simply His blogger: Launch Week Giveaway!

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You may never know how excited I am that you are here!

In honor of Internet Evangelism Day, I’ll be giving away a special blog package! That’s right — a whole blog. But I’m not going to leave you all alone with this blog — not knowing how to work it.

Here’s what you’ll get:

  • a domain name of your very own; registered for 1 year (a $9.95 value) and I’ll help you brainstorm domains
  • a fresh install of the latest WordPress blogging software (free, but the best software!) with free, easy one-click upgrades
  • a free web hosting account for one year where your blog will live (a $120 value; cost $24/year after the first year)
  • immediate access to 60+ themes (again free but some really cool themes to customize)
  • customized blog header and theme changes up to 3 hours of work (a $150 value)
  • several WordPress Plugins installed — the ones I feel are most important; like creating backups of your blog and such so you don’t lose any of your witty writing!

If you already have a blog at one of the free services like Blogger, I will transfer your blog over to WordPress. If you are just starting a new blog, I’ll help you get started with posting, uploading images, placement of those images, and general management of your blog.

Here’s what you need to do to enter:

  • Leave a comment on this post before midnight (EST) Tuesday, May 6th.
  • You must use a valid email address (which is NOT published on this site) so I can contact you if you win (respond back within 3 days or I’ll draw again).
  • One comment per person for entry.
  • Link back to this post on your blog for an additional entry.
  • Let me know in your comment if you currently have a blog or not.

The winner will be announced Wednesday, May 7th on my birthday :) Meanwhile, use the Contact page to send me some of your blogging questions. Nothing is too basic, outrageous or crazy. I want to know what you’d like to know about blogging or internet evangelism.

If you like entering contests, Bloggy Giveaways is doing their Quarterly Carnival here!

This entry was written by Lisa B., posted on April 24, 2008 at 9:18 am, filed under Giveaways. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

72 Comments

  1. julie
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 10:28 am | Permalink

    Please pick me…I so need a blog site with follow-up

  2. Bailey's Leaf
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    I don’t blog, but I would love to! This is a perfect thing for me! Thank you for offering it!

  3. Melanie
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 10:30 am | Permalink

    Oh my, am I first? I just started my blog earlier this month and would love to have something more personalized and colorful. I’ve been learning as I go, but some “real live” help would be so awesome! Thanks for the great giveaway and the chance to win!

  4. Chelle'
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 10:47 am | Permalink

    WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS. I have a website over at Blogger and don’t know how to make it any better than it is. Thanks for hosting.

    Chelle’

  5. Tracey
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 11:28 am | Permalink

    I would love this!!! Thanks!!

  6. Heather Twitchell
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 11:34 am | Permalink

    “I love to blog…. i love to blog” At least blog with purpose that is!

  7. Betsy
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 11:35 am | Permalink

    I have 3 blogs, one on WP. This would be awesome to win!

  8. Andrea
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 1:17 pm | Permalink

    Wow! What an awesome offer. Thanks so much for putting all this work and effort out there into starting it!

  9. Summer
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    Oooo! This is an excellent offering!

  10. Tonsofsons
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    Yes, I have a blog! I need help!

    Thanks for the chance to win!

    http://tonsofsons.wordpress.com/

  11. sherrieb
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

    this would be awesome – i’ve been thinking of starting a blog – and this would be great motivation!!!

  12. Helene
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

    Please enter me! This would be wonderful.

  13. Tracee
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 2:05 pm | Permalink

    I could sure use some help with this – please count me in. Let me have that additional entry – I will blog about this at my site http://amateurdelivre.wordpress.com

  14. Tisha
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

    This is such a great prize! I want to start a blog, and this would be the best thing to win! Thanks so much! Happy early birthday! :)

    ticole96(at)msn(dot)com

  15. Audra Marie
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 3:47 pm | Permalink

    I do have blogs and I mostly use wordpress. This would be wonderful to win. :) Thanks for the awesome giveaway. :)

  16. The Happy Housewife
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    I would love to win this for my husband, he needs blog help!

  17. Ashley BB
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    Wow! This would be awesome! Thanks for the chance to win. I have a Blogger blog
    alboston(at)juno(dot)com

  18. Charmed
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

    I currently have a free wordpress dot com blog, I love wordpress! I would love to customize my blog even better!

  19. Colleen
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 5:58 pm | Permalink

    I have a Wordpress blog I’ve been wanting to move to a host. This would be perfect!

  20. Becky S
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

    OK. I must really need becuase I don’t even understand half of what is included! I am a wanna be blogger. Thanks for the giveaway!
    God Bless

  21. ambre
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

    i currently have a blog but as i’m entering a new phase in my life i want to start a new blog! thanks!

  22. Soliloquy
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    Well, this is just FANTASTIC! I’m new on Wordpress and could use and education! I have SO MANY frustrations with it. I almost packed up on moved to Typepad last week, but I had to change my blog name and address due to an extreme Mother Breach. And I didn’t want to confuse people with yet another move. So I’m sticking it out – unless I decide that I HATE it for real and for evermore.

    Read about it here:
    http://shejusthadtosayit.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/mother-breach-post-traumatic-stress/

    And while you’re there, read the post just before it title Wordpress is a Bugger. I’m telling you – I NEED this one.

    Now, I will be going back to my blog to link back to you to increase my chances – and oh who are we kidding?! – your traffic as well. snort!

    GREAT prize. I MUST WIN.

  23. Annabelle
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:03 am | Permalink

    What a great giveaway! I currently use blogspot because it’s free…what a great way to get a new spot!!

  24. Chantelle
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:08 am | Permalink

    how awesome! thank you! please enter me.

  25. Crystal B.
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:16 am | Permalink

    What an awesome prize.

  26. Audrey
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:50 am | Permalink

    Heather suggested her visitors come here, so here I am. I’d love to win this. audreyoka at cox.net

  27. witchypoo
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:51 am | Permalink

    This is one amazing giveaway! I’m blog crushing on you now. Don’t you feel the love?

  28. CanCan
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:58 am | Permalink

    I DO have a blog, but I want to start a new one to count down to my move overseas. I also want to use it to review travel products I might need for my kiddies. What do you think?

  29. Elizabeth
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:59 am | Permalink

    I just signed up with Heather and I figured I’d help out my odds and come here too!! :-D

    HERE

    is my post…I did Heathers first and then added yours. :-D

    Thanks!

    (I have a friend Heather that is a feisty one…maybe its in the name!!)

    Hope you get tons of new readers…even if my blog says otherwise! ;-) ::snickering::

  30. juliesweeps@hotmail.
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:01 am | Permalink

    I’ve been using blogspot, but I would sure like an update. And my own domain would be great. Thanks for offering such a generous gift.

    Happy birthday!

  31. Heather
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:22 am | Permalink

    Wow. I was just laying in bed with my husband last night, telling him that I’d like to start blogging, but have absolutely no idea where to start. I write (journal) quite a bit, Bible study, bake up a storm, homeschool, garden, read constantly (although not as much since I’ve become addicted to other peoples blogs) heal herbally. Blogging myself seems like a great addition to that. Plus, he keeps wanting me to try to make money on line, and from what I understand, it’s a possiblity with a good blog. So, after saying all that, I’d love to win the package and get started!

  32. terri
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    you are so incredibly generous…came here from deperately seeking sanity…i love to blog and it has opened up a whole new world for me…i use blogger and it has so many limitations though…hate that…i’m 44, a newlywed (!) and currently not working for the first time in years…also a happy grandma…i would love for my blog to match my new life…no limitations! thank you so much for this incredible opportunity…

  33. Linda
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:43 am | Permalink

    This would be a dream come true for me!I have several blogs and I am in the works of starting a few new. :) Thanks for a wonderful prize! God Bless!

  34. boomeyers
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:07 am | Permalink

    Hi! I got your link from Desperately Seeking Sanity. I would like to start a “real” blog, not a community blog like I am on now. I would like to be able to talk about whatever I wanted to, not just finances. And I would like to be able to do giveaways and maybe earn some money from a blog too! Thanks for a chance to enter!

  35. iamthediva
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:12 am | Permalink

    I’m currently blogging on blogspot – initially i created an account so i could comment on other blogs, then i moved from Diaryland to Blogger cuz blogger would let me upload pictures and diaryland would not… now i’m looking over at wordpress with longing – but without the know-how of how to make it all run smoothly and to transfer my stuff over!

    You’re a gem! please enter me in your contest!

  36. Zoe
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:21 am | Permalink

    I <3 you for this!

  37. Mrs. Mandy
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:37 am | Permalink

    Blogging is brand new to me and I could use some hand holding.

  38. Shane
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:54 am | Permalink

    Hi there! I heard about your giveaway on Heather’s blog. What a great giveaway it is too. I currently have two blogs. One is a family blog (shaneshares.blogspot.com) and the other is and ADHD & LD blog (adhdguide.blogspot.com). I’m most concerned with the appearance of the latter. It really needs some sprucing up, it’s just too boring. I’m off to look around a bit. Thanks again.

  39. trish
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:56 am | Permalink

    I’ve been blogging for a while but I would love a little help!

  40. franticallysimple
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:27 am | Permalink

    What a generous giveaway!
    I do have a blog on wordpress, but I’ve only been using it for a few months and could use all the help and coddling you’ve got available. The learning curve has been so. very. steep…

  41. Lisa's GBH
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:28 am | Permalink

    Wow! Can I enter to win too? I think this a great idea.

    I would like to offer a suggestion for the next giveaway. How about a doing a load of laundry give away? That would be so awesome for me to win!!!!

    What ever happened to discussing this with your Spiritual leader? I thought we shared everything?

    Love you lots and hope you find what God has called you to do. Looks like from all the responses that you may be on to something.

  42. Lynn
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    Hi! As I am doing all the giveaways, I am deciding that I would really like to start my own blog. I actually have free time in my life right now, and mostly fill it playing on the internet! Why not waste it by writing about myself?! So, I would love to win this giveaway to get started. Thanks for a chance to win!
    -Lynn

  43. Tara R
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

    I would love to win this! Please enter me.
    taradawnrobertson[at]hotmail[dot]com

  44. Kathy
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

    I currently have a Xanga blog, but would love to win this!

  45. franticallysimple
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

    I linked to you here: http://franticallysimple.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/i-can-almost-taste-the-curly-fries/

  46. Elena
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 3:50 pm | Permalink

    I’d love to win this for my husband!! Thanks for the contest!

  47. MSM
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

    I’m on blogger; relatively new to it, and bored to tears with the lack of design.

    I need HELP so my blog reflects my personality at a glance.

    Thanks for a great giveaway!!

  48. daysgoby
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 5:04 pm | Permalink

    I would LOVE to be a big girl and have my own space. Blogspot is a little confining, really.

  49. Jennifer Bogart
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:36 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! I do have a blog I host myself, and it is Wordpress, but the template hasn’t had much done with it, it doesn’t automatically update etc. I’d either get a new one for myself or my DH and have a second blog or just ask for help with my existing :) .

    Thanks!

  50. Stephanie
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:16 pm | Permalink

    I already have a wordpress blog, but I’d love to get my own domain all set up!

  51. Ginny
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 7:17 pm | Permalink

    Great contest, I have a blogger blog right now, would love to win this!

  52. audra
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:11 pm | Permalink

    I have really wanted a blog other than blogger but have been too scared to just start a new one without help This would be so perfect for my digiscraping freebies! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  53. Adena
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

    I would love this!! I have a blog now but I really don’t know what I am doing. I would also like to start a photoblog for my passion of digital photography.

  54. Mom to 2 Boys
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

    I hear about this from Heather over at Desperately Seeking Sanity. What an awesome idea you both have. I am new to blogging and would love some hand holding. Thanks for this give a way!

  55. Chrysa
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:55 pm | Permalink

    Great prize! Thanks for the giveaway!

  56. jodi
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    i do currently blog…using blogger…i’m relatively new to it, but am really enjoying the mom’s blogging community! thanks much for a great giveaway!

  57. Fourleafclover
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

    Sign me up! My eye has been wandering over to Wordpress as of late.

  58. Naomi
    Posted April 26, 2008 at 12:25 am | Permalink

    I could use this, for sure.

  59. Jhianna
    Posted April 26, 2008 at 1:46 am | Permalink

    Great giveaway!

  60. reeva
    Posted April 26, 2008 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Great giveaway! I hope i’m the lucky winner! :)

  61. Emily N.
    Posted April 26, 2008 at 10:08 pm | Permalink

    I need all the blogging help I can get.

  62. Mary_Freebies
    Posted April 27, 2008 at 6:30 am | Permalink

    It’s a great idea to assist those who are not super-skilled! Thanks.

  63. Lona
    Posted April 27, 2008 at 4:42 pm | Permalink

    I use blogger, and I’d rather not. This is a fabulous giveaway–thank you for hosting it!

  64. Erika
    Posted April 27, 2008 at 11:18 pm | Permalink

    Hi! I desperately need this!!!! I started my blog this month and have already logged 54 posts. At that rate it will be a major pain to move it over way down the road. I didn’t realize until after I signed up for Blogger that people suggested WP instead. However, I am not that tech savvy, so I had NO CLUE how to use it anyway. I really want my blog to do well, and I would love to transfer it now before it is impossible! Thank you so much for this great opportunity — this is the perfect giveaway for me!

  65. Caryn B
    Posted April 28, 2008 at 5:00 am | Permalink

    I’m on blogger but would love to make the big switch!

  66. Randi
    Posted April 28, 2008 at 8:45 am | Permalink

    Oh this is such an amazing giveaway! I would love to win it! I have a blogspot blog but really want to move out of there and “get a place of my own” LOL.

    Thank you!

  67. teeni
    Posted April 28, 2008 at 3:10 pm | Permalink

    This is a great contest – you didn’t say when it closed so hopefully I’m not too late. I already have a blog but if I win, this would be the gift I would give to my friend who is thinking about switching from blogger to wordpress (smart girl!) and she also has a baby on the way so this would also double as her baby shower gift from me! :)

  68. teeni
    Posted April 28, 2008 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    Oops – you did say it closed on May 6 – sorry I didn’t see that the first time around. I got excited and am easily distracted. LOL

  69. Catherine
    Posted April 29, 2008 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    What a blessing to the person that wins the blog. A blog for a year and help from another blogger. Very cool.

    I don’t know about you but I find internet evangelism difficult. You never know if the ones that should be reading are and the blogs always are attacked by those that want to tear it down.

  70. wheresthebox
    Posted April 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm | Permalink

    My blog, Another Piece of the Puzzle, was started in January and I am getting far enough along that I am really nervous about not having control of it and also that I would like to be more creative with it. This would be such an amazing prize to win – thank you for offering it!

  71. Pastor Jim
    Posted April 30, 2008 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

    I believe you are onto the next great evangelism explosion. I’ve been longing to evangelize on the web but don’t even know how to get started. You gift would be an Almighty Blessing.

  72. Packer487
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

    This would be kind of awesome! I blog about the University of Michigan hockey team (on Blogger) and I was actually looking into getting my own domain last night. I wish I would’ve gotten one sooner because it’s actually got some Google Juice now (PR: 4). Better late than never.

    Thanks for the offer! Fingers crossed!

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