Nancy Richards, from TrainPetDog.com wrote to me inviting me to submit this blog for a blog contest. The prize would be exposure in their US-based website, viewed by 4 million people daily.
I have decided to participate so that our work and experiences can be shared with more people, and we can definitely learn from others who do animal charity work like us.
I have pasted the rules of the contest. If you would like to support us, please vote for us by following the steps below:
1. Click on http://www.trainpetdog.com/
2. Scroll to the voting box (in yellow) and paste this code: Z2HDD
This is the voting code for our blog.
3. Click Submit.
IMPORTANT: Please only vote ONCE. Voting twice would disqualify us.
Closing date: 20th February 2010.
If you’d like to support us, please forward this link to as many people as you know. You can help us publicise this in Facebook, Twitter and other animal charity forums.
Below are more rules and regulations of the contest:
TrainPetDog.com 2010 Dog Blog Award
Here is the Voting code for your Blog: http://animalcare.my/
Z2HDD
Your readers can vote for your blog by coming to our homepage www.TrainPetDog.com and entering the above voting code in the voting box and clicking on the Submit button.
The next MANDATORY step is for you to post an entry in your blog right now telling your readers about this contest and asking them to come to our site and vote for your blog using your unique voting code.
You should get as many people to vote for your blog as possible, and you need at least 50 votes to qualify for Round 2.
After all, nothing less than $50,450 worth of prizes and advertising exposure is at stake in this contest — and the potential to have your blog read by some of the 600,000+ subscribers that we have…. so, think of every possible way to get your readers, fans, friends, and followers to vote for your blog.
Here are 5 Additional Tips to help you increase the number of votes you get:
Apart from posting an entry in your blog right now asking readers to come to our site and vote for your blog using your 5-digit code, you should consider posting another entry after a couple of weeks. This will help to remind those readers who did not vote for your blog after the first post.
Tell all your friends in Facebook, Myspace etc. to vote for your blog by coming to our site and entering your code. And tell them to tell their friends to vote for you as well.
If you use Twitter, post a tweet and ask your Twitter followers to vote for you.
If you are a member of any online forum or message board for dog lovers, post a message asking the other members of the forum to come and vote for you.
Call/email your friends, relatives, other dog lovers that you know etc. and ask them to vote for you.
Just remember, your Dog Blog code is
For Blog: http://animalcare.my/
Z2HDD
Before we sign-off, please review the following conditions for participation in this contest.
No – this is not the legal mumbo jumbo that you usually ignore – you should really read these terms and conditions in order to make sure that you are eligible to participate in this contest:
Conditions for participating in the Dog Blog Award contest:
You must post AT LEAST 1 entry in your blog asking your readers to vote for your blog. Bloggers that have not posted at least 1 entry in their blogs regarding their participation in this contest will not be eligible to become one of the 20 finalists.
You are allowed to vote ONCE for your own blog… and only once. Your readers, friends, relatives etc. are also allowed to vote for your blog just once.
Any attempt to artificially inflate the number of votes that a Blog is getting (for instance, if a blogger tries to vote for his own blog multiple times or tries to get someone else to vote for his blog multiple times) will be filtered out using our filtering technologies and will disqualify the blog from this contest. We have automated security measures in place to prevent any fraud. In addition, we have a team of people who will manually monitor the contest 24/7 and will flag any suspicious activity designed to game the system.
Any employee of TrainPetDog.com is not allowed to participate in this contest
The contest is only open to bloggers aged 18 or more
Only votes received until the 20th of February will be considered.
You have to get at least 50 votes to qualify for Round 2.
You grant us the right to use your name and the name of your blog on our site and in other marketing materials in relation to this contest.
The decisions taken by TrainPetDog.com in selecting the finalists and the winner are final and binding on all participants.