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[Blogodise Grooming Focus] – What does your shirt say about you?

Picture this: You go for this very important interview feeling ultra confident. You’ve waited for this opportunity for a very long time and are exhilarated when your dream company finally calls you up for an interview. You go in well-prepared, having done more than the required share of research and having consulted all your friends on the tips you need to get the job. However, your interview turns out to be a disaster. When you step into the interview room, you are met by strange condescending stares and a cold attitude by the interviewers. They do not seem very interested in what you say and very soon, you find yourself being ushered out of the room.

Despite all your efforts in preparing for the interview, what might have tripped you up? You are totally baffled. Then it dawns on you. Your shirt! The relic from your dad’s closet was purchased for a couple of pounds from your neighbor’s garage sale. Not that you thought much about that. But you were never a fashion guru, were you? The hard truth – your shirt represents you! I found this out through personal experience – the hard way. Your shirt shows the attitude you take and more subtly, how much the job or company you are interviewing for means to you. A good quality, stylish and smart formal shirt projects a good image of yourself and the company that you represent. The opposite is true as well. If you look good, so does your company! It is no wonder that many interviewers include the image projected as a criterion in selecting a candidate.

And good quality and style does not equate to high price. Established shirt companies such as Van Heusen offer a wide array of formal shirts, casual shirts, ties, cufflinks etc for competitive prices. You are simply spoilt for choice. So before you jump into that important interview, make sure you take a peek in the mirror first so that you don’t let that shirt of yours reduce the chances of winning that dream job!

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Digivate's Blog & Win Contest

Digivate is giving away an iPhone or an iPod touch and $100 Amazon voucher! All you need to do is to blog about a particular topic(s) they give you and include certain links as specified. The entry with the most Diggs wins!

In addition, you can also win the growing BlogPot for the most influential post! The amount of money in the BlogPot will continue to grow – for every entry received, another $5 goes in the pot. The next monthly winner will be announced on 31st October. Entry is free and what’s more, every valid post earns the writer $10 – it’s that simple! So don’t hesitate, participate now!

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Post On Contest Blogger's Forum & Win $25

And the contest furore continues....

Contest Blogger will be giving away $25 just for blogging about his new Contest Blogger Forum and then posting a comment or contest on the forum. Cool!!! Contest ends 15 October. Check it out!

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Win $50 With The Stripping Aristologist Contest

Calling all food lovers! Profitable Productive Blogging is holding a contest The Stripping Aristologist where you can walk away with $50 cash and a bonus prize valued at $25. It is a blog about Profitable Affiliate Marketing. To enter, just guess his favorite gourmet chef. The winner is picked at random from all entries. Furthermore, if the random winner also correctly guesses his favorite Gourmet Chef, he or she will win a bonus prize. Contest ends 15 th October, 4pm CST.

I have got a sweet tooth so I'm going with Paula Deen. So folks, start guessing (or eating)!

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Cman's Cognitive Contest

Hey folks, check out Cman's blog and win! I just love the humor section, especially the The Nun's Solution. Haha! Anyway, check out the giveaway details below:

Cman over at Cman's Cognitive Content is giving away Free Money! All you simply have to do is copy and past this text, including links, follow the link to his blog and leave a comment to the post. That's it! He is giving $1 via Paypal to the first 20 people plus a 2 month Text Ad on his other blog Profitable Productive Blogging to the first 5. The ad link is worth $20! This is Free Money and Free Advertising for a simple copy and paste, and don't forget the comment. Because you need to know what he thinks.

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Spread The Word For A Good Cause And Win A Nintendo Wii

Do a good deed and win? Yes, you can win a Nintendo Wii by entering this really meaningful contest just by posting the following 2 paragraphs on your site and then informing them by email. Contest ends 4th November.

Ultra-runner Tim Borland is running 63 marathons in 63 days in order to raise funds and awareness for the A-T Children’s Project in their quest for a cure or life-improving therapies for ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). A-T is a rare, neurodegenerative disease that affects children, giving them the combined symptoms of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and cancer. Children with A-T — born seemingly healthy — are usually dependent upon wheelchairs by the age of 10 and often do not survive their teens.

To run with Tim, join a tailgate party, or make a donation, please visit the A-T CureTour website.
There, you can also view the daily video blog produced by filmmakers who are making an independent documentary on the A-T CureTour and enter a contest to Win a Nintendo Wii.

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Everyone Loves Coupons Is Giving Away A Nintendo Wii

Why spend so much when you can save with coupons? Shop online and save galore with coupon codes. What's more, Everybody Loves Coupons is sponsoring a contest where you can win a new Nintendo Wii and other stuff. All you need to do is write about anything related to online coupons, mention and link to Everybody Loves Coupons and include the hotlinked words. So check out his contest site today! Coupons anyone?

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WordHugger Contest

WordHugger is a micro-investment website which allows people to micro invest in words. You just pay a mere $60 for the use of a keyword page for 10 years. You have the freedom to do almost anything with the webpage such as displaying recent topics, keeping updated information, selling a related product, sending visitors to their existing website, or just by making money through advertisements, links, banners etc displayed on the webpage. You can also contact support if you run into any problems. There’s even a money back guarantee that you’ll make a profit on your investment. What’s also great about the website is that besides helping the developer, Collin, to pay for his college loans, 50% of each sale will be loaned to Kiva. Kiva is a non-profit organization which sends out micro loans to entrepreneurs in different developing countries worldwide. The loans will help thousands of business entrepreneurs receive the micro loan they desperately need to expand their business and become financially independent.

WordHugger is currently running a site review contest where you get a chance to win a $100 cash prize when they sell their 100th word. It will be a random drawing to determine which of the entrants wins the $100 cash prize (no purchase necessary). As what I’ve done, all you need to do is to write briefly what the site does, mentioning that they donate 50% of their profits to Kiva. You must also mention the contest they are running and comment on how great the site is. The post should be at least 200 words. They also have 2 other great contests so do check out their site!

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SimplyMoroccan’s Competition

SimplyMoroccan is having her first competition which requires entrants to write a text that contains the following words: Babbôr, qrzâz, farâsha, wîlî, and khnôna. It is sponsored by SpeakMoroccan and has 3 great prizes of $50 cash to the winning entries. Contest ends midnight of 12th October so hurry if you want to submit an entry! I thought I’d take up the challenge of a foreign-language competition. Pardon my amateurish entry:

The Story of the Mysterious Farâsha

Once upon a time, there lived a rich old woman who lived in a fancy mansion on the outskirts of the city. Describing the mansion as luxurious would be an understatement. It overlooked the sea and offered a stunning view of the wide expanse of water, with the faint sound of a babbôr cruising past every now and then. The woman was a mean and grumpy person, a result of years of money-grabbing and back-stabbing in the business world. Her wicked temper and detestable character also made her a loner. A shrewd businesswoman in her younger days, she was extremely qrzâz and had never donated a single cent to charity in her life. One morning, she was pruning the trees in her garden when a farâsha landed on her nose. “Ah-choo!” she sneezed. Rubbing the khnôna from her nose, she muttered, “Wîlî wîlî, where did that irksome insect come from?” Even as she said it, a picture of a poor beggar reaching out for her hand flashed across her mind. She dismissed the sudden thought and continued what she was doing. However, every morning when she came out into the garden, the same farâsha would land on her nose and make her sneeze and she would have the same flashback. Despite trying all means to get rid of it, it would return every morning to pester her without fail. The exasperated old lady even tried on a Phantom of the Opera mask to no effect. She was fortunate that there was no audience to the spectacle or she might have ended up in the local asylum. Finally, she decided to donate some money to the nearby charity. From then on, the mysterious farâsha never returned. Enlightened, the old lady never failed to donate regularly to the poor from then on...

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Win A Set Of Noise Isolating Headphones From FiddyP

This seems more and more like a contest blog. But hey, paradise means sharing and giving and contests seem to fit the billing. Anyway, FiddyP is generously giving away some awesome Vmoda Vibe headphones which are great at keeping out external noise.

He has also made 3 fabulous wordpress plugins which should prove very useful: The CommentLuv Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post the author made and display it under his or her comment. The Stumbleupon Widget will show you the latest 10 stumblers who have given you the thumbs up. The Hello Stumbler Plugin will show a “Thanks for Stumbling” note on top of the post that has been stumbled.

To win the headphones, all you need to do is to post about the contest by FiddyP on your own blog and link to him, mentioning something about the wordpress plugins and then emailing him to inform him of your participation. Contest ends 10th October. So what are you waiting for?

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