It’s day 2 of this week’s group writing project and below you’ll find another 88 submissions (a total of 151 so far in the full list).
Thanks again to this week’s sponsors (New Homes, Webmaster-Talk.com forums, Google Tutor and OwnMySeat.com) of the gifts that will be awarded to 5 random participants (full details of the $1800 of gifts up for grabs at the bottom of this post).
As usual – the submissions below are varied. We have a few non english blogs participating in this round which is great and a massive diversity in topics covered. I hope you enjoy them – I know I did when I surfed through them all this afternoon.
It’s not too late to participate – you’ve got two more days to get your submissions in by following the process outlined here. Enjoy!
- How to Attach and Save Files Faster by James
- How to recognize it’s time for Repat by Lori
- Creating Great Cartoons with Your Pencil and Computer – Part 1 by Matt
- Corn Meal Beer by Ben
- How to avoid pumping gas for 28 years by Musing
- How to post “Accounting Columns” in your blog by HART (1-800-HART)
- Solving Customer Service Problems by nickel
- A Simple Formula for Weight Loss and Long-Term Maintenance by Steve
- IF Internet Explorer THEN Do Something Else (A How To…) by Phil
- Tips Revealed: My Low Light Photography Technique by Curt
- How To Make Meetings Fun! by Allen
- How to Cure your Blogging Addiction in 7 Easy Steps by Martin
- How to survive the first year of living gluten free by Lucy
- The Art of the Credit Card App-O-Rama by Jason
- How to Live with Teenagers by churchpundit
- How to Become a Mind Control Expert by Graham
- How to Master the Art of Blogging by Karthik
- How to choose which hybrid to buy by Mike
- The Coolest House in the Neighborhood by Mike
- How to Visit a Sick Friend by SB
- How Not to Sell A Screenplay by Annie
- How to Stop Wasting Your Life and Start Playing Games by Yehuda
- Charity – Not just a Girl’s Name by More Bread
- How to Make the Perfect Chicken Soup by Lynn
- How To: The Basics of the Breaststroke by Scott
- How to Accept Mistakes and Don’t Blame Others by cjcm
- Seven Prayer Suggestions for Use With the Snooze Button by Helen
- 19 Ways to Annoy People by Brad
- How to Ineffectively Use Your Church Website by Greg
- How to Run a Red Light by Bill
- Everyday Gifts – How You Can Show Your Love Without Spending a Dime by Shonnie
- How to Live a Short, Miserable, Unhealthy Life by karishma
- How to Shop Like My Mother-in-Law by SP
- How to Lock Your Hair by Renata
- How to Use Beautiful Women For Website Traffic Increase by Miha
- Ex-Car Salesman Tells All: How to Beat the Auto Dealerships at Their Own Game by David
- rotando cabezas by Nicolas
- EAS’ Helpful Info for Small Businesses by Jennifer
- Choosing secure passwords that are easy to remember by John
- How to be a Miserable Failure at eBay Selling by The Wizard of Auctions
- How Club Cricketers Can Train Like Professionals by David
- Beaded “Awareness Ribbon” Pen Cover by Mandi
- For Real Estate Promotion, the Business Card Form Factor is Tiny Little Workhorse by Greg
- Write a Directory Submission that Gets Accepted by Lara
- How to enrage the Chinese People by fiLi
- Lost Ball in the High Weeds Webmaster Skills by Splork
- How to get out of life alive by Rolio
- 1-900-STALKER by dan
- How to Meet a Star by Gray
- Como escribir una entrada by Sacha
- Account Security by Stropp
- How to Increase Your Sales by Larry
- How to Destroy the Earth With a Coffee Can by Tony
- Exploiting Alien Technology for Fun and Profit by Eric
- How to Have a Better Banking Experience in Honduras by La Gringa
- Make New Plants… by Taking Cuttings by Corinne
- How to Earn More from your Website by Paul
- 6 Steps to Writing a Fantasy Blockbuster by Eoghann
- How not to Ruin Your Day While Driving to Work (the Philippine Connection) by aczafra
- Top 10 tips to survive laptop disaster: what to do if your laptop is dropped, catches fire, gets ripped off, is smashed, or just plain won’t boot by Mary
- How to FTP something by Shawn
- Power Searching Libraries by Dave
- You Tube University: the worlds largest textbook by Sean
- How to give a prostate massage by Lisa
- Achieve Big Audacious Goals that SMART Way by Nneka
- How to Survive a Roll Over by Thom
- How to Have a Mental Breakdown by Jason
- Skills for Listening to your Kids by Pass the Torch
- Essential Software List by Julien
- How to Convert LPs to MP3s by Kent
- How to “buy” happiness by Shuchetana
- Establish Your Business Credibility by Tom
- How to Simplify Your Life with Technology by Rob
- How to Travel by Nick
- How to Get Your Site on the Front Page of Digg by Michael
- How to Jump Start a New Healthy Lifestyle by Bill
- Teaching Your Children How to Save by MNC
- How to grow a business you love by Tim
- Beating the Sale Mentality by Adam
- How to look like you have been cooking the whole day by Yi Chen Sim
- Happier Life by yenjai
- How to find your style -Martial Art for smart people by Kris
- How to Customize Your Google Homepage by Robert
- How to Make Money Reselling New Console Systems by Ian
- How to comparison shop on eBay by John
- Love your passion and money will roll in by Mark
- How to enjoy a beer by Coopz
- How to use Firefox’s Smart Keywords more effectively by Ross
Prizes
At the end of the week once all submissions are in I’ll randomly select five submissions who will each receive one of the following five prizes:
- One week complimentary stay (for up to 4 people) at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain (pictured above). This prize must be taken in the next 12 months and the winner must cover all their own costs in getting to Spain (ie this is for the cost of the accommodation only). If the prize cannot be taken by the winner they can also take an iPod (video) instead (by negotiation with the sponsor). This prize (valued at 1000 euros if taken in the peak season) has been kindly donated by New Homes on Nubricks.com. Thanks to Adam and Chintan.
- $100 Cash (in your paypal account) OR a month long text link in the Webmaster-Talk.com forums. This prize sponsored by Webmaster-Talk.com forums – thanks to Tim and his team.
- A Personal license for ExpressionEngine including a personal license for the forums module (worth $149). This prize is sponsored by Marcus from Nanoblogs.de
- A $149 yearly plan to Audible.com OR a $100 gift voucher to iTunes (your choice). This gift has been donated by Google Tutor. Thanks to Craig for this gift.
- $200 gift voucher from Amazon to spend on anything you like. Its been kindly donated by OwnMySeat.com. Thanks to Jason for his kind donation.
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My 2 cents ;)
Just sent my entry – hope I am not too late. There’s a bit of reading now to get through.
How to Let Go and Move On…
Letting go of something is probably one of the hardest and longest running thought decision processing and emotional struggle a person has to make especially if it’s special or dear to the person. The thing we hold so dear could vary from one pe…
The “pumping gas” entry looks like it is the wrong link.
Hey, that’s my pumping gas entry. Thanks for mentioning it, Mike. Here’s the correct link:
http://mudguard.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-avoid-pumping-gas-for-28-years.html
The http://www.budgetglobetrotting.com/ link is also wrong. To the author of the blog, I would suggest using permalinks on your blog. They will help a lot with SEO to your blog.
My vote goes to “how not to sell stuff on ebay”.
changed the pumping one – thanks Mike and sorry musing
In terems of the budget globe trotting one they gave me the link I’ve used but it looks like an advanced post which isn’t live yet. Hopefully it’ll actually be published soon enough and the link will work fine.
I’m not sure why people submit links that are not active yet (it happens every project I run).
IReally enjoying these links.
Would it be possible to adjust the spelling on the http://www.harrowdrive.com link from ‘trian’ to ‘train’?
No doubt it’s my fat fingers at work.
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It’s amazing to see in one place the wide variety of minds at work. We should write a compilation book, “The Ultimate How-To!” Thanks Darren! thus says churchpundit!
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Churchpundit, that is a pretty good idea! I am sure everyone here would write an article to get their name and URL in print. Any good publisher would see a great opportunity here.
I agree! Someone call up Penguin Publishers!!! Darren… let’s go… do it!
Thanks for the entry Darren.
wow, i love the book idea!
i’ve only been blogging for a month now, and i hope i can keep it up :)
this project has been very interesting for me, i’ve visited some blogs (and really enjoyed them) that i wudn’t have read otherwise. i hope some ppl feel that way about my blog!
Someone write a how to on how to write a book quick!
oh dang.. it’s past thursday lol
Thanks for posting my entry Darren… I actually think mine is somewhat useful… well for some people in the small niche I wrote about anyway.
Wow, what a day I’ve had. Darren was kind enough to include my entry into the project last night.
I woke up this morning to 33,000 visitors. Someone (I can only imagine one of the readers of this blog) Dugg the story on Digg.com and it has been on the Most Popular page most of the day.
By the time the day ended, I had almost 60,000 unique visitors to my humble site.
I can’t thank you enough Darren, and the kind reader who Dugg it. I never imagined such traffic.
I’m trying to get a brand new, very tiny site noticed, and you’ve all helped beyond my wildest dreams. I’m in the process of putting links on that page to those posts in this project I’ve particularly liked and are somehow related to astronomy.
Thank you so much Darren and ProBlogger readers! Please let me know how I can pay it forward.
BTW, The comments on Digg about the article are way funnier than anything I could have come up with, you should check ’em out if you get the chance. There are some smart and funny people on that site.
Tony Darnell
Thanks Darren for adding my entry.. I think i have really benefitted from this project a bit.. anyways i hope to see much more from you in the future.. I have actually a nice increase in my traffic toda though..
While my site hasn’t had nearly the increase in visitors that Tony has experienced, I have had a nice little bump as a result of the writing project. For that I have to thank Darren and ProBlogger.
It has been exciting to be a part of this writing project and I have also had the fortune of finding a few new sites related to my niche. Thanks!
Hi Darren! I hate to be a pest, but the title of my blog “how-to” is
How to make more money by working fewer hours
The name of my blog is EAS’ Helpful Info for Small Business.
Thanks so much Darren! I’ve had some great visitors at my blog the last two days!
Ahh well, as quickly as it came, it went away. I have no idea why, but the story is no longer listed on Digg. It was #2 on the week’s most popular but something happened and it has disappeared.
I can’t find it ANYWHERE. I guess it must have been buried.
Traffic has plummeted.
Lesson: enjoy it while it’s there, but don’t count on it.
Sure was a fun couple of days…
Thanks again!
Tony
@Toni Darnell: Great site! I was blown away by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field video. Awesome storytelling!
Couldn’t resist. I had to write a small note about it: http://performancing.com/node/4416
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