Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

This is an important update. Blogtown Press will now Ship Coconuts Worldwide!!!

We’ve had several people interested in the contest but dissapointed that we only shipped to 4 countries. Well we checked again and the USPS will ship worldwide a Coconut, without the box, like a postcard to anywhere it ships!

That’s great news to those of you interested but living in different countries than what we originally mentioned!

The Link to a Coconut Contest Rules have been updated and a blog post has been made. Please update you postings if you mentioned this or tell your pals the good news. Anyone can enter and win a coconut postcard!!!

That’s a good explanation, a Coconut Postcard.

In an effort to make it easier for bloggers to enter the contest I’ve posted links to all the post-by-post Archives of each blog. These are the title and date archives so it should be super simple to create post to enter the contest. You can be blatant about the entry and say it’s a linkbaiting entry or you can just copy and paste what I have written here.

Here are the daily archives:

Blogging On Empty
Wicked Backhand
Getting to Scratch
Wie Blogging
Freddy Adu Blog
Financing Wealth
Blog Silver
Erik Vossman’s Blog
Fueling the World
Sprint Rants
Aloha Update
Rumor Patrol
Good Luck!

Ok, for those of you who have emailed me regarding the contest and what the post needs to entail I say, not much. Just a simple post. If you’re one of the first 5 to enter the contest you can get a free PR5 link from this blog to yours active for at least two months on all pages. In fact here’s two examples of how simple the post can be……

Example 1:

TITLE: Link to a Coconut Contest Entry

I’m trying to win a coconut from Blogtown Press Blog Network and in the process found these articles you might enjoy.

Tim Roth wonders who killed the Electric Car over at Fueling the World, while Freddy Aduworks out with Man U.

Example 2:

TITLE: Use a contest to promote your Site launch

Using a contest to promote the launch of your site or product isn’t new. Blogtown Press is utilizing this method through their Link to a Coconut Contest where you can win a coconut by linking to posts in their blog network.

I ventured through their blogs and found some helpful hints at Blogging on Empty about not wasting time checking stats.

See it’s super easy! You can win a coconut and get some good pr links.

It’s finally here! I give you to Blogtown Press. A network of blogs where we bring you news, entertainment, and reward you, our readers!

To kick off the launch of Blogtown Press blog network we’re having a contest where we’re giving away a coconut straight from Hawaii, where Blogtown Press is headquartered! That’s right you can win a coconut like that in the image below in our Link to a Coconut Contest!

 We’re choosing three posts within our network of blogs and you can win one of three coconuts. All you have to do is link to the correct post and you’ll get a genuine Hawaiian coconut plastered with some genuine Hawaii postage stamps.

You can see full rules at our Link to a Coconut Contest  Page. Feel free to use the contest image to help promote the contest and our blogs!

Aloha and

The launching of my blog network, equipped with a new layout, new blogs, and a brand new name, is less than 24 hours away!

I’m working on some finishing touches as well as making sure the associated blog network launch contest is ready to go. I’ve checked with the post office and they tell me I’m allowed to send the contest winnings through the mail so now all I have to do is fine tune the contest rules and the contest will be in the launch.

The contest is going to need YOUR! participation to make it a success so please stay tuned to see how you can help and win.

Oh, yeah, and I hope you like the new look and are able to navigate the new color themes. I’ve allowed users to switch between a University of Michigan Inspired theme, a Green Bay Packers inspired theme and a neutral red and black theme. Have fun with the colors and enjoy the new looks.

Almost there….

Only three days to go and I’m feeling a little anxious. I will be launching the blog network, with new site designs and a new name. It’ll also come with a launch contest and the only two hints that I’m giving is that it will be used to help promote the various blogs that I have as well as allow those helping to win a little piece of paradise (or at least something cool from Hawaii.)

The reason for me getting a little anxious is because I haven’t found a blog design for this blog and was a little worried that I’d be launching with the same old design or something that I just threw together and wasn’t pleased with. Instead, I think I just found a design that’ll allow me to do the things I’ve wanted with this blog and keep things looking a little professional. So with that, I’m sorry if there’s a little blog dust around these parts. I’ll be prying up the floor boards every now and then and might make it look a little crazy at times.

Hope you like the design, the blog network and the contest. Stay tuned…

All blogs have now been redesigned, except this one. For those of you who are regular readers you can get a sneak peak if you know how to find the blogs. (Not too hard)

I also plan on making a weekend of redesigning erikvossman.com, coming fresh with a new name and all (but still same Erik Vossman Weblog). It’s been a process developing and redesigning and especially coming up with a name. But I’ve managed to put it all together and will be launching my blog network in 5 days.

Also I’d like to keep you all excited about the contest that I’ll be launching the network with. You’ll be able to win, in my mind, a very sweet prize straight from the Hawaiian Islands.

Stay tuned to see how you can win. By the way an interesting tid-bit. When I launch my network I will have been blogging for 1 year and two days. Boy what a year it’s been.

Updates: I have finally named my blog network and have been working on a blog network homepage, redesigning all blogs involved, and preparing a contest for the launch.

As much as I liked, and thought was catchy, erik’s blog network, I or shall I say we, needed a blog network name that was going to be easily remembered, catchy, pertain to blogging, and have kind of a news feel all at the same time. I’ve been toiling over a name on and off for the past 8 months. I even posted here asking readers to help me out, as well as at Yaro’s Business Forum, but mainly got encouragment rather than ideas. (By the way that was probably the best thing that I could have gotten at the time so thanks to those who helped out.)

Then one day I was out on a run, which I must admit I hadn’t been doing since that last triathlon about 2 months prior, and it hit me. After all those months of thinking of nothing it just came upon me. So I passed it by my fiance when I returned home and it was a hit. I reg’d it, as well as some other names I had been thinking of, and the network was born.

CONTESTI plan on rolling it out on Tuesday Novemeber 14th, 2006 with a great contest which will cost you nothing to enter and allow you to win something great from Hawaii!

Stay tuned and watch out as this blog will get a drastic redesign in the next few days.

I’ve acquired a few domain names over the past year and need to lighten the load. I’m looking to get rid of a few before I have to renew them and thought I’d list them here and see if my readers have any interest in them. Some of them I just haven’t had time to develop but thought they would be good for those people looking for decent content site ideas.

All of the following are reg’d at GoDaddy.com and expire sometime between next month and next July.

DIGIPHOTOEDITING.com
BLOGREPRENEUR.com
FindAScribe.com
GuideToGolfClubs.info
YourGolfClubGuide.com
MMAFightingTechnique.com
ScribeHut.com
NESFanatic.com
NESFanatics.com
NESFans.com
SubmitAnything.com
SubmitTaxes.com
SubmitYourTaxes.com
SumbitMyTaxes.com

Send an email to me if you’re interested in any or all of these names. I’m looking to get whatever you’re offering so send over your offers. Best or first offers takes them. (That is if I get two or more offers during the same email check I’ll let the offerers know the best offer and allow bidding from there, but if you’re first during my email checks (several times a day) with no other offers it’s yours!)

It’s that time again, earnings earnings earnings reports.

October was an OK month, again not horrible, but no amazing increase in earnings was seen from previous months. Last month I earned $89.64 from internet endeavours. This month:

Adsense = $24.74

Namedrive = $64.24

Affiliates = $0

Total = $88.98

Elsewhere:

One Dollar a Day saw $838.65

The Internet Cashflow Guy saw $369.85

Building my Empire had $100.36

Well that’s it for earnings reports, if you want to share yours with everyone, please feel free to post a comment with your earnings or or a link to your earnings post.

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