I would just like to take one minute to let you know about a new application we have on Facebook.  It’s called Raffle Time and we are using it to raffle off gift cards from various online and retail stores.  Right now, you can get a gift card for Mafia Wars, FarmVille, iTunes and Amazon.com.  The more raffles that are completed the more variety gift cards will be added.

How Raffle Time Works

It is quite simple.  You are asked to give permission to our app, so we can use your name, profile picture and you allow us to post to your wall.  This will also allow us to contact you if you are the winner.  The app is setup so that you do not have to use any of your own money to buy the tickets.  Doing surveys and completing offers will give you tickets and the app will keep track of all this information for you.  Once you have tickets you can enter them in any of the open raffles.  Raffles last until there is 75 tickets entered and a winner is chosen automatically and notified via email (that is why you should update that info right away!).

How to Earn Tickets

• Doing surveys
• Inviting your friends
• Become a fan, bookmark us and enable wall publishing

Once you add our app, you are able to update your email address under “Account Info”, there you can also add your cell phone number if you wish to be notified via text if you won.  The it’s time to earn some raffle tickets.  You can do this a couple of different ways, but the most popular is going to be doing short market research surveys.  Some of these can get you up to 5 tickets for the raffles.  Surveys or offers that require a bit more of your time will get you more tickets.

Inviting your friends is another easy way to get free tickets for the raffle.  Invite 5 of your friends and get another free ticket.  You can get one free ticket for every 5 friends you invite to the app.

Another way, which you can see on the Earn Tickets page, is to become a fan of our app, bookmark our app and enable wall publishing for our app.  All of those things will get you 1 free ticket and that is even before you have to fill out a survey.

So, you can get 2 FREE tickets for helping us out and 1 FREE ticket for every 5 friends you invite.  You don’t even really ever have to do surveys, depending on how many friends you have, and you can enter raffles with your free tickets.  I think that is a sweet deal!  We also have a daily guessing game you can try.  All that you have to do is guess a number between 1 and 10 and you can get a FREE ticket.  That is a possibility of 4 FREE tickets the first day you visit our Raffle Time Facebook application!

You can also view our profile on Facebook here.  From there you can post to our wall, share with your friends or go right to the app and start earning tickets.

Do you have a killer milkshake recipe?  Maybe your father always made his “just the right way” and now you make them for your children.  Now, you can enter to win $10,000 in the BelowZeroHero.com Milkshake contest.  The $10,000 is the grand prize, there are plenty others to win, but first you just have to sign up.

Go here: www.belowzerohero.com and enter your zip code to get things shakin’

From there you can read about how to enter, check out other recipes and the “just for fun” sections.  If you think you have what it takes when it comes to taking milk, ice cream and your secret ingredient, then why not enter?

Note From Dean’s:
At Dean’s Dairy, we understand how important it is to serve your family nothing but the best. That’s why our ice cream is made from pure, wholesome milk that comes from our very own dairies, and is delivered fresh to your favorite store. With ice cream made from milk so pure, what more could you want? So shake up some fun with your family this summer, and rest assured that you’re mixing up the best milkshakes possible.

Don’t forget to read the official rules.  This contest is going on through September 1st, 2010, so hurry, read more about it at the website and get your famous milkshake recipe into the contest!

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I have written two posts (part one here & part two here) regarding this topic already and I just thought about a couple of things and wanted to add to the series. Breaking the addiction to Mountain Dew is NOT easy, by any means. I have gone without it for a couple of days and find the caffine headache hard enough to handle.

The other day, I was putting a lemon wedge into my water bottle before going on a walk. We all know that it is refreshing to taste that bit of lemon in your water. As soon as I took the first full drink of the water, I felt like it didn’t taste that different from Mountain Dew.

I know that Mountain Dew is a combination of a lot of different things. but I thought I would take that idea and put a shot of lemon juice or two right into a Mountain Dew bottle that has water in it. I started to think that it was more mental than anything else. The Mountain Dew bottle in my hand was like a straw in the mouth of someone trying to quit smoking.

At first, I would even try to skip Mountain Dew 100%, but maybe slide the water bottle idea in for every other soda you drink. You will see the difference immediately and realize that you are actually not craving the Mountain Dew as much. Plus it doesn’t hurt to have more liquids in your body other than soda.

Let me know how it goes for you, comment below.  If you know anyone else that might benefit from this post, go ahead and send it to them via Twitter.

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With one trip to the store this week, I see those beautiful yellow caps on the Pepsi soda bottles again.  That means that Pepsi is running some sort of contest or sweepstakes and those caps have something to do with it.  I love this time of year!

Contest Begins May 16th and ends August 7th

This time around, the contest is the Pepsi MLB “Caps for Caps” contest.  Basically, each yellow cap has an MLB team name on the inside of it and you have to match 3 caps to win an officially licensed MLB cap of your choice.  The rules are quite simple and the official rules are located here.

All you have to do is look under the bottle cap (“game piece”) of specially–marked 20–ounce bottles of Pepsi®, Diet Pepsi®, Pepsi Max®, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi®, Pepsi Wild Cherry®, and Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry®, while supplies last.  Match up three team names and send those caps into Pepsi for your FREE MLB cap.

With over 1.8 million caps with each team name being released into the stores, your odds of winning a cap are a small 1 in 30!  Those are pretty good odds and if you do not like Pepsi, you can simple send a stamped envelope to Pepsi (see official rules for address) and they will send one piece PER envelope.  So for 3 stamps you could take your chances and see if you win a cap without even buying any soda!

Check eBay for caps! Many will sell multiple sets CHEAP!!

Right now you can get up to 10 hats (30 caps) on eBay.com for under $5 with shipping! You will have to send the caps in with different addresses, but it’s still 10 $15 baseball hats for under $5!!

Not a bad deal since that retail value of the caps are $14.95 and you could win one for a mere $1.26 in stamps.  Your cap could also be worth a 15% off $50 purchase at MLB.com, so make sure you look closely at the caps!

I usually team up with a big soda drinker and let them collect caps for me.  Most people don’t care or take the time to enter these contests.  I won many products and prizes from Pepsi’s previous contests.  You can read more about them at the links below.

PepsiStuff Sweepstakes – “bought” many items with my points, including DVDs, MP3 Players, CD’s, vintage shirts, hats and pajama bottoms.

OldSchoolorNew Sweepstakes – won Adidas shoes, hat and shirt.

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