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Category : contests, Events Not to Miss, Google, job search obstacles, personal-branding
Do good things appear when people google your name?
(Don’t know why this is important? Here’s Why You Should Google Your Name Right Now.)
BrandYourself has just relaunched their website and to celebrate, they’re sponsoring this contest with prizes that will help boost positive results for you in Google searches. Thank you, BrandYourself.
This is the fourth contest as part of the run-up to JobMob’s 5th Anniversary on March 21st, and still more are coming.
In case you missed them, here are the others and you can still enter each one too:
- #CONTEST: Leave a Comment, Win High Quality Business Cards
- #CONTEST: Leave a Comment, Win a Smart Resume Design Pack
- #CONTEST: Leave a Comment, Win Copies of Bring Your Superpowers To Work
- #CONTEST: Leave a Comment, Win Job Interview Video Tutorial Packs
What is BrandYourself?
The idea for BrandYourself came from co-founder Pete Kistler, a star student who years ago had trouble getting job interviews because anyone who googled his name instead found mentions of another Pete Kistler who had been arrested for drug-related offenses.
Co-founder Evan Watson says that “BrandYourself is the only Do-It-Yourself platform that makes it easy for anyone to improve their own search results.”
The new BrandYourself.com won the SXSW accelerator competition and has been covered on major media such as Fast Company, the New York Post, Mashable and TechCrunch.
Here’s how it works:
- Create a free account
- Submit any links that you want showing up in Google search results for your name
- BrandYourself analyzes your links and recommends concrete steps to improve your rankings
- BrandYourself then alerts you when there’s a major change to your results, so you can decide on followup action
You can also build a custom profile on BrandYourself that will also appear as a positive result in your results.
How to Enter
- At the bottom of this article, leave a comment about what you see when you google your name right now.
Some suggestions of what to write in your comment are:
- The most surprising thing that appears in the search results
- The most frustrating thing that appears in the search results
- The result that you’d like to boost higher in the rankings and why
Be as descriptive as you can.
How to Win
Simple – Leave an impressive comment.
The winners will be the 6 people with the most impressive comments as judged by Evan Watson, co-founder of BrandYourself.
You, or anyone you know, can try to influence the choice of winners by leaving more comments in support.
Prizes
Grand Prize
The best commenter will win:
- A free lifetime Premium Membership (worth $80/year)
- A one hour personal strategy session and analysis of your online presence with one of the co-founders (worth $100)
Second Prizes
5 people will each win:
- 3 months’ Premium Membership
- A one hour personal strategy session and analysis of your online presence with one of the co-founders (worth $100)
And if you think 3 months isn’t enough time to make an impact, Evan says that “most of our users see results in the first couple of days, and 70% of the upgrades to a premium account come in the first 48 hours.”
These are all good prize packages that can immediately have an impact on your job search, your freelancing business, your dating life or anything else where people are regularly googling your name.
Void where prohibited.
Rules
- Must be 18 or older.
- You can comment as many times as you like, but you can only win one prize pack.
- Be sure to use a real email address or Twitter account when you comment so that I can contact you if you win.
Contest Deadline
To be considered as entries in the contest, all comments must be submitted before this coming Monday, March 26th, 2012.
And please tell your friends on Facebook to comment too.
Good luck!
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- CONTEST: Leave a Comment, Win 1 of 5 Copies of Work Your Strengths
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