Okay, I have to do this quick, before Prunebutt catches me – you all know how he and Dave hate my “metablogging.” But the fact is, one of the prizes I won in Weblogbetter’s Surviving the Blog Contest includes a Blog Engage membership – one of those swanky business-level memberships that lets me share the goodies with my friends – each and every month! I have FIVE BLOG ENGAGE ACCOUNTS to give away, this month, along with one Gold membership (for a whole year!!). Here’s how to enter (see, I’m also trying out my nifty new Rafflecopter thingamabob):
That’s all there is to it! Fun, huh?
If you’re not familiar with Blog Engage, it’s a site that helps you to promote your blog posts – it’s a way to get your latest posts out there in front of a community of active, engaged bloggers and help drive more traffic (that’s “readers” and “eyeballs”) to your blog. And let’s be honest – who really writes a blog just to let it sit there lonely and unread? Whether you’re hoping to generate a little extra spending money or just increase your fame and garner fans, a site like Blog Engage can be really helpful. Just enter for your chance to give it a try – for free!
For even more information and more chances to win, visit OddBlogger and read Abhi Balani’s thoughts on Blog Engage. You can enter there, as well! Maybe he should have included membership in Blog Engage as one of his “signs of a good blogger“!
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Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and the instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.
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So, first of all, it still appears to me -12. Anyways, I have participated for gold membership.

Thanks for linking to my thoughts about Blog Engage.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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How strange! How many days do you see here, on mine? (Right now, it should show 30 days, 11 hours.)
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No it’s showing me -2 days. I think it’s counting how much days have passed. I am talking to Rafflecopter about this issue.
Glad you worked with your “About author box”.
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Pheewwww… Ends in 29 days and 17 hours.

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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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How do I have 53 comments but only 19 entries? C’mon, people – can’t win if you don’t enter! LOL
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That’s what I was saying, Holly. You should cross check if there isn’t a problem in the giveaway.
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And Holly, I tweeted once or I guess two times. After than I cannot see the option to tweet, now. It’s locked. Contestants are supposed to tweet every day.
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Really? How odd…wonder if Rafflecopter’s malfunctioning, somehow. It shouldn’t be locked.
It’s not MANDATORY to tweet daily. But you should see the OPTION daily. I don’t see a problem on this side – but if anyone else notices one, let me know.
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Rafflecopter is upset with only me, I guess.
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Odd? You use this word very much when you talk with me, Holly. LOL
And it’s not mandatory to tweet everyday but it increases the chances to WIN.
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Twitter: MarianAllen
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Girl, you are wearin’ me out! I just got on XeeMe, thanks to you. Doing Klout and Empire Avenue… That’s your scheme, isn’t it? Get me all tangled up in Social networking, so I don’t have time to write. That’s it, isn’t it? Isn’t it?
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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That is exactly right, Marian! You’ve caught on to my schemes…
I suppose I’ll just have to think up more and better ones! Did you enter the giveaway?
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Thanks a lot, Holly!!!
I got it.
Congrats to other winners.
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Twitter: MarianAllen
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Aifinkso. Plus enough more words so that your CommentLuv spam filter will let my comment through. So much for brevity being the soul of wit.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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*snicker* I want you to run them out in my comments. You know – I don’t think there’s a “Haiku” section in the Hugos – and maybe that’s all you’ll have left in you.
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Oh, is that so?
Silver rocket ship–
Holly and Mitchell watch as
It lands on my shelf.
MA
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Ooops. You miscalculated and turned your silver rocketship into a paperclip. Here, let me show you how it’s done…
Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Silver rocket ship?
Your Hugo dreams dashed, in a
mangled paperclip.
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Twitter: MarianAllen
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Mangled paperclip?
So my rocket appears in this
Backwoods dimension.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Backwards dimension?
Arrive before leaving it
With Hugo in hand.
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Hey Holly,
This sounds interesting though I am too busted at the moment to try something new
Do you have this coming up any time again (pretty please!) I might try it then!

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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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C’mon, Hajra – you’ve time for a tweet and have already left comments, so why not?
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Maybe. You do realize it takes about 2 minutes to do everything here but the blog post, right, Hajra? And that if you win, the BE membership will help you to promote your contest posts…
Sorry, Abhi, had to be honest about that. Oh, how I hate to have my loyalties ripped in half! Woe is me! Hajra, seriously, you can surely Tweet – and you’re probably already following everyone… and you’ve got one entry if you make it official, just for commenting…
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Ok, makes sense. But what I don’t like is application accessing my FB user info… there have been terrible experiences.. any suggestions on how safe is this?
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Hello, Hajra! If you don’t like to enter with Facebook, you can login with your email. May be, you have to sign out of Facebook before doing so.
Same giveaway is on my blog as well. You can try. Let me know if I can help.

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There’s always the option to forego any method of entry – you just get fewer entries that way.
But I’ve entered many giveaways using Rafflecopter and it doesn’t do anything heinous to the best of my knowledge.
Holly, “Oh, how I hate to have my loyalties ripped in half!”, are you pulling my leg? or teasing me as always?
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Little of both.
But I’m hoping that through this contest, you and Hajra will get to know each other and become good friends, just as she and I did when she trounced me last summer over on Weblogbetter.
Be kind to each other.
I am hoping this, too. To make her a good friend and learn from her.

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No complaints or razzing from me and I’ve decided to stop making fun of your metablogging Holly because it appeals to my capitalistic sensibilities; you’ve once again proven me wrong at my own game. I had to break out my twenty six year old “Badger” air brush so my son could fix the blemishes on the fabric headliner and leather seats of his car and turn it into a chic magnet. Imagine my discomfort when it didn’t work. Try finding a blog that provides an accurate and empirical description of Paasche’, Iwata or Badger airbrushes. Someone, a blogger preferably needs to aggregate product reviews. Forum posters can’t write and nobody trusts a manufacturer’s web site.
My son’s art was selected for his school’s yearbook cover for 2012 and they’re deciding between his rendering in pastel or “Sharpie”
LOL
He wouldn’t have known about using Sharpies for application other than shipping labels if I hadn’t passed along your product review via Blog Engage:)
Dave
Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Well, you keep right on complaining, Dave, if it gets stale and formulaic and un-Holly-like, okay? Would that be a fair compromise? And I’ll try to remember that you’re watching over my shoulder if I’m tempted to take shortcuts and join the herd.
I can’t remember, now, if it was Hadass or Karen or both who said, during the Surviving the Blog Contest: “Does DAVE know HE’S your Muse?” (Don’t tell Prunebutt. Cover his little pointy spines – I think that’s where his ears are. He just THINKS he’s my Muse – he’s really more like your scary little enforcer. But your disappointment is scarier than the little porcupine-like sausage ball with owl’s eyes, over there.)
I’m not sure Googling “badger airbrush” would be safe for work, Dave. What are you trying to do to me? *snarf* And I’m so proud – now you have to promise to send me a scan of the Yearbook cover when your son’s done with it!
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I actually had to look up -muse- on dictionary.com when one of your herd mentioned it, I lazily assumed it was a euphemism for “pain in the neck”:)
So…like Erma Bombeck said: “When are you going to invite us into the good living room?” What’s happening with your new blog? Will it be the same eclectic gang of enjoyable characters? I hate it when producers change cast…
Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Did I not invite you?? Seriously? OMG. My promo skills are slacking. Apparently, so is my ability to see all the comments on my blog when they’re made… what the heck?
Anyway – it’s at http://race2hugo.net and the cast of characters is a bit different.
I think you and Prunebutt will both approve, though. LOL – just because one’s Muse can occasionally BE a PITA doesn’t mean that’s what a Muse is, Dave. And you and Prunebutt really only bring out the mean when I richly deserve it, so it’s all good. Keep it coming!
Holly Jahangiri would appreciate your reading Drive-by Guest Bloggers: The Dangers of Spun and PLR Content
I thought the vaunted Hugo race was for bloggers only, I stole a peek anyway; Marian Allen engineered a tasty fabrication over there, she adds characters to a story like the Vatican adds Saints
Kind of confusing … I tried to leave a comment before and it crashed on me, but now it’s showing I already left a comment. But I decided to leave you one anyway
.
I’d love to win one of those memberships – maybe I’ll get more serous about blogging then
.
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Well go enter over at Abhi’s contest, too – there are lots of giveaways running right now – big promotional push for a new year at Blog Engage! And I’ll be able to do this at least one, maybe two more times before my swanky top-of-the-line Business PLUS Blog Engage membership runs out. (I got three months of that, plus 9 months’ Platinum Services as part of my winnings in the Surviving the Blog Contest.)
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Woo hoo. So when are you going to let me know that I have won
I will be mentioning you in a blog post tomorrow and will link to both of your blogs and promote two of your books. Hope your week is going well…or are you off for MLK day today?
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I was, indeed, Alan. You’re doing WHAT today?? (Why is this blog not sending me all my notices?? I was over there on Google+, playing political activist and pondering imponderables. I did not see that there were new comments here! :: kicks tires ::)
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I’m sipping a cup of coffee that I Really shouldn’t have– cuz I’m supposed to go to the clinic and have blood drawn in a couple of hours. For myself, I have been oh so pleased at how well WordPress.com handles things like comments so that I don’t have to.
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Hi Holly,
That was a great offer right there. I’ve got here to late I guess

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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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No, not at all – enter, please! The contest runs for thirty days.
Hey Sylviane, You can try it on my blog, too.

Abhi Balani would appreciate your reading New Year Giveaway : 5 Blog Engage accounts and 1 year Gold membership
Holly, don’t you think you need to promote this post a little? Let me help you in this.
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Must say it is a great contest.Thanks for organising such a great contest.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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You’re welcome! I trust you’ve entered? The number of entries seems surprisingly low – which just makes everyone’s odds good, eh? (Wish I could just hand out the BE memberships to everyone like trick-or-treat candy!)
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Promoting the Giveaway is great method to get maximum exposure of the blog. I that way i entered into your blog and i m really happy to participate on this giveaway to win the free blog engage membership account.
Some might say “less talk more work” today we say “Less talk more entries” lol Make sure to participate the prizes are great you know. Best of luck everyone.
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Well, I keep telling you, Brian – so many of my visitors don’t blog. I know that’s like a foreign and incomprehensible thing for many, but it’s true. (For the rest of you who DO blog, entering this contest is really, really easy – and you’ve got nothing to lose by trying.)
OMG, so long conversation but less participants. BE giveaway on my blog is finished, now. Pointing each banner on my 3 blogs to this giveaway.

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Excellent! Who won? (You could include a link to the results – I would let that through. My bouncers look burly, but they know you by now, I’m sure.
Ohk, lets see.
SO here’s the link: http://www.oddblogger.com/2012/01/new-year-giveaway-5-blog-engage.html
Congrats all 5 winners.

Abhi Balani would appreciate your reading Good Blogger And A Good Blog: What Are The Signs?
You were right, Holly. I’m in whitelist.
Thanks for that. 

Abhi Balani would appreciate your reading Good Blogger And A Good Blog: What Are The Signs?
Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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See? You do know how to leave links that are not CommentLuv links. I can be kind to my friends and fellow bloggers (but abuse me with spam, and there’s a blacklist, too
– they don’t call me “Ming the Merciless” for nothin’!)
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Thank you, Brian! For sponsoring the giveaway on OddBlogger.
Announced the winners just now.
Abhi Balani would appreciate your reading Good Blogger And A Good Blog: What Are The Signs?
What is this, Holly? Sometimes I see “OddBlogger” in your Top Commentluvvers widget, now it’s showing Abhi Balani. I never used Oddblogger as my name, to comment.
Abhi Balani would appreciate your reading Good Blogger And A Good Blog: What Are The Signs?
You might have to ask Andy Bailey about that one! I’ve no idea. I hadn’t noticed anything there but your name, honestly.
Andy? He haven’t even published my comment, yet. LOL And reply to my chat, Holly. I’m waiting.
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I would love to expend my blogging experience with blog engage..

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Then you came to right place. I just announced winners of giveaway on my blog, a few hours ago.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Abhi, for the duration of your contest, you may also include a relevant link to a post you’re referring to, so as not to confuse the heck out of everyone.
What? I didn’t get you, Holly.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Great! Lots of ways to enter – good luck to you, and thanks for visiting!
Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Good luck, then – I hope you land one of the memberships!
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Would love to get a Blog engage account. I have been trying to get into the community.
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All the best, Nirmal. Remember to tweet everyday to increase your chances to win.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Listen to Abhi, there – he’s becoming quite the knowledgeable blogging and contesting coach!
Holly Jahangiri would appreciate your reading Drive-by Guest Bloggers: The Dangers of Spun and PLR Content
Haha… I like your comment very much, Holly.

Abhi Balani would appreciate your reading Good Blogger And A Good Blog: What Are The Signs?
Holly, tweet button working now. I’m in again for GOLD.

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[...] Blog Engage is a service where you can get free backlinks and reviews for your articles. However you need a Gold Silver or a Bronze membership to get going. TheBadBlogger is holding a contest on winning a membership for Gold account for one year. Visit: http://jahangiri.us/new/2012/01/13/blog-engage-goodies-to-give-away/ [...]
Just completed all these steps. I am a start up in the Blogging and I am looking for ways to improve my Blog and my knowledge on Blogging. BlogEngage looks promising for every Blogger who wants to rise. I want to try my shot at it once.

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All the best, Sameer. Blog Engage will help you to meet top bloggers. Make friends there and learn from each other’s experience.
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Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Best of luck to you, Sameer! Thanks for entering.
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As a brand new blogger getting ready to launch their site at the end of this month, a BlogEngage membership (to me) would be like finding the “holy grail”. It would allow me the opportunity to start my blog off on the right foot, with all the benefits that come from being a BlogEngage member.
Thank you for this opportunity
Twitter: HollyJahangiri
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Fantastic! I’m happy you won it here, then, Dina!
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OK. It was my last tweet, Holly!! Hope to win GOLD.

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