog that focuses on the basics – if you wanted to learn about blogging basics, he’s the guy to go to for that. Well written and well thought out posts.

The WWW Observer just got a new design done – check it out because it’s pretty sweet. He’s also running a contest with $500 or so worth of goodies, so if this one bores you, you know where to go ;)

Yimto is an affiliate marketing blog that I only came across a few days ago… it’s packed with information to get you started out in the cutthroat world that is aff marketing as well as his personal experiences.

Bloggeries is a forum I recently joined – it’s full with helpful members that are willing to critique a blog at nearly any given time. They’ve sponsored a blog post bloggery which is a review for those of you that don’t use the term yet. :razz:

Entrecard sponsors

Xavier Media run a whole network of websites including hosting and a blog – they’re the people who have sponsored a decent 2,000 credits, which gets you advertising on TUK for a month or so :twisted:

Mixed Market Arts teaches you how to kick your way to the top of the make money online niche… Colin’s also put up the funds for some Stumble Upon traffic which would be pretty decent for a fresh proxy. :)

Toast & Egg & Me is a uniquely named blog to say the least… it talks about making money online though. In its most recent post, it lists ten free eBooks of great use… have a look :)

Affiliate Confession is run by Alan, the guy behind the 30 Day Blogging Challenge (check his site out for more information on that) – he’s donated EC credits to help you advertise your blog better ;)

Site Hoppin’ is a pretty fun cool way to surf online… when you’re drunk! Just bounce from site to site in alcohol induced frenzy

Article Snatch is a blog that tries to teach people about marketing and working online… it’s worth checking out just for the sweet menu bar :)

Kirushanth is a blog about webmaster tips, making money online and technology with a clean layout. Needs an about page, but it has short understandable posts. :)

Money making student is run by someone pretty similar to me – a student who’s trying to make money online. Lives in a different location, but we both want as much cash as possible :)

Bud Calabrese is another one who recently got a redesign, one that looks pretty fluid… he offers prizes for being a top commentator so head on over if you like winning things… :razz:

- ImpNerd is a blog run by Gary that talks about Internet Marketing & Publishing. It follows one of the latest posts pretty well – writing great content to keep visitors interested :)

Money Making Blogs talks about well… making money with a blog of your own, as well as how to refine your blogging techniques and other stuff related to internet marketing in general.

Cash

The Profit Hustler donated $100 in cold hard Paypal cash… something that can help you get started off in the world of internet marketing, and not a bad amount at all. :)

Final Fantasy Fan is the second highest cash donor with $15.00… something that could buy you a couple domains for some new websites you want to start. My only recommendation is to get a domain of their own :)

Misc

Niklas runs a Stumble service and has put up 300 Stumbles + 300 reviews to let one of you try it out and experience a surge of traffic to your site.

One Buck Wiki destroys Million Dollar Wiki in terms of price (they’ve also released Quarter Wiki I believe) and has kindly sponsored twenty pages… you could use them to rank highly for your name in the search engines if nothing else ;)

Domains Earn 4 U is run by a frequent commentator on here (Misty) and will help you turn your unused domains into a stream of cash if you tweak them correctly. You gotta install the package, but it’s going to help you make money so it’s worth it :)

SEO Tree Directory is just starting out and have put up a total of four free links for you to gain maximum exposure for your site, as they’ll be promoting it heavily.

The Pencil Sketch and Art blog is an interesting one for the designers out there… anyways, Sue has put up a custom drawn sketch of one of you (how cool is that! :razz: ) as a sponsored prize.

That’s everyone, I hope… phew! What are you waiting for? Enter! :)

I’m now at around 250 readers. My goal for this contest is an increase of 200. Are you guys up for it?

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