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1 Day Left in the CyberPower and ThinkComputers System Giveaway!

Bob Buskirk — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:00:40 +0000

I should have really announced this sooner on the blog, but I guess I just have been busy! As you all know I own and run ThinkComputers and we are holding one of the best Giveaways ever! We are giving away an entire gaming computer! That’s right a full computer! The good people over at CyberPower PC were nice enough to donate the system for the giveaway! Here are the specs…

System Specs
Intel 875K CPU
Intel SSD 40G
ASUS P7P55D-E PRO Motherboard.
CoolerMaster 690II Advance
4GB DDR3 1600 Kingston Hyper-X
1TB Hitachi Hard Drive.
Samsung 8X Blu Ray Combo Drive
GTS 250 1GB
800 Watt Power Supply
Windows 7 HP 64 bit
Card Readers, Keyboard and Mouse

It’s quite a beefy system! So how can you win it? Well head on over to the contest page at ThinkComputers and read the rules. All you have to do is submit a story about how you will use the system and the best story will win! We will be announcing the winner tomorrow afternoon so get your entries in!

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Toys for Tots Raffle and Fundraiser

Bob Buskirk — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:34:23 +0000

Well it is that time of year again, the holidays. Every holiday season many people and organizations try to do something to help the needy. This year our friends over at TheTechLounge are doing something that no only helps the needy but also gives you something for your contribution. They have teamed with Toys for Tots and SmoothCreations to bring you a great Raffle and Fundraiser.

For every $5 you donate you get a chance to win 1 of 80 prizes and the grand prize of a SmoothCreations Custom Gaming PC. All donations will be going to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program. The other prizes are not that bad either, I’m not going to list them all but some of the prizes include: a SumoLounge SumoSac Sultan, SilverStone KL02 case, Razer Lycosa keyboard, and a Corsair 16GB survivor drive. Also that gaming machine is not to shabby either with a Core 2 Duo quad core processor, GTX 280, and 4GB of memory. For only $5 you can get in on these prizes.

Head on over to the Giveaway page to make your donation and get your name in the raffle for the prizes. This contest will only run until the end of the month so make sure you get your entries in! From what I’ve heard they do not have that many donations yet so if you get in you most likely have a chance of wining something! Good luck to everyone and happy holidays!

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Giving Away 3 Thermaltake Cases!

Bob Buskirk — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:42:57 +0000

ThinkComputers has teamed with Thermaltake to bring you a great Holiday Giveaway! It is that time of the year, snow is on the ground and Christmas is right around the corner. We have decided to give the ThinkComputers readers a surprise. Thermaltake will be providing 3 different cases for us to give away. First is the Speedo ($199.99), then the V9 Gaming Case ($139.99) and finally the Armor+ MX ($139.99). There are quite a few ways to enter this contest…

Forums: Reply to this post and have a minimum of 35 posts – 1 entry

ThinkComputers Blog: Be one of the top 5 commentators on the ThinkComputers blog – 2 entries (1 for November, 1 for December)

Newsletter: Subscribe to the ThinkComputers E-mail Newsletter – 1 entry

So there are quite a few ways you can qualify, you can get up to 4 entries total. The contest will run from today, November 12th to December 25th. Winners must be located in the US and Canada to receive prizes. Head on over to ThinkComputers to check out the contest!

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The [ED]ition Contest!

Bob Buskirk — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:42:33 +0000

Fellow blogger Ed Lau is having a contest, and has put together a pretty good list of prizes! We will get to them in a second! Ed’s blog is one of my favorites and is on my bookmark list (I don’t use a RSS reader). Over the past few months I have been reading his blog extensively. He took quite a long trip to Japan and blogged about it all! Being a fan of all things Japanese I checked his site every day! Some of my favorite posts include, Lost in Harajuku!, Sushi Dai @ Tskukiji Fish Market, Yebisu Beer Museum, and Torafugtei – Posonous Fugu! It is really great that Ed blogged his trip, it gave people like me who have yet to travel to Japan a sense of what it is like and some of the crazy things he saw.

Now for the contest! Like I said Ed has a good list of prizes, they include:

- Prize #1: A JohnChow.com stripe ad for 1 month, which usually costs $250. This is the ad that appears at the top of the site. Sponsored by John Chow.
- Prize #2: A 125×125 ad (this is the box ad you see to the top right) on my site for 3 months, a 2GB USB Flash Drive from Gigabyte.
- Prize #3: Apple iPod Nano 2G Black 8GB. I was going to give this away a long time ago but forgot about it. Still brand new. Not as pretty as the new 4G Nano but still an 8GB iPod Nano. Also, a 2GB USB Flash Drive from Buffalo.
- Prize #4: A box DVD of the 1st season of one of my favorite TV shows How I Met Your Mother and a 4GB USB Flash Drive from Sony.

It is really easy to enter the contest too! For 1 entry you can comment on the contest post. For 3 entries you can follow Ed on Twitter. And for 5 entries you can blog about the contest! Wish me luck!

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New Design Giveaway Winners!

Bob Buskirk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:21:49 +0000

This contest had to be the best contest I have run on the blog, probably because of the great prizes! I want to thank John Chow, Ian Fernando, and Jon Waraas for providing the prizes for the contest. We had 57 comments on the post, many people blogged about it, and we had quite a few people sign up for the RSS by e-mail. Having all of the entries made it a pain to go through and randomly pick winners. I used excel and a custom script to pick the winners. It is much easier than printing out the names and picking them out of a hat. Stay tuned for a post about doing random selection in excel. Anyways here are the winners…

JohnChow.com 1 month Stripe Ad: Danny
Griffin iPhone Prize Pack: seb.majin (RSS via e-mail winner)
OptIn Comments Wordpress Plugin: banji
50 Answers from BuyAnswerLinks.com: David Lithman

Congrats to all of the winners! Most of the people who provided the prizes are still coming back from Blog World Expo so expect few days before you get contacted about your prize. Thanks to everyone for participating in the giveaway and if you have any suggestions for a new contest please let me know!

Contests are a great way to bring more traffic to your site. Many people blogged about this contest so that brought extra traffic, plus since John Chow provided a prize he blogged about it. And we all know how much traffic that can bring to your blog! Also when people subscribe to your RSS feed that increases your reach even further.

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Contest Reminder!

Bob Buskirk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:30:56 +0000

I just wanted to remind you that the New Design Giveaway ends this Friday! So if you still want to enter you better do it quick! You can enter by replying to the giveaway post (1 entry), subscribe to the RSS feed via e-mail (1 entry), and if you write a blog post about the contest linking back to BobBuskirk and the contest post that will give you 5 entries! There is $550 up for grabs so be sure to enter! Here are the prizes for anyone that does not know…

Prize #1: JohnChow.com 1 month Stripe Ad – $250 Value. This is the ad that you see on the top of JohnChow.com – Provided By John Chow.

Prize #2: Griffin iPhone Prize Pack – $185 Value. This prize pack includes 1 iTrip Auto Pilot, 1 Power Dock (2-dock), and 1 Wave Case 2 Pack. – Provided By ThinkComputers.

Prize #3: OptIn Comments Wordpress Plugin – $97 Value. OptIn Comments will directly capture a reader’s name and email address from his comment on your blog and then directly send it to an email form of your choice. Then you can use your own email marketing campaign to build relationship and earn potential income. – Provided By Ian Fernando.

Prize #4: 50 Answers from BuyAnswerLinks.com – $19.99 Value. BuyAnswerLinks.com is the first of our kind, finally you can buy Yahoo! Answers or Answers.com posts at a reasonable price. Let us do the work for you in posting answers to gain leads, backlinks, and traffic. Posting Answers to questions has been a very lucrative way to market your product or website for years now. – Provided By Jon Waraas.

Good luck everyone!

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Unique Blog Designs 1 Year Anniversary Contest!

Bob Buskirk — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:30:19 +0000

Being so busy with my own contest and my 24th birthday I didn’t even realize that it was Unique Blog designs 1 year anniversary! I can remember back when I met Nate and they were first starting the company. He would always tell me about his 12-16 hour days and working in the cramped apartment. Now they are living in a nice house and are doing well for themselves. It just shows you that hard work does pay off! Unique Blog designs have done many custom blog designs blogs like John Chow, Shoemoney, Zac Johnson, and Uber Affiliate. Nate was also nice enough to help me out on my new layout.

To celebrate their 1 year anniversary they are giving away a brand new 8GB iPod Touch and their new Citrus Wordpress theme. There are also 3 runner up prizes which are a copy of the new Citrus Wordpress theme.

To enter the contest all you have to do is reply to Nate’s post on his blog. And for 5 more entries you can write a blog post about the contest linking back to the post. Their contest will go on until the end of August so hurry up and enter!

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New Design Giveaway!

Bob Buskirk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:47:12 +0000

One of the main reasons I did the new layout on the blog was to revitalize it. I really was not updating the blog or really caring about it. Well that is going to change as you can see already! To help bring more traffic to the blog I am having a contest! Contests are an easy way to bring more traffic to any blog or website. This time we have some really great prizes for you guys! So let’s get into what you can win…

Prize #1: JohnChow.com 1 month Stripe Ad – $250 Value. This is the ad that you see on the top of JohnChow.com – Provided By John Chow.

Prize #2: Griffin iPhone Prize Pack – $185 Value. This prize pack includes 1 iTrip Auto Pilot, 1 Power Dock (2-dock), and 1 Wave Case 2 Pack. – Provided By ThinkComputers.

How to Enter to Win
So we have about $550 in prizes! Now there are many ways to enter. The easiest way is by just commenting on this post, that will get you 1 entry into the contest. Next you can subscribe to the RSS feed via e-mail, that will give you another entry. Finally you can write a blog post letting everyone know about the contest, that will give you 5 entries into the contest. You must link to BobBuskirk.com and the contest thread in your post. If you do blog about it make sure to post the link in a comment below!

So there it is 4 great prizes up for grabs, good luck everyone!

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Get a Free $500 John Chow Review

Bob Buskirk — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:31:50 +0000

My good friend John Chow is running a promotion with Yaro Starak since he has relaunched his Blog Mastermind program. Blog Mastermind is probably the most comprehensive course on blogging that you can find online. The course is a 6 month course that when you have completed it you shouldn’t have a problem making a living from blogging! If you want to get into blogging and are serious about it you should really enroll in the program.

A FREE John Chow Review
Anyone that enrolls in the program from John’s blog post will receive a free review on John’s Blog! That is a $500 value! This offer is only valid until the end of the month. To qualify for the free review, simply enroll for option 2 (six months all at once) or option 3 (six months plus access to the next course) and remain a member for at least 31 days. Yaro offers a 30 day money back guarantee on his course. It wouldn’t be right for someone to order the course, get the free review and then get his money back. Those ordering the course with the $97 per month for six month option will receive the free review after they’re completed the course.

Win a Slingbox Pro
Not only do you get a free $500 review from John Chow he is also giving away a Slingbox PRO. The Slingbox PRO allows you to watch and control up to four video sources, including one HD video source, from anywhere in the world on your laptop or cell phone. I got a chance to check out the Slingbox PRO first hand at CES and it’s a really cool device.

Win a Blog Mastermind Course
Not everyone has the money to enroll in the Blog Mastermind course. If you make a blog post about the offer (like I am), you have the chance to win a free course! So there is no reason to get in on this offer!

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John Chow’s Market Leverage Affiliate Challenge

Bob Buskirk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:42:49 +0000

It looks like John Chow and Market Leverage have teamed up again to bring you another contest. All new Market Leverage members to sign up through the contest have the chance to win an iPod Touch and $200 Market Leverage American Express Rewards Card. They are doing the contest much like the Top Affiliate Challenge. So the top Market Leverage earner in 1 month will win the prizes. The iPod Touch and $200 Amex card give you some motivation to get into affiliate marketing if you haven’t already.

John is also giving away 10 2GB Market Leverage USB pens! The first 10 people who make $10 with Market Leverage will be sent a 2GB USB pen. Not only that, John is giving away a Flip Mino too! If you are already a Market Leverage member or do not want to compete in the contest then all you have to do is reply to the contest post for an entry into Flip Mino giveaway. If you blog about the contest you will be given 5 more entries!

This is a really great contest if you are looking to get into affiliate marketing. The prizes will definitely give you some motivation to really work on offers etc. I think I will be doing the challenge, hopefully I will have time. I got into affiliate marketing after I go back from Ad:Tech, but I was not that successful with it. Hopefully I can do better this time around. Check out all the details over at the contest page on John’s Blog.

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