Okay friends, the countdown has started. Next Monday, December 21st, is the DEADLINE for our SOAR! Scholarship! We want to spread the word to as many people as possible. To help make that happen…I am throwing in two incentives! :) Any great parent understands the power of incentives, and since the SOAR! Scholarship is my baby…you bet I’m going to parent the heck out of it!
I am giving away a $100 Gift Certificate to AMAZON and a set of our Award Winning DVDs, Refuse to Say Cheese and Beyond the Green Box, to ONE lucky winner this week!…Friday actually! Who can’t use an extra $100 in their Holiday Shopping budget! Right!
By entering, you will have a chance to get your name entered into a hat COUNTLESS times by completing as many of the following tasks as you can.
To enter, send ONE email with the subject “I SUPPORT SOAR!” to soar@fioria.us listing which items you have completed with documentation as needed (photos, links to your blog, etc.)
Deadline to enter (i.e. Send us your email with which tasks you completed) will be this Thursday, at Midnight PST! The winner will be announced Friday!
One Entry (For each item on the list your name will be entered once)
-Leave a comment on my blog this week and type the words “I SUPPORT SOAR!” at the end of the comment
-Add me as a friend on Facebook (you get one already if you already have:)
-Become a fan on the brand new Me Ra Koh Fan Page on FB, and post a comment with the phrase “I SUPPORT SOAR!” in it.
-Follow merakoh on Twitter
-Twitter about the SOAR! Scholarship with #SOAR in your status update (you can even more points if you Twitter every day between now and Thursday!)
-Post a status update on your Facebook page about the SOAR! Scholarship Deadline on Monday, December 21st with a link to the SOAR! website
-Email five friends, telling them about the SOAR! Scholarship AND our Newsletter (including the opportunity to win a Sony DSLR by signing up), include a link to the SOAR! website and our blog (www.merakohblog.com) for the Newsletter!
-Post a comment on the SOAR! website, underneath my video, and include “I SUPPORT SOAR!” in your comment!
Two Entries (For each item on the list your name will be entered twice)
-Email ten MORE friends, telling them about the SOAR! Scholarship and our Newsletter (including the opportunity to win a Sony DSLR by signing up), include a link to the SOAR! website and our blog (www.merakohblog.com) for the Newsletter!
-Write a (positive :)) review at our www.refusetosaycheese.com site for any one of our products. CLICK HERE to see all products!
-Twitter this review with a link to our www.refusetosaycheese.com site.
-Twitter about SOAR! every day between now and Thursday with #SOAR included.
-Twitter your reviews (see below) once a day between now and Thursday with #SonyMom included!
Five Entries (For each item on the list your name will be entered FIVE times!)
-Write and post a blog about the SOAR! Scholarship that mentions the courageous SOAR! Video Entries on the website, and why you believe in soaring! AND, link to my website and the SOAR! website (make sure to include the links in your email to us)
-Write and post a blog review about our Award Winning DVDs, Refuse to Say Cheese and Beyond the Green Box and link to our website and store! If you haven’t purchased our Award Winning DVDs, and you want to take advantage of these points, you can order the download version by CLICKING HERE!
Ten Entries! (yes TEN!)
-Purchase any one of our Refuse to Say Cheese products (DVDs, 101 Kits, Women’s T-shirts, Baby Onsies, etc.) OR any one of our products on the Top Ten Stocking Stuffers blog post, before this Thursday (at midnight PST) and you will earn TEN ENTRIES! Be sure to copy and paste your receipt in your “I SUPPORT SOAR!” email. If you already purchased one of the sexy, Sony DSLR copper brown cameras—just copy and paste your receipt.
We will track your specific number of entries from the ONE email you send us! Be sure to make your subject line says “I SUPPORT SOAR!”
Need inspiration today? If yes, look no further! The SOAR! website has some amazing Video Entries that you can see live! Check them out today!
Still in process of making your SOAR! Video?
We noticed that we have HUNDREDS of SOAR! Applications but only 30 plus SOAR! Video Entries. Your application will only qualify if you submit your SOAR! video too. Gets those videos in ladies!
Couple quick Video Tips from the judges and MORE FAQ:
1. It’s most ideal to have YOU speaking in your video. There is going to be a lot of video blogging in the next SOAR! year, and the panel of judges want to see how you hold yourself on video. You don’t have to be perfect by any means, but to see you give it your best shot is gold.
2. If you’d like to redo your video, GO FOR IT! Just re-upload a new video and let us know that you’d like to switch it out. CLICK HERE to upload your video!
3. A panel of hand picked judges will pick the THREE winners for SOAR! They will base their decision on two things; Your Video Submission and Your COMPLETE SOAR! Application.
4. Winners will be announced on January 1st 2010!
5. Click Here to SOAR!
Coming up tomorrow! I can’t wait for tomorrow’s blog post! We are going to share one mom’s story of what happened when she tried my Christmas Tree Photo Tips! :) You’ll get to not only hear the story but see all the Photo Tips for yourself!
And later this week, you get to meet Sony’s Director of Marketing! To show Sony’s
support for SOAR!, the Director of Marketing made a video for our SOAR! Partners page! Goes live this week!
Pray for our SOAR! Blog Tour this week! Brian and I donated a Blog Tour to SOAR! that will reach 200K mommy bloggers in the next several days!
Okay, that is it for Monday! (phew!) We’ve got a BIG week ahead of us! Send us your “I Support SOAR!” emails, and let’s spread some inspiration!
xoxoxo,
Me Ra
p.s. Thank you Crystal Garcia for this fantastic Contest/Entries idea! You are beautiful woman, wife, mother, friend and sister, and your work is beautiful too. We are so thankful for you and Brian!
WOW! What an amazing contest to share with your applicants and readers! I am sure spreading the word about this wonderful contest. Thanks for giving the opportunity to so many people. I do truly SUPPPORT SOAR!
I love your blog and submitted to the scholarship. I think what you are doing is great and definently support it. “I SUPPORT SOAR!” YAH!!!!!
I support Soar and I do hope more women finish their videos and enter in the contest so they to give themselves the opportunity to be able to receive something so great as this,.
Thanks Mera,
I have just started following your blog and your work and can’t stop coming back for more… more inspiration, more good ideas, more good energy 🙂 I SUPPORT SOAR!
I love watching the videos the ladies have already submitted ! They are so inspiring =D
MeRa, you are revolutionizing the industry and you’re a huge inspiration to my own baby business !!
<3 I SUPPORT SOAR !!
What an awesome idea Me Ra! Do we get double points if we’ve already done most of these? 😉 Seriously, I’m so excited about this scholarship that I’ve already sent the info to three women (two are past brides of ours), and I have an email ready to go out to a couple more! I hope they apply because they all have hearts of gold and they truly seek to serve others with their lives and their gifts. They would definitely soar given the right training and tools! I definitely support SOAR!
Thank you Me Ra for being so kind and always find a way to give something. You are very, very nice and we all appreciate it!
I support SOAR!!!!!
I love this scholarship, and I look forward to following the winners on their journey.
I support SOAR!!!
I know there must be a ton of woman who want to start a business and do not know where to start so I am so excited for the three winners of this scholarship. I support SOAR!!!
I support SOAR! and I support keeping the word going! lets keep it up all the way to the end!
I support Soar! I think this is such a wonderful thing for you to help three different women out! As a full time mom and photographer this is something that would really help me out. I could really use the mentoring/business coaching, not to mention gear and everything else! Thanks for all you do! Can’t wait to see the new dvd! Happy holidays to everyone! 🙂
I’m completing your list of entry tasks and I want you to know that the link to the soar! website in the last task of the “one entry” list is no good. (I think the link is written as soarwithmerako.com instead of soarwithmera.com) Keep soaring and I’ll keep dreaming!
Wow I really want to apply and win! I SUPPORT SOAR!
Love your work and hinted frequently about wanting your DVDs for Christmas. Hopefully my kids were listening!
I SUPPORT SOAR!
I can’t believe how empowering just applying for this scholorship has been! Thank you and I Support Soar!
This has been a truly eye opening and amazing experience for me!!! I SUPPORT SOAR!!! 100%!!!!!!
I SUPPORT SOAR!!!
What a great thing you are doing empowering so many women! I can’t wait to work on my video this weekend and show you why I SUPPORT SOAR!
As a beginner photographer and just getting the chance to watch your DVDs, some prizes and equipment would really help me learn and grow in photography. Right now I call it a hobby, and I hope to soon call it a career. I truely support Soar!
Best article i will come back again.
Video blogginging is an exciting way to share your daily experiences with your family and friends. I have just started video blogging;~”
video blogging consumes more server bandwidth than traditional text blogging but video blogging is more exciting~::
What a great contest!!! I would love to win. I SUPPORT SOAR!!!
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