Just got an email from Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips letting me know that Blogging Idol 2 will be launching soon… apparently it’s been there for a couple days (post was written October 27th) but I had no idea since I’ve not kept up with blogosphere news of late.

I particated in the first one, and it was quite a bit of fun… although I didn’t win (came 11th, I think), it made me think out of the box and was THE catalyst for me going from around 420 subscribers then to over 1,000 subscribers now. I found some new bloggers that I wouldn’t have otherwise, and it was basically free promotion, since I got visits from the competition page as well as a few links from other bloggers talking about the competition.

Any blog with under 2,000 subscribers can participate, so I will be this time… there are currently around $4,500 “worth” of prizes including quite a bit of cold, hard cash.

The good thing this time is that it works on a scoring system, and not just the blog with the highest RSS count wins… RSS feed subscribers are easy to game, and in this case this isn’t really an issue.

Also, no paid promotion is allowed, meaning that everyone is on an even footing - it’s not the blogger with the biggest budget that wins. Points are mainly given for innovative ideas to boost feed count, so even if your ideas don’t work as well as you wanted, you could still end up the winner.

You don’t lose anything but time and it’s a great motivator to get off your butt and work on promoting your blog… competition is always good.

Also, the blog design first draft for TUK was recently completed and it looks mostly good. I’ve asked for a few changes, but would love insight from any on here - ping me on MSN or Yahoo messenger and I’ll let you take a look. :)

You can enter Blogging Idol 2 by emailing Daniel through his contact form. You’ve got till midnight on October 30th! :)

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