Thank you to all the participants for their hard work and excellent writing skills! I also want to thank everyone who helped to promote my first group writing project. My goal was to reach at least 40 entries and toward the end there, you guys really pulled through and submitted a total of 44 qualified entries. Thank you again to all the participants!
Now it is time to vote for your favorite entries to find out who wins the cash + bonus prizes! Take your time to read each one over the next week and post your top 3 favorite posts on your blog by September 25, 2007. You can also post any runner-ups on your blog, but only the top 3 will be counted toward the final vote. I will check back on each of your blogs and than will take a few days to tally up the votes and will post the winners.
Final Entries List
Top 5 ways to romance your blog by Phil Van Treuren
Public Speaking Made Easy by Cedric
Enter a How-To Contest for Cash by Matt Gibbs
How To Promote Yourself (When You Don’t Want To.) by Dee
How to create a post in Wordpress by Roberta Ferguson
How to Successfully Switch Your WordPress Theme Without Throwing Your Computer Through the Window by Steven Snell
How To Nail That Job Interview In The First Thirty Seconds by Martin Stoddart
How to speed up WordPress easily by Marco
Simple way to Track Downloads by Shrihari
How to Speed up your Torrent downloads by Felix
How To Review A Blog by AdTracker
How To Be A Flamer by WishBone
How To: Add Copyright Notices To Your Blog by Kyle Eslick
7 Steps to creating a successful community by Karthik
Contains Zero Trans Fat - Truth or Creative Advertising? by JoLynn Braley
How-To Guide: Increasing Your Sphere of Influence by Steve Belt
Beginners “How to” Guide for SEO by Steve
Add social bookmarking buttons to your blog by Girish Bhaskaran
How To Deal With Angry Customers by John
How to Have a Great Movie Experience by Em Dy
How To Make Your Wordpress Blog Safer by Simon Ward
Lock Folders without using any Software by Madhur Kapoor
Testing Lessons – Top 5 Secrets to Bug Hunting Success! by Debasis Pradhan
How To Track New RSS Subscribers Google Analytics in 3 Easy Steps by Rhys
How To: Install WordPress locally(on PC) by Sumesh
How To Pull In Quick Cash With a Myspace Resource Site by Levi
What the hell is a column inch: How to advertise in a local newspaper by Angela
How To Prepare For The Perfect Date by Shaun Low
How To Ride a Bicycle in the City by Roger Green
How do you track your comments? by pelf
How to become a better writer in 30 days by Writing Nag
Don’t You Want To Be An Internet Marketing Rock Star? by YC
3 Ways On How To Create A Buzz With Social Web Widgets I.E MyBlogLog And Blogrush by Jonathan Kok
How To Get Approved for PayPerPost With A New Blog by Karol Krizka
Tips and Tricks: How to Write, Send, Reply, and Forward E-Mail by Lillie Amman
5 Tips To Enter Sweepstakes Online by Monika
How to clip a cat’s claws without getting nailed by Mary Anne
Mind Map Tutorial on Blogging by Monika
Eating Crow by Susan Wingate
How to Become a Human Calendar by Luciano Passuell
The Client Cycle Explained by James Mitchell
How to Sleep on a Plane by Sheila
Screensaver for Promoting Your Company by David
Trick To Rename Internet Explorer Titlebar by Haris
Complementary Entry List
I have also listed a few complementary entries that did not qualify for voting for various reasons, but have included them here:
3 ways to tell if your mortgage broker is a cheat by Phil Van Treuren
5 Tips To Enter Contests by Monika Gordon
How to get your collateral back after a repo by Roberta Ferguson
How To Get RId Of a Hickey / Love Bite by J.W.M.C (NSFW - Not Safe For Work)
Being tone deaf doesn’t hurt (Verse I) by Joshua
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The response is great Sarah , all of this will keep me busy this weekend .
This is going to be fun
WOW.. I’d probably take at least 2 days to finish reading them all! =)
Wow! Massive list, Sarah! Great job
Good luck to all the entrants!
Wow Sarah,
That is a truck load of entries you got there. I wish everybody the best of luck with this comp. Well done.
Monika
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Cool - not only am I in, I’ve got a ton of new blogs to read! And I love new blogs….
Thanks Sarah,
for including me in the Contest! This is a truck full of links. Should be enough to keep me busy over the weekend. All the best to all the Participants [Including Myself ;c)].
–Debasis
Hi sarah,
That’s quite a list lol, but have managed to look at a couple and must confess that they are very interesting and great reading. Will just have to come back to read some more
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Wow, what a response. Going to have to hope people find my article useful and interesting to be in with a chance.
Another blog entry I need to write before me hols
That’s quite a collection Sarah, glad I could make it too
Would you be so kind as to correct the title of my entry to “7 Steps to creating a successful community”?
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This could take a while
Thanks for running this Sarah!
The bad thing about so many entries is that now I have to read that many entries.
While I’m excited to read them, I need to find the time. Anyway, quick question. We just pick 3? Or do we need to rank them as 1 through 3?
I’m off to start reading!
Phew! Just got in the last
Thanks for including me, Sarah. And that’s an awesome collection you have got now.
Thank you so much for qualifying my entry.
Looks like there are so many great posts and I really need time to read and decide. Thanks again and to every contestant: You guys are awesome to take part! 
Thank you Sarah for all this hard work and the prizes you are putting up. This week will be a renewal of learning basic skills
There’s only one “lock” for me, and that is…wait, check my blog on Tuesday.
I can’t thank everyone enough for participating and I’m sure regular readers will learn quite a bit from your how-to’s!
As for voting, you don’t have to place them in any order. Just that you only get 3 votes per participant. Also you can’t vote for yourself :c). I’m sure the rest of the participants wouldn’t mind if you list the entire list in your posts, but its all up to you!
Hi Sarah, I’m looking forward to reading all of the entries, this will certainly keep my busy, thanks!
Wow…what a list!!!!!!!!
Wish everyone good luck in the contest! Enjoy reading them all Sarah =)!
Cool gwp. I only found out about it yesterday otherwise I also would have joined in. I’ve already read some of the posts and they’re good.
Do people get points if non-participants vote via comments?
Jacob
Hi Israel, sorry you just found out about the group writing project! :c( Only the participants can vote but I’m sure the entrants would love to know which ones you like best, you can always comment on their blogs and they’d love that.
haha thats sooo many to read, i’ll post my picks before the deadline lol. congrats 44 is amazing results
Okay, I’ve made it through about 1/3 of these so far and already have a couple of favorites.
I didn’t enter because I didn’t think I had anything to write about BUT after I saw the one about how to pop a zit, I knew I was wrong.
Next time, I’m IN!
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Here are my votes:
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I’ve nearly finished looking through them all. Added 3 new blogs to my reader - this is what I love about these projects, finding new blogs to read.
My top three picks should be up soon.
Thanks for the correction Sarah, I appreciate it
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My Top 3
Hi Sara, just a small doubt…
Can I vote for myself??
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Thanks for qualifying my entry…
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I voted: http://rogerowengreen.blogspot.....ntest.html
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My votes are in at: http://blog.101bell.com/2007/0.....g-project/
Thanks again for organizing this fun contest.
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