Thanks to everyone who participated in our “subscribe to the Invesp Blog RSS” contest! We have received all the entries and will announce the winner in Thursday’s blog (September 6th, 2007). We hope you continue to visit, read and comment on our blog. Also, keep looking out for our next contest…coming soon!!

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The winner for the comment give-away will win a free copy of ” The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Timothy Ferriss. The book is on Amazon 100 best selling books. Here are couple of reviews for the book:

Jack Canfield, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul:

It’s about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge.

And

he author has convinced me to change my assumptions about worklife and personal goals. This is an easy read. Althought I am a slooooow and easily distracted reader, I finished the book from cover-to-cover in a few sittings.

Wish you all best of luck and keep these comments coming!

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The winner for our weekly comments contest is Bob from  Ahern & Brucker. Bob won a copy of ““The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly” ” by David Scott.. Congratulations Bob!

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Khalid is trying his best to encourage comments, but of course, we do need to lay down some ground rules for comments.  Yes, the INVESP Blog loves and encourages its readers to leave comments, and that’s why our rules are easy to follow and encourage great insight from our readers:

1. Relevant links: FOR SURE! If you’d like to leave relevant links within your comment, you’re more than welcome to. It’s actually very encouraged.  The keyword is “relevant” ;). 

2. Signatures:  Signatures are fine as long as the comment is relevant. So if you leave: Great Job! Or Great post! And a linkable signature, you’re comment will be most likely be deleted.  However, a meaningful comment and a signature afterwards is okay and encouraged! 

3. Irrelevant links gotta go:  Now on the other hand, if you leave links that have nothing to do with the content of the blog, than we will most likely be deleting that comment.

4. Spam Will Be Deleted:  Any comment that feels “spammy” and has no relevance to the post will be deleted.

5. Don’t be afraid:  Now, we aren’t establishing policies to make commenting a difficult process.  We are however confirming to everyone that some things are just not tolerated and we reserve the right to delete anything deemed inappropriate. 

Again, don’t hesitate to comment. Khalid has gone out of his way to show you that he is willing to reward comments and commentators every week!  What kind of comment policy to encourage on your blog?

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The winner for the comment give-away will win a free copy of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly” by David Meerman Scott. I think the name says it all!

Here are few of the comments on this book from the readers at Amazon:
Continue reading This week book gift: The New Rules of Marketing and PR

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Inspired by the give-away running on one of my favorite blogs, create business growth, we are running a new give-away for the next few weeks. Every week we will randomly pick a visitor who left a comment on our blog and send them a free book. This is our way to say thank you to those who help make the discussion on our blog much more interesting.

How to enter?

Simple! Leave a “good” comment on one of our posts during the week and you will automatically be entered to win the contest. Of course, please make sure to include your email address so we can contact you. Winners who live outside of North America will receive a gift certificate from Amazon.com for the price of the book for that week.

Of course Spam comments are not eligible to win. The same applies to filler comments such as, “great posts.” We are looking for ways to enhance the conversation so that everyone can benefit.

Hmmm, so besides the book why should I leave a comment?

• A blog is a two way conversation. Our goal from this blog is to listen, learn and engage each other. Comments are the only way to have a meaningful discussion.
• But that is not all. Other readers on the site usually click on meaningful comments to learn more about person who left them. The more you comment, the more chances you have of people clicking on your name and visiting your site. 
• Still not sure? How about some link juice! Comments on our blog are no “no-follow”. This is our way to thank those who participate in the discussion.

How about your RSS feed contest?

Our $400 free give away is still running. Make sure to look for that secret word at the bottom of one of our posts in the next couple of weeks.

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