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PRIZES

GRAND PRIZE: WEBSITE MAKEOVER

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT, GRAPHIC DESIGN, BRANDING, COPYWRITING & SEO ($20,000 VALUE)

ADVANCED SEO PACKAGE WITH ROB PATTON OF ENTER THE NET: ($2500 VALUE)

www.EnterTheNet.com

Enter The Net's full search engine optimization package begins with the most comprehensive key word research possible. Our goal is to find the most relevant, most popular key word combinations (search terms) for YOUR website. Then, we deploy our proven techniques to make subtle changes to your website that drive the search engines crazy (in a good way!)

There are no big secrets about what we do. Your optimization consultant will make sure you understand exactly how and why your website will start performing on the search engines for your relevant and popular key word combinations.

The full optimization package also includes six months of monitoring and on demand support.

BUSINESS VIDEO FOR YOUR HOME PAGE WITH NW BUSINESS VIDEOS ($900 VALUE)

www.NW Business Videos.com
NW Business Videos will come to your location and produce a one-minute video about YOUR business for your homepage. We'll also host the video, provide monthly traffic reports, optimize it for search engines, and upload it to a number of social websites. Bringing you more traffic and helping you convert those website visitors into customers.

The Business Video Profile package includes:

• Videotape, edit and deliver a video promoting your business
• Encode, upload and host the video
• A professional player to show the video on your website
• Search engine optimization
• Monthly traffic reports
• Video uploaded to YouTube, Yahoo! Video and Bing
• Video pushed to Google Business Profile
• Blog entry about your business on our blog
• Stream on our MRSS feed
• DVD of video
• One Year Video Hosting

TOP THREE RUNNERS UP WIN:
• A HomeSpun Perfect Website ($599 value)
• One Year HomeSpun Websites Premier Membership ($240 value)

ALL CONTESTANTS WHO RECEIVE 500+ VOTES WIN:
One Year HomeSpun Websites Premier Membership ($240 value)

INCENTIVE FOR VOTING:

VOTE EVERYDAY and receive thank you emails with these valuable offers:

• $100 off HomeSpun Websites Perfect Website
• 1000 Business Cards includes Design $150 (Note: These are really nice high quality cards)
• 1000 Postcards includes Design $150 (Note: These are really nice high quality cards)
  And other surprise offers!

• Must be 21 years of age or older to enter
• Write a brief response to the following three topics (each 250 words or less):
  1. Tell us about your business or organization
  2. Describe Your Dream Website and how it needs to perform
• Upload a screen shot of your website, your logo or an image of your photoand/or your staff
• Embed a YouTube video (optional) describing why your business/organization should win the contest
• Get your network to vote for your website, daily—one vote per email address per day is allowed
• Top Ten Finalists will be judged by a panel to determine the contest Grand Prize winner, and top three runners up

Official Contest Rules

Judging of the Top Ten Finalists will be based on:

• Originality and creativity of Contestant's responses to the topics (30%)
• Description of your Dream Website including Requirements (20%)
• Entry's Ranking in public voting (50%)

Official Rules

1. Must be a  legal resident of the fifty (50) United States (excluding Vermont and North Dakota) or the District of Columbia.
2. Willing to comply in full with these Official Rules and all other terms and conditions of the Contest.
3. Is not excluded from eligibility by these Official Rules and/or the other terms and conditions of the Contest.
4. Must be able to make the necessary time commitment to plan, promote and participate in the rebuilding of their website.

Each individual, business or organization of which are in full compliance with the above criteria, shall be referenced herein as a "Contestant" or, collectively with other such couples, as "Contestants."
Employees and consultants of Sponsor, or other advertising or promotion agencies or business partners involved with or are retained to provide services in connection with the Contest, and/or any of their respective affiliates, parent or related entities, subsidiaries, or successors of any such individuals or entities, and their respective immediate family members, are not eligible to enter or win the Contest. For purposes of these Official Rules "immediate family members" are defined as parents, spouses, former spouses, children, grandchildren, dependents, siblings or others similarly related to and/or those living in the same household as the employee in question. All determinations of eligibility shall be made by Sponsor in its sole discretion. By submitting an entry, entering online and/or uploading photos, each Contestant agrees that he/she has read and consents to be bound by and comply with these Official Rules at the time of submission and throughout the Contest.

2. SPONSOR'S DISCRETION: Any exercise of discretion by Sponsor shall mean  in Sponsor's "sole and unfettered discretion."

3. HOW TO ENTER: The Contest will begin on October 1st, 2010 at 12:01 p.m. (PST) and will end on November 15, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. (PST) ("Submission Period"). During the Submission Period, Contestants may visit the Website to enter the contest. To enter, you must (a) have a live website, or set up a website through HomeSpun Websites 30 day free trial; (b) provide a valid name, address, website name, phone number, and a valid email address for contact and notice purposes hereinafter; (c) write a brief response to the following three (3) topics (each must be 250 words or less): (i) Tell us about your business or organization; (ii) What is your mission; and (iii) Describe your dream website and what it needs to do; and (d) upload a color photo of You and/or Your Staff, (recommended format is .jpg)   (e) optional but recommended, embed a YouTube video describing your business/organization and why you should win the contest.  (all such information being referenced herein, individually and/or collectively, as an "Entry").

Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by your online service provider will apply and will be your sole responsibility. The Website's database clock will be the official timekeeper of this Contest. For purposes of these Official Rules, all times are Pacific Standard Time. Limit one Entry per Contestant. If a subsequent Entry is received for the same Contestant, only one Entry will be used and the remainder discarded and deemed void. In the event one or more Entries are discarded, the Sponsor, in its discretion and by any means it chooses, will select the Entry that will be used (e.g., by order in time received, randomly, first viewed or any other means or method Sponsor chooses at any given time without regard for consistency between Entries or Contestants). Incomplete Entries at the end of the Submission Period will not be deemed valid Entries.

All Entries (whether complete or incomplete) are and shall at all times remain Sponsor's property as of the time submitted and will not be returned or acknowledged.

4. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS/CLEARANCES:
All of the below requirements and criteria are collectively referred to herein as the "Requirements & Clearances."

1. Automatic Disqualification: In the event any Entry does not effectively meet the Requirements & Clearances, the Sponsor will disqualify and discard the Entry either immediately or at any time during the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to remove any Entry that does not meet these Requirements.
2. Publicity Release: By entering the Contest, the Contestant consents to the use of all information in the Entry, including, without limitation, each business or organizations' name, likeness, city of residence and other information, for any and all publicity, or promotional purposes as Sponsor may select in its discretion.
3. No Infringement. The content of the Entry must not infringe any person's or entity's rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) in any way, including without limitation, the use, without permission, of any copyrighted material, trademarks, logos, company names, labels, symbols, store or building facades, music, photographs, works of art, or images that have been created, distributed, aired or published in any media.
4. No Names and Likeness Without Permission: Unless express prior written permission has been obtained, an Entry must not include any individuals' names (other than those of Contestant or any members of Contestant), in whole or in part, refer to public figures, or contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other identifying elements of any person, living or dead.
5. Obtain Third-Party Releases: If the Entry contains any material or elements that are not owned by the Contestant and/or are subject to the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, Contestant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the Entry, any and all releases and consents in writing necessary to permit the use and exhibition of the Entry by Sponsor in the manner set forth in these Official Rules, including, without limitation, name and likeness releases for any person who appears in or is identifiable in the Entry.
6. No Illegal, Offensive or Inappropriate Content: The Entry must not, in the discretion and judgment of the Sponsor, (1) contain words, images or statements considered offensive to individuals of any age, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or other protected class, or who are disabled, (2) contain any threats to any person, place, business, group or entity, or contain material that is unlawful, (3) contain materials that promote bigotry, racisms, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on age, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or other protected class, or disability; (4) contain any materials that depict illegal acts, are sexually explicit, libelous, obscene, violent, hateful, slanderous; (5) contain other inappropriate content which includes, but not limited to, any display of smoking, alcohol, illegal drugs, firearms, harming of animals, nudity, provocative and/or suggestive outfits or poses, or (6) contain content not in keeping with Sponsor's reputation and image.

5. PUBLIC VOTING TO SELECT FINALISTS: Entries will be posted at the Website for public voting. Sponsor in its discretion reserves the right at any time not to post or to remove any Entry that fails to comply with the standards set forth in Section 4 (and other sections) of these Official Rules. Visitors to the Website will be given the opportunity to vote on eligible Entries during the Contest Submission Period. Anyone may vote, and Contestants may vote for their own Entry. One vote per email address per day is allowed.

The 10 Entries with the highest number of votes as determined by Sponsor ("Finalists") will advance to the Final Round for judging to determine prize winners. The Sponsor's decisions as to numbers of votes for each Entry are final.

Sponsor encourages voters to judge entries based on the criteria set forth in Section 5 below.
Those Contestants who are not selected as a Finalist ("Non-Finalists") will be eliminated from further consideration except in the unlikely event that, through the judging process, the Judges are unable to name the ten (10) prize winners. In such instance, the Judges will return to the pool of Non-Finalists in order of votes received, highest to lowest, to name a winner(s).

6. JUDGING TO SELECT PRIZE WINNERS:
Representatives chosen by Sponsor (the "Judges") will select all prize winners from the 10 Finalists. The decisions of the Judges are final and binding on all matters relating to the selection of winners. The final judging will take place in or about December 1, 2010. The Finalists will be judged on the following criteria in the Judges' sole and unfettered discretion:

• Originality and creativity of Contestant's responses to the topics (30%);
• Description of your Dream Website including Requirements (20%);
• Entry's Ranking in public voting (50%) as follows: 1st place in public voting receives 10 points, 2nd place will receive 9 points, 3rd place will receive 8 points, 4th place will receive 7 points, 5th place will receive 6 points, 6th place will receive 5 points, 7th place will receive 4 points, 8th place will receive 3 points, 9th place will receive 2 points, 10th place will receive 1 point.
•  Each Entry will be given a score by the Judges based on the above. The Entry with the highest score will be deemed the Grand Prize Winner; the Entries with the next-highest three scores will be deemed the First Place Winners. The remaining 6 Finalists will be ranked in total score order, highest to lowest, and will receive a Premier Membership and No Other prizes, unless a prize winner is ineligible or declines a prize, and such Finalist has the next highest score.

In the event of a tie, the Entry with the highest score in first bullet point above (originality and creativity) will be deemed the winner from among the tying Entries with the highest total score. If ties still remain, the Entry with the highest score in the second bullet point will be deemed the winner from among the tying Entries with the same score in the first bullet point above. If ties still remain, the tying Entries with the same total score and the same score in the first and second bullet points above will be rejudged using the same criteria. All Entries and scores will be retained until eligible winners are chosen for all prizes. Once an Entry or a Contestant is deemed ineligible, however, the Entry will be discarded and not further considered.

7. PRIZES AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES ("ARV"): ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE (referred to hereafter as "Grand Prize" or "Website Makeover") will be awarded to the Finalist selected as the Grand Prize Winner (the "Grand Prize Winner"). The Grand Prize will consist of a Website Makeover designed by HomeSpun Websites, valued at approximately Twenty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($20,000) (the "Website Budget"). The Website Budget includes the items outlined below.

Grand Prize: WEBSITE MAKEOVER

Website Development, Graphic Design, Branding, Copywriting and SEO with HomeSpun Websites ($20,000 Value)

• Work one-on-one with CEO Cherie Collins of HomeSpun Websites to define your Website requirements, design elements and long term web marketing strategy
• One Year Free Web Hosting with our RackSpace Partner
• Logo Design—Create a new logo or improve your existing logo with the aid of our talented designers
• Expert Web Design that is Unique, Professional and conveys your Branding
• Professional Copywriting Services—Our Senior Copywriter, Cyndee Mady, writes in your voice and will keenly convey your Mission and Branding throughout your website and marketing materials
• Interactive Website Design—Forum, member section, member sign up, profiles, surveys and more 
• Custom Online Store or Ecommerce—Catalogs to Custom Ecommerce Forms and Shopping Carts
• Scaleable, Secure, and Stable Website that will Grow with Your Business
• Clear Call To Action
• One Year Marketing Strategy
• Search Engine Optimization—All of your content is optimized with proper keywords, title and meta descriptions.   All URL's are search engine friendly.  All to get you found in the top search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing
• Business Card Design, Brochure Design and Postcard Design
  
  

Advanced SEO Package with Rob Patton of Enter The Net ($2500 Value)
Enter The Net's full search engine optimization package begins with the most comprehensive key word research possible. Our goal is to find the most relevant, most popular key word combinations (search terms) for YOUR website. Then, we deploy our proven techniques to make subtle changes to your website that drive the search engines crazy (in a good way!)

There are no big secrets about what we do. Your optimization consultant will make sure you understand exactly how and why your website will start performing on the search engines for your relevant and popular key word combinations.

The full optimization package also includes six months of monitoring and on demand support.

Business Video Profile for Your Home Page - Sponsored by NW Business Videos ($900 Value)
NW Business Videos will come to your location and produce a one-minute video about YOUR business for your homepage. We'll also host the video, provide monthly traffic reports, optimize it for search engines, and upload it to a number of social websites. Bringing you more traffic and helping you convert those website visitors into customers.

The Business Video Profile package includes:

• Videotape, edit and deliver a video promoting your business
• Encode, upload and host the video
• A professional player to show the video on your website
• Search engine optimization
• Monthly traffic reports
• Video uploaded to YouTube, Yahoo! Video and Bing
• Video pushed to Google Business Profile
• Blog entry about your business on our blog
• Stream on our MRSS feed
• DVD of video
• One Year Video Hosting

Each Contestant must be willing to accept choices made by HomeSpun Websites (with or without input from Contestant) as to significant elements of the website makeover, such as, for example, the technology platform that the website is built on, the designers, programmers and writers that work on the project.
In addition to the requirements listed elsewhere in these Official Rules, if you are declared the Grand Prize Winner, the Contestant must be willing to undertake all of the following:

• To be interviewed by telephone, and to either appear in a video, Web TV or Television Show produced by Sponsor.
• To make themselves available for online or personal appearances, and to ask others in the organization as well
• To make themselves available to attend meetings and engage in public appearances and photo shoots, as requested by Sponsor.
• To make themselves available for an interview and/or appearances at the discretion of Sponsor following the launch of the Website Makeover.

THREE (3) FIRST PRIZES: A HomeSpun Perfect Website ($599 value) and a (1) year Premier Membership HomeSpun Websites ($240 value);

SIX (6) FINALIST CONSULATION PRIZES: One-year Premier Membership with HomeSpun Websites ($240 value)

All CONTESTANTS WITH 500+ VOTES: One-year Premier Membership with HomeSpun Websites ($240 value)

8. TAXES; FEES: All expenses not specifically mentioned herein are not included and are solely winner's responsibility. Prizes consist of only those items specifically listed as part of that particular prize. Sponsor reserves right in its discretion for any reason or no reason, to substitute prizes of equal or greater values. No other substitutions or transfers of prizes permitted. Sponsor is responsible only for prize delivery; Sponsor is not responsible for prize utility, quality or otherwise. Taxes and fees, if any, are the sole responsibility of prize winners. Such winners will be required to complete a W-9 form and will receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the value of his/her prize. In the event that any portion of any prize is canceled or postponed for any reason, Sponsor will have no obligation to award compensation in lieu thereof, and the remainder of the prize will be awarded. Limit one prize per Contestant except in the case where the Top Voted Entry is judged to be a prize winner in which case the Contestant may win two (2) prizes, one (1) of which will be the Top Voted Entry Prize.

9. VERIFICATION OF WINNERS AND DELIVERY OF PRIZES: After judging to select prize winners has finished, the potential Grand Prize Winner will be notified by mail of Contestant. Once the Grand Prize Winner has been verified, the Second Prize Winner will be notified. Once the Second Prize Winner is verified, the Third Prize Winner will be notified. Once the Third Prize Winner is verified, the Honorable Mention winners will be notified.  You don't have honorable mention listed above Notification is described as follows: All prize winners will be required to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release of Liability, a W-9 Form and, where legally permitted, Publicity Releases and may be required to sign a Background Check Authorization ("Required Documents"). Second, Third and Honorable Mention Prize Winners will be sent their respective prizes via regular mail within thirty (30) days of when Sponsor receives the Required Documents from the winner. Top Voted Entry Prize winner will receive their prize within thirty (30) days of when public voting concludes.

Any prize may be awarded to an alternate winner with the next highest score if Required Documents are not returned within five (5) business days after mailing to winner or if prize notification or prize is returned as undeliverable. Should a prize notification or prize be returned as undeliverable, Sponsor will not resend notice, research address or make any further attempts at delivery.

Sponsor reserves the right to conduct a background check of the potential prize winner(s) before awarding the prize. If a background check reveals that, in Sponsor's discretion, any member of the Contestant has engaged in any conduct that would reflect adversely on Sponsor, Sponsor, in its discretion, may disqualify the Contestant.

10. RELEASES: By entering the Contest, Contestant releases and holds harmless Sponsors, HomeSpun Websites, LLC and any participating prize providers, as well as any of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agencies (collectively, the "Promotion Entities"), against any and all claims, demands and liabilities arising out of or relating to the Contest, Contestant's participation in the Contest and/or any Contest-related activity, including, without limitation, from winner's use or misuse of a prize or any portion thereof. Prize winners assume all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, by participation in this Contest and/or use/redemption of any prize.

11. INTERNET: Contestant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and the Privacy Policy (see Section 16 below) of HomeSpun Websites, LLC. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the submission, the Entry, the printing of the offer, administration of the Contest or the announcement of the prizes. Sponsor is not responsible for any electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive Entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or any combination thereof. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other similar causes or causes beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, then, subject to any governmental approval which may be required, Sponsor shall have the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Contest. If technical malfunctions or suspect voting irregularities corrupt the voting process, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to award prizes based solely on the non-suspect votes. In the event of termination, a notice will be posted on homespunwebsites.com and all eligible Entries received prior to termination will be judged per these Official Rules. Any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or similar methods of participation/voting will void all such submissions/votes by such methods.

12. DISQUALIFICATION: SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT IN ITS DISCRETION TO DISQUALIFY ANY PERSON WHO TAMPERS OR IS SUSPECTED OF TAMPERING WITH AN ENTRY AND/OR THE VOTING PROCESS. SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT IN ITS DISCRETION TO DISQUALIFY ALL VOTES FROM VOTERS THAT ARE DEEMED TO BE FRAUDULENT. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A CONTESTANT, TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WEBSITE, OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO PROSECUTE AND/OR SEEK DAMAGES AND/OR OTHER RELIEF FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

13. GRANT OF RIGHTS: Each Contestant submitting an Entry irrevocably assigns and transfers all rights, title and interest in the Entry to Sponsor, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and all rights incidental, subsidiary, ancillary or allied thereto (including, without limitation, all moral rights and all derivative rights) in and to the Entry for exploitation throughout the universe, in perpetuity, by means of any and all media and devices whether now known or hereafter devised. Each Contestant agrees to execute any documents that Sponsor may require to effect such transfer of right.

14. NO OBLIGATION TO USE: Other than to announce the prize winners, Sponsor shall have no obligation (express or implied) to use any Entry, regardless of whether or not a Finalist or a prize-winning Entry, in any advertising, merchandising or promotion or to otherwise distribute, publicize or exploit any Entry, regardless of whether or not a Finalist or a prize-winning Entry, or, if commenced, to continue the distribution, publication or exploitation thereof, and Sponsor may at any time abandon the use of any Entry, regardless of whether or not a Finalist or a prize-winning Entry, for any reason, with or without legal justification or excuse, and neither Contestants nor prize winners shall be entitled to any damages or other relief by reason thereof.

15. WINNERS' LIST: For a list of winners (after November 30, 2010) go to homespunwebsites.com after selection and verification of all prize winners.

16. PRIVACY POLICY: By entering the Contest, Contestants agree to Sponsor's use of their personal information as described in Sponsor's Privacy Policy at homespunwebsites.com.

17. ADMINISTRATOR: HomeSpun Websites, LLC., 4849 SE Division St. Portland Oregon 97206.

18. OTHER PROMOTIONS: Please note Sponsor may be running similar promotions concurrently or in the future. Your Entry into this Contest is for this Contest only, and you must enter each of any concurrent or future contests separately, and in accordance with any rules, terms or conditions applicable thereto.

19. GOVERNING LAW: The Contest is governed by and subject to the laws of Oregon, and all disputes will be decided in accordance with the laws of Oregon. Void where prohibited by law.