The easiest way to be a winner!

With exactly one week to go until School of Mum’s biggest Giveaway EVER, I thought it would be worth revealing a little bit more and giving you some hints to help you win, win, win!

Introducing....

The 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway Extravaganza (that’s a mouthful!) starts on Monday. Every day for 12 days there will be something reviewed and given away on the Blog, and let me tell you, the last day is MASSIVE. You will not want to miss out. You will only have 24 hours to enter! So what’s the best way to make this part of your daily ritual for 12 days and increase your chances of winning something special for yourself, your children or for someone else?

Here’s two ways you can make it easy for you!

SIGN UP!

Email: Sign up to have the Blog sent straight to your email inbox. It’s easy. All you need to do is scroll down the right hand side of the Blog until you see a box like pictured below. Follow the instructions and within minutes, it’s done! Then everyday all you will need to do is check your email and get entering!

Facebook/Twitter: Like School of Mum on Facebook or Twitter if you haven’t already. ‘Liking’ on Facebook isn’t enough these days as Facebook doesn’t put things on your newsfeed unless you tell it to do so! So make sure you hover over the “Liked” button and click “show in news feed”

If you’ve done either or both of the things above, you’re already off to a head start. And entering on the day will be easy too. I know how busy people are and it can be off-putting when you need to do a million things to enter a competition.

My Bid to Make it to the 2013 Digital Parents Conference

I’ve discovered something about myself recently. It’s probably not a revelation for my readers but here it is – I’m loving blogging. In fact, I don’t even really know how I got myself started but it just happened and, not to be all full of myself or anything, but the Blog, businesses involved and the lovely readers seem to be growing at a rapid rate. What started off as a bit of fun, and a way to get my brain into gear again – (so that it doesn’t turn into a mushy space that only thinks about sleep and poo) has really got me motivated and excited about a new avenue in my life and new opportunities.

I’ve been watching people on Twitter, Facebook and beyond at the ProBlogger Conference in Melbourne with envy. And now I’m looking into the next big thing coming up and it’s the Digital Parent’s Conference in Sydney.

It’s on the 20^th of March (157 days away) for 2 days. It is an amazing opportunity to learn new things about the blogosphere and network with businesses and bloggers. It is the biggest social media event that caters for mums, parents and personal blogging communities.

Here is the roadblock: It’s $350. That’s not including flight costs and accommodation. It might not seem like much but really, I’m not making much (if anything) from Blogging yet. And we’ve just built a new home, one wage, etc etc. You know how it is.

So if you’re a loyal reader or a business or brand and want to donate, or even better yet, sponsor my whole trip then I would be ever so grateful. Businesses/brands, I will wear your t-shirts, talk your talk and walk your walk at the Conference if you sponsored me. I would blog, tweet, Facebook you for a month before, during and after the event. I’ll pretty much do anything within the rules – I just want to get there.

As for readers – I’ll keep doing what I do, and as my networking gets bigger, so too will the Blog, the giveaways, the free printables and so much more. I have big dreams for the Blog. Let me tell you.

So I don’t want to call this begging, or a plea. It’s none of that. It’s just my bid to you. Letting you know where I’m at and where I want to go with School of Mum. If you want to help me you can email me at schoolofmum@gmail.com or comment below and I’ll be in touch. Thanks!

Angela East

@School of Mum