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Activerain Contest- How Are You Using Your Outside Blog to Create Business?

It is Contest Time!!! A few months ago, Activerain launched the ability to have an outside domain name feed directly from your Activerain blog. Since then, many have set up their blog. So, with that in mind, here is the theme for the new contest: Outside Blog

How are You Using Your Outside Domain for your Activerain Blog to Create Business?

We want to know what you are doing with your outside blog!! Are you marketing it in your materials? Have you posted it on your business cards? We want to know how your outside blog is helping your business grow.

This contest is only for those of you who have your own domain name for your Activerain Outside Blog. Example: My outside domain for my Activerain blog is http://myrtlebeachhomesblog.com not http://myrtlebeachblog.activerain.com or http://activerain.com/myrtlebeachblog. If you are needing to set up an outside domain for your blog, follow this tutorial to set one up in minutes.

Also, since this is an Activerain contest, outside domains for blogs from other platforms (wordpress, blogger, etc) will not be eligible.

Here are the Rules:

All posts must be tagged, Fall Outside Blog Contest 2008.
All posts must be submitted to Outside Blogs Group.
All posts must be original content written after today's date.
One entry per person.
All entries must include a link to your Outside Domain Blog.
Contest Ends on November 7th.

Prizes!

First Place- 5,000 Points

Second Place- 2,500 Points

Third Place- 1,000 Points

All Entries will receive 200 bonus points for entering.

Judges

Jeremy Blanton- Founder of Outside Blogs Group

Carolyn Tann-Starr- Queen of Club Chaos

Jason Crouch- Yeah, we all know Jason....

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Posted by Jeremy Blanton ActiveRain Corp. on 10/21/2008 05:02 PM

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56 Comments on Activerain Contest- How Are You Using Your Outside Blog to Create Business?

OCT

2008

I think I'll enter my first contest on ActiveRain. I need to make my blog an outside blog first. Thanks for the tutorial link. ;)

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Great idea Jeremy. I'm looking forward to seeing how others are using their blog. Hopefully I'll get an idea or two for my outside blog.

Looks great, I'll have to check this out!

Thanks for the info.

How do I set up an outside Blog? Do you have instructions on this?

Thanks,

Robert

www.atexinspects.com

I love my outside blog. It is targeted and working like a charm!

I love my outside blog. I think I'll enter the contest soon.

What's the contest? It seems too easy.

Cool and a good way to get people thinking in terms of how they are marketing ... ( myself included)

Great way to show us how to market our blogs in different ways!

'Kay, I am gonna pull my hair out of my head. I will get to work on this. It is sort of like execising for me. I know I got to do it, just easier not to do it.

I am starting to like contests- and already another great idea to add the blog name to our cards . . .

I would like to enter the contest, but I'll have to redirect my domain name from Godaddy. Thanks for the tutorial.

Great idea! It will be fun to watch.

OK Jeremy ... I need to set up my outside blog, thanks for the tutorial on how to do it! pippa

Jeremy,

How exactly does the one entry per person rule apply to the Julies? We are curious (and curiouser).

I'm not there yet but it is awesome to know what you guys are doing. Awesome ideas indeed.

Jer...

Count me in ...I'll come up with SOMETHNG!

Jeremy,

Congratulations on the featured post and the gold star. How many is that now? 575?

Count me in as well.... Thanks!

Yea, I am not quite ready for all that but thanks for the info, I will definitely go through the tutorial next time I'm stuck on floor duty. I love that the prizes are points, so funny how big of a deal these points are on here.

Hello Jeremy,

I'm still trying to figure things out as I go in Active Rain. I have already set up my Outside Blog. I guess all I need to do is write a post and submit it to the Outside Blogs group.

My Outside Blog can be seen here: http://coloradospringsresidentialproperties.com/

Sounds like fun.

Thanks,

Jeremy... great idea here... I need to get on the ball with my outside blog... I may need some pointers. Anyone interested in helping me ?

Thanks Jeremy. Time to set up that outside blog!!!

OCT

2008

I am curious to see how others are marketing their outside blogs and to see how well it is working for them.hc

OK, stop the world. What next? I can't keep up. What's an outside blog? HELP!

Marian, I would start by reading the tutorial :)

I am relatively new this outside blog concept. Since this is a part of AR , will your blog get any more traction then your inside AR blog?

Jeremy - thanks for this, I have been putting off getting my outside blog as other stuff has been priority. This is the perfect thing to kick me in the rear and get it going. Off to do it now! ~Rita

Jeremy - my outside blog is pointed to my web site. I must admit being a bit confused about this whole outside blog business. I understand the concept - have joined Wordpress, but thought it more important to have it on my web site. So even though I have a domain name and I would like to market my domain name, it's hidden on my web site...any suggestions?

Also, there's the issue of duplicate content - same blog on AR and same blog on outside blog....isn't that a google juice no-no?

The contest sounds like fun!

OCT

2008

Hi Jeremy: Just entered the contest. I didn't even know that AR had all of these cool contests until recently... WHAT FUN!

Cheryl P, looking forward to seeing what you cook up.

LOL @ Julie, Julie and Julie. You are going to have to decide which triplet is entering, sweetie. The other two may assist the first. Seriously! (LOL)

Richard W, very cool. Looking forward to some eye candy. :-)

Sharon Alters, it's syndication and the A/R staff have the Indexing/SEO issue covered. :-)

This sounds like fun. I guess I have to get busy on it now.

Betina

Hi C! Glad you came by!

Hello again Jeremy I asked this question on a other post but the question never got answered so I thought I would ask you.

Question- Should you submit your Outside Blog to Google, yahoo and so on? Thanks, Ken

OCT

2008

Jeremy, Thanks for the tip. I always wondered what outside blogs meant. I just tried it and it worked without any problems! Check it out at www.VeniceAreaHomesBlog.com.

OCT

2008

I will try the link for an outside blog. Thanks for the post. Good luck.

OCT

2008

I am sure you will do a great job with this contest...hopefully there will be a lot of participation!

OCT

2008

C tells I am not doing something right and I should come here to post a link to my submission. So here is the link:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/766421/A-Close-Up-View-of-What-Fall-Looks-Like-in-Land-Park-Sacramento-CA

I don't know what the rules mean: "post a link to your outside blog." If it means post a link here, put it in the post or even what link it is. To me, my outside blog is landparkblog.com, which is directed by activerain.com/elizabethweintraub. So I have posted every link everywhere. :)

OCT

2008

I'm really trying to understand this outside blog thing. Do I really need a separate domain for my blog or can I just have a link to the AR outside blog on my other sites?

I haven't set up my outside blog yet -- I really wanted to have a strategy in place before I created it.

For those of you who are confused, usually your AR Blog is a bit of a mixed bag -- you can socialize and share information with other professionals, post neighborhood information and listings to localism, etc. Your outside blog should have a more targeted focus (i.e. Foreclosures or Loft Living)

Hi Terri: I can answer the question about the separate domain, and the answer is YES. Not only do you want a separate domain for your outside blog, but if I were you, I'd buy a bunch of domains. They cost about $10 a year through GoDaddy.com. I have pointed my Land Park blog to Active Rain and other domains to my business web site.

It's not that complicated to do. Trust me, if I can do it, anybody can do it. :) Email me if you need help.

Elizabeth, in your post you need to include a link to your outside blog...like my post would include a link to myrtlebeachomesblog.com. This is my outside domain name that feeds from my ar blog.

NOV

2008

Hey, we will do almost anything for points! Good motivator. Of course now I have to follow instructions to set this up....

NOV

2008

Ok, I think I am ready to post the contest entry! I asked one of the judges yesterday (Jason) if it was ok to post it as members only, and he said sure. Not sure if our marketing tips and tricks are great read for consumers. ~Rita

NOV

2008

Hey Jeremy,

For those of us who are procrastinators, what time does the contest entries have to be in by tomorrow? Another words, the "drop dead" time! :)

Colleen- Midnight tomorrow night is deadline

Thanks Jeremy! :)

NOV

2008

Hey Jeremy. I left this comment on Club Chaos for C. Your thoughts? Would love to enter.

C - I have 2 posts ready to roll for the Club Chaos and Outside Blog contests. Here's my problem. I set up two outside blogs on Nov.1 but the AR nameservers are not being recognized by the godaddy domains. I have spoken with both Active Brad & Godaddy and all is well with setup. Just some unknown glitch yet to be resolved. AR is trying to help me out but my outside blogs may not be up in time for the OB contest. The two posts go together (and have links to each other) so I want to post them at the same time. Can a enter OB contest knowing it's correct and will eventually work or am I disqualified if not resolved by the 7th :~( TerriSig