Amazing
Business
Ideas!

A lot (and I mean a lot) of people are trying to make money by blogging, myself included with several niche blogs and some really, really general ones! Some make a reasonable amount of cash everyday, some have good days and bad days, and some never see a single visitor!

Announcing yourself to the world and getting links to your site from other prominent bloggers to build your reputation is both time consuming and requires a certain degree of patience (something not everyone has!).

However, a recent trend by several blogs I’ve visited has been to launch a competition, a “comment on this blog post and link to it and be drawn at random from the people entered”, if the prize is good enough it’s a sure fire way of creating a bit of buzz around your site and getting it discussed far and wide across the blogosphere.

This post is exactly that, an entry into the competition over at BusinessBlogger.net to win $500, second prize is a graphics card (a bit random, but I’m sure it’s a worthy prize to some).

Alright, why are they doing this? They’ve just launched Business+Directory, a business directory and have a special offer in that for the entire month of February they’ll be doing free reviews - they need a bit of publicity and this is it! As they normally charge $49 for a request to be included in the directory (whether you get accepted or not - this is quite a good deal!).

The competition requires a minimum of 50 entrants to ensure that the $500 is paid out, so if you’re reading this and thinking $500/£250 would come in quite handy around now, then what are you waiting for - get entered!

If you’re thinking of launching a site in the near future, why not think about a competition to publicise it?