Genesis Today

I am thrilled to be traveling to Austin, TX on Wednesday am.  I have been chosen to be one of the judges on the Genesis of a Great Idea panel to decide which of these fantastic people will win $10,000!  How fun will this be?  The other 4 who do not come in 1st place will still receive $1,000 each.

Francesca Banducci from Mayhem & Moxie  and Jill Smokler from Scary Mommy  are a team.

Debba Haupert – Girlfriendology

Deb Rox

Mike Kunkle at Dream Worthy Gifts

Jan Idelman of Creative Group

Genesis Today has come out with 3 juice that are in Walmart and Sam’s Club. Prior to this you could only purchase their concentrated juices via their web site or Health food stores.  But they developed a juice that is not concentrated (and hence tastes good) that is affordable and easy to get.

I became a firm believer in these juices after I learned that my sister and brother in law (surgeon who investigates everything)  have used them for the last 3 years.  They swear by them!  So that gave me the confidence to look further into them myself.  I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Lindsey Duncan (founder and president of Genesis Today) and Dan and Jeff from Genesis Today when I was in Las Vegas at Blog World.

We are going to get to tour Genesis Today headquarters and have a two hour question and answer session with Dr. Lindsey.  I will be tweeting and whrrling while I am there. I will be excited to tell all of you about it.  We were thrilled to find out that Genesis Today asked to have some more bloggers come with us on this trip.

We started out with the first group of bloggers that were asked to be judges.

Naomi  @superdumb

Danielle Smith @extraordmommy

Jodi Grundig   @ jodigrundig

Elizabeth Norton @ProfessorofPlay

Sandy Jenney (me) @organizersandy

Here are our bonus bloggers that were also asked to join us!

Kim Janacko @craftymamaof4

Courtney   @theappleofmyeye

Sugar Jones @sugarjones

Zipporah Sandler @zipporahs

We are being going to be in great company with Katja Presnal (@katjapresnal) , Brook Austin (@austinbrooke) and Brad Lawless (@bradlawless)  of Collective Bias on this trip.

I am sooo excited to go on this trip!!  We are going to have so much fun.  Watch for my tweets and whrrl stories and blogs!!  I will be thrilled to share what I learn about these juices with you…along with letting you know who wins!!

Disclosure:  My trip is being paid for by Genesis Today and I am being paid for being a judge for this contest.  But I am not being told I have to blog or whrrl or tweet for that matter.  It will also not influence what I say about this juice.  If I have positive comments, blogs, tweets or whrrl stores in regards to this company/product…it is because I believe in what I am saying and I want to share it.

Genesis of a Great Idea $10,000 Contest Info

The launch of this Social Media Contest happened at Blog World Expo 2009 on Friday October 16th. Dr. Lindsey Duncan, John Andrews of Collective Bias and Katja Presnal of Skimbaco took the stage to explain the contest and talk about Genesis Today.

This is a fantastic contest because it is anonymous. The panel who is judging will not have any information on the person who has submitted the idea. So this is not a “popular blogger” contest. How refreshing.

Here are the contest guidelines…

Here are the basics:
Submit your idea (250 words or less)
You will have to enter your name etc…but the panel will not see ANY of your information. This will only be viewed by one person who will be organizing that part of it.
5 semi finalist will be chosen.
Those 5 will be flown to Austin Texas the week of January 11th (not sure of exact dates, but plan on 2 days)
All expenses will be paid for.
The panel will hear the 5 ideas and will chose 1 winner for the $10,000 cash.
The other 4 will win $1,000 each.
The the winner will help to put their idea into reality.

Remodel Your Teens Bedroom with Help from Walmart!

I have a new Contest going on at my Review site!  Walmart gave me a $500 gift card in order to redo a teenagers bedroom with the line of products called Your Zone.  But they also offered one of my readers a chance to do the same!! Is that cool or what?  (I am sooooo excited about this contest!)

Go to my Review site and follow the rules to enter to win a $500 gift card from Walmart to be  used to remodel your Teen’s (down to age 8) bedroom with Your Zone products.

Walmart $500 Bedroom Makeover Giveaway! *CLOSED*

I was lucky enough to be asked by Walmart to do this bedroom makeover  and I am thrilled to be able to pass it onto you. They provided me with a $500 gift card to redo one of my teens rooms. I have to present a video of the finished product to them and they will feature it on their “Get Inspired” area of their web site.

Walmart has a great line of products for Teen bedrooms called Your Zone. These are all mix and match, very reasonable priced products that make it both easy and affordable to completely redo a bedroom for a price that most of us can handle.  I know for me, bedrooms are lower on the list of priorities for spending much money on…so this was so much fun to do. They have a really cool tool on their site that lets your virtually design your room.  We were able to use the make over section and Tim helped to figure out what he wanted in his room.  (Of course I had to make sure I had some organizing features in it too…you will see when my video is complete.)

We have 5 children living in our 2,000 sq ft home.  We are a little cramped…but its all good. We have had our two teenage boys sharing a bedroom. Tim 16 years old and Drew, 15 years old have had a set of bunk beds, two dressers and not much else in this 12×12 room (approximate). I discussed this project and the two of them made the decision. Tim was going to stay upstairs and have his room redone by Walmart.  Drew was going to go to the basement and have an unfinished portion of the basement made into his “Man Cave” (as he has nick named it) So off we go. Stay tuned to my blog as I will have pictures of Drew’s basement transformation too.

I will soon have Tim’s room complete. We have his bed up and most everything purchased, walls painted and we are almost ready to go. Stay tuned for the completion video.

RULES TO WIN (Please follow if you want to be eligible to win)

To have a chance to win this $500 gift card from Walmart to be used to purchase Your Zone products to redo your teens bedroom..this is what you need to do.  I am going to include a little younger than teen also. I have 8 year old triplets and they love the products. So since I do need to pick a cut off age, instead of going 12- years and older (this is really geared more for the 12-17 year age group)….I am going to go down to 8 years old (by August 20, 2009) and no older than 17 years old…be eligible for this giveaway.  The winner will not be picked by a voting process because I want all of you to have a fair chance.

You must agree to spend the $500 to redo the bedroom  if you win.  I would like a before and after picture that I can  post on my site.

THESE FIRST 3 HAVE TO BE DONE TO BE ELIGIBLE.

1) Go to the Walmart Your Zone site and tell me if you would be remodeling for a girl or boy…their age and which bed is your favorite.

2) Your e-mail address has to be easily accessible either on your blog or preferably  in one of the two above comments.

FOR EXTRA CHANCES TO WIN: (Each of these has to have a separate comment.)

1) You can  subscribe to my blog either by e-mail or by feeder. Come back and comment in a separate comment that you have done so.

2) You can  blog about this contest with the link back to this post. (10 extra chances…make sure to add a comment for each. (example…blog#1, blog#2…)

3) Follow me on Twitter

4) Tweet this contest. You can do this up to 3 times per day – leave a comment with link for each one.

5) Facebook - follow me.

6) Facebook - Tell about this contest on your wall. You can do this up to 3 times per day – leave a new comment with link for each one.

7) Stumble Upon This

8) Recommend to Technorati

9) Follow me on Linked In

10) Pick up any of my 3 buttons and put on your sidebar (Blog, Review or Pouchee). For each one – leave comment

11) MomTv – (5 extra chances to win)  Sign in and join me on my live show Monday nights at 8:30 pm est.  Leave the name you signed in with for the show, so that I will know it is you. Be sure to add 5 comments…MomTV #1, Momtv#2..so that you get credit for all.

See there are lots of ways to enter!!

This contest will be open to US residents only.  You must respond within 48 hours if you win.

This contest ends on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 11:59pm est *THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED ANY COMMENTS AFTER 11:59pm est on SEPT 10th WILL NOT BE COUNTED**