Get Ready for the Money Grows on Hubs Contest!
Hey y'all!
I want to give you a heads up about January's Money Grows on Hubs contest - it's a contest in the Personal Finance category and is an EXCELLENT way to beef up on your Hubbing skills.
The prizes:
Staff Pick (28 winners): $50 & New York Times best seller I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Daily Drawing (28 winners): $50
Best Hub (4 winners): $100
People's Choice (4 winners): $100
Grand Prize (1 winner): $500
And here's the cool thing- you can get started now! Just be sure to save your entries unpublished, and then publish them throughout the contest in January.
Take the month of December to have a look at your own personal finances - do some research and plan out your financial goals for 2011 - and write Hubs as you go along! We'll share additional tips and guides on writing Personal Finance Hubs throughout the month.
For more information about the contest, visit the Personal Finance page. I hope you plan on entering!Good and essential topics. Hope all my fellow hubber's will not miss this opportunity. All the best one and all fellow hubber's.
Hi Simone, Very excited here about the contest! I had a couple questions about the weekly and daily topics, as I look ahead here.
It shows on week 1, Getting out of debt, then the seven days of that week have seven different topics. Day 3 of week 1 is Student loans. So for day 3 of week one, can we write in general about student loans? Or do all five possible hubs for that day also have to tie in getting out of debt, and student loans both? Day 7 is tax and taxes... can we write just about tax and taxes for a qualifying hubs, or does it have to tie in the weekly topic of getting out of debt and taxes to qualify as a hub for the contest?
Thanks for any help!Hi oceansnsunsets!
To answer those questions:
You can submit ANYTHING within the Personal Finance category on any day for it to count. The special topics are only for bonus points.
If you write a Hub about Student Loans on the Student Loans day, then you'll get three bonus points in the Daily Drawing. You can only get three bonus points a day, so there's no point in writing five Hubs on student loans if you don't want to
Weekly themes are just general themes to which daily topics are related. You don't have to write about that theme in your submissions.
Hope that explains it
Yep! Though you can easily publish it at noon (PT) today and it will still count perfectly for the contest, and be entered in the daily drawing
The extra entries are just... extra! And the REAL prizes are for the Hubs that win for quality!Okey dokey. Thanks!
SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
Time proven ways to save money http://hubpages.com/hub/Time-proven-ways-to-save-money
Be wary of these easy financial pitfalls http://hubpages.com/hub/Be-wary-of-thes … l-pitfalls
Please check these out. Thanks and good luck to all!
Thank you for making this clear Simone
We're going to roll out a lot of helpful guides to make it easier to get started - our contest judges are going to share a lot of personal finance writing tips in the HubPages Blog throughout the month.
A lot of it really involves doing your own research and sharing your notes in a Hub. The approach I take is to address a financial issue that I feel I need to learn about, and then I just publish my findings.
It kills two birds with one stone!
you people always arrange a contest when I have my term final exams. huh.
grrrrrrrrrrr 
Your exams don't last for two months, do they? If they're now, you can just wait to start writing until January, when the contest already starts. If your exams are in January, you can write your entries now and save them unpublished until the contest startes
December 19 to January 19.
Viva in Jan 21
I will still make few hubs
though I have no chance to win with my poor English and less experience and knowledge on personal finance 
But I hope it will be a great learning experience.
I would love to be a part of this finance is a massive passion of mine. I hate poverty, I hate living week to week (so I don't) I have heaps of strategies and have had to enact different financial strategies in my short 5 years with adult bills!!
What they said. And during the contest, there will also be a convenient countdown clock so that you'll be able to check and see what the day's topic is and how long you have until the deadline passes
Brilliant!! A clock would be most handy!!
Wow! It will be a great month, perhaps year to start with and grow money.
One complete month for preparation is making this contest more tuff.
This contest is tuff not only for hubbers but admin panel also.
Good luck all hubbers & admin panelwowwwww its a great opportunity can't wait
This contest will be a great starting point- the rules are SUPER easy this time, and it's a great subject to write on! I hope you enjoy it
I have been on Hubpages for about a year now but have never entered a contest. I'm easily intimidated and believe me with all the talented writers on this site it isn't hard for me to get cold feet. Well, I decided that it's time for me to take the plunge, hold my nose, and get those cold tootsies wet. I think I have a good idea for my first personal finance hub and will start working on it tonight!! I also think I'm going to write another one based on the subject of my Hubnugget from last year, who knows maybe lightning will strike twice.
YEAH! That's the spirit!
I'm so excited that you're already going to get started on Hubs and save them unpublished too- that'll give you a huge leg up, since you'll be all set with entries when the contest starts, and can publish them on days when they get bonus entries. Good luck in the contest, mikicagle
Absolutely, paul pruel!! I hope you enter! It's a great way to sharpen your Hubbing skills
Ooooooo, thanks for the heads up! Time to get my thinking cap on and see if I can come up with something good.
The consolation prize is that all those entering stand to continue to profit from the AdSense revenue on entries they published long after the contest has passed
That can dwarf most of the prizes in the long run!
Wow!Another great contest at Hubpages.
I am so excited about it.this is a fun contest, you get a chance to learn finance and make money doing it hehe it might just get me to stop being lazy
I've written a few already - about 5 or 6 I think and have ideas for several more. Not up to your standard yet Soni!
It's exciting to be on such a run of similar hubs and I'm looking forward to this contest. Thanks team.I like this idea. I want to be a part of it!! Sounds awesome!!
I have a few things that I am working on. Will email you.
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