The Home Improvements Article Challenge is on!
By Jerry Walch, 5th Feb 2012 | Follow this author
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Articlebase has thrown down the gauntlet. The Bring it Home, home improvements article challenge is on! If you write articles for the home improvements market, here is your chance to prove to everyone that you really are the king or queen of the genre. The challenge is open and running. It started January 17th at 12:00 AM EST and will run until February 17th at 12:00 AM EST. Submit the winning articles and you could win a new iPad2, a $200 Amazon gift card, and more.
Entry Guidelines
The rules are simple.
- All participants must be 18 years of age or older.
- All the articles that you submit, and you may submit as many articles as you would like to, must be related to home improvements.
- The articles that you submit cannot promote any particular company or product, and may not contain links.
- All article must be 100 percent original, written specifically for the Bring it Home challenge, and not appearing on any online site in any shape, form, or fashion.
- All articles must be factual, with a minimum word count of 400 words. There is no maximum word count given but use common sense and good judgment here.
- Practice good grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. it really will matter to the panel of judges who will select the king or queen of the home improvement writers.
- All entries must be emailed to BringItHome@articlebase.com.
The criteria on which the articles will be judged.
All article will be judged based on the following five factors.
- The usefulness of the information provided in the article. Does this article provide the reader with all the information he or she will need to complete this home improvement project?
- The accuracy of the information provided in the article. Is the information accurate and factual?
- The author's style of writing.
- Originality of the article. Is the article unique in that there are no other article like it on the web?
- User Likes. The number of Likes that the article gets on Facebook will be a major determining factor ion selecting the king or queen of the Bring it Home Challenge.
What will the winners receive?
The first second, and third prize winners will receive an iPad2, a $200 Amazon Gift card, and $100 Amazon gift card respectively. Ten more participants will be selected at random to receive an Articlebase.com Gift Bag. If the first prize, the iPad2 is not available in the winner's country, an Amazon Gift card of equal value will be issued to the first prize winner.
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5th Feb 2012 (#)
Oh I am so tempted! I am gonna have to get with Dan on this one. My Mr. Fix it. Thanks for the heads up on the The Bring it Home, home improvements article challenge. As always my dear friend, thank you for sharing.:)
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5th Feb 2012 (#)
Jerry, I have always loved your DIY articles as I learn new things from you. How I wish I could enter this challenge! :)
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5th Feb 2012 (#)
Thank you for reading and commenting Denise and Princess. From looking over some of the articles that have already been entered in the challenge, the title is a little misleading because the article can be on anything related to home improvement. Any related article would qualify i.e. an article on how to find a good landscaper would even qualify. The articles do not have to be a DIY article at all.
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6th Feb 2012 (#)
great contest and the price!
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6th Feb 2012 (#)
Thank you, Cowboy. I actually wrote this article for Factoidz.Com where I am a Feature Writer but the owner of the site pulled the article within minutes of my having published it there, claiming that I was using my status as a Feature Writer to promote a competitor;s site. That really ticked me off because I had written articles on photo contests and writing contests in the past with no complaint from him. Anyway, since it was already written, I published it here on Wikinut.
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6th Feb 2012 (#)
Thanks for the info - but the only way I could write a good home improvement article is to copy one of yours!!!
And that's plagiarism - isn't it! hahaha!
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7th Feb 2012 (#)
LOL. Sheila is funny. Well, this is a bold challenge, Jerry. I wish I had the flair like you do. Thanks for sharing.
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7th Feb 2012 (#)
The "Flair", as you call it, Buzz, comes from some forty years of writing experience. Besides that, every writer has genres that are his or her fortes as well as his or her foibles and the good writer knows what they are. For example, I would no more attempt to write a poem than many of our Wikinut poets would attempt to write a home improvements article.
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7th Feb 2012 (#)
Thanks Jerry, but I have to come to you for my help I am not handy at all...:0)
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21st Feb 2012 (#)
Thanks Jerry, but I think I'll stick yo reading your articles! MY DIY skills run to knowing there is help a short call away if I only look in the phone book!
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21st Feb 2012 (#)
That's perfectly OK, Val. I'm sure that you possess many skills and talents that I don't.
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26th Feb 2012 (#)
good article!
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26th Feb 2012 (#)
Thank you, Nancy.
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