WIN 5000 Entrecard Credits

March 31, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
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Entrecard Contest

After completing successfully my first 3000 Entrecard Credits giveaway contest, this is the second contest in a row, and this time I have increase the winning prize, now you have a chance to win 5000 Entrecard Credits.

Since the Entrecard now can be exchanged for hard cash money; 5000 Entrecard Credits valued about roughly US$ 25, so I guess it’s a good price for a contest –whats say.


If you win this contest you can use Entrecard Credits in various ways like;
- You can to advertise on your favorites High Priced Blogs.
- You can Exchange it for money.
- You can run a slimier contest like this on your blog.
- You can use it for buying review, comments, and other things at Entrecard Shop.
- Or let me know if you can use it in a better ways.

How you can enter the contest

Its no rocket science, you can enter the contest in any of the two simple ways explain below (Or you can opt for both ways to increase your chances of winning this contest)


1. Write about this contest on your blog in minimum 100 words, you must give a link back to this post. Also write your blog post link in comments below

[Will be considered as 3 Entries for the contest]

AND / OR

2. Subscribe Shanker Bakshi dot Com by e-mails.

[Will be considered as 5 Entries for the contest]

Competition will close on 30th April 2008.

Winner will be announcing on 1st May 2008 by randomizing entries at RANDOM.ORG

Prize Money; 5000 Entrecard Credits absolutely free for the winner.

All the best to All !!!

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Can We Succeed In Blogging without Using Evil Tactics?

March 28, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Blogging

See No Evil Speak No Evil Hear No Evil

How do you feel when you write back to back some great article on your blog and then see some chap who had just entered in to the blogsphere and don’t have much  to offer on his  site for his readers but ranked higher then you on social media sites Technorati and Alexa?

Well how do you feel when you are a great article writer but fails on marketing your blog among various communities?

And now the million dollar question, how do you feel when you see some guy going great guns using evil ways to promote his blog, building traffic, offering lucrative offer for signing up e-mails, subscribing RSS, buying lnks for improving PageRank, even offering his household secondhand stuff to be won in a competition?

Different people will have different answers to these types of questions, But if you ask me to answer I believe on two assumptions:-

Content is The King and nothing could really take you there if you don’t have some nicely written article on your blog.

You will get the success you Deserve for your great works sooner or later. No body can snatch that from you.

Following are few evil ways which bloggers usually do to generate “that” extra traffic to their site. (Is it really evil? You have to tell me)

Evil Ways
To increase comments on blogs

Buying it from someone, force your readers to comments on a particular post (As a condition for entering a contest), making comments with untruly created identities of your own.

To Increase RSS Subscriptions

Forcing your readers for subscribing your RSS Feed and e- mail subscription by offering cash in a contest. (Well not everyone has money to do that).

Counter Offers

Like when someone says I will digg your post if you will digg mine, I will stumbleupon your five articles you do that for my one article. Buying and selling Text Links.

Few consider these as marketing tactics while most of the other calls it evil ways of popularizing your blog. But the question still remain unanswered, do you really have great stuff on board when you succeed in generating traffic to your blog and loads of readers visit your site? or if i ask in other ways; do you really think one can not succeed without using these evil marketing techniques?

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Life Is Calling Where Are You?

March 27, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Ramblings

Life is Calling

This post is a spark from idol John chow’s statement “internet was where I was going to stake my claim”

Life is beautiful, but it dose not appeal very graceful to us many times, this is happen when we look at it from a certain angel, from where we could not find our self able to see its charms and charisma. In this post I will try to bring out that little joy and enthusiasm from your heart, which if you remember, used to sings and dance on this song – “ohh!!! What a beautiful life”

Every One is Special

I don’t know if you have heard about this Bollywood movie released recently Tare Zameen Par. It’s a story which tells us that “every child is special” in one way or the other. a child who gets excellent mark in painting is equally smart in compare to the guys who get more marks in Math, physics or chemistry. It dose not mean that he has not much brain if he fails to solve mathematics algorithms but can draw a painting true to the life.

The point I want to make here is that every one is special in some manner. It may be difficult for me to do a thing which you can do singly handedly but there may be something inside me which will amaze you and that’s the thing which is special about me, Well like I said every one of us is special, very special.

Explore Yourself

To embrace the beauty of life and to feel the aura of its presence explore yourself and see what you are best at? Flag it and then show to the world; your presence with elegance and dignity. Tell me in comment below if you have anything special about yourself, which you wants to show the world. You and only you know it better where you can outperform everyone. Now see John Chow’s take on exploring things within.

Before discovering the internet, I was a partner in a local Richmond printing company. After over a decade of running a print shop, I decided it was time for a change, and the internet was where I was going to stake my claim.

Live Every Moment

There is one song which talks about the fleeting nature of life, it says -the moment we were awaiting is just passing now. Every moment in life this beautiful and charismatic is for a moment. It will all go too soon. So to get pleasure from life at fullest we need to live it’s every moment. I would like to point up here lyrics from Michael Jackson’s song “Gone Too Soon” which depicts the same stance.

Like A Comet, Blazing ‘Cross the Evening Sky- Gone Too Soon
Like A Rainbow, Fading In the Twinkling of an Eye -Gone Too Soon
Shiny and Sparkly, and Splendidly Bright
Here One Day, Gone One Night
Like The Loss of Sunlight
On A Cloudy Afternoon
Gone Too Soon

Fight till the End

How long you would like to fight for your dreams, to make them come true before your eyes. Would you like to give up soon or would you continue your battle with your luck and unhelpful circumstances till the end (Sorry to use this word). I know the answer but am willing to hear it from you. Some people really work hard to earn a name and when they see any ray of hope they start embracing each and everything associated with their work. I would like to quote here comments of my newly found blogger friend Deimos. See how passionate he is about his blogging?

Am not going to sell [ahkong.net] ever! Going to pass it down to my generations, if all goes well and I am to get married to my Darling […] and one day she is ready to have kids. Gonna give some proper education regarding blogs to my kids so that one day, they grow up to be excellent bloggers and can take over my domain.

Believe In Yourself

You must have heard about this guy Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, Initially living with his extended family on bare floors and rope beds in a house built by his grandfather now stand at 5th richest person in the world. Everything changes in life with that one belief in yourself. A strong believes in yourself that you have to reach to the stars. This was just one example; this world is filled with such stories.

I know about this dream in your mind of not leaving this world without making a mark on the face of the world. I know you are not gonna simply give up your long desired wish to rule your imagination so easily. I know you wanna make it happen, I know you wanna sing a song on a platform which is made before the whole world, so just get up , take a breath and show off the world, The Life is Calling –Where Are You (baby).

Picture Courtesy: Alaskan Dude

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Would You Like to Test Drive WordPress 2.5

March 26, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Blogging

Matt has released WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 2, and making a call, if you are interested in testing his new baby WordPress 2.5


If you make frequent backups and you are interested in helping us out with development by testing the very latest, download and install Release Candidate 2 of WordPress 2.5, and join our testers mailing list to report any bugs you find in the code

The community has started to keep a list here of which plugins work great and which don’t. Its worth looking at, or even better just deactivate your plugins before upgrading for 2.5 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed, assuming the developer is cool and has updated their code for 2.5 already.

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Get the Credit You Deserve Today

March 25, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under The Internet

GettingACreditCard

They are your best friends in financial need if you know how to use them wisely

This has been said about credit cards. Most people you will come across have various stories about their bad experience with credit cards but do they really try to dig out where was the fault. People do mistakes and then find a thing to blame but take it from me you can really save a lot and manage your financial crises brilliantly with this small plastic card in your wallet.

Expert Paul Basco tell us about common Mistakes people make with their credit cards

Don’t just Open an Account to Get Free Stuff
Carelessness about Credit Card Security
Unnecessary Cash Advances withdrawal
Don’t Carry a Balance for long
Mom and Dad Will Probably Take Care of It
Treating for a Night out When You Cannot Afford It
Blowing Off a Payment -I’ll just take care of it next month
Putting Spring Break on a Credit Card and Reporting it Stolen
Opening an Account to get a Discount from the Merchant

But how you can get maximum benefit from credit cards is there any resource that can help? Yes, there is one place which can help you making all three crucial and important things which you must keep in your mind before signing up for a credit card. These are;

Search for credit card offer.
Compare credit card offer and find the best for you.
Apply online for the credit card of your choice.

GettingACreditCard.com is a 3rd party resource of online credit card applications. We work with banks and credit card companies. The credit card offers on our site are from the most well known credit card issuers in the business. All credit card applications on our site utilize Secure SSL Technology for secure transmission.

GettingACreditCard has this special service called instant decision credit cards.

Getting an instant decision on your application offers added convenience and speed when applying for a credit card online.

Superb offers available currently from extremely honored Instant Approval Credit Card

You can go through great offers from these cards; apply online and get instant decision on your application. The big thing is that you can compare great offers from all leading credit card companies and choose the finest among best of the best.

Most lenders base approval on credit score. FICO Credit score analysis divided in five category Excellent Credit, Good Credit, Fair Credit, Bad or Poor Credit and No Credit. Higher Scores mean Lower interest rate also means lower payments and better deals.
Scores are determined by five main categori
Payment History
Amounts Owed
Length of Credit History
Type of Credit Used
New Credit

GettingACreditCard.com has a resource centre which provides you credit cards tip, how to choose best credit card advice how to use your credit card safely. So go and get the best for you.

Gettingacreditcard

User are requested to please check the offer themselves carefully while choosing a credit card from GettingACreditCard.com

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Miscellaneous Ramblings Of A dot Com Guru 23 March 2008

March 23, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Ramblings

Thanks to Top Entrecard droppers

Entrecard says am a Casual and relaxed card dropper, yes this is true, I drop hardly few entrecards, but on the other hand I rather want to thanks these top five card droppers for this month on my site. Thanks very much again. If you want to include your name in this list ( this is a “dofollow” link), you know better what you have to do.

Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog
The Path to the Pegasus Letter
Duckeldanny´s Money Blog
Dot Com Mogul
Lemback Blog

Are you a pro-bloggers?

By problogger I don’t mean full time or part time blogger, I mean how much you know about blogging, SEO, Google and social media bookmaking? Are you in mood to give a test about your so far blogging experience and the knowledge you gained? Log on to this site and give a pro blogger test and see the result yourself, what percentage you gets out of 100.

Get ranked in top 100 Money Making Site

Blogsphere is filled with money making sites, can you tell how many money making sites you visit everyday? Well, Mark Wielgus from 45n5 is in process to register all money making sites at one place, so if you are a blogger and have a site that talk about making money online then you can mail about your site URL to mark @ 45n5.com for inclusion of your site in to this list.

Am I look like Brad Pitt?

Or should I say Brad Pitt look like me, well there is a site myheritage.com which says so. Brad Pitt resembles to me by 54%, Magician David Blaine 58% and to my surprise singer Norah Jones most resemble with my face about 62%. Its crazy, go and check which celebrity’s face look like yours.

Look Alike

My social media sites

This is inspired by problogger Darren Rowse, lets share some of my social media profile with all you guys.

Twitter -“Rarely use it. What kind of experience you have with it?

Facebook -“Ohh I loved it, I like the idea of using blogfriends apps for sharing (marketing actually) blog feed among friends.

Mybloglog -“If you write any message for me over there –I anticipate to answer it in three four days.

Blogcatalog -“I love the idea of creating discussion between users. I had created couple of them so join and submit your inputs.

del.icio.us -“Only 4 topics save (All mines). I know it’s useful but then not appeal to me much.

Digg -“That’s where I usually go, you will find my entire recent articles there So wish to dig some of them?

Technorati -“Am crazy about checking my blog world ranking every now and then. I love to read about blog reactions.

Flickr -“I use it to download photos which are available for free distribution
for my blog posts

YouTube -“ Yes, One of my uploaded video on YouTube has been viewed more then 8000 times. You can see some of my best media production work there.

StumbleUpon -“I check it everyday, are you there?

Friendster -“Am very new to this only two days back I had created my profile on it so can’t say much about that.

Orkut -“Not a frequent visitor to this site –have only six friends to exchange scraps.

Myspace -“ Its Cool!!!

See, whats SEO Guru Neil Patel has to say?

Now am leaving you people with this video interview of SEO Guru Neil Patel, see what he has to say about these social media sites and learn how you can use them to market your blog.

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India Calling

March 21, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under The Internet

India Calling Card

I can give you an idea about what millions of Indian are doing in America right now. They are calling to their relative and friends back home in India, but why? Because its celebration time and the festival of color and joy Holi is being celebrated all over India today. All Indians in America are busy wishing their Indian friends and family members over phone.

One more thing which I can say very precisely is that they are calling from  India prepaid calling card, again why and how I can say that with so much confident? Because India Calling card from trueroots is the smartest way to make phone calls from USA to India.

Trueroots has strong backing up support from Tata group, India’s largest and respected business corporation. If you call from an India prepaid calling card of Trueroots you will have following benefits over the other international calling services:

Last night when I was talking to my friend Harry in New York he was busy eating his combo pizza, we were discussing our good old days when we worked together here in India and created some really wonderful visual productions. Okay the voice was so clear that I felt we are sitting together and I was actually about to bite his combo pizza over phone -) Not to mention he was using India Prepaid Calling card that has world’s largest global submarine cable infrastructures which provides exception call quality and ensures the phone never disconnects.

More then a calling card

Trueroots will soon be more than just a calling service, as it will launch a media hub. Customers will have exclusive access to full length movies (including Bollywood!), TV Series, sports coverage, video games, music downloads, karaoke and a lot more…

Get connected to India

You can avail all these competitive edge advantages by just completing three very small steps, Create and an account with Trueroots, Pick a plan of your choice and your are done, call india to your loved ones.

India Calling Card Rates

So get one right now and say “Good Wishes of Holi to everyone”

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Now Tell Me Who Want This Cotton Candy MacBook Air

March 20, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under The Internet

PINK MACBOOK AIR

If you want your favorite MacBook air customized in your own favorite color then the guys at Colorwarepc can really help you out.

Take your style with anywhere with this ultra portable laptop, now available in your choice of color. ColorWare offers a variety of standard color to let you choose your favorite color or create a truly one-of-kind color combination, by adding your style to the laptop you can take anywhere. You have everything you want in a computer.

Off course they will pull out some extra dollars from your wallet for providing exactly what you want, but to know how much more money you have to pay and what are the other products they offer you in the color of your choice, better you dig out yourself Here.

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Get Ready for the Whole New Blogging Experience

March 18, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Blogging

If you read your WordPress Dashboard news carefully you may have notice this, Matt and his Automattic team are ready to launch WordPress 2.5 for all new WordPress blogging experience. I know few among you will say, Ohh No another WordPress update, but if you will look at the features of new WordPress 2.5 you will simply loved it.Just see what Matt has to say about it.

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we are finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste.

For the past few months, we haveve been working with our friends at Happy Cog ” Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone. This isn’t just a fresh coat of paint ”we have re-thought the look of WordPress, as well as how it’s organized so that you can forget about the software and focus on your own creative pursuits.

All New WordPress 2.5 Dashboard

WordPress 2.5 Dashborad

…And this the Dream Team The whole WordPress team at Stinson Beach, California. The only female member in the team is Maya Desai, She is from India (now living in US) and the big boss is Matt 

WordPress Team

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Hey Entrecard Newbie Wanna Win 45000 EC Credits

March 18, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Blogging

It’s an Entrecard Communities largest Entrecard Credits giveaway in a contest. An Entrecard credits pool has been created with the efforts of its originator Kacie, a 22-year-old blogger form Pittsburgh. US

Here are the contest details

The giveaway will be held March 15 – April 15.

Only new users that sign up with Entrecard during this promotional period will be eligible.

Comment at the hosting blogs (listed below) on their contest post (like this) to receive a contest entry. You can leave one comment on each hosting blog’s contest post. Your each comment on each hosting blog’s contest post will count one entry. Do remember to write your entrecard dashboard URL in the within comment.

1st place prize of 34,000 credits will be given randomly selected new entrecard user.

Smaller 2nd place prizes will be given within each Entrecard niche category.

List of Hosting blogs to the contest  (updated 18th Mar 03:30 GMT)

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How you would like to treat the new visitor to your site?

March 17, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Blogging Resource

The idea is – would you like to treat the first time visitor to your site differently then your old regular unique visitors? Following are the two types of visitors you would like to handle with special care;

[A] First time visitor to your site
[B] First time commentator

Let me explain how you can give them the special delight using WordPress Plugins.

[A] For The First Time Visitor

You must have heard about Seth Godin, he is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and called agent of change. Godin is author of ten books that have been bestsellers around the world. Let us see what is his take on this;

One opportunity that’s underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbie. It’s more work at first, but it can offer two experiences to two different sorts of people.

Seth Godin

Now, inspired by this Richard K Miller developed a Plugin and named it What Would Seth Godin Do or WWSGD

How you can use this

This can be used to remind the new visitor to sign up for e-mail subscription, or you can give some idea about your blog or write promotion lines in the message appear on the very first visit of a user. You can set this message on the top or bottom of your post. It will not appear on re-visit of that same user provided he has not refresh his cookies.

You can see this Plugin in action on the top of this post

Download Plugin What would Seth Godin Do

[B] For The First Time Commentator

Justin Shattuck a 23 years old guy from Oklahoma feels that “Visitors love interaction, especially a personable approach at gaining their attention and spiking their interests”. He develop a WordPress Plugin that will send an e-mail message to a user who would first time make comment on your blog or in another word who never commented on your blog before. Good Idea Indeed.

It’ss always good to see when you get appreciated for your efforts, whether it’s a small stuff or a big deal. Receiving “Thanks Very Much” in mail on commenting someone’s blog would definitely create a connection between you and that person. Also you can remind him in the message about signing up for e-mails or subscribed to your RSS feed

Download Plugin, it is called Relish

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Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You Have Ever Seen

March 16, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Blogging

One big craziest contest is on its way, and prizes worth US $ 9,191.00 are to be won. Deadline is set 31st March and I believe to get something out of it. Previously in a contest like this I was lucky enough to steal one page at millioneurowiki. Lets hope history will repeat itself.

[A] How to enter the contest

There are various ways through which you can assure your entries in to the contest. Make sure you should visit the contest page to know more about it.

Sign up for the mailing list (required) – 1 entry
Blog about this contest and link to this post – 10 entries
Every 5 comments on WTW (now until March 31 with 5 comments per day limit) – 1 entry
Subscribe to the feed and stay tuned for more opportunities to gain entries

[B] The prizes are :

Remember that Random draw will be held Monday, March 31. Go and get $9,191.

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Google introduce AdSense Ad Manager

March 16, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Make Money Online

Google introduce AdSense Ad Manager to help with tools to improve revenue opportunities and productivity to all publishers of Google AdSense Ads.

If you operate a site with remnant ad inventory as well as reserved ad inventory that you sell directly to advertisers, then Ad Manager is for you. It can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure directly-sold and network-based inventory. Google Ad Manager offers a wealth of features, including an intuitive user interface, automated yield optimization, and proven Google speed and reliability. Best of all, Google Ad Manager is free

From AdSense FAQ

Many publishers with direct ad sales experience the following problems:

Confusing, slow, and complicated workflows
Inflexible site tagging
Uncertainty about which ad source to deliver to optimize yield
Unreliable inventory forecasting
High ad-serving costs

In response to these challenges, Google designed Ad Manager to offer you:

A clear user interface: Increase your staff’s efficiency and productivity.
Simplified tagging: Tag your site only once.
Yield optimization: Automatically maximize your CPMs.
Reliable inventory forecasting: Always know what inventory is available to sell.
Higher ROI: Save costs, because Ad Manager is free.

Learn about AdSense Ad Manager
Apply for Google AdSense Manager

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spock The best for people search

March 15, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under The Internet

Spock

It’s about people; it’s about personal search, find people on internet better then you can do it with Google. So if you search about people on Spock, you will find probably everything about them – a bio, web links, related people, quotes and a number of additional features. Spoke have managed to index over 300 million unique people search results, maintain over 3 billion people data records.

Join Spock to find everyone you know on the Internet. When you search, Spock will personalize your results to include information about friends and colleagues. Enhance your search experience by establishing a trust relationship with others on Spock. By connecting with trusted contacts you can search within their network to rediscover people you’ve lost touch with and make new acquaintances through friends.

Taking into consideration the need of a superior people search, Jay and Jaideep started Spock in 2006, since then by constantly developing new ways to create relevant search results they makes it to stand in wired list of top 10 worth watching sites in 2008.

How to Spock about people

If you need to search about people just write in their names and also there is advance search option where you can enter e-mail address of a person, gender and location then hit the enter key and you will get the most comprehensive smart search about that person on the internet. Spock is a collection of all your web applications, its all about “you” at one stop point, no look further, as you can see all my internet web profiles and links here.

How dose Spock gets information about people

Spock collects and aggregates information from several different types of sources.

[A] Public Internet

Spock search for information on bio pages, social networks, news sites, blogs, and directories – pretty much every place imaginable on the internet. Spock technology organizes web content about people into easily understood search results.

[B] Community Input

The Spock community contributes information to help enhance the search experience. Members can add tags, pictures, and web links or simply vote on existing information to increase its relevance. All contributions are linked back to the contributor’s search result.

[C] Published Information

Spock contains information that is privately owned and is not available to the general public but is available for redistribution.

So this is how Spock gets the complete detail about you from different sources and make available at one place.

You can claim search results about you

If you search your name on Spock and found a complete detail about yourself there then you can claim that search result. After verification Spock will allow you to edit your account, provide more information, and add pictures or assign tags to your information.


SO next time if you have to search about people search at spock- the Best for people search.

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Miscellaneous Ramblings of a dot Com Guru

March 5, 2008 by Shanker Bakshi  
Filed under Ramblings

Never Give up

If you find it difficult to update your blog everyday then get the inspiration from this man. His name is WAQAS AHMED, A 22-year-old paralyzed Pakistani man who host a website and update its contents with his nose.

I realized that I was not able to use my hands and my legs the way other people use to. Though some people may, after knowing it, can be shocking, but I didn’t take it in that way. I accepted this challenge and stated to realize what happening around me […] I started using computer with my nose. I worked hard day and night to become something. I took admission in some short courses after completing them I was not only able to use computer fundamentally but also I completed my diploma in E Commerce, and now I am a Web Designer and Developer.

WAQAS AHMED

100,000 Entrecard Credit Giveaways

A guy from Belgium is giving away 100,000 Entrecard Credits in contest, there are various ways to enter the contest and one of them obviously is to RSS subscription.

A few days back I wrote down some ideas for a contest. But these where all for 1000 EC or 2500 EC and everyone is having contests like this right now. Today I thought, think big. , give away 100.000 EC. So all I needed then was a good title for the contest and 100.000 EC. The title was easy. “Win 100.000 EC 100 days from now” came out of my head in an instant. Surprisingly when I took my calendar and counted 100 days further then today I came out on the 6th of May, that’s my Girlfriend’s birthday. So I can easily remember this. But getting to this number will be the challenge as I don’t have 100.000 EC yet.

Well I must say his is the mother of all Entrecard Contest I have seen.

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