I'm doing an ActiveRain experiment, and you can WIN a Starbucks gift card for helping me with my research.

Subscribe to my blog "Donna's Got Money", and you'll be entered to win a Starbucks gift card.  Got coffee?  Sunday is the last day for the "subscribe to Donna's Got Money blog and win" contest.

I'll announce the winner in Monday's blog....so subscribe to Donna's Got Money and join the "Got Money?" group so you can see if you won!

I'm going to be trying out some new ActiveRain ideas, and I will share with you the results as time goes on so you can implement some of my strategies...if they work, and I'll let you know what doesn't work so you don't waste your time.  I want to see how good (or not good) ActiveRain may be as a business tool, and a tool for SEO.  I'll post the results of my experiments in future posts.  I'm sure everyone wants to know if participating on ActiveRain really helps increase their business exposure on the web as much as I do, so I'll post results in future blogs.  I'll still be posting helpful financial, mortgage, home loan, and real estate information along the way, as well as some fun off topic items too, but want to help other ActiveRainers in my quest for SEO.  Leave a comment for me as to what has worked for you here in the "rain".

Join the ActiveRain Group, "Got Money?", and I'll enter your name in the drawing TWICE!

Post your blog entry into to the ActiveRain Group, "Got Money?", and I'll enter your name in the drawing THREE TIMES!  (reposting is ok, just post one of your old blog entries if you don't have time to write a new one).  Realtors, it is ONE MORE PLACE you can put a listing so why not?

Here's another chance to win.  Go to my website: www.donnasgotmoney.com

Send me a comment from my business website, www.donnasgotmoney.com , click the "contact us" button on the right, enter the promotion code STARBUCKS in the promotion code box, and I'll enter your name in the drawing FOUR TIMES!  (The site will ask you for a phone number and email, but we will NOT put any activerainers on a marketing list, and I won't be calling you, unless you need me to quote a Home Loan for you or your customer.  I'm just doing it to drive hits to my website, and test the links there, and see if ActiveRain really helps with SEO).  It is a SECURE website, so no information can be seen by the public, and Federal Privacy Laws prevent the information from being shared to any third party.  It is all research for SEO.

        Again, my website address is www.donnasgotmoney.com.  Enter the promotion code STARBUCKS.

Realtors, your customers can complete an entire mortgage application SECURELY online at my website, so tell them to go to www.donnasgotmoney.com.   I and my team can lend money in all 50 states. 

 I'll be following my own advice from the Donna's Got Money blog post, "Contests and giveaways as a marketing and branding strategy" about giving away things from time to time, so subscribe to Donna's Got Money and join the ActiveRain Group, "Got Money?", so you can be involved in future contests.  You'll definitely get helpful information as a subscriber, and you just might win something too!  Take a minute and read the post "Contests and giveaways as a marketing and branding strategy" on my blog "Donna's Got Money" for some GREAT, and INEXPENSIVE marketing ideas.  Leave a comment on THAT blog and I'll give your name another entry for the Starbucks card.

Your comments and participation in the ActiveRain Group, "Got Money?", will help all of us, and you may just win more stuff.  Winning free stuff and SEO...not a bad "gig", as we say here in Music City.

I'd love to hear your suggestions for things you'd like me to give away that would make you enter an email contest.  You can make your suggestions as funny or as ludicrous as you'd like.  (I don't think I'll be giving away a MERCEDES on ActiveRain, but you can ask!)  Also, I'd love to hear comments from anyone who has implemented an email or internet contest and tell me what worked our didn't work for you.  Remember, your involvement on ActiveRain drives SEO, so subscribe to Donna's Got Money and join the "Got Money?" group and we'll own the web together.

Last little experiment to see if you are really reading or just clicking through.  I you leave a comment about this blog, I'll enter your name to win the Starbucks card FIVE TIMES.  Don't forget to subscribe to Donna's Got Money, and join the "Got Money?" group.  Sales 101 tells you to "ask for the business", so I'm going to "ASK FOR THE COMMENT".

Wait, one more chance to win.  If you leave a second comment as to whether you like the picture of me, Donna Mitchell, with the glasses better than the picture of me without the glasses (yes, you have to make TWO SEPARATE COMMENTS, one about the post, and a second about the photo), I'll enter your name SIX TIMES to win the Starbucks card.  You'll get ActiveRain points for your comment AND up to SIX chances to win a Starbucks card so you can get your coffee fix.  I need get a better feel for photos and advertising...what should a banker look like in her advertising?  Hair up and glasses, or OK to "let my hair down" and be more relaxed.  Real estate pro's and other para-real estate pro's, I need your help to know.

Subscribe to Donna's Got Money, and join the "Got Money?" Group, and let's all share ideas as to how to enjoy our money more, and how to make more.  Money doesn't buy happiness, but we all need it to live and that is probably why you're working in the real estate profession and on active rain so, let's brainstorm together.

Until next time...

     Got Money?

Donna Mitchell, Home Loan Consultant, www.donnasgotmoney.com

Blog:  Donna's Got Money

ActiveRain Group:  Got Money?

Website:  www.donnasgotmoney.com