Create a Blog Post and Win an XBox 360

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Okay, so maybe this prize doesn’t have anything to do with e-marketing. Maybe the process required to win it doesn’t really even teach you about marketing. But, the chance to win a free Xbox 360 Elite and a copy of the new Grand Theft Auto IV to be released at the end of April for doing nothing more than writing a posts and comments is something much to good to not announce.

John Chow of John Cow.com is hosting the contest, sponsored by Top Hosting Center, a company claiming they have the “best web hosting plan on the web.”

The contest involves doing certain things to get you a set number of entries into the contest:

• Write a short post about the contest on your own blog linking to the contest post and gain 250 “tickets.”
• Become an affiliate of Top Hosting Center, receiving 50% commission for each sale you refer, as well as 250 “tickets” in this contest.
• Every comment you leave on another blog’s latest post talking about and linking to this contest page will get you 25 tickets.
• Leaving this contest link in a new forum thread will gain you 25 tickets
• Mass message your MySpace or Facebook friends and gain 25 tickets
• Subscribe to John Cow.com and Top Hosting Center’s blog feeds and get 25 more tickets
• Give the contest post a thumbs up on StumbleUpon and receive 10 tickets.

You can gain entries in this contest until April 30th, when the winner will be picked in a lottery type contest. There seems to be a lot of potential for gaining entries into the drawing, so get started now! You only have 28 days left to generate a thousand entries…so go promote it, and good luck!