Would Love Your Vote for the “Rookie Blogger of the Year” Award

Hi everyone. This is be a quick post asking for a HUGE (but easy to accomplish) favor. This site Making Money Online is in a contest to win the “Rookie Blogger of the Year” award over at TycoonBlogger.com and we would love your vote if possible. We are actually up against several great blogs, so if you think one of them deserves it more, we totally understand if you vote for one of them. But if you really like what we are doing here, and you think we deserve to win… we would really appreciate your vote.

To vote, simply go to http://tycoonblogger.com/featured-articles/vote-now-for-the-rookie-blogger-of-the-year and make your selection. We are listed in the sidebar on the right side. Just check the circle just above our thumbnail and select “Vote” and you are done.

We would like to thank Dan, (the owner of TycoonBlogger) for all the hard work in putting this contest together and honoring us with a chance to win Rookie Blogger of the Year!

Also, we would like to send out a BIG THANKS to all of YOU! We really appreciate all the support you have given us so far and we hope you like what we are doing with this site so far. If you ever have any suggestions, we would love to hear them!

Custom Character Mascot Winner from Making Money Online

Sorry for not getting this post out last Friday, but we didn’t want to have two giveaways on the same day, so we waited until today to post it.

We now have our 3rd winner in our Making Money Online Subscriber Contest. The winner will receive a custom Character Mascot… courtesy of LogoNerds.com.

This week we even have a new girl pulling out the winner’s name to add a little spice to these videos

As always… PLEASE watch the video below before scrolling to the bottom to see who wins this week. It makes it much more fun to see your name pulled out of a fish bowl vs. seeing it just written down. The video is just over 1 minute long… so watch it first.

Need Your Help Choosing a Logo

As most of you know the last couple of weeks we have been giving away custom logos (courtesy of LogoNerds.com) as prizes in our Making Money Online Subscriber Contest… and this coming Friday we will be giving away a custom character mascot as well.

If you saw the results from the first raffle… you know that Samjien from Home Affiliates won the first custom logo. She was definitely in need of a logo upgrade, as she does not actually have one at this time, so it worked out great for her.

Right after she won I put her in contact with Joseph over at LogoNerds so she could explain to him exactly what she wanted for a logo and here is what she she requested for her logo design.

Can I make my logo design similar to your “LogoNerds” logo design?  I really like your design and I couldn’t think of anything better. I want the design to be the same as your LogoNerds design with the full name: Home Affiliate and then with a subtitle (Make Money Online, Health & Fitness, Urgent Job Hiring) beneath it. Also, I want the “o” in H(o)me affiliate to be replaced with a house icon that is kinda round instead of “o”. As with the colors to be used. It would be black and red. Can you also please add a shiny mirror shadow on my design just like the shadow of your company logo “LogoNerds”?

Here is their LogoNerds Logo Samjien likes

Below are the 6 logo concepts LogoNerds came up with for Samjien, which all fit her specifications.

I have my favorite design and I am sure Samjien has her favorite(s) as well. Now we would like to hear which logo you guys would choose. Please take a look at her website and then at the logo designs below and let us know in the comment section which logo you think would look best on her site. The more opinions the better… so please don’t be shy. Only good things can happen from helping a fellow blogger out

And don’t forget… we are still going to be giving away a custom character mascot (also courtesy of LogoNerds.com) this coming Friday (Oct. 2nd) so make sure you are entered… and if you win we can have our readers help you as well!

UPDATE: Here’s a revision that Samjien asked for. She liked certain aspects of #3 and #5.

This Week’s Custom Logo Winner

Alrighty… we have our second winner in our Making Money Online Subscriber Contest. The winner will receive a custom Logo design… courtesy of LogoNerds.com.

This week I was able to recruit Dana again to do the drawing for us, but for some reason the quality of the video did not come out as well. After you watch the video, please let us know in the comments section if you liked having a girl pull the name out for the raffle or if you liked what I did with the hand in the last video better. I think there was a little more drama with the hand… but I like having cute girls do it too

Please watch the video below before scrolling to the bottom to see who wins this week.

Like before… it is much more fun for those of you entered to watch the video first, as it is a little more exciting. Of course if you want to… you can just scroll down below and see who the winner of this week’s Making Money Online Subscriber’s Contest is…

So did you watch the video first? I hope you did! For those of you that didn’t watch, the winner is…

(DRUM ROLL PLEASE)

THIS WEEK’S WINNER - Typhoon from www.SmartBloggerz.com

Typhoon won a Professional Designed Business Logo (valued at $47) from the LogoNerds.com. We will be contacting Typhoon over the weekend with instructions on how to claim his prize.

We still have a Custom Character Mascot to give away next Friday… so if you have not entered yet, you still have time. The only requirements for entering is to subscribe to our newsletter and let us know you want to be entered in the comments section of the Contest Page. So what are you waiting for? Click here to get all the details!

Again… Congratulations to Typhoon! The great thing about this contest is you can win more that once… so we have created a new entry for Typhoon and put it back in the hat for next week!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Subscriber Contest Winner – Free Custom Logo

Alright boys and girls… we have our first winner in our Making Money Online Subscriber Contest. The winner will receive a custom Logo design… courtesy of LogoNerds.com.

Unfortunately, I ran out of time and was not able to grab any sexy models for the video drawing this week, so I had to do it all myself (as you will see in the video). It was just my hands, my video camera on a tripod, my golf cap, and all your names who entered the contest on folded and stapled pieces of paper.

Please watch the video below to see who wins this week.

If you are entered in the contest, please watch the video first (if you can), as it is more fun to be surprised. If you can’t watch the video, or just don’t want to wait… you can scroll down below and see the winner of this week’s first Making Money Online Subscriber Contest…

Well hopefully you watched the video and you know who won the custom logo, but here’s the name of the winner anyway…

THIS WEEK’S WINNER - Samjien from homeaffiliate.typepad.com

Samjien won a Professional Designed Business Logo (valued at $47) from the LogoNerds.com. We will be contacting Samjien over the weekend with instructions on how to claim her prize.

We still have another Custom Logo and a Custom Character Mascot to give away in the next 2 Fridays… so if you have not entered yet you still have time. The only requirements for entering is to subscribe to our newsletter and let us know you want to be entered in the comments section of the Contest Page. So what are you waiting for? Click here to get all the details!

Again… Congratulations to Samjien! The great thing about this contest is you can win more that once… so we have created a new entry for Samjien and put it back in the hat for next week!

Have a great weekend everyone!

MakingMoneyOnline.com August Recap – Also Only Two Days Left to Win Banner Package

Wow… another month has come and gone! Since it’s the last day of the month I guess it’s time to recap the month gone by, and tomorrow we will announce the winners of Making Money Online Dot Com’s “Who Comments Most” competition for August.

But before I get into those things, I want to remind everyone that you have 2 days left to get into the Tuan Nguyen Interview Contest where you have a chance to win a custom Banner Package (which includes 5 different size custom banners) for just reading my interview with Tuan and then just leaving 1 Comment… that’s it. I cannot believe the small number of people that have entered so far, as there is no easier contest to join that I have seen, and the prize is AWESOME! Plus, the odds of you winning this contest are way better than most contests I have seen online. If you haven’t yet… please go read the interview and leave a comment right now so you can be instantly entered.

So what other stuff has happened this past month…

I got interviewed twice in one month. Now that was definitely cool, as the only other time I have ever been interviewed for anything was when my oldest son was in second grade. He had to interview me for a school project, which was cool…but it wasn’t the same, as he was forced to interview me. At least with these two interviews, no one was forcing them (I hope).

Here are the two interviews I did…

• Famous Blogger Club Interview – This is one of several interviews Hesham Zebida from zebida.com is doing on “up and coming” bloggers. It’s a nice simple 5 question interview. If you get a chance you should go read all the interviews he has done so far, as it is a great way to learn a little more about some of your favorite bloggers.
• The Money Cult Interview – This was very cool for me too. I got to be Jared’s Guinea Pig and do his first interview. Jared is looking for more people to interview, so if you are interested you should shoot him an email.

On top of those interviews I shared a little bit of how I got started online in my post, “I Used to be a Dotcom Millionaire, Well at Least on Paper”.

Here are a few other post were pretty popular, at least by the amount of comments they received:

• Making Money Online Dot Com’s First Big Milestones
• Make Your Blog More Interactive
• Learn How To Create Your Own Fun Gravatar
• How to Get More Comments

As for September, we have lots of great posts planned. We have a couple of interviews lined up already with 2 really successful Online Entrepreneurs that should make for really good reads!

As for contests, we have at least 2 that we will be running next month, but there could be more…

• One is going to replace the “Who Comments Most” contest. It is still going to be a commenting contest, but we are going to make it MUCH EASIER for people to have a chance of winning.
• We are still planning on giving away MrBlogging.com, but we are still working out the details. So please stay tuned… the contest will start soon.

Last thing… this morning I read a post from Brian of SEOMkt.com about a contest Keller Hawthorne is running over at Fresh eVenture called the Best WordPress Design 2009 Contest. She is offering several great prizes, so I thought we would give it a shot. Do I think we have the best WordPress design for 2009? Absolutely not, but our design is okay, and I have no idea how many people have entered, so we might have a shot to win something. Also, it’s just another great way to get our name out in front of a larger audience, so you might think about doing the same. If you want to enter you have until Midnight Eastern Time tonight. Sorry for the late notice, but I just found out about the contest a little while ago myself. Here is a link to the submission form.

Alright, that’s it for the update! Thanks again to all of you that have visited us this last month and we hope to see you back here in September.