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Most of you probably already knew that David Airey was holding a contest on his Graphic Design Blog, to celebrate the fact his blog just turned 1. The contest is over, and with over $4,000 in prizes and 28 winners, it was definitely a success.

The reason I’m writing this, is because I was a sponsor in this contest. I told David I’d give 3 prizes:

• A custom header/logo design
• A 125×125px ad spot on SmartWealthyRich for 30 days
• A 125×125px ad spot on FreelanceFolder for 30 days

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Tags: Blogging, Fun, News by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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I’ve been working on that for a couple of days now, reading everything I could find about building a wordpress theme (I’m really used to customizing a theme, but building a new one is something I never really attempted before). So I finally decided to do it. The theme is not ready yet, it will be available real soon though. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Fun, News, Wordpress by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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You probably have heard of this contest by now, but I thought I’d write about it anyway, cause it’s HUGE. I told David I would give free advertisement both on SWR and on FreelanceFolder and also a custom logo/header design. Yep :)

Here are the prizes:
Gold

• Custom logo from David Airey.
• Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill.
• Personal marketing / advertising plan from Maki of Dosh Dosh.
• One year’s hosting and blog setup from John Boardley of I Love Typography.
• Signed copy of Blogging Tips by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress.

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Tags: Blogging, Fun, Links, News by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Lists are extremely popular among bloggers, not only because of the links you can get from being on those lists, but also because you can discover new sites you would’ve never heard of otherwise. Many of the blogs on this list I read regularly, but I found a lot of new blogs also.

I’m a sucker for everything that has to do with personal development. So I had to join this project :)

I’m not a big fan of lists though, in fact I asked to have my blogs removed from a couple of lists that were floating around the blogosphere, but this is a list I’m particularily proud to be on.

My blogs are not necessarily about personal development, but I guess they fit on the list.

This was started by Priscilla Palmer, and already the list is quite long. Feel free to add to the list if you feel your blog or a blog you know would fit on there.

Here it is: [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Life, Links, Self-Improvement by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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For those of you who haven’t seen this video yet, here it is. ;)

Those folks made a video of a fake corporate meeting, but with a “blogging turned bad” twist (can you spot the trolls?)

Lookout for spam around the end, CAPTCHA is pretty effective I guess.

“when things turn bad in a comment section” - Video not suitable for everyone.

I’ve seen worse comments than the ones in the video on some posts on Digg. ;)

Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Internet, Ranting by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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BloggersUnite Against Abuse - September 27th

Some time ago Tony at BlogCatalog announced a new “blogging challenge“, blogging against abuse, any kind of abuse. This will take place on September 27th. You can read about it on the official BlogCatalog Blog and on the Discussion Board.

The goal is to get as many bloggers as possible to post about “abuse” on the same day, and if some feel charitable, give some money to organizations (you choose which ones). Simply a nice way to “give back“. Anyone can enter this challenge, just have to post about it on September 27th, if you’re a member of BlogCatalog, check out the discussion board. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Charity, Conversational Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Life, News, Wealth by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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About 2 weeks ago, Scot from Meridian Crest sent me an invite to a (relatively) new service called 8apps.

How do you get all those beta invites Scot? :)

Leave a comment on my review post on FreelanceFolder, or drop me an e-mail, or leave a comment on here, and I’ll send an invite your way.

Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Networking, Products, Services by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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As some of you may already know, I’m starting a new multi-author blog this week. I just can’t wait, maybe I’ll be able to get some sleep once it’s all up and running, or maybe not! :)

I’d like to ask you something. I’m thinking of holding a contest on this new blog, to get the ball rolling and reward people that visit, leave comments and subscribe to the RSS feed. It’s always nice to know you can win something simply for being active in a community or on a blog.

I could really use your input and feedback on that. [Read more →]

Tags: Creativity, Fun, News by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Some of you already know I’m a guitar player, and I’ve been playing for 13 years now, and I’m now in the studio with my band recording an album that should see the day sometime this Fall. I learned so much playing in a rock band and with heavy acts, that it got me thinking about how can my experiences relate to my online business.

Playing guitar in a rock band and running an online business have quite a lot of similarities in fact. Let’s see:

The Right People

We all know how important it is to partner up with the right people, either in music or in business, it’s quite the same thing. When you spend most of your time with the same 3-4 people, working on songs, recording and rehearsing, you quickly realize how important it is you work with the right people. Or else the band will fail. Everyone has to be on the same page. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Business, Fun, Life, Online Business by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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Just a quick post to let you guyz and galz know about this:

Blog Catalog, one of my favorite community sites is having a contest, where you can win $2,500USD. I thought I could mention this on here, cause I know you guyz can come up with killer ideas.

Here’s the official post on the BlogCatalog Discussion Forum.

Develop, create and submit an idea/innovation plan that when implemented will make BlogCatalog the most extraordinary Blogger Social Community on the internet. - BlogCatalog

The goal here is to get people to submit their ideas on how to make BlogCatalog a better community site! An extraordinary community site! :) [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Fun, Money, News by Jon - SmartWealthyRich
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