The College Money Network is helping to make the start of another school year a little happier for all the students out there. The CMN is throwing its first ever giveaway! Not only are we giving away in a bunch of awesome prizes, we will also be posting a series of valuable articles over the next two weeks to help students and everyone else put their best financial foot forward.
Here are the prizes:
- 4GB iPod nano
- $50 cash
- $20 cash
- Copy of The 4-Hour Workweek
- One-year magazine subscriptions
- Young Money
- Kiplinger’s
- SmartMoney Magazine
- Money Magazine
- $10 eBay gift certificate
How to Enter:
There are multiple ways to earn entries into the Back To School giveaway. Complete as many as you can to increase your chances of winning a prize! You may enter each way once.If you are a current college student: Share your financial goal for the upcoming semester, quarter, or school year and how you will achieve it. Make the goal specific and explain the actions you will take to achieve it.
- Leave a comment on this post with your response. (1 entry)
- Write a post on your own blog about your “Back To School Financial Goal” and email us to let us know. (3 entries)
OR
If you are not a college student: Share some tips and ideas for managing your finances as a student. What important financial advice you would give to college students?- Leave a comment on this post with your response. (1 entry)
- Write a post on your own blog with your “Financial Advice for College Students” or “High School Money Tips” and email us to let us know. (3 entries)
- Subscribe to the College Money Network group feed. (2 entries)
- Mention the CMN network and include a link to this post on one of your favorite sites (e.g. comment on a blog, post in a forum, etc.). Email us with a link to where you mentioned it, so we can record the entry. (3 entries)
- Explore our site and if you find a topic, article, or post that interests you, leave a comment with your thoughts. Consider subscribing via an RSS reader or through email with the links at top right. We love reader feedback and the great dialog some of your comments have spurred. Thank you! (1 entry)
- Have your own blog or frequent other forums, blogs, or social media sites out there? Create a relevant post or leave a relevant comment somewhere else linking back to Spilling Buckets or to one of our posts. Send us a quick email with the location. (3 entries)
- Have a suggestion for our site, layout, widgets, navigation, content, something irking you about our site or something you read, basically whatever is on your mind: leave a quick comment in the comment box at the bottom right of our site. If you wouldn't mind the possibility of your comment being shown on our site in the future let us know (by default they will be private), and if you would like us to follow up, include your email address. (1 entry)
Read more about the how the drawing will be conducted and rules for participation at the main CMN site.
->P.S. Don't have a blog but want to start creating your own content out there? It's free and the basics are very easy. Head on over to blogger.com by Google or wordpress.com to learn how to set up your own site in a few minutes (if you have any questions send us an email). Also, consider creating content for sites like Associated Content or Helium.com . It's a ton of fun and the possibilities are endless.
