Win an Awesome Custom Banner Package

This is part one of a two part post. The second part will be posted tomorrow. Today I am just writing to let you know about a contest we will be running starting tomorrow, and about a discount code that can be used to save you some money on getting custom banners created for your site. If I tried to cram all this information, along with the interview into one post, no one would read the entire thing, so I had to break it up.

Tomorrow’s post is going to be our second “Spotlight Interview”. This time we will be interviewing Tuan Nguyen of 20DollarBanners fame. It is a really good interview, so you definitely do not want to miss it. Tuan has been making money online for many years now and you will learn how he got started and some of the secrets to his success, as well as some of his future plans.

When I asked Tuan if he would do the interview, I also asked him if he might be able to throw in a prize that we could give away to one of our readers, maybe a banner or something. To my amazement, not only did Tuan say “YES”, he went way above and beyond my expectations. He actually gave us a complete banner “Starter Package” ($109 value) to give away, which includes the following size custom banners…

• 1 – 468X60
• 1 – 120X60
• 1 – 125X125
• 1 – 120X600
• 1 – ANY SIZE

I totally wish I could enter this contest, as I would love to win that prize package. If you haven’t seen his work, make sure and visit his site, as he does an amazing job and his prices are awesome! I think everyone that owns an online business should consider having some banners created for their site. I am actually going to have Tuan design some banners for MakingMoneyOnline.com. We are just trying to decide exactly what we want.

How does this contest work? It is going to be a simple raffle where we pull the winner’s name out of a hat. I think we will even video tape the official drawing and find a sexy model to pull the name out of the hat to add a little excitement to the event.

Here is what you need to do to earn raffle tickets. The more actions that you take from the list below, the more raffle entries you can earn.

1. You need to leave a comment on tomorrow’s Spotlight Interview post of Tuan Nguyen, which will earn you one entry in the drawing. This is the only mandatory thing you need to do to be entered in the contest. Please leave a comment that shows you actually read the Interview and hopefully have visited his site. Just saying “Great Interview” really doesn’t prove that you actually did either of those things. (1 Entry)
2. Twitter this post. (1 Entry)
3. Twitter the interview. (1 Entry)
4. Stumble the interview. (1 Entry)
5. Vote for the Interview on Blogengage (1 Entry)
6. Write a post about the contest and interview with links to both. (4 Entries)
7. Subscribe to our newsletter. (3 Entries)

That’s it. To enter the contest all you HAVE TO DO IS LEAVE A COMMENT ON TOMORROW’S INTERVIEW, and if you would like to earn some extra entries, you can do any of the actions above. So if you do all the actions mentioned above you would earn a total of 12 entries, which is the maximum available per person. Doing any of the actions more than once does not earn you any more entries, but if you would like to, we wouldn’t mind it

Contest Ending Date: This is important as well. The contest is going to last 1 week, so it will end on Wednesday, September 3rd at 11:59 PM (PST), so you have that long to complete any of the actions you would like to do. Any actions completed after that time will not count as an entry. IMPORTANT: You also need to make sure and let us know all the actions you took in the comment section of this post. We will announce the winner on Monday, September 7^th. So that is everything I believe you should know about the contest. If you have any questions… ask us in the comment section below.

As I mentioned in the beginning of this post, I also have a coupon code to save you some money. Not only did Tuan give us a great Prize Package to give away… he also is offering a 10% discount to any of our readers on individual banner creations. Unfortunately, you cannot use the coupon code for banner packages, as those are already deeply discounted, but if you want to get one, two, or three custom banners created… you can use this code to save yourself 10% on your order. Just use the code “mmodotcom” when you are checking out and the discount will be applied.

That’s it for today. Make sure you read tomorrow’s interview and get entered into this contest, as that is really a great prize package. Also, if you are in need of some banners for your site, head over to 20DollarBanners and order some. Just make sure you use our discount code.

Why Comment on MakingMoneyOnline.com?

As Making Money Online Dot Com is a fairly new site, we are pretty happy with the amount of comments we have received so far… but we want more, a lot more. After reading “7 Ways to Reward Your Blog Commentators” from Dan Keller of TycoonBlogger.com we took inventory on what we have been doing to reward our readers for commenting on our site. We were happily surprised to see that we were already doing most of the things that he had mentioned in his post. We weren’t doing them all though, so we decided to implement his other ideas as well and see if we can get a lot more comments.

So the first thing, starting tomorrow August 1^st, we will be running a “Who Comments Most” Contest each month, and the winner will get some premium ad space in our sidebar. Actually we will have 2 winners each month. The two visitors that leave the most comments (*see rules below) will each receive a premium 125X125 banner spot on our sidebar that will be displayed for the entire following month. Then those ads will be replaced by the next month winner’s ads… and so on and so on. In the event of a tie which would give us 3 or more winners, we will just rotate all the ads in those 2 spots.

*RULES: The rules are very simple. The top 2 people (plus ties) in our “Who Comments Most” section will win 1 FREE month of banner space in our designated area. We reserve the right to refuse anyone and any banners that we do not feel are appropriate  for this site. For a comment to count, it does not have to be long, but it does have to be useful to us and/or our readers. Just writing, “Great Post! Keep up the good work” will not count as a comment towards winning the contest. We need to know that you actually read the post. Mark and I will have the final say on what we feel is a comment. Also, the maximum comments we will count per day is 3. That way it will keep someone from waiting until the last day and posting a bunch of comments. We reserve the right to modify the rules AT ANY TIME.

Now for the second thing, Dan mentioned to create a post once a month with links back to the readers who leave the most comments on your site. We are going to give that a try as well. Either at the very end of the month (like today) or the beginning of the next month we will create a post with at least one link to the top 5 on our “Who Comments Most” section. This month we went a little crazy and are giving “Link Love” to a lot more than the top 5, but next month we want to give you guys something to work towards.

So here are some our friends who are in our “Who Comments Most” section. We really appreciate all your support!

Brian – SEOmkt.com – Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Blog

Brian (he has 2 sites) - BlogEngage.com – The idea of Blog Engage is to promote interaction between bloggers by “Engaging” with each other’s blogs.

John – ExtremeJohn.com – Posts on Blogging, Business, Twitter, Rants, MMA, and his life.

Gooroo – iBlogPlanet.com (was FinanceAdvisoryStop.com) – Finance, Internet, Marketing, SEO, and Miscellaneous Topics.

Sire – WassUpBlog.com – Tells you wassup in the blogging world in relation to blogging for money avenues, blog tips and tricks, etc…

Deneil – DeneilMerritt.com – An Internet Entrepreneur’s Journey

Asswass – Asswass.com – Ramblings of a rich donkey and his website.

Benjamin – BenjaminCip.com – Start Your Making Money Online Venture

Lax – TechZoomIn.com – Blogging and Internet Tips ‘N’ Tricks.

Sandeep – CuriousLittlePerson.com – Blogging for Unlimited Possibilities

Dan – TycoonBlogger.com – Adventures in Blogging

Lee – MyBlog2Day.com – Making Money Online with Blog

Tony – PaidScribe.com – SEO Writer

George – Serradinho.com – Blogging news, tips, tricks and free downloads.

Jared – TheMoneyCult.com – A No B.S. Blog about money, the tools, and people trying to make it.

Please make sure and check out the blogs above, if you haven’t already.

Another thing we did today was add “Linky Love” to our site to also encourage visitors to leave some comments. After you leave 3 comments the “NoFollow” rule will be lifted and you will start receiving some much coveted SEO “juice”.

Unfortunately, we are still having some issues with this theme and CommentLuv, so it is still not working, but we will eventually figure it out. The plugin works fine when we activate it, but for some reason when it is turned on… it makes EVERY LINK on the site open up a new tab when clicked and that really bugs me. Has anybody else experienced that problem, and if so… did you find a solution you could share?

Ok… I think that covered everything. Anybody have any more suggestions for getting more comments? If so, please let everyone know in the comment box below.

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