G is For Give-Aways

I hope that today's post will spark your creative juices and you'll be able to apply some of the ideas generated from this post to add some sparkle to your own blog.

You may also win yourself some lovely prizes including:

1st Prize: a copy of my ebook, How to get quoted in the media and a $15 Amazon gift card.
2nd Prize: a copy of How to get quoted in the media and $10 Amazon gift card
3rd Prize: a copy of How to get quoted in the media and a $5 Amazon gift card

How to enter the competition

Entering this give-away is easy. All you have to do is leave a comment at the end of this post, something that you were already planning to do.

You comment can be about:

• How give-aways could benefit your blog
• How to choose give-away prizes
• Give-aways your blog visitors might find useful/enjoy 
• How to get valuable stuff to give away on your blog
• The post itself - just say you were here and want to be entered for the give-away

Entry rules

• The competition starts today, on the morning of the 18 February. Entries will be accepted until the evening of Sunday23rd February.  This ensures that people in most time zones are able to enter the competition and those who are swamped with work and blogging have the weekend to enter the competition.
• Winners will be announced on this blog on Monday 24th. I will then email them their  prizes.
• Please note that the judges' decision is final and we will enter into no correspondence regarding the competition.

How the winner will be chosen

• The winner will be chosen in as random a manner as I can manage. Basically, I'm going to print the comments page and cut each comment out into a small piece. 
• The pieces go into a bowl, and my mother, who has never read a blog in her life, will pick out the winner. She doesn't  know any one of my blog readers, so there will be no favouritism involved.

Well, that's it, and good luck!

Edited to add: The winners are:

1st prize - Michelle Gibson
2nd Prize- Rochefel Rivera
3rd Prize - Student Mommy

Thank you all for participating. I'll be in touch with all the winners.

Give Away: CD by Sha-Q (R &B artist, South African)

I didn't realise that one of my neighbours is an up and coming music producer. I've known him for the five and half years I've lived here and we chat quite a bit. But the question of what we do professionally has never come up.

Until this weekend, that is. He gave me a couple of CDs of one of his artists - Sha-Q - and it's quite good actually. Never heard of the musician before, though apparently he's done a lot of gigs in and around Johannesburg and other locations.

Anyhoo, I have a CD to give away. If you like trying out new musicians and like R &B and Soul, enter the give-away by taking a poll and leaving a comment on this post.

I'll announce the winner on Friday 4th September and mail the CD soon after.