18 Entries Published – Entry Date Extended 1 Week

BREAKING NEWS: Deadline to enter the FamousBloggers CommentLuv contest extended by one week to next Wednesday July 13, 2010

As of yesterday, eighteen exceptional entries in the first FamousBloggers CommentLuv $3550 CASH BLOGGING CONTEST have been published. Every blogger who enters has great chances of winning some of that cold, hard CASH.

How many opportunities to win have YOU ever seen where your odds were one in two or better?

Right now I’m guessing we have a total of twenty-eight entries. Even if twelve last minute entries come in today and tomorrow your chances of winning are 50% – HALF of all entrants will win CASH PRIZES!

Yes, there could be more than 12 last minute entries but even if there were SIXTY total entries your chances of winning would still be 1 in 3 – and those are exceptionally good odds.

This isn’t like the lottery where only 1 in millions or 1 in thousands wins! And here is the best part. Even if you lose – you win!

How can losing be winning? Simple. Every blogger who enters increases their visibility. Their guest post is published on either ComLuv or FamousBloggers where readers who have never seen their blog before will read what they have to say. If they like it – and judging by the posts entered so far they WILL like it – they will visit the contestant’s blog too.

The first key to growing your blog is new visitors. Entering this contest will definitely bring you new visitors! And the benefits to entering do not stop there. Every entrant can expect:

1. Higher visibility
2. New visitors
3. New subscribers
4. New commentators
5. More Twitter followers from being RTed and promoted by Twitter users who have 100s or 1000s of followers
6. Links to their blog from other blogs (This is an important way for blogs to get more visitors.)
7. Learn new skills from collaborating with other serious bloggers

We can not guarantee you can keep those new folks coming back to your blog but we can make this prediction:

The bloggers who have the most active conversations going on in their blogs are the ones where the visitors will keep coming back.

Ask yourself this question: which blogs do you read regularly and why? Pop in and visit your favorite blog and really ask yourself, “SELF, just WHY IS this one of my favorite blogs“?

I suspect most of the time it is because you feel a connection to that blogging community – not just to the writer but to the regular commentators too. A friendly blogging community is like the American television show Cheers: a place where everyone knows everyone.

Then ask yourself, “SELF, why do I feel like I know the people who comment in this blog”?

I believe you will find it is because the featured posts each person shares via CommentLuv allows you to instantly connect with only those who interest you most.

Something they wrote creates a spark that drives you to know more about them. You click their link and check out what else they have to say. Maybe you visit their about page and find out what else you have in common – or how they are different and more interesting somehow for it.

The very best tool way to start great relationships IS CommentLuv.

Whether you enter the contest or not, simply reading the contest posts introduces you to new interesting people who have much to share.  The bloggers who entered quickly recognized a golden opportunity and seized it and THEY are role models for us all.

I will be working all day on promoting the bloggers who have entered our contest. Watch for many more Tweets, comments and blog posts linking to each of our participants.

Haven’t entered yet? What are you waiting for? A personal invitation? Here it is, just for YOU:

YOU are cordially invited to enter the FamousBloggers ComLuv $3550 CASH Blogging Contest.

If you sincerely want more people to know about your blog don’t pass up this opportunity. The first contest is always the easiest to win because fewer people know about it. There are likely to be far more entries in the next #FBCLcontest.

[Learning opp: #FBCLcontest is our contest Twitter hashtag. To use a hashtag you just add it to your Tweets so that others who want to find all the Tweets about that subject can search on that "word" (the # followed by the chosen letters and numbers).]

TIPS for PROMOTING YOUR ENTRY:

1. Answer every comment left in your entry. The faster and more often you reply to your commentators, the more momentum your “conversation” can gather.
2. Tweet your entry using a new and original Tweet one to three times per day. Instead of Tweeting to no one, select specific Twitter followers you have relationships with and send a Tweet to them! IMPORTANT: Be sure to include the link to your entry in EVERY Tweet. Use a URL shortener such as su.pr or ow.ly.
3. Send a Tweet every day to @GrowMap and I will personally RT it to my almost 12,000 followers. (It is likely to be RTed by others, too!)
4. Write a post about your entry with a compelling title so that when you comment in other blogs you can feature it as your commentluv post to invite those who see it to read and comment in your contest entry post. Use a call to action title like one of these below and go out commenting TODAY and TOMORROW!:
   1. How YOU can help me win the FBCL blogging contest
   2. I’m competing for $3550 CASH and you can too
   3. Yes I want to win the Famous Bloggers CommentLuv contest. Will you help me?
5. Go out visiting and meet some new bloggers interested in the same things you are. Use the new Worldwide CommentLuv Enabled Blog Search Engine to search for your interests. Then visit those blogs and feature your contest post (explained just above) when you comment.
6. Add the Support Me to Win Hard Cash Prizes banner to your blog and link it to your comment post. Right click on the image below and choose Save Image As (in FireFox). If you don’t know how to put images in blog posts or the sidebars of your blog Tweet to @FamousBloggers or @GrowMap to request personal one-on-one assistance.

Save the image or Click it to see the How to Win This Contest Page

Write something original or use one of the above.  How many times have you followed an interesting title back to someone’s blog because their comment piqued your curiosity? Write great comments and use a compelling title and your entry WILL get more comments!

I will be writing about and linking to the entry posts and participating bloggers’ blogs. There are so many great entries and my posts are so long that I feel it best to write more short posts to make it better for entrants to Tweet about and share the posts that include them. Watch for these new posts soon.

Don’t forget that all bloggers can earn bonus points. If you are serious about going for the top CASH prizes that is the best way to take home the dough. See How to Win for details.