The Helpful Health Hubs contest: Official Thread
Hey everyone,
We're excited to announce our fourth contest at HubPages: the Helpful Health Hubs contest, which begins this coming Monday, March 1st!
Every day, from March 1 through March 28, there will be a new subcategory topic within a broader subcategory topic, to write on. For example, the first week's subcategory topic will be Alternative Health, while a particular day's topic could be Homeopathy & Naturopathy. You can publish up to 3 Hubs in the day's topic (make sure you classify it under the right subcategory).
There will be a daily drawing for $50 among the day's eligible Hubs, which is completely random, so the more you publish (up to 3 per day), the greater your chances of winning.
Additionally, we'll have weekly winners ($100 each) of the "Best Hub" (chosen by our judges) and the "People's Choice" (chosen by you, in a poll on the Health page, that will run Monday noon through Wednesday noon after each week). From among the 4 Best Hub winners, a grand prize winner will be chosen by our judges for an award of $1,000.
Full details at the Health community page, including instructions and the official rules
Our judges:
* Hemi Weingarten, owner of Fooducate (which has a terrific blog on eating healthy)
* Tom Held, reporter for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and blogger for their Off the Couch fitness blog
* George Guerin, blogger for the Newark Star-Ledger's Health & fitness section, and founder/president of PPTS Wellness
Before you begin... please read the official rules at the bottom of the contest page. You must be 18 years or older and a legal resident of one of the following: US (50 states and DC), Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec), UK, the Republic of Ireland, Australia or New Zealand.
You can publish up to 3 eligible Hubs per day, which must:
* be categorized in the day's topic subcategory
* be about the day's topic directly, not only tangentially
* be completely original, your own work, and unique to HubPages and the Web
* have a minimum of 300 words
Here's a converter you can use to determine the starting and ending time for each day's contest, relative to Pacific Time here in San Francisco, California, USA:
Time Zone Converter
The start of a contest day is at 12 noon in San Francisco, and ends the subsequent calendar day at 11:59 am in San Francisco (all Pacific time).
There's $3,200 in prizes up for grabs, so good luck!
This is the official contest thread, so feel free to ask questions and cheer each other on here.
Thank You for the info...I too, will be entering, but I wil not have a hub published until Sunday. I have many pages to go through and I got pushed back due to an allergic reaction that caused a seizure yesterday and mt good friend had a baby, at home alone, last week.
So, admist the set backs, I will , for certain, be entering this contest...if I do not win ..great..I would like to though, as would all of us..
lets have fun and enjoy it..I have a writing style that prevents me from making a daily hub, but my goal now is to have one published by every Sunday.
Thank you for the info and encouragement...
Kerry
- wordscribe41posted 14 years ago
0 Terrific. I better get thinking creatively as I already have a few topic related Hubs published already. I know it's sometimes possible to move a Hub over to a Hubmob, but I'm assuming, since this is a real live paying contest, that HP is looking for new material
Correct me if I'm wrong! Thanks.- Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago0
Damn - not eligible. I have a few half-finished health hubs, too.
Hi Jason,
Cheers for the quick response
No worries - hopefully it will be sorted out in the future.I love health hubs,but unfortunately the contest does not include Indian hubbers like me! Waiting to enter the next contest at least!
Same here
. Was so excited to read about the contest then I read about the eligibility rules. Definitely disappointed .Emie lets fly to one of these locations. How about New Zealand?
Are you permanently in Greece Sufi? I spend quite a lot of time in the UK (more than 3 months out of the last five for instance) and have a residence there. As in - I don't need to use hotels and the like
I go back again the start of May. Not sure whether you do the same?Cheers FrogDropping
Haven't been back for well over two years - for some strange reason, my family all want to come over here to visit. Can't work that one out
@Shaz - mmmm... Swap the sun, sea, beautiful scenery, ancient history and Ouzo, for cold, rain, and working in a supermarket.
Tempting, but Greece just shades it.
I am sure that the UK will do just fine without my moaning and complaining
None of the above.
Paradise.
Jamaica.
On Timing:
Londoners then will have to get up at 4:30am to start publishing their hubs before 4:30am the next day. Not sure if this is good for my health even if I was eligible. You can begin working on your Hubs whenever you like. They just have to be published for the first time during each day's contest period. I believe London is 8 hours ahead of Pacific time, so your contest period local time would be 8pm to 7:59pm the next day.
Everyone has to sleep around 7 hrs a night, right? People in the UK will just have less time to publish before heading to bed, and more time after they wake up in the morning.
Thank you Jimmy for your optimism. Well, more than that really...you've got the goods...the experience.
In fact, HubPages may want to come up with incentives for ineligible participants. Perhaps share 2.5% of their sponsorship revenue from the hubs during the contest period.Thanks for sharing Jimmy. But did you click the contest button to publish your hubs when not eligible. Does that not disqualify you?
Sure glad you can participate this time!
- shazwellynposted 14 years ago0
This is a wonderful idea! Way to go Hubpages! We can't join officially but we can still write
D) woohooo good luck to all the contestants!Huhuhuhu I'm not eligible
Hope HP will come up with something that includes ASIA (I'm from the Philippines)- khmohsinposted 14 years ago0
- shazwellynposted 14 years ago0
Well if this doesn't keep me motivated next month nothing will. Thank-you for this, it's really cool.
Australia's nearer.
