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Leaderboard & Update

So guys, I know I have been around very little for the past week or two but I’ve had exams and this friday is my GMAT which is an important exam in order to do your MBA. I have been studying the whole last week and will be studying the entire week ahead in order to be well prepared so wish me luck. I’ll be back on board as soon as the exam is over.

For now however, I wanted to give you an update about the contest. So far there have been 4 entries and if you have considered entering then you might want to enter because your chances of winning are quite high. I will be updating the leaderboard every friday or monday and keeping you updated. Here is the leaderboard and if you haven’t entered yet, please do so by clicking here.

1023 $0.00
1024 $0.00
1025 $0.00
1026 $0.00

Since I have been busy with things going on around me, let me ask you how things are with you? I’ve always had slight down weeks where I’m unable to blog as much but my readers have been supportive enough to be around and wait for me to make a return. I am very thankful for that. Let me know how you guys have been and if I haven’t heard from you, this would be a good time to catch up because I look for small distractions during my study time! Anyway, hope you guys have a great week and I apologize again for the delay but I thank you guys for still being around! Have a good one!

Enkay’s BIG ML Birthday Bash Contest!

Thats right guys, the time is here. I am hosting another contest thanks to Market Leverage and specially Rebecca Mercurio for being so helpful in getting all this setup and organized. I turn 21 tomorrow (Nov. 4th) and so I figured that it might as well be called the BIG ML Birthday Bash Contest. Anyway, Lets start off with the prizes before I tell you how this contest will be held.

1st - First Place : Acer Aspire One Laptop - This is the laptop that I currently use and its a netbook meaning that its perfect for travel and blogging. It weighs close to 2 lbs and it has a 9 inch screen with Windows XP, 1 GB of RAM and 120 Gigs of Hard drive space. Its one of the hottest netbooks out there and I will be giving one of these away!

2nd - Second Place : $75 American Express Rewards Card

3rd - Third Place : $50 American Express Rewards Card

Thats a total of $500 worth of prizes and cash!! Now that you know what the prizes are, let me tell you how this contest will be run. This, unlike my other contests, will be based on how well you are able to make money using Market Leverage.

The idea is that you can either sign up if you don’t have an account already or if you already have an account (even if its not under me) you can still take part in this contest. Either way, send me an email with your publisher id so that I can make sure that you’re being tracked by Rebecca.

All you have to do is earn money by promoting Market Leverage offers and if you are one of the top 3 highest earners at the end of the month, November 30th, and you could win some really amazing prizes, all thanks to Market Leverage!!

Its just that simple! Hope you guys like the contest and I’ll be sure to make sure to keep looking for new and unique prizes. Lets see those earnings guys because this is one contest where you control if you win or not. You not only walk away with your earnings but a sweet prize to go with it! Hope you guys have a great rest of the week!

Weekly Update - November 2nd

Okay, so I decided to do a weekly update to let you guys know what to expect and what was going on. I usually don’t write posts on Sundays but I haven’t been to active this past week due to exams and stuff. I still have an exam coming up and I have to sit for my GMAT which is an exam you take to get into an MBA or Masters program so I have to study quite a bit for that. So, now that you know why I’ve been slacking in blogging and commenting, lets take a look at what is in store and some updates.

Top 100 Female Blogger List
I have been desperately searching for a script that allows me to pull the Technorati, Alexa and Page Ranks in order to compile this list because with close to 250 blogs now, it means that I’ll have to manually update 1000 numbers every so often and its quite a time intensive process. In order to allow the list to grow I’m going to need a script like Mark from 45n5.com to make the list but I really can’t seem to get my hands on it. Either way, I’d like to get some suggestions as to how I can make this work and I’ve already played around with TopSites scripts and all that so maybe you guys have some suggestions for me.

Contest Coming Soon
Okay, so this is the big surprise and I’m spilling the beans a little about this contest. What this contest entails will not be disclosed until later however it is going to be held in conjunction with Market Leverage and we’re currently deciding on giving away a Wii or an Acer Aspire One laptop, so whichever way we decide, it will all benefit you guys in the end. So, now that you know what the surprise is, I hope you’re looking forward to it!

Top Commentator - October
Okay, so September was a month that I didn’t pick a top commentator because there was a major issue with a little comment spamming but as I had mentioned before thats a very small issue to me so I just didn’t want to make it a big issue and call out some people so I just penalized them by not picking a winner. This time around though, there was no comment spamming and I monitored the comments to make sure they were legitimate and with Nick from RomanDock Dot Com returning to blogging, he made sure he came up at #1 on the list closely followed by Normal Joe from ImWithJoe.com whose comments are always insightful and inspiring.

So since I’ve already reviewed Nick, I will be giving him a 125×125 ad spot for the month. Congrats Nick. For those of you who want a little free advertising, all you have to do is contribute. Please don’t disqualify yourself by writing 20+ comments on the last day of the month on every single post. It start to get pretty obvious! Anyway, lets see if anyone can take Nick off his throne for this month.

The Wrap Up
So, that was my weekly update. Let me know how things are going for you. I’ll try to have the contest up and running ASAP although it will end at the end of November so that should be something you’d like to get involved in. Hope you guys have a great week ahead. See you on the flip side of the new week!

Weekly Update - October 28th

So, I have to apologize and let you know ahead of time that this week might be a little slow because I have a lot going on in terms of school but I’ll try to post as often as I can. First off, as promised, there will be a surprise the beginning of next month. This was something that was in the works but its in the process of being finalized. So that should be some good news.

If You Win, Reply!
The winner of my ebook contest never replied so David, the runner up, actually got sent the iPod today in the mail! This is why you should always check your email, you may miss out on some exciting news and free stuff too!

Welcoming My New Advertisers
If you haven’t noticed, I have almost sold out all my ad spots which is great news for the blog. I wanted to welcome the two new advertisers before I go into the weekly update for today. So, say hello to Thousand Dollar Profits & Andrea from According to Andrea!

      

Weekly Link Love

1) Suite J - Suite J talks about how the things on your desk relates to your personality. I think mines more of a control freak and a show-off type of thing. See where you fit in!

2) Franklin Bishop - Franklin discusses how to build a community on your blog which is very important for you to be able to sustain your blog. It should feel like a community in order for comments and interaction to take place. Its a great post that you should check out.

3) WebTrafficROI - WebTrafficROI talks about why they love twitter and why you should too. Twitter is a great tool that can really help you out in the long run so if you don’t know how it can benefit you, this list can help you realize that.

4) RomanDock Dot Com - Nick discusses how bloggers are getting their hands in the cookie jar. Its an analogy for how bloggers that are growing tremendously are not appreciative enough of their readers and what they should do and think about in order to maintain the one-to-one relationship with their readers.

5) Bruno Auger - Bruno discusses what SEO is and the importance of SEO which stands for search engine optimization. This can really help boost where you place in search engine rankings and this is a great post to help you realize what it really means and entails.

Well, thats the weekly link round up! Thanks for stopping by and once again, apologies for having a slow upcoming week but I promise to make it up to you guys. Have a great week ahead!

Last Call For A Free Ipod

So, my contest ends shortly (October 15th) at Midnight and thats when I will start calculating the entries and pick the winner for the 4GB Silver Ipod Nano that I have to give away. For those of you who are wondering how you can enter, here is the original post and here are the methods of entry below:

Theres only three ways you can get an entry.

1) The first is to subscribe to my blog using the form below (2 points):

2) The second way to get an entry is to blog about the book and link to this post using the words “free blogging ebook” or “blogging ebook” or anything you find fitting. Be sure to let me know what your url was so that I don’t miss it. (5 points)

3) The last method is to just let me know that you’ve downloaded and read the ebook (1 point). This is based on the honesty method so there isn’t any way that I can check on this but please be honest about it.

Once you’ve subscribed and downloaded and read the eBook or blogged about the book, just leave me a comment or send me an email and I’ll put your name in the mix.

I actually like picking winners so I’ll be doing that the way I did the winners for the Market Leverage contest, which means that there will be a video to go with it. Hopefully you all are having a great week. I’m sick yet again and thats a record for me since I don’t ever get sick but thank goodness for timestamp! Anyway, for today, I just have a casual banter type question. What do you guys think of this financial crisis, do you think it affects you any?