I would like to thank everyone again for participating in the ActiveRain Nature & Marketing contest.

To see the Finalists and the winners, click here.

After trying many eBook software programs, including paying for a couple of them, I didn't find one that I was happy with.

The free ones were either crippleware, spyware, annoyware, bloatware, or buggy, and the two that I paid for didn't do what they claimed to do and certainly were not easy to set up, to use to create an eBook, or to use the end product.

Thus, I'm back to Adobe Acrobat.

So here are all the entries that I could find from the contest. Look through them because I'll bet that many of them can give you some ideas on new and innovative things to do with your own marketing that might set you apart from your competition.

Interestingly, I was relying on the two groups -- Inspired by Nature and Guerrilla Marketing Tactics -- to go back and retrieve all the entries, but it turns out that apparently groups are limited to ten pages, so there is the possibility that some entries are not there. In fact, I believe eight entries are missing, so if you don't see yours, let me know and I'll add it in.

We are ActiveRain!

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