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My how the times have changed!

The popular Internet social/micro message blogging platform, Twitter.com, gives you 140 characters to get the job done.  This creeps some long winded (a-hem) people out, and to others it is the all saving grace.

Make your point in 140 key strokes or die.

So along comes TinyURL.com a neat service that takes any length url line that you can type into it, or copy and paste into it, and then reduces it to just a few characters, say about 10 to 14 or so.  This is a really nice feature. It is free, and there is an add-on for most browsers, and it allows you to include a link in your Twitter message that is much shorter that the original and then you can type more BS in your message box.

Now along comes a new company, XR.com.  That is their real url, XR.com.  See where we are going here?

This company XR is already a leg up on the competition because their name is shorter, XR = 2, TinyURL = 7.

XR wins the “Mine is Shorter Than Yours Contest” ! -  (I bet you never thought you would see the day…)

What it boils down to is if a shorter url encrypted line is needed, then you should try XR.com.

Thanks to JohnChow.com for this great news, and John is running a contest right now, until Christmas that is sponsored by XR and you can win SIX THOUSAND BUCKS!  American Moolah!  Casherino!

The lucky winner, (wouldn’t it be nice if it was moi?) will receive $5,000 to go to their favorite charity, (like The Salvation Army,) and $1,000 US dollars to use for themselves in any way they want to.

Now that’s what I call a contest!

Here is a link to the contest post: http://xr.com/7vz

I’m Rich

NameCheap the west coast hosting company and domain registrar, is sponsoring an enormous contest on Twitter, starting tonight at Midnight Pacific time.

Every hour there will be a new trivia question asked from now until Christmas. You should all have at least some kind of decent chance to win some of their $17,000 dollars worth of giveaway prizes.

NameCheap is well known for having various types of hosting packages to fit any budget. Now you can possibly win free domain names, or free hosting packages in this Twitter contest.

If you have not yet registered for Twitter yet, and you two people know who you are, then you should get right over there and get a Twitter @[handle]. Say what you need to say in 140 characters or less and twit, tweet away.

You can follow me on Twitter by going to Twitter.com/linkmoneydotorg and clicking on the “follow” button.

Oh yes, you will also have to follow Twitter.com/NameCheap to get in the trivia contest.

Do me a favor please, and Subscribe to this blog, and leave a comment.
Thanks.
Rich

Garry Conn is running a contest sponsored by PepperJam Networks.

The first twenty five bloggers that set up a PepperJam Store on any website of your choice, wins $10.00 and gets a chance at $100 prize for most creative.

Check it out.

Wow! Miguel Alvarez’ MarketingFactor website is holding a contest called the Blog Boost and is giving away several thousand dollars worth of prizes to four lucky individuals on September 20th.

You should visit the site and all you have to do to be in the drawing is to sign up to the MarketingFactor email newsletter, which is a great idea anyway because Miguel knows what he is talking about.

There are other very simple ways to add more chances to win by earing extra drawing tickets, such as to Friend Miguel on FaceBook, follow him on Twitter, etc.

You will gain a lot of very good information that you can use to optimize your site and all types of Internet Marketing tips when you read Miguel’s Blog at MarketingFactor.

Win an I-Pod Touch or a copy of Unique Blog Design’s “Citrus” professional WordPress theme.

This team of coders has been hammering out some extremely useful themes for a year now.  I have been using one of them on another Blog with great satisfaction, and the themes are VERY search engine friendly and have neat ways to monetize your site.

Check out UBD, MOSTLY for their quality themes, and oh yes the contest is cool too!

Hey you can’t win the Lottery if you don’t play!

Oh by the way, it is free to enter the contest.

I’m Rich !

Do you people know about Searchme dot com yet?

This is a way cool tool to look for webpages by keyword search and have a series of screenshot images of websites to choose from.

It is an excellent way to observe your own website for First Impression impulses in comparison with your competition.

It is still in Beta but it is free and very easy to use.

Check it out, it’s free! Searchme .

The above view is a screenshot of the search term Money Online.

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[Pssst:]  Cool contest going on over at CDF Networks -  Win free prizes!

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As stated in an earlier post, there is an excellent competition going on between John Cow and Garry Conn.  John Cow calls it a Cowpetition, and he teaches how to make Mooney online.

Here is some of his recent posting about some fantastic prizes:

Got some questions for you…

• Want to learn first hand how to “truly” make money online?
• Want to see from start to finish how we plan, research, build and market a blog to dominate and grow viral buzz?
• Want to see a real life case study from start to finish?
• Want a chance to WIN over $3000 OVER $27 000 in prizes?
• Want it all for FREE?

Here is the link to his latest post:

http://www.johncow.com/cowpetition/

You really need to check it out and enter the contest for free.