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If you are a homeowner who enjoys entering contests, you owe it to yourself to enter to win the $20,000 Home Makeover contest at www.triscents.com. This is a bit of a challenging contest. They want you print out an online coupon. They want you to go get the product from a local supplier. They want you to use the product in your home. Ok, here is where you have to get creative. They want you to make a video or photo and essay show and tell that explains why your home needs to get a makeover from Renuzit Tri Scents and Tanya Memme.

The more convincing your explanation and demonstration of why your home needs a makeover and why Renuzit TriScents can help, the better your chances of winning. Keep in mind that you must show your home in the video or photographs in order to be eligible. If I could, I think I would enter to win this contest.

There are a lot of boring details about making sure your video is less than 2 minutes long and all the stuff about file types and stuff. Make sure you see official rules. It would be a shame to embarass yourself on video and not be eligible because of some small detail. I don’t reside in the USA, so you don’t have to worry about my mad video making skills.

The GotTrouble.com directory is a unique directory for legal services and other services like traffic schools and rehab. What makes it a great service and a great marketing model is that it is categorized by personal problems. There aren’t very many of us who go window shopping for lawyers because it is such a nice day and we just love looking at lawyers. We start a search for a legal service because we have a compelling problem.

On the lighter side, they are sponsoring a Sing Your Troubles Away Video Contest and the available prize money is a heart warming $5,000. I have embarrassed myself on YouTube for much less than $5,000.

Amy Winehouse is famous for a tongue in cheek song about Rehab. I hear she is in Rehab now. If that is how writing these problem songs works, I’m going to minimize my risk and choose a problem that I can handle better…

How about White Collar Crime? I have not actually committed one of these, but I read about them a lot. It seems like the tide has really turned in the way that judges view this problem.

Here’s a few lines that I have managed to think up on the fly…

“They say I did the crime,
So I should do the time,
But I’ve seen that State facility,
It has a horrible back nine.

I’ve got the blues,
I’ve got the white collar crime blues,
If I had used a shredder,
Things would’ve been much better,
I’ve got the blues.”

I may enter GotTrouble.com’s Video Promotion, but don’t worry too much about me as far as competition, I have a horrible singing voice. I wish you the best of luck, should you decide to enter this contest.

Holding a contest on your blog as a way do generate traffic has a catch 22. You will not get effective word of mouth about the contest because people who find out about it do not want to dilute their own chances of winning.

About a year ago a held a contest on a humor blog that was just for fun. The prize was a mystery object to be sent by snail mail. I only got one entrant. She did get a reasonably nice prize. I enjoyed the absurdity to some extent. I wish I had gotten more interest.

If you are looking at my ALEXA widget on my sidebar today, the first day of June, 2007, it says my rank is 1,061,030

Since there is a long held tradition of having fanfare and a prize for the 1,000,000th customer at retail outlets, I thought I would tie my contest into the inevitable moment when my site’s stats drop below 1,000,000.

The first person to congratulate me in comment form on this blog on achieving this goal will get $10 in their PayPal from yours truly. Please include the exact Alexa rank in your comment, I don’t want to give my money away to a dishonest person.

I moderate comments, but if you leave me a short one now saying something like ‘I’m in, dude’, I will approve you so the next one goes right in.

1,000,000 makes some people very excited, see below: