Write and win cool free stuff

Written by Verne on February 21st, 2008

Freelancers and entrepreneurs love free stuff. It’s in our blood to be frugle and get as much as we can while paying the least we can. Asians have been known to share this same nature. So fortunately or unfortunately for me, my love for free stuff is multiplied.

That’s why when I found out about the Graphic Design Group Writing Project, I got a bit excited. Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design recently launched an initiative to get design geeks like me to write on the topic of graphic design with hopes of bringing the community a little closer through exposure and link love. As we write more articles, Jacob adds links to our articles from his site to share it with everyone else.

And to add some extra incentive, he’s giving away $5000 worth of prizes through random draw. What does the $5000 include, you ask? Some pretty kick-ass stuff. For example:

  • A Squier Strat by Fender electic guitar and a crap load of accessories is being donated by mohdrafie.co.uk.
  • Go Media Vector Packs and an Adobe Photoshop Brush Pack. PLUS 55 iStockPhoto credits from PJ of Premium WordPress Theme showcase.
  • Everyone’s favorite logo designer and blogger David Airey is offering his brain to help improve your identity and its integration into your site.
  • Jacob Cass himself is going to pimp your logo or your blog.
  • Advertising space on Estetica Design Forums (donated by Toon) and on Just Creative Design.

And those are just some of the prizes that are up for grabs. Tons of sponsors have already signed on to help this initiative out so big props to them as well: Vivien of InspirationBit, Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips, Audee from Graphic Identity, Bloggeries, JasMate from Digital Point Forums, Freelance Folder, Jillian of The Minty Ferret, Lauren of Creative Curio, Ruchir of Technomoney, Meryl, and Design Sojourn. Wooo. That’s a lot of link love.

So how to you win some of these bad boys? It’s simple, you write a graphic design-related post and you send it in. Jacob also has a handful of other easy things that you can do right away that will immediately get you some free entires. All the contest details can be found here. The contest ends March 4th.

If you know me, you know I have my eyes set on the Fender guitar. I’ll try to control the drooling while I work on my entries for the contest.

I hope some of you will take some time and get some entries in yourself. But if you don’t, I’ll forgive you. :)Икони

4 Responses

  • David Airey

    February 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Hi Verne,

    How are you? It’s been a while, and I hope all’s well.

    Thanks for mentioning me so graciously.

  • Verne

    February 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    Hi David – it’s definitely been a while since we’ve spoken, hope things are goin well with you (happy to see you made it through the crisis not too long ago!).

    It’s good to see that you’re offering your services for the graphic design group writing project – I know a lot of people will be able to benefit from it. Keep up the great work!

  • Jacob Cass

    February 25th, 2008 at 5:38 am

    You have a good chance of winning the prize with the amount of entries you qualify for, don’t forget to send me the details of all your entries so I can add you to the draw.

  • Verne

    February 25th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    That’s great to hear! You can expect to see my checklist as the end date nears, just trying to squeeze in a few last entries. ;)

    I hope the contest has been going well on your end. There’s been a handful of great articles already so I’m looking forward to reading more as they come in.

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