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Win A Trip To Ride Manta Mania At SeaWorld!

February 11, 2009 By Elizabeth

This is totally insanely AWESOME! My fearless leader Ted Murphy took a group of bloggers to SeaWorld for an exclusive tour of the construction of a new ride called Manta Mania, that has you laying down strapped underneath a giant thing shaped like a manta ray, FLYING through a cave-like Aquarium and then swooping around on a ginormous roller coaster! He’s got a four minute video on his site http://www.ted.me/manta that you have GOT to see, click that link and prepare to be blown away!

In the interest of full disclosure, I’m telling you right upfront, that this post is part of my gig as one of the IZEA Insiders. We get special opportunities to tell our readers about the hottest happenings involving IZEA! So that the ten of us aren’t all running separate contests, Ted is coordinating everything on his site. SO, if you want to WIN A TRIP TO SEAWORLD, head on over to http://www.ted.me/manta to read all the rules, each person can earn three entries. You can leave a comment on Ted’s post, post a tweet, or write your own blog post about the contest. You could also win a prize pack full of SeaWorld swag!

So what are you waiting for, head over to Ted’s and enter the contest! You could win a trip for four including airfare, hotel, and two full days at SeaWorld! AWESOME!

p.s. After watching that video, I am SO glad I’m going to IZEAfest this year. I hope Wendy Piersall is there, cuz that lady looks like a lot of fun to hang with!

Who wants to be a SparkBlogger?

December 5, 2008 By Elizabeth

Remember when I posted about applying for the IZEA Insider position? Well, I’m happy to announce that I was chosen as one of the 10 Insiders, and one of the requirements of the job is putting together my very own IZEA Crew! I’m still working with a designer on an official logo, but I can tell you the name of my crew:

SparkBloggers

W00t!! Part of my job requirement as an IZEA Insider is to build a Crew of bloggers who will use the social media/networking site SocialSpark for both networking with other bloggers and exploring blog monetization options. Becoming a member of my SparkBlogger Crew will mean getting the benefit of my years of blogging experience as you build your blog(s), increase your brand awareness (yes, your blog is a brand, and it needs to be nurtured), increase traffic to your site and to your individual posts, find ways to reach new readers, find opportunities to get paid to blog without compromising your values, and most of all, it will mean having fun!

Right now I am looking to sign up my first 50 SparkBloggers. If you think you will be interested, please sign the Mr. Linky below. I’d also like you to go to SocialSpark and on the top right, click “get started”. You won’t be obligating yourself to do anything right now, but you’ll have your account ready for when the Insider program goes live on January 1st. I’ll be doing my best to make it fun for everybody, so I hope you’ll consider joining my Crew!