By now, my regular readers know all about my love for my dedicated server host, Codero. I really never have any problems at all and my uptime is always 99.99%+ This month, they’ve given me more reason to love them. From November 1st through the end of 2011, Codero is giving away a lot of cool prizes and all you have to do to be entered to win is Like Codero on Facebook. I’m entered and I’m hoping to take home the iPad 2. Below is a list of all the prizes:
Win These Prizes
11.04.2011 Wii Video Game Console (sorry… Jan Warner already won this)
11.11.2011 Amazon $200 Gift Card
11.18.2011 PlayStation PS3
11.25.2011 Amazon $100 Gift Card
12.02.2011 Xbox with Kinect
12.09.2011 iTunes $100 Gift Card
12.16.2011 GameStop $100 Gift Card
12.23.2011 iPad2 (32GB)
Back in April, I stumbled across a post on Dragonblogger.com about a contest on Leapfish.com. Te contest is the Leapfish $100k Cash Dash. That’s $100k as in on hundred thousand dollars. I was immediately interested, but wondered if I’d have a chance at any of the prizes.
I Won A Laptop (And An iPad)
Pictured above is what came in the mail for me last week. Inside the box was this Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop.
It’s loaded with 3 GB of RAM, Pentium 2.2 GHz Dual Core CPU, 250 GB hard drive and Windows 7 Home Premium. Best of all, it was free as a prize from Leapfish and the Cash Dash contest. As I mentioned, I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to get a prize with a contest like this, but I did everything I could to earn points and kept earning until I reached the 4,000 points required to win one of the three laptops they offered up as prizes. When I was done, I kept the momentum going until I had the 10,000 points required to win one of three Apple iPads. That’s right. I won a laptop and an iPad. I couldn’t believe it, either. At 11,270 points, I stopped shooting for points because I’m happy with what I’ve won already, but it wasn’t long before the larger non-cash prizes were snatched up.
Still More To Win
The prizes that have already been won are great, but the bigger prizes are still out there. Leapfish is a new search engine with a social twist and some real-time search features that not only outshines other search engines in some ways, but it also combines results from Yahoo!, Bing!, and Google. They set up the contest to get the word out. The goal of the contest if to get 1,000,000 people to set LeapFish as their homepage. To do this, they’re giving out cash prizes when they hit specific milestones. For example, when 25,000 people have set Leapfish.com as their homepage, the site will give one winner $1,000 cash. At the 50,000 mark, they’re giving out $2,500 and so on, all the way up to a $50,000 cash prize for one winner at the 1,000,000 mark. They’re just over 500 so far, so there’s a long way to go, but if you join up and spread the word, you’ll get points (entries in the contest) and help get Leapfish closer to a cash prize milestone.
I’m writing this post on the laptop I won, my iPad should be on its way to me soon, and I still have a shot at some of the cash. Sign up and maybe you’ll win some, too.
Today, on DragonBlogger.com, I came across a contest held by a search site I’ve seen promoting a lot lately. The site is Leapfish and the contest is the Leapfish $100k Cash Dash (before you enter, read below about what I’m giving away). I hadn’t really checked out the site before, and I must admit, the contest got me to look. Here’s what I found:
Search with Leapfish
Searching with Leapfish is pretty cool. It has the most popular from many segments of the web on the homepage, like video, Digg items, deals, and various types of news. When you search, you get results in video, images, news, deals, etc and then you also get standard results from Google, Yahoo, and Bing. It’s like an all-in-one search and I’m really liking it. In fact, I even added it on my sidebar over on the right. Try it out by typing something in the little search box and clicking the button.
Win with Leapfish and JoeTech.com
Leapfish has a pretty cool contest, and I want to win, but I need your help. To enter, you earn points and those points are like raffle tickets. The more you earn, the better your odds, but those who earn fastest get the cool prizes. I get points if I refer some people to Leapfish, so everyone who emails me asking to be invited and then signs upclick here to sign up and you will be entered to win on of the following (your choice):
All you have to do is email for an invitation and then sign up when you get your invitation. You can also get extra entries in my contest by posting a link to this post on Twitter or Facebook. Just comment below with the URL to your tweet or facebook update. Each tweet or update gets you an entry. The contest ends either when I win one of the prizes or on May 15th, whichever comes first, so hurry and participate. Of course, Leapfish has even bigger prizes, but why not win mine as well. Oh… and if I win anything from Leapfish in their contest, my winner gets BOTH prizes above.
UPDATE: It looks like I may have nabbed one of the LeapFish prizes which will mean one of you who helped me will win both items above. Now I’m shooting for TWO prizes from LeapFish and if I get two, I’ll find something else cool to give away to you guys for helping!
Today, I found out about the Its a BluWorld contest being held by the people who make the BluFrog energy drink. Most people know I love contests, but I also don’t like a contest that is too hard to enter and this one is incredibly easy. You can enter with a blog post or a simple tweet or even just comment on their contest page. First, though, I want to mention the prizes, because they are really unique and just plain cool.
The prize I want to win is the Happy Blu-Year trip to spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square. They’ll fly the winner and a friend out, put you me up in a hotel for three nights, cover the ground transportation to and from the airport, and throw in a helicopter ride for two over New York City and an X-Shot. I’ve never watched the ball drop in person from Times Square, so it would be the experience of a lifetime for me. Of course, if I win, the first thing I’ll do is call Michelle and let her know. Then there would be a blog post about it and I’d tweet my excitement to the world, followed by me running around the office telling everyone. I’m excited already, just thinking about it.
My prize choice was a hard one to make, though. They’ve got five cool prize packages. Check out what else you could win:
BluStreak: Win a Richard Petty Racing Experience
* Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
* Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
* Luxurious hotel for 2 nights
* 2 Tickets for Rookie Driving Experience
* Complimentary X-Shot
* Food and Beverages NOT included
BluGamer: The Ultimate Gaming Package
* Xbox 360 Elite System (includes 1 controller & Xbox LIVE Headset)
* Rock Band 2 Bundle
* Call of Duty: World at War Complete Package
* Xbox Wireless Networking Adapter
* Complimentary X-Shot
* 2 Cases of Blu Frog Energy
Blullapalooza: Win a trip to Lolapalloza in Chicago
* Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
* Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
* Luxurious hotel for 2 nights
* 2 Tickets to Lollapalooza
* Complimentary X-Shot & iPod loaded with music
* Food and Beverages NOT included
XtremeBLU: Win a trip to the Winter X Games in Aspen
* Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
* Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
* Luxurious hotel for 3 nights
* 2 Tickets to Winter X Games
* Complimentary X-Shot
* Food and Beverages NOT included
My close second choice would be the Driving experience. I’d love to whip around in a race car at high speeds for a few laps. I know I don’t have to tell you by now, but you should all enter. As easy as they make it, why wouldn’t you. And what if you win? What prize would you want to win? How excited would you be to win that prize? Comment below and let me know.
