Hi everyone and welcome to our first guest blogging contest of 2012. Last year was very exciting as we gave away thousands of dollars to our Blog Engage members. This year we plan to go bigger and engage in more contests throughout the year. What a better way to start the year off with a $500 USD contest?

The contest runs from February 1st, 2012 to February 29th 2012. Articles will only be accepted until February 29th 2012 and no later. Contestants will be given to March 15th 2012 to market and promote. The winners will be announced on March 15th 2012.

Special Note:

Blog Engage will be giving away $1000 USD at the end of 2012. This years winner for 2011 was Kira. If you want a chance to win this $1000 USD all you have to do is enter one of our guest blogging contests. Come the end of the year I will take the best guest articles everyone has written and create one big final contest to award someone with $1000 USD cash. (more…)

Do you have a band or are you a musician trying to build your brand on the internet? Are you looking for a great looking theme but do not want some standard Flash styled theme? A lot of music and art related themes are Flash based sites.

To get a great looking theme that isn’t Flash can be hard. There aren’t that many out there. As for the ones that are, in my opinion they do not look that great. But Woo Themes has resolved that issue. On January 26th, they release a great theme for bands and musicians.

Unsigned Features

Unsigned is a powerful theme for bands and musicians looking to showcase their music. You can do almost anything with this theme. You want to display your music, tours, photos, videos and band bio, no problem, Unsigned will do it with ease. It’s even setup so you can sell albums and merchandise! (more…)

We all want blog traffic; we all want more readers, comments and money. Let’s face it, these tasks are not easy and when we have no one to learn from it can become very frustrating while others around us continue to excel and succeed.

My Friend Ana, from Traffic Generation Cafe can help you meet all your online blogging goals. She knows the secrets to success and is willing to share these secrets with you.

She has a program dedicated to helping blogger generate quality traffic to their blog sites. Ana has written a Free SEO Report that will help you learn how the big bloggers generate their traffic. This report will share the 7 steps Ana had taken to have full Search engine control. (more…)

What a great feeling it is to reward someone for their hard work with $1000 USD. I want you to also have that feeling. I want to reward you with $1000 USD cold hard cash.

Throughout the entire year of 2012 we will be hosting many guest blogging contests. When you join these contests your guest articles will automatically be pre entered for a chance to win $1000 USD.

Make sure to stay tuned however because at the end of the year, December, 01, 2012 we will have one last qualifying article for you to write so make sure you don’t miss this. This will be separate and different from each contest qualifying article, don’t be mistaken and pay close attention.

That’s it, that’s all, you join our blogging contests throughout 2012, and we will enter your guest blog articles into a chance to win the 1000 USD Best Guest Blogger of 2012 Award. It’s very important you subscribe to our blog so you don’t miss the final qualification rules which will be shared on December, 01, 2012. (more…)

What an amazing year of growth for our blogging community. As I sit here reading over the contestant articles and calculating the points it simply amazes me in how much we have helped one another grow.

Congratulations to all our blogging friends who have joined the contests. I know it was a long one as this was an entire year event. I hope our $1000 USD Best Guest Blogger of 2012 contest has even more contestants.

After counting all the points it was very clear who this years Best Guest Blogger would be. With over 190 engaging comments, 87 Votes on Blog Engage, 351 Shares on LinkedIN, 628 Likes on Facebook, 3824 Tweets and 85 Google pluses the winner is… (more…)

The growth of Blog Engage has been extremely successful thanks to you our amazing members. Sadly many bloggers cannot afford the cost of a Blog Engage membership. For this reason the original starting price of $29.99 USD has been reduced to $9.99 USD.

I want to grow the Blog Engage community but at the same time I don’t want to limit the opportunities of others. Reducing the cost is a great way to open the doors while still maintaining quality control.

I see many great and talented bloggers working hard at winning our contests; unfortunately most never win and are still not members of our community. Today we have reduced the costs of joining Blog Engage dramatically and are opening the doors for many new bloggers.

I have more great news!

From today on, all new members can waive the signup fee by subscribing to anyone of our RSS and Marketing Packages. So instead of paying $9.99 USD to join, simply subscribe to anyone of RSS and Marketing Services packages and we will waive the $9.99 USD membership fee. You can cancel your RSS and Marketing Service anytime your Blog Engage account will always belong to you. (more…)

I know blogging can be very stressful and at times over whelming. This is why it’s so important to have a positive attitude when blogging and perhaps even an escape from reality. I don’t know about you but I have a busy life, I work full time, manage Blog Engage and still have to produce content daily here on our community blog.

With all this stress in our lives we have to find a way to release it, but in a manor that doesn’t affect anyone else while still bringing a more positive attitude into our lives. Timo Kiander is the perfect place to find great advice on taking care of your body ind and soul.

It’s so important that we take care of our selves during these stressful ties. We don’t want this stress being released on friends, family and our blog readers. One of my favorite quotes from Timo is as follows, “I help people develop themselves first & their business second”. (more…)

Are you looking for a new theme? Maybe a business theme? But its got to be mobile friendly. If so, I have a great theme for you. Just last week StudioPress released a new theme that not only looks good on a desktop, but it will also look good on any mobile device and any screen.

On January 26th, StudioPress released their latest theme, eleven40 Child Theme. The new theme is the second theme released by StudioPress that was developed for mobile devices. It uses responsive design so it will look good on any screen size. eleven40 is also their first theme that extends the design out to 1140px instead of the normal 960px wide designs we normally see on a StudioPress Child Theme.

eleven40 Child Theme Features

Besides the responsive design and the 1140px width, eleven40 comes with four layout options, six color schemes, custom background, featured images, and threaded comments. Plus, you get all the added features of the Genesis Framework. (more…)