For those of you who may not know of Blog Engage, its a social platform where bloggers meet to “engage” each other, submit their work to be voted and commented on and to connect with other like-minded individuals.
If you have a blog (and if you don’t currently have one for your business you should!), this is a great place to get more exposure for your business and make connections.
Well, Brian Belfitt, the founder of Blog Engage decided to host a contest each and every month for the entire year! Seriously, where does he find the time? 
So why am I writing about it? Because I’ve decided to partake in this lovely contest, of course! If just seemed like a no-brainer to me:
- Possibly win some cash… woohoo!
- Gain more exposure to my site, thus more traffic… double woohoo!
- Connect and network with other bloggers… yippee!
- Challenge myself and practice the Art of Marketing… yes, it does take practice.
Look at some of the yummy prizes:
Second Place, 100 USD, Free Month Platinum RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Third place, 100 USD, Free Month Gold RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Fourth Place, 50 USD, Free Month Gold RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Fifth Place, 50 USD, Free Month Gold RSS and Contest Sponsorship Services
Now I won’t get into the contest details on how you can participate; Brian does a great job with that already. Just follow this link for all the juicy details.
Contest Hosted By
The 150 Point Business Sponsors
Grow Small Business Profits – Online Degree Information – Raw Food Health
How to live Younger – Michael J. Weiss Law Office – Engage Content Marketing Blog
Technology Blog – The Bad Blogger – Trending Poetry – Sponsor a Child – All You Need Is Lists!
The 100 Point Platinum Sponsors
Self Publishing Blog – Photo Mystic Digital Photography – Princessa’s Royal Diary
Network Marketing Success Tips – Jack Humphrey Internet Marketing Tips – Small Business Marketing – Girl With a Purpose (GWAP) – Make Money Online – Tom Drake from fwisp - Brick Marketing – Down Hub – Best WordPress Themes – Basic Blog Tips
The 50 Point Gold Sponsors
Work With Mike Rao – Extreme John – Technically Easy – Home Business Resources – Melvin Blog – Pamorama – SEO Training – Angry Latino – Politicus USA. – BodynSoil – I Lulu Online – Be Free Blog Set – 113 Tid Bits – The Awesome Critics – Baby Boomer Talk Online – Car Insurance – Mallory On Travel – The Story Behind the Numbers – Work at Home Job Resources – A Health Blog – Jane Sheeba Blogging Tips – Healthy Times Articles – Share your Mistakes and Excuses
Is it going to take work to participate sure? Sure. Is there a chance you may not win even after all the work? Of course. But I will leave you with one thing I once overheard Seth Godin (my new mentor, unbeknownst to him ) say – he had to do 400 speeches for FREE before getting paid for speaking gigs!
What does this have to do with the Blog Engage contest? Well, you may have to put in some work, maybe even a LOT of work before you get the results you want. It’s part of the process. So “get out there in a big way” to quote my other mentor, Fabienne Fredrickson (unbeknownst to her as well ), the creator of The Client Attraction System – which by the way, this investment is worth every penny and a bag of chips – and be OK with “paying your dues”.
Because when the time comes for it to be your turn, at it will, you will appreciate it all even more so. Good luck.
Your thoughts? Are you ready to play?
Hi Michele
Glad to see you participating in the BlogEngage contest
All the best and Happy Blogging
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Thanks Sunil. How about you? Are you giving it a shot?
Currently I’m more over into learning coding and designing stuff of WordPress, so no time for Contest, but anyways you’re into this contest so fingers crossed
What’s up Michele,
This seems really fun, even with the hard work you mentioned. I’ve heard of blog engage but haven’t really heard of this contest.
I’m gonna have to take a look at the rules and see what’s up. Another game and you’re in it, sounds fun to me
Hope you have a great weekend!
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Hi Eric,
I’m always up for a game. Yeah, I’ve been holding off for six months and finally decided there’s not better time than the present.
You should definitley check it out though. He gets around 80K visits a month, so definitely a great way to get more exposure for you blog.
Ciao!
Good luck Michelle! I am sure you will do great! By the way, I just tried registering with Blogengage myself but the register links aren’t clickable. Did they stop registration or something that you know of? I’d really like to setup an account myself and check it out.
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Thanks Kalen! As far as I know he never stops taking registration. If you are having issues, email him or reach out to him on Twitter ( @bbrian017 ). He’ll definitely sort it out for you.
Talk soon.
Can’t have enough people competing in these great contests
good luck!
@Kalen, I don’t believe registration has been disabled, did you get it to work yet?
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Hi Sietse,
Agree! I always love some good old competition.
Thanks for stopping in!
Hi, Michele.
Lots of luck to you on joining the Blog Engage contest.
I believe you got what it takes to get a prize.
Will be rooting for you.
Kim
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I love your writing style, and it’s been too long between drinks, so I owe you some support.
Of course you could always review my site and get 100 bonus points
(worth a shot no? LOL)
Seriously though, good luck and I’ll make sure I come back soon to comment and vote on it (or is it up already and I suck?)
Good to see you again Michele with one L
Nb: Came over after seeing your comment on Francisco’s site (was like OMG I forgot to Visit Michele!) so to explain…
We are both in the SERPd SEO Contest where you need to rank a site for the terms ‘ramadama dingdong’ and ‘swamp ass’
Don;t ask. LOL
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Hey Alex,
Yeah Disco explained to me the ramadama dingdong thing. And here my naughty mind was running a muck. LOL
OK so which site is yours. I don’t see alexwhalley.com on the list???
I would totally do a review of your site! No brainer. Post is already up on BE…its on video marketing. Would luv some link luv on it.
We really have to make it a point to connect more often. You always make me smile.
Hugs
P.S. I’m a big fan of your work too.
you’re not looking hard enough then
I’m under ‘make money online’ under the Platinum sponsors.
On that note, may speak to Brian about changing that. If noone recognises me then its going to be hard to get folks to review me.
Thanks for the indirect heads up, no go review me! hee hee
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Damn i love contests ! They are especially useful for procrastinating folks like me . I know i should do my best all the time, but i manage to achieve crazy things in competition !
(and that why you will never have big muscles training at home, alone – Arnold Schwarzenegger)
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