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Win a trip to the World of Coke Museum in Atlanta with iCoke

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If you are a Canadian resident and you enjoy drinking Coca Cola products I have a contest for you that might be right up your alley.

How would you like to Win a trip with iCoke.ca ? Ok, maybe you want to know what the prizes are first?

You could win a trip for four to Atlanta Georgia – where John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886. If you win your airfare to Atlanta will be paid for as well as 3 days, 4 nights hotel accommodation, plus 2-day Coke Museum passes for four and to top it all off you’ll also get $1000 US cash to spend as you please.

Secondary prizes that you could be eligible to win include Best Buy and Cineplex Odeon gift certificates.

The contest is in celebration of John Pemberton and his lasting invention! I honestly didn’t know that Coca-Cola was invented in 1886! I thought it was invented in the 1920’s. 122 years – isn’t that something?

Ok, so as I said you must be a Canadian resident to enter the contest. Plus, you’ll need to register at iCoke.ca in order to enter the contest.

The contest started August 31, 2008, and it ends at 11:59:00 a.m. EDT, October 31, 2008. During this time period you can enter up to five times a day if I read the rules correctly. So you can amass quite a few entries!

Of course you need to have 500 Coke coins per entry.

What are Coke coins? Well .. you earn them buy submitting the special alphanumeric pin code that you can find beneath the cap on 591 ml and 2L Coca Cola product bottles or on special promotional materials like iCoke contest cards. Usually each pin code is worth 500 coke coins, but for a limited time you can earn 1000 Coke coins on specially marked 591 ml Coca Cola product bottles. So when you’re out shopping watch for those specially marked 591 ml bottles as the pin numbers will be worth two contest entries if you choose to use them in that way!

I entered the contest last night and I plan on making more entries. Why not? I’ve never been to Atlanta and I think visiting the World of Coke Museum would be kind of cool.

Are you going to enter?





I won a prize!

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Guess what? I won a fantastic prize!

Big Jason from the Big Marketing Online Blog started what he called “The largest blog contest ever” sometime in mid-July. I entered the contest at the end of the month by doing several of the requested tasks in order to build up my entries and earlier this week Jason informed me that I was a prize winner.

Not only did he write to tell me that I’d won a prize, but a few days later he wrote to me again to list my top five choices. So I kind of picked out my own prize from the huge assortment of goodies he was giving away.

I decided that I wanted StoreStacker. It’s a program that allows you to build multiple affiliate stores. What does that mean? Well … you can set up an online store in minutes that will sell products from Amazon, Ebay, Overstock and several other large companies. You can set up a store (or stores!) that sell a wide range of products, or if you have a niche site, like say my gardening blog, you can set up a store that sells products that cater to your sites niche.

I downloaded my prize and all of it’s components yesterday, but I haven’t had a chance to install it or set up a store yet. I’m dying to try it!

I’ve just been too busy. Chris is on holidays and that’s kind of taken me out of my routine, plus our dogs been so hyper lately! It’s crazy here. With Midnight jumping around on the furniture and up at us I just can’t get anything done. Even worse, she managed to make a little rip in our leather couch yesterday! Grrr. Well … maybe with the new stores that I’ll be setting up I’ll make enough affiliate income that I’ll be able to got to a home furniture and pick out a new couch? Nah .. the rips only tiny .. I’ll spend my earnings on other goodies or better yet pay the bills!

All I want for Christmas Contest

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Overstock.com launched a huge promotion today. It’s the All I want for Christmas Giveaway. If you’re a resident of the continental United States you can enter to win.

The promotional period for this contest is from December 3rd until December 7th and you can enter once each day. So enter now. Enter daily!

So what can you win? Well, when you fill out the contest entry form you’ll be asked to pick an item from Overstock.com that is priced at $1000 or less. If you are the Grand Prize winner you’ll receive the item that you picked out.

When you enter the contest you’ll get an invitation link that will enable you to invite up to five friends.

One cool thing about this contest is that Overstock.com will also be giving out daily prizes. If you are chosen as a daily prize winner both you and one of the friends that you invited to join the contest will be awarded a one thousand dollar Overstock.com gift card to be used towards the purchase of each of your selected items or any other item at Overstock. You need to send out those five invites in order to qualify for the daily prize draw.

At the end of the contest one grand prize will be awarded. The Grand prize is one $5000 Overstock gift card. This fantastic gift card can be used for the purchase of all five of the contestants selected items or any other items of their choosing at Overstock.

I’m from Canada so I can’t enter the contest.

I really wish I could enter as I’d probably pick one of the LCD or Plasma television sets as my desired prize. I know we’ll want a TV for the basement when we get around to renovating the basement so it’d be great to win one!

Perhaps I’d also pick out some things for our new dog. Puppy has already cost us a lot of money what with the training crate, accessories and all the toys we’ve purchased in the last week. I’m sure we’ll need more stuff for her as she gets older and bigger.

As for the five people I’d invite if I could enter this fantastic contest? Hmmm that’s a tough one. I’d definitely invite my sister. I’d probably also invite my husbands younger sister. My niece just bought a new home last year and she’s expecting a baby in February so I think she could use some items for her home or for the baby their expecting so I’d invite her as well. Then to finish off my invites I’d probably invite two good friends of mine – Connie and Colleen – who I work with at the hospital.

Who are you going to invite when you enter the All I want for Christmas Giveaway?

Thumbplay your site for online mobile entertainment and great contests

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I think just about everyone has a cellphone these days. Even if you’re like my husband and I and don’t use it all that much they’re handy to have on hand.

The latest cellphones on the market have all kinds of fun features such as the ability to view and record video, play music, upload ringtones, play games and many other functions.

If you’d like to individualize your cellphone by adding wallpapers, games, or uploading new ringtones you might be interested in visiting Thumbplay.com.

Thumbplay isn’t just a ringtone site. It’s a community. Site members can exchange photos, videos, leave comments for one another, sign up for cool text based services and even compete in cool thumbplay competitions such as their current “Funniest Video”, “Show us your Tattoo” and “Friends” contests.

There are some great prizes for the contests I’ve mentioned above such as 42″ Plasma TV, a Sony Cyber-shot Digital Camera, and a brand new Sony Handycam Camcorder.

Why don’t you visit Thumbplay.com and see what they have to offer. Enter some of those contests while you’re there too. The contests not only sound fun, but they offer some fantastic prizes!

And the winner is …

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I just won some money. I just won some money. Hey! I just won some money …

Yes I did. I’m doing a happy dance right now.

Being stuck at home because I’m sick sucks, but winning some money certainly helps out. A lot!

Want to see what I won and how I won it? Go check out my post at My World. I’ve even included a fun video that shows how I came to be a winner.

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