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*Update: I won the $2000!

Well I have been real busy with link building this week that I haven’t had time for a blog post or to look over the blog posts in my RSS reader. I finally took a half hour break to sit down and read through my blog posts and saw a contest ending soon from John Chow’s blog. He was originally going to end it May 31st but their was a communication mix-up and so now hes picking this weekend.

So there are only 10 days left in my MarketLeverage Contest, and to be completely honest, it was a flop for the goals I had in mind. When I announced a post about NeverblueAds when I was first getting my feet wet in affiliate marketing, I had over 20 affiliates the very next day, and one of whom was making over $3000/month. I didn’t even provide any prizes for that one.

The MarketLeverage contest hasn’t done as well. I have only referred 7 new affiliates to MarketLeverage, and one of those didn’t get approved. I have 6 active affiliates, and only two have earned any money and are elligible to win the prizes.

The following is Melvin Dichoso’s guest opinion of MarketLeverage, an up and coming affiliate company. Melvin wrote his review of MarketLeverage as an entry to my MarketLeverage Contest. There are three ways to enter the contest, and writing a review was one of them. If you are interested in joining, there are two $179 Flip Mino video cameras, $100 in giftcards, and 10 2GB USB pens up for grabs. (Read more about the contest here) With that put aside, here is Melvin’s opinions of MarketLeverage.

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Jason Henderson, one of the other contestants on the Top Affiliate Challenge is running a large blog contest on his site. I don’t enter a lot of blog contests because the prizes usually aren’t worth the time it takes to write a post. However, Jason has gotten a ton of private consultants sponsoring their time as prizes for the contest (as well as a ton of other crappy prizes that all contests have!).

If you check out Jason’s blog contest, you can see that there isn’t too much fluff that you normally see in cheap blog contests. This post is my entry/attempt at winning something useful for once!

I have received a few emails and there has been a lot of confusion about some of the rules that I posted in the original MarketLeverage Contest post. I also had a few complaints from people that wanted to win but were already MarketLeverage members.

To solve everyones problems, I am now redoing the MarketLeverage blog contest so that EVERYONE has a chance at winning some free goodies!

The Prizes

ONE Flip Mino ($179 value)
One lucky winner will receive a brand-spanking new Flip Mino so that you can record your exciting life and put it on Youtube. Many people argue that video blogging is the next big thing, so you could always get a head start on that.

THIS POST IS NOW OUTDATED. Please read the updated MarketLeverage Contest Post.

As many of you already know, I was in Nebraska for the last three weeks competing on the Top Affiliate Challenge affiliate marketing reality web-tv show. While there, not only did I learn a plethora of good tips on making money through affiliate marketing, but I made friends with a lot of affiliate managers/networks.

My favorite affiliate network, MarketLeverage, not only helped me out tremendously while I was there competing, but are offering me some prizes to give away through a contest on my blog.

While being the head of viral marketing over at Datepad, I like to provide creative ways to build up the community and get the viral aspect in motion. I have had a few very successful contests on this blog, and I thought starting Datepad off with one would be a great way to launch the new corporate blog. If by offering a completely free online dating service social network with a community aspect and a $5000 DreamDate vacation wasn’t enough, we are now offering bloggers a chance to win a free 16GB iPod Touch just for mentioning the contest in a blog post.