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Pepsi™ and Harmonix are having one awesome promotion known as Drink Up, Rock Out (http://PepsiRockBand.com), it’s where gamers like you and your friends can submit your own Rock Band™ music videos for a chance to win an MTV Video Music Award Moonman for “Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Music Video”. Pepsi is giving away 5,000 Rock Band downloadable tracks every day until September 13th,2009, as well as other great Rock Band prizes like; Xbox 360® Consoles, Rock Band 2 Special Edition bundles, trips and more! Just look for a Code on specially-marked caps of participating 20-oz and 1-L Pepsi bottles.
Think about it… the contest is easy! Just create a Rock Band music video and upload to the site! Here is what you can do step by step (in my own words).
- Call up some friends.
- Pick an eligible song from this list.
- Check out the already submitted videos to get an idea.
- Next grab the camera fire up Rock Band and record your band with the video camera.
- After your band has played a song from the list you need to save the video to your computer.
- Then upload your rock video to the site.
Once you’ve done the steps above you will be on your way to possibly owning an MTV Video Music Award Moonman. Make sure you refer to the Official Contest Rules for more information. Ohh and note starting August 8th there is going to be voting for the videos so get yours in uploaded as quick as possible!
I recently pick up the intense drink known as Voltage by Mountain Dew. Its a new drink they have that has raspberry citrus and ginseng in it… very good stuff! While reading up on the product I came across their pretty cool site called dewmocracyvoltage.com. The site allows you to play games, watch videos, create art, and share your experience with friends. The cool thing about the site is that the more things you do the more chances you have to win when it comes to the prizes. So check out dewmocracyvoltage.com and register today to start winning prizes!
Here are just a few of the cool prizes you can when once you register and participating.
- HALO WARS game for the Xbox 360
- 32GB iPod Touch
- Xbox 360 Console
- Skull Candy Headphones
- 3GB Flip Video Recorder
- Voltage T-Shirt
- Skull Candy Audio Backpack
I’m always wonder about the different statistics when of comes to my twitter account. I often wonder where I rank among others who twit as well as how did they get there. Well I’ve found the list of twitter statistics and analytical tools below to help me find out that information. Do you know of any others that can help find out your profile statistics? If so feel free to leave a comment.
Twitscoop - Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of Twitter’s hot topics or discussions.
Twitterholic - The website is constantly being updated to allow you to find the most popular Twitter users. So if you want to be on the list then just twit all day.
Tweetstats - A twitter app that tracks your number of tweets per hour and per month. It then allows you to generate a graph based off of your tweets.
Twitter.Grader.com - The Twitter Grader measures the power of your Twitter profile. This is probably my favorite when it comes to the ranking system for Twitter profiles.
Twinfluence - I’d consider this one to be a bit similar to the Twitter Grader shown above. However, Twinfluence calculates the indirect influence of you and your followers on Twitter.
Tweetvolume - Tweetvolume is fairly easy just enter a few keywords or a phrases to see how often they appear on Twitter.
Twittercounter - A great Twitter app that tracks as well as predicts how many followers you have or will have.
Tweetrush - Tweetrush is a service based on our Rush Hour engine that aims to provide estimated stats on Twitter usage over a period of time.
Tweetwasters - Tweetwasters calculates how much time you’ve wasted on Twitter. Compare yourself to your friends see who’s the biggest twit.
Twitter-Friends - Twitter-Friends allows the ability to find out the hidden network of Twitter contacts that are really relevant for you.
Xefer.com/Twitter/ - I’d consider this one to be a bit similar to the Twitter Grader shown above. Twinfluence calculates the indirect influence of you and your followers on Twitter.
Retweetrank - Find out your (RT) retweet rank among the other twits. See who RT’s your story the most.
In the video below the Google Chief Economist Hal Varian, walks you through the AdWords Ad Auction and explain how you can maximum your cost-per-click (CPC) bid and increase your Quality Score to determine how much you actually pay for an ad click on Google’s search results pages. For more information check out the AdWords blog.
Have you ever wanted to advertise on sites like JohnChow.com, Problogger.net, or even ChrisBrogan.com but… you didn’t want to pay for the 125 x 125 advertising spots or a “Paid Review” blog posts? Well, then I found the perfect opportunity to hit them at the back door of advertising and only pay pennies! The secret is go through Google Adwords… that’s right Google has a section of advertising placement called “Placements“. With Google Placements you can choose a keyword to search such as “make money blogging” or you can search to see if a site offers Adsense placements on their site / feeds.
Here is the simple step process which is mentioned above:
- Log into Google Adwords
- Click the “New online campaign” towards the center middle
- Select “Start with placements“
- Next choose from; Browse categories, Describe topics, List URLs or Select demographics I tend to go with the “Describe topics“
- So say you choose “Describe topics” use a keyword like “make money blogging“
- You’ll then see a lot of sites that have to deal with blogging
- Select ones that you know of and a few with high traffic
- Next place your bid and if your bid is high enough to get displayed (along with page quality) then BAM! you are in there and all you a paying is the cost per click that you opted to pay
This is a great idea to set up if you were to sign up with Hydra Networks and create a few landing pages for your traffic to land on.
