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#SwagsGiving is Here

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I’ve been looking around the house and have decided that it is time for me to give away a lot of the things that I have gotten over the years at conferences. These are new things, but things that I have never used. These are also things that I have upgraded in my life and no longer need the earlier versions. Basically SwagsGiving is my way to give back to you my readers in a very real and material way. This year I have been unbelievably fortunate to find sponsorship from some amazing brands and because of that I have all sorts of cool prizes to giveaway.

SwagsGiving is going to happen each day from November 1 to November 30th. Each day I’ll put up a SwagsGiving post explaining how to participate. The post will also have an announcement of the previous days winner plus what the person won. Here’s the twist. You won’t know what you are winning until it is announced. I have prizes from Seagate, Kodak and Toy State as well as books, and various other prizes. So, here are the rules.

Today is your first chance to enter to win a prize from my SwagsGiving event. Remember to come back each day to see if you won and to enter for the next day’s SwagsGiving Prize.

1 Entry – Mandatory to Enter – To enter the contest leave a comment on each day’s SwagsGiving post with your guess about what might be in my SwagsGiving Swag bag. Leave this as your FIRST comment.
(If this is not done your entry will not count)

Additional Entries (Leave 1 Comment for EACH Entry)

  • 1 Entry – Follow BenSpark on Twitter
    (Leave a Comment with your Twitter name)

  • 1 Entry – Subscribe to BenSpark’s Personal Branding BootCamp
    (Leave a comment letting me know you signed up)

  • 1 Entry – Daily Entry: tweet about SwagsGiving… something like
    “@BenSpark is clearing out his Swag Bag. Prizes abound during #SwagsGiving – Enter here http://bit.ly/dkmHs7“
    (Leave a comment with a link to your tweet. Here is how to get that link to your tweet)

I will not respond to any comments so that I can run the Random.org numbers correctly. The winner will be notified via e-mail and will have 48 hours to reply with a U.S. Mailing address so that we can send the winner their prize. Contest is open to U.S. Only. Prizes will be mailed out at the end of the month. You may win more than once. Please enter every day on the SwagsGiving post for that day.

Photo-A-Day

Skeleton Wedding Cake

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Photo-A-Day #1986

Today I was able to take photos for my cousin David and his wife Heather at their wedding. They had a simple down home wedding where Heather’s sister made the meal, I took a few photos and Grandpa Bennett did a blessing. Grandpa Bennett does the blessing for all family weddings and they are always great.

David and Heather are unique and have many great interests and their wedding was also unique. I was happy to take photos but wish I had caught the actual ceremony. They knew that I wouldn’t be able to ahead of time but either way they were happy I could take some photos. My grandmother used one of my Flips to record the ceremony and what is great about technology these days would be being able to give them the photos and the video right after the reception.

Heather’s sister also made three great cakes: Chocolate, Carrot and Yellow. They were all delicious. One of the cakes had a skeleton bride and groom, another had custom Dungeons and Dragons Characters and the other had a couple of paper owls. No matter the cake topper the cakes themselves were absolutely delicious and they two love each other so much. Don’t the look happy.

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