Tag Archives: Prizes

Contest, SwagsGiving

#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.

Contest, Television

Win #LEVERAGE Season 1 & 2 DVDs

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Allison and I have been completely faithful fans. We made sure that we watched the show in real time and we were even known to tweet about it as it played. This season we are still big fans of the show and are saving the shows on the DVR for a LEVERAGE Marathon on a night when we have nothing planned.

When LEVERAGE came out on TV I was so excited, I loved the show even before I watched the first episode. Then when I watched it I just loved the characters and how they played off of each other. I love the reveal of the con each episode too. So I was able to become part of the Turner Influencer Network and through that I can offer you some great prizes, Like say Season 1 & 2 of LEVERAGE on DVD plus copies of the book “The Modern Con Man”.

If you don’t know what the Show LEVERAGE is all about here is the description of Season 3.

For the past two seasons of LEVERAGE

LEVERAGE follows the adventures of a highly skilled team out to settle scores against those who use power and wealth to victimize others. The gang is led by former insurance investigator Nate Ford (Hutton), who got involved in the con business after his former employer refused to pay for treatment that could have saved his son’s life. His highly skilled team includes Sophie Devereaux (Bellman), a grifter who uses her acting skills to corner her marks; Eliot Spencer (Kane), a “retrieval specialist” with bone-crunching fighting skills; Alec Hardison (Hodge), a gadget and technology wizard who keeps the team informed; and Parker (Riesgraf), a slightly off-center thief adept at rappelling off buildings or squeezing into tight places.

By the end of the second season, the LEVERAGE team had scammed a hedge-fund manager who happened to be in the custody of U.S. Marshals; used Eliot’s martial arts skills to corner a corrupt fight promoter; and took over a private school to recover millions of dollars lost in a Ponzi scheme. They also went head-to-head with an almost identical team of grifters to recover a painting, took down an oppressive sweatshop owner, cornered a fake psychic, freed Nate’s ex-wife from a Ukrainian jail and thwarted a gunrunning scheme by a corrupt mayor.

But for Sophie, her conflicted relationship with Nate left her questioning if she wanted to continue working with the team. She took some much-needed time away, arranging for a friend and fellow grifter to take her place temporarily. But even though Sophie has now returned to the team, there are still some unresolved issues between her and Nate.

The third season of LEVERAGE opens with Nate in prison after having to make a tough choice on the most recent con. He could either allow his team to be arrested or simply give himself up to his nemesis Sterling, a former insurance investigator now working for Interpol. Nate soon discovers, however, that the prison is corrupt. The only way he can bring the crooked officials down is to get his team to help him stage his jailbreak.

But that’s only the beginning of Nate’s challenges. He must also contend with a shadowy intelligence agent known only as “The Italian,” played by actress and model Elisabetta Canalis, who blackmails him into helping bring down a financier. Between “The Italian” trying to control Nate and Nate trying to hold both his crew and his personal life together, it’s looking to be a challenging and twisted summer for the LEVERAGE team.

Prizes and Rules

  • 1st Place – Seasons 1&2 of LEVERAGE on DVD
  • 2nd Place – Modern Con Man Book
  • 3rd Place – Modern Con Man Book

(Please read the rules. entries not following the rules will not be counted and will be deleted)
Contest open to US Residents Only.

1 Entry – Mandatory to Enter – To enter the contest visit the LEVERAGE site and tell me which character from Leverage is your favorite or the one that you can’t wait to watch in action. Leave this as your FIRST comment.
(If this is not done your entry will not count)

Additional Entries (Leave 1 Comment for EACH Entry)

The contest will run Until August 22nd. I will choose the winner through Random.org at 9:30pm during LEVERAGE that night. 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.

These prizes are free complements of Turner.