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Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners: Get a FREE Logo/Website Design Consultation from 99Designs.com!

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:53:12 +0000

If you are a small business or an entrepreneur, you know how much your website and logo image and design signal the marketplace about your company. Right now, you can get a FREE design consultation from 99Designs.com, one of the new great online crowd sourcing design contest marketplaces. It uses crowd sourcing to gather together a pool of designers from all over the world and small to medium-sized businesses, which needs design solutions. If you need something designed, 99designs can help you. Projects categories include logos, web design, banner ads, and even merchandise design for things like t-shirts and clothing.

Over at 99designs, businesses can hold contests to get logos designed for them. To provide better direction to identity designers than “I’ll know it when I see it” or “just make it pop”, each business is asked to create a design brief that includes a description of their business, the type of logo they want, and the values that their logo should communicate. The values are dubbed manliness, maturity, bling factor, ageness, fun, volume, complexity, and in-your-faceness in the source code, and they’re input via sliders on an integer scale from -5 to +5.

99designs – How It Works

Contest holders pay a listing fee of $39 plus 10% of the prize offered for each listed project. Depending on the type of project, there is a minimum set prize. For the amount you pay as a contest holder, here is what you will get:

100% money back guarantee
A pool of approximately 80,175 designers
Wide variety of designs to choose from for each contest
Option to run a regular or guaranteed contest
Option to run a blind contest where no one gets to see the submissions other than you
Unlimited revisions
Access to tips on every aspect of running a successful contest

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Free Ice Cream Cone at Ben & Jerry’s – April 3

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:59:36 +0000

Who is ready for a spring ice cream cone? Make sure to mark your calendars for Ben & Jerry’s FREE Cone Day again this year on April 3rd. With so many locations, times and participation may vary so make sure to check with local Ben & Jerry’s. Make sure to wander by your local Ben & Jerry’s to help celebrate their 34th year Anniversary with their legendary FREE Cone Day, April 3, which has carried on since their First Year Anniversary in 1979.

Free Cone traditional offering begins at opening time and end at closing.

Click here for a location near you.

Free Curves Workout Guest Passes

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:49:18 +0000

Get in shape before the summer gets here! CLICK to receive a FREE one week guest pass for Curves (or exchange your pass on your first visit for a special membership discount). Offer is available to new members only. Offer is good for a limited time in the US and Canada (except for Quebec). You’ll be able to burn up to 500 calories with their 30-minute workout, which combines strength training and cardio for a workout that works your entire body, from head to toe. It works every major muscle group and gives you results that last. You also get the total support of their trainers. Give it a try today, and we’ll give you one week FREE. No contracts. No commitments. Just fill out the form on the website to get your FREE one week pass today!

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE PASS

Free Curves Workout Guest Passes

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:46:20 +0000

Get in shape befor ethe summer gets here! CLICK to receive a FREE one week guest pass for Curves (or exchange your pass on your first visit for a special membership discount). Offer is available to new members only. Offer is good for a limited time in the US and Canada (except for Quebec). You’ll be able to burn up to 500 calories with their 30-minute workout, which combines strength training and cardio for a workout that works your entire body, from head to toe. It works every major muscle group and gives you results that last. You also get the total support of their trainers. Give it a try today, and we’ll give you one week FREE. No contracts. No commitments. Just fill out the form on the website to get your FREE one week pass today!

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE PASS

Free Online Streaming: Bruce Springsteen’s New Song

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:02:20 +0000

The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, is streaming the third track of his latest album, “Wrecking Ball,” for 24 hours today on Rolling Stone’s website, and the song, “Shackled and Drawn,” is chockful of choice morsels aimed at the Wall Street set. The new album Wrecking Ball focuses on characters whose lives were destroyed by the recession and the country-folk stomper “Shackled and Drawn” has lyrics that could have almost come from the Woody Guthrie songbook: “Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill/ It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s hill/ Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going strong/ Down here below we’re shackled and drawn.”

Wrecking Ball hits stores on March 6th, but you can preview “Shackled and Drawn” exclusively at RollingStone.com below.

CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE NEW SONG

Free Italian Ice at Rita’s on March 20

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:18:14 +0000

For the past 19 plus years, Rita’s has been giving away a free, regular size Italian Ice to each and every guest to mark the first day of spring! This is a sweet date for Italian Ice lovers, as each year, hundreds of thousands of our guests visit Rita’s in search of the first taste of spring. In fact, in 2011, Rita’s guests showed their spring spirit and over 1.2 million cups of Italian Ice were given away in a ten hour period!

We are already gearing up to celebrate the arrival of spring in 2012! A springtime tradition, Rita’s annual giveaway will be held on Tuesday, March 20 from noon to 9 p.m. at all open Rita’s locations. This is surely a tasty tradition that you won’t want to miss! So be sure to stop by your local Rita’s location and celebrate the arrival of spring on us!

Find a location. They have locations in the following states: AZ. CT. DC, DE, FL, GA, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA and WV.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

Free Peppercorn Shrimp at Panda Express – Feb 22

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:33:44 +0000

Who would like some free food from Panda Express? They are promoting their new Peppercorn Shrimp, a bold new flavor that starts with tender marinated shrimp and add fresh asparagus, onions and red bell peppers, then wok toss them all in their signature Green Peppercorn sauce for a bold burst of flavor. Gather some friends on Wednesday, February 22 and you can get a FREE single serving of Peppercorn Shrimp with this coupon. No purchase is required, though the fine print reminds one coupon per person. Valid only at participating locations so check with your favorite Panda Express.

Thanks to Free Food in Chicago and Free Food in Denver for this yummy freebie

CLICK HERE FOR THE COUPON

It is time for Fat Tuesday – Mardi Gras Time! – Feb 21, 2012

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:45:59 +0000

Who is ready for Mardi Gras? Mardi Gras Day is on February 21, 2012 this year, and Tuesday is the Mardi Gras time as”Fat Tuesday” (the french meaning of Mardi Gras) celebrates the final day before Ash Wednesday, which signals the start of the Lenten season for Catholics and Christ-followers. The term Mardi Gras dates to 1699, according to New Orleans website. It all began when French explorer Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur D’Iberville set up camp on the west bank of the Mississippi and, knowing the date was historic back home, he christened the site Point du Mardi Gras. The festivities began in the late 1700s in New Orleans, when pre-Lenten balls and other activities began. The masked balls begun by the French were, sadly, outlawed by the Spanish when they came into power in the region. They were not seen again until 1823, when the Creole population persuaded the American governor to allow them. Other festivities were reintroduced in 1827.

The first documented parade happened in 1837, when masked revelers walked through the city. Things really got going in 1857 when six men from Mobile, Ala., formed a group named Comus and coined the term “krewe,” with which any student of Mardi Gras is familiar: Krewes are the groups that hold the many parades that make their way through the city’s streets during Mardi Gras season. (You can’t expect something this big to be confined to one day, can you?) These days, more than 50 krewes hold parades and balls. Begun as secret societies, they now must open their memberships to everyone.

Mardi Gras has been celebrated nearly every year, including 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The parties and parades survived World Wars I and II, although each stopped events for a couple of years. Krewes have come and gone, and many traditions have sprung up. We’re all familiar with what tradition says women have to do if they want krewe members to throw trinkets – including necklaces in the traditional Mardi Gras colors of purple, gold and green and coconuts (yes coconuts) – from floats.

New Orleans isn’t the only city to celebrate.

Free Beverage at Starbucks

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:01:20 +0000

Get a FREE drink at Starbucks on your birthday. To qualify for this freebie, you need to register a Starbucks card here and make one purchase at a participating Starbucks within 12 months of registering. You will receive a postcard for a FREE drink 3-7 days before your birthday. Click here to find a location near you.

Save! Great Laptop, Computer Deals on President’s Day Weekend!

admin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:24:46 +0000

We are in the market for a new laptop and it turn out, president’s Day weekend is a good time to sit back at home and get some great deals. Check out these awesome deals at TigerDirect.com, which is featuring some unbelievable daily DEALS this weekend on laptops and desktop computers.

Check out some of the great deals:

1 – Acer Quad Core Desktop PC w/ 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive
Regular Price: $399.99
Sale Price: $349.99

2 – Dell Core i5 Laptop w/ 4GB RAM, 640GB Hard Drive, 15.6″ Display
List Price: $599.99
Our Price: $549.99 While Supplies Last

CLICK HERE TO GET THESE DEALS