Benefits of blogging

After winning a Macbook Air in a Twitter competition I was on a high!

Dr Greg Chapman of Empower Business Solutions – Australian Business Coaching was working on increasing traffic to his very educational small business blog. He offered the best three comments on his blog during the month an HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One printer valued at $499. A few weeks after the exciting news of the Kayako competition win, I was delighted to receive notice that I had won this fantastic multi-function printer! Wow, a completely new office set up!

It has been very cathartic re-arranging my office,  re-mapping computers to printers and re-organising what is plugged in where. Have even freed up a double adapter and two extension cords. Thank you to Australian Small Business Blog and to HP for sponsoring such a great prize. The printing is great quality and it is great having it all in one with a flat bed scanner as well.

Have you run competitions to drive traffic to your blog? If so, would be interested to hear how it went?

Here’s to volunteer treasurers..

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Gotta be in it to win it – first prize

It has been an exciting time receiving parcels and as a result rearranging the office (and re-orienting moving from a PC life to a Mac life).

Firstly, Kayako – help desk software ran a competition to increase their Twitter followers and Facebook fans. To enter, all that was required was to follow them on Twitter (& Facebook) which I did because we use Kayako as the help desk software to support our volunteer treasurer software and it serves us well. Well knock my socks off, the next day @neridagill was selected as the first prize winner!!! Woohoo! To win first prize in an international competition was fantastic. This prize came in three parts:-

• An updated and upgraded version of their help desk software. This means once it is installed we’ll increase our level of service even further by providing a Live Chat Online option for our treasurers.
• A USD$1000 donated to the charity of my choice. I chose our local volunteer based breast cancer support group Bosom Buddies.
• Last but not least a MacBook Air laptop! Am loving my new laptop. It has replaced my desktop with all my files and work moving over to it. I’ve even moved up to having two screens on my desk. Working in a new computer environment is a bit like being a stranger in a foreign land. I know the move will be great in the end but it will be a bit disorienting for a while.

Well done Kayako for a great competition. All three prizes are fantastic! Benefits all round to our clients with an increased level of service with Live Chat, funds to support breast cancer affected families and greater efficiencies for me in a Mac world. What competitions have you won with such great prizes?

If you are a Mac user. Am keen to hear about your favourite applications and where you got them? Please let me know and help me navigate and get settled in this new world.

Here’s to volunteer treasurers…

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