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DESIGN BLOGGERS CONTEST: HOW BLOGGING HAS CHANGED MY LIFE

Here’s Your Chance to Win Up to $5,400 in Prizes!

For many interior designers and enthusiasts, blogging has been a transformative experience, changing their lives in ways they never anticipated. Recently, Tobi Fairley shared how she began blogging to express her creativity, and less than a year later she was named as one of Traditional Home’s Top 20 Young Designers.

We’d like you to share how blogging has changed your life. Whether blogging has afforded you the opportunity to gain personal satisfaction, reach business or career goals, or meet new people – we’re looking to find the most unique and moving story of how blogging has changed your life.

PRIZES

FIRST PRIZE

Three Luxury Directory Portfolios (a $5,400 value) – Gain increased exposure for your blog and business with these one year listings in your choice of any three NCI publications, including Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, New England Home, Mountain Living, At Home in Arkansas, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, and more. Your Luxury Directory Porftfolio includes:

  • 18 gallery photos, hyperlink to your site, logo placement, contact information, and tagging of your company or category wherever relevant content exists on our site.
  • Portfolios are organized by categories so visitors can easily find professionals they’re looking for.
  • Your profile is seen in rotation on the publication homepage and relevant landing pages for one year.
  • Program includes monthly metrics report including advertiser impressions and detail views.
  • Visitors will be able to share your profile via email, Facebook, Twitter with one click.

Note: these portfolios are additional to any portfolios that may have been previously purchased by the winner; they cannot be used to replace any previously purchased or contracted portfolios.

SECOND PRIZE

Icons of Italy (a $300+ value) – An epic assortment of three transcendent wines:

  • 2005 Giuseppe Mascarello Monprivato Barolo
  • 2005 Bussola’s TB Amarone
  • 2005 Salicutti Brunello di Montalcino

THIRD PRIZE

Designer Classics (priceless!) – Three personally signed design books authored by the leading designers that you’ll meet who are speaking at the Design Bloggers Conference:

THE RULES

  1. Entrants must submit one creative/inspirational photo and a statement of 50 words or less describing “How Blogging Changed My Life”.
  2. Entries will be judged on originality, creativity, relevance to theme, and how inspiring they are. Each of the four criteria will be weighted equally.
  3. Submit all entries to [email protected].
  4. Entries will be accepted beginning Thursday, January 20, 2011 and the contest will close end of day on Monday, February 21, 2011.
  5. The entries will be posted on the Design Bloggers Conference website
  6. Winners must have paid to attend the Design Bloggers Conference, write a design blog, and be present at the conference in Los Angeles. Speakers, sponsors, and attendees who have complimentary passes are not eligible.
  7. Winners will be announced at the conference on Monday, February 28, 2011

JUDGES

Judges for the contest are: Tobi Fairley, Ronda Carman, and Cassandra LaValle.

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