It’s that time of year again… MARCH MADNESS!

Each year, NCAA Men’s Basketball picks its champion by pitting the top 65 teams against one another in a single-elimination showdown known as “March Madness.” Teams are broken into 4 regions, where they compete against one another ranked #1 (best) through #16 (worst) until a champion for each region is made — these “final four” teams then duke it out amongst one another for the title of NCAA Basketball Champions!

Jimvesting Dot Com Has A FREE Contest For YOU!

This year, we are going to give you the chance to enter your own bracket free of charge through our friends at CBS Sportsline. It only takes a minute to fill out, and don’t worry if you aren’t familiar with the teams because I will tell you right now… it doesn’t help much. Why take the time to do it? Well if you know me… you know there’s gotta be a perk!

PRIZES:

• Anyone who finishes with a score HIGHER than mine will win a FREE 125×125 ad block for 30 days (value $30)
• The player with the highest overall score will win a paid plug (valued at $75) of the website/product of their choice!

That’s great for a free entry, eh? Naturally, there is a catch: I’m so confident in my picks that I don’t believe I’ll be giving anything away… but by all means try to beat the bracket king.

ENTER THE JIMVESTING DOT COM MARCH MADNESS CONTEST TODAY!
group password = “madness” || deadline = before game 1 on March 18th

Check back tomorrow and you’ll get a “sneak peak” at some of the upsets that I’ve been predicting on my own bracket. That way, you can hedge your way against what I have picked and increase your odds at the top prize! Feel free to email me if you have any questions about how it all works.

Good luck!
-Jimvesting

Everyone knows that the economy is rough right now. While the worst may be behind us, there certainly won’t be any measurable amount of “recovery” for quite some time. As people search for more work in tough times, I remind you that blogging may provide that supplemental income to put you over the edge… and quite possibly make you very very successful down the road!

Want to Start a Blog, but Don’t Know How to “Get the Wheels in Motion?”
Introducing Jimvesting’s “Blogger Stimulus Package!!!”

I believe strongly in lending a helping hand to others who are interested in starting their own online ventures, but just don’t have the “know how” to do it all themselves… at least, not without burning a LOT of time on learning how. Therefore, I am reinstating my previous “Blog Domination” package, but I am UPPING THE ANTE and making the deal even sweeter. Now, not only will I design your blog for you… but I will personally go out and buy you any commercially available “premium” theme that you want… for free! Read the rest of this entry »

Hey Everyone.

After announcing the details of the Net Fool’s Build-A-Blog Workshop, I have decided to push back the start date from Friday, April 17th to Wednesday, April 22nd on the back of a big demand for the competition. If you haven’t heard already, I want to encourage you to check out the original contest post for full details on all that we are offering you at absolutely no cost for the 30-day hands-on event.

The New (and final) Start Date: Wednesday, April 22nd 2009

Owning a website on the internet seems to have quite a few barriers to entry on the internet. You need to have a sort of “base knowledge” about how things work to even get your feet wet. In a down economy where many are looking for sustainable income, the internet can offer a secondary boost to what you make year in and year out. I’ve turned ordinary blogs into revenue-generating powerhouses in the past, and want to help all of you do it too! With the potential to make over $10k each year, something that I can almost guarantee all of you will be doing soon after completing the workshop, it’s an opportunity that is tough to pass up. Best of all, you only need to spend 30 minutes of your time for 30 days… that’s something that everyone can live with!

Sweetening The Deal!

Over the next few days, and before the competition starts, if you have a friend or relative that you know would be interested in this opportunity, let them know about it! What’s in it for you? Every user and blogging participant that you can refer to Jimvesting’s Build-A-Blog Workshop will net you a FREE copy of my $15 eBook “Work Smart, Get Rich!” That’s right, a popular eBook 100% free just by telling a friend about a great opportunity… that’s a win win! Simply have them post on the original contest area their interest, and that they were referred by X, and we will get you set up right away!

Looking forward to a productive 30 days of blogging.
-Jimvesting

Global unemployment rates are rising faster than our debt, as the United States recently hit an 8.5% unemployment rate that is projected to climb to over 10% in a few months. Consumer confidence is at all time lows, down 74% from levels we saw back in 1985 (when tracking was started). While economic conditions crumble in the United States, Canada, India, Western Europe, Russia and all around the world… many people search for a way to create a secondary income, but have trouble executing their business plans themselves.

Jimvesting Welcomes You to the Build-A-Blog Workshop!

Creating a weblog (or “blog”) on the internet is not only an awesome way to network and gain some instant fame online, but it is a lucrative business! Heck, I’ve pulled in over $5,000 from this blog alone… a project that was originally a simple resume builder. This is something that I do in my spare time completely, so it really isn’t a strain on anything. I am convinced that anyone in the world can take a blog that they spend a mere 30 minutes a day on, and make at least $10,000 annual in sales off of it!

I am going to take you all from step one to a completed (and profitable!) blog in just thirty days. Best of all, I will be working just 30 minutes every day on this blog, and showing you exactly what I am doing. I would be labeled in this industry as an “expert” blogger… and while I would never claim this title, I’ve gotten my feet wet and know the proper ways to get you to profitability fast. I’m going to show you every last detail of how I am starting and marketing my blog… so you can follow along and make money.

HostGator Sponsors Five AWESOME Contest Prizes

As many of you know, Jimvesting is proudly hosted on HostGator servers. I originally transferred to a plan at HostGator after having problems with my freebie hosting for a long while. I’ve really never regretted this decision, as you pay few little for high-performance, great customer support and an awesome deal that keep your wallet full! HostGator is one of the world’s top 10 largest web hosting companies with more than 1,300,000 hosted domains. They have over 200 employees to provide around-the-clock superior support, and are “the perfect choice whether you are looking for business, personal, or even Fortune 500 hosting.”

How good is HostGator? They’ve agreed to sponsor 5 HUGE Business Plans (worth $180 each) to 5 participants in Jimvesting’s Build-A-Blog Workshop!!!

Option One: Take The Course!

The first way to win the Net Fool’s Build-A-Blog Workshop contest is to take the workshop along with us! This is a very good idea for any aspiring entrepreneur, and it will give you awesome exposure right off the bat. If you decide to follow along with the course, not only will you be entered to win a great free hosting plan from HostGator… but you will get free mentions on Jimvesting on a daily basis.

• If 1-6 people enter the workshop: We’ll give away 2 Business Hosting Plans!
• If 7+ people enter the workshop: We’ll give away 3 Business Hosting Plans!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an instantly successful blog from a professional. Better yet, if you purchase your first hosting plan through my referral link (you can simply tack on a year of hosting later), I will buy you your own domain name and install everything you need to get started! I challenge you to find a better deal.

Option Two: Promote Our Contest

Do you already know the ropes or aren’t interested in starting a fresh new venture? No Problem! We have another opportunity to those of you that this applies to, and will give away from 2-3 FREE HostGator business hosting plans to two random entries (depending on above participation) to people that help out.

Prizes will be donated through racking up entries; entries can be gained in a few ways:

• 5 Entries – Blog about the contest, at least 400 words, and link back to this post
• 3 Entries – Advertise our contest with this promotional image
• 2 Entries - Link Back to the contest (blog’s pagerank must be >2)
• 1 Entry – StumbleUpon this post & comment on the stumble
• 1 Entry – Follow Me On Twitter & tweet about this contest
• Required - Comment on this page to let me know what you’ve done!

Another thanks to HostGator for sponsoring us this time. The Build-A-Blog Workshop will be starting on April 17th, 2009. If you plan to work alongside us, just drop a comment and we will get you listed! No need to register a domain name or anything like that, we will be completing all of that in the workshop. Remember, you must be subscribed to Jimvesting’s Email RSS Feed to win a prize! We’ll be updating the blog once a day with what I did in my allotted 30 minutes of blogging, this should be a fun one-month of activity.

Stay Bullish On The Net!
-Jimvesting

It’s about that time!

Our February contest has come to a close, and after going through all of the entries for the blogging portion of this competition, we’ve got our winner! Before we get into the announcement, I’d like to build up some suspense give a quick refresher on what the contest was really all about.

Motive Interactive & Jimvesting Team Up!

This competition was entirely sponsored by the great folks over at Motive Interactive, one of my favorite affiliate networks… and a company that any serious internet marketer (or aspiring marketer) needs to be signed up with. After all, getting on board to earn some money with these folks is 100% free and only takes a minute of your time. The benefits of signing up? Other than the fact that their managers ill pamper you with interesting niche offers to try out whenever you ask, you’ll be opening up your options and will be able to shop around a lot better as a marketer looking for the best paying advertisement. Check out my review of Motive Interactive and their new Advent 2.0 management system if you’d like to hear a bit more from an objective third party.

Jimvesting dot com teamed up with the great managers at Motive Interactive to bring a contest providing for an eventual end to homelessness in the United States. Poverty is definitely a big problem that many of us have experienced firsthand, and all of you that participated helped us take another step closer to the solution… so a big thank you to everyone who participated!

The Prizes

We wrote about this competition all the way back at the end of January, leading into the start of February of 2009. Everyone who won a prize not only scored themselves some free gear, but also got a matched donation from Motive Interactive. For this reason, we had a great month that really took another step toward reducing domestic poverty. There was tons to win, including a Vizio 37″ LCD TV, an ASUS EeePC 1002HA notebook computer and even an XBox 360 Elite! More importantly, anyone who wanted to blog about the contest or participate here had a shot at a brand new 8GB iPod Nano.

So who won that Nano, eh?

Outside of our main prizes, you also will have the chance to win an awesome new 8GB iPod Nano. These things are much better than their predecessors in my opinion, as they not only have the compact size… but now can play videos on an upgraded screen!

There are a few ways to win the blogger prize, and there will be a random drawing to select the winner:

• Ten Entries: Sign Up with Motive Interactive and confirm/verify your account
• Five Entries: Subscribe to Jimvesting.com via email subscription RSS
• Fifteen Entries: Write a 500+ word post on your blog about this contest
• Ten Entries: Promote this competition on your blog with a 125×125 banner ad
• 1/2 Entry: Leave a comment anywhere on this blog (must be a real comment!)
• Five Entries: Promote the competition by “Stumble”ing or “Digg”ing this post
• Ten Entries: Subscribe to the new Jimvesting dot com newsletter

Clearly, there were a lot of ways to get some entries into this competition… and the reason that I am so backed up in posting this announcement is that counting up all of the entries took a considerable amount of time. In fact, we had over 625 total entries into this competition! Of course, many of you had multiple entries, so the odds of winning were significantly different depending on how much effort you put into it.

Ready to hear the winner?

And the winner is…

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… an entry from promoting the competition with a 125×125 banner
from Big Ben Patton!

Ben had a whole mess of entries into this competition, proving once again that the more you participate and gain more entries into the contest, the better shot you really had at winning. I also have a runner up in the event that Ben doesn’t claim his prize… so stay tuned in the event that this happens. With that in mind, a big congratulations to Big Ben Patton from BenjaminPatton.com!

Until next time, stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting