Has anyone else noticed this on LiveJournal.com? Those funny guys and gals have this for their 404 (Page Not Found) message:

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be heading out to Affiliate Summit West next month, and I realized that I have NO business cards. How can I mingle with the blogging elite and not carry business cards to hand out? Clearly, this needs a remedy, so I just whipped up this design and I’d like your thoughts before it goes to the printer:

Update: Another option for the back (from suggestions)

Am I missing anything? Should I change anything? The front will be glossy, and full color both sides. The blue lines are where the bleed starts. I’m planning to print them in the next couple days, but I wanted the valued opinion of my readers, first.

My press credentials for Affiliate Summit West 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada have been confirmed. I guess it took so long because my spam filter or something caught the original confirmation. In any case, I will be in Las Vegas from 2-23 through 2-26. My wife’s parents will be visiting with us for a while, and need to experience Vegas, so we’re bringing them along. There’s plenty to do in Vegas, so I’m sure they won’t get bored while I’m reporting on the Affiliate Summit.

Affiliate Summit West is taking place from February 24th through the 26th just off the Las Vegas Strip and will feature a ton of vendors and speakers. It looks to be a very informative and educational conference for anyone dreaming of boasting about their own six figure affiliate check some day. Registration is $199 for the Exhibit Hall Only pass and $1,449 for the Full Conference Pass. If you can’t make it, I will be reporting on it here, so subscribe to my RSS feed.

I should have my new camera by then and will have freshly printed business cards in hand, so if you are going to be there, please look for the guy with the glasses and long goatee and introduce yourself.

This month has already been exciting. I have two contests coming to an end and developed three free tools for you to play with. Here’s the total of what I’m giving away as detailed below:
- $100 cold hard cashola
- 1,000 Entrecard credits. What the hell… 2,000!
- 125×125 ad spot for the month of February in my header.
- Even more Entrecard credits
- Link ads and a 250×250 pixel ad

That’s right! There’s plenty to go around. Keep reading to find out how to get it.

$100 in your pocket
Last month, I got together with some other bloggers and we came up with a $100 prize to give away to one lucky person. Here’s who’s in on it:
- JoeTech.com
- Link Bait
- Gorilla Sushi
- Mixed Market Arts
- CK Marketing
- The Big Bald Blog
- How 2 Blogger

There’s a bunch of entries, but there’s still a few days to get your entries in. Read the original post for details on how to enter. It only takes one entry to win, but you know what they say. You can’t win if you don’t play. And if you don’t win, we’ll be giving away another $100 next month.

125×125 Ad and 1,000 2,000 Entrecard credits
I am super excited about the $100 contest, but I wanted to do another one. I had a bunch of Entrecard credits flowing into my account, so I decided to give them away. To sweeten the deal, I created a new 125×125 ad space right up in the header of JoeTech.com and added it to the prize. Go check out the 8 easy ways to enter and get your entry in before January 31st. Oh yeah. I just now decided to up the ante to 2,000 Entrecard credits, too. Sometimes I just feel like doing that.

Play slots and win 1,000 Entrecard credits
WHAAT? Yeah… I was emailing back and forth with my new ally, Jason Boom over at JasonBoom.com, and asked how I might give away more credits. Jason suggested Entrecard Slots and that’s all it took. Later that night, the slots were up. I loved the idea, and it looks like a lot of other people do, too. The best part is that you’re not competing against anyone. The prizes range from 1 ec to 1,000 and the highest I’ve given away is 100 ec so far, but it’s only been up for 4 days. You can also put a widget (like the one on this page) on your own blog. What’s in it for you? If someone clicks it and hits a 1,000 ec jackpot, you will also get a 1,000 ec jackpot as my thanks to you. Head on over and remember to bookmark it and/or ad the widget to your blog.

More Slots for text links and a 250×250 Ad
You don’t have to be on Entrecard to take advantage of the slots. After the success of the Entrecard Slots, I decided to make a version for everyone else, called Free Ads Slots. In this new version, you can play all day long and you can win several size variations of links on the page, or the jackpot of a 250×250 link. I’m thinking of adding cash to it, too, but no decision on that yet. Free Ads Slots also has its own widget and once again, if someone hits a jackpot after coming through your widget, you hit the jackpot, too.

Get your IZEA Real Rank badge
When IZEA announced the launch of their Real Rank algorithm, they also opened up an API for geeks like me to play with, and of course, I couldn’t stay away. Within the hour, I released the first self-updating, hosted IZEA Real Rank badge. If you don’t know what that is, just go read the post and check it out.

There’s more stuff coming next month, too.

I’m interested in what you all think, too. Which is your favorite contest? What future contests would you like to see here? What have you won from other sites?