Green Flamingobecause I said so

Finally, here is my review that was supposed to be published Saturday, not Tuesday or Wednesday whichever it is now. Enjoy though!

I have known Ben for a long time, somewhere in April when I joined Blog Premiere forum, started reading The University Kid, Mooney Quest, Rob’s Blog (It was really called “make money online”, and now redirects to ironblogger.com which I read as well), and of course Big Ben Patton’s Place. This was the time when there weren’t as many “semi crappy” contests that had advertising, reviews, entrecredits, or other not so great prizes, but it was a time where great blogs were on the rise, big and small, and there was competition to dominate and get your foot in the hold so you will not fall out to join all the other bloggers in the graveyard. Well one of these blogs was Big Ben Patton’s Place.

The title may be “Big Ben Patton’s Place”, but the URL is BenjaminPatton .com. This site was started in a time when names were good as domains, and I guess he has a good domain choice but I would not call it the absolute best. The title is phenomenal though and it has become a great site to be around.

Big Ben Patton delivers great and helpful content, always something new and different, a tool that you can use to your advantage, or the extreme power of something like social networking. You will not be at loss when you look for great and helpful blogging content at Ben’s, what you are looking for it wedged in every post!

The design of Big Ben Pattons’ Place flows well, not carrying you off to far, with a good composition of colors to catch your eye but not give you a headache. Much of the site was by Ben himself, but just check the footer and you will see for yourself.

Recently, Ben has had some new designs and additions to his site, new ads designed, a new header, all for his re-grand opening. These you can see in the picture, and I think the new additions by Forest are very well done and very well implemented, for they really bring out the quality of the site and give the great composition of colors that is not too strong but has some distinguishable tones.

Ben Patton is an aspiring blogger, good designer, and great hotel manager. I wish you luck Ben!

I think I have covered pretty much everything, not much else to say, because it would be similar to the same thing.

I have to warn you, most other reviews will be a little shorter, for some of you I do not know as well, and plus I owed him a little something for some designing work he did for me a few months ago on my old theme.

I hope everyone liked this review, look out for more, and hope you are chosen! Remember to subscribe so you can be picked to win the free review!

-The Green Flamingo

This won’t count as 2 posts today, pretend it is only one. Or I should actually say, ” Don’t expect two posts a day, I’d love to do that, but it is almost impossible.” Sorry I am throwing you off balance into some inconsistent land. But, there is something I am announcing I have been wanting to announce for about a month…

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at Big Ben Patton’s Place…

A contest EXTRAVAGANZA is being held!

Some of you may already have heard and participated in this wonderful contest, but I would love to announce it for those of you who haven’t!

This contest has over $2000 worth of prizes!

I better get down to telling you what’s going on and how to enter. First, as a little advertising fun, I have prepared a video. The video is NOT perfect. There were things I could have done but I don’t feel like doing it over.

The video, the voice at the end sounds bad. I don’t really sound like that.

Onto the prize list.

Advertising:

3x 125×125 Banner on BigBenPatton.com for 1 month ($30)

Consultation:

2×1 hour consultation with Jason from TheUniversityKid.com ($80)

2×1 hour consultation with Ben from BigBenPatton.com ($50)

1×1 hour consultation with Mattaw from MoneyBites.com ($50)

Wordpress Themes:

1x copy of “Fresh News” the latest wordpress theme from Premiumnewstheme.com ($100)

1x copy of a “Revolution” wordpress theme of your choice from BrianGardner.com ($80)

Books

1x copy of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income from Problogger (25.00)

1x copy of Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life from EcoIsomniac.com ($20)

Ebooks/Video:

1000 copies of “Seven Ways to Live a Better Life” by Jason at Blog Premiere Forums

2 copies of Referral Madness A 2 video set by MooneyQuest.com ($200)

2 copies of The Ultimate startup guide for blogging by BigBenPatton.com ($200)

Entrecredits:

200 Entrecredits from BigBenPatton.com

500 Entrecredits from Donace of rants.thenexus.tk

1000 Entrecredits from George of gpearce.co.uk

Hosting:

12 months of HostGator’s Swamp plan valued at ($180) : This package includes 1,000gb of disk space. Unlimited monthly bandwidth. Unlimited domains. It a fully loaded nothing left out deal. This is their ultimate package. Thanks again to http://www.hostgator.com for donating this for our contest.

12 months of James Germana’s Ultimate hosting plan. Valued at $500. This package includes 1,000gb of disk space. Unlimited monthly bandwidth. Unlimited domains. It also is a fully loaded nothing left out deal. This is James Germana’s Ultimate package. Also the lucky contestant who wins this prize will also get 3 hours of business consultation from James Germana. This alone is worth $500. That brings the total value of this prize to $1000. A Huge thanks goes out to James Germana for making this prize possible!

Paid Reviews:

One paid review on BigBenPatton.com ($30)

One paid review on Robinhaney.com ($25)

Software:

1 copy of Instant Blog And Ping from BigBenPatton.com ($25)

5 copies of special offer manager from BigBenPatton.com ($25)

2 copies of the list building system from BigBenPatton.com ($50)

Those are the glorious prizes, and I did copy the prize list, otherwise it would have taken a really long time to put all those in, add the inks especially, and keep going back and forth. Thank you Ben!

Now, you should know how to enter this contest extravaganza too. There are a few ways, and you still have time left.

Subscribe to RSS feed – (required) – 10 entries – Of course, this is how you get into the contest, targeting the RSS feed. Go for it!

Commenting on a post – 2 entries – this is an easy one. Just add a valuable comment to one of his posts. Some of you may still have problems with commenting, or maybe it is me that discourages comments, but commenting with something valuable and more than just an I agree, you can earn good entries by that. Be sure to use the same email address for commenting as in the RSS feed.

Blog about the contest – 20 entries – this is simple too. Just what I am doing. I may be over doing it a bit, one’s post should be about 100 words, and mine will end up like 1000. Be sure to link back to the original contest post.

Podcast about the contest – 50 entries – You a podcaster? Here is your chance to earn some real points. It should be 30 seconds or longer, and have some words too in which you link to the original post.

Vlog about it – 100 entries – Vlogging = video blogging = make a video. Not too hard. I did it. Now it is your turn. I call you lucky if you have a mac, I don’t think you even need a camera! It should be 30-60 seconds.

Those are the only ways, but be alert! The video is worth double now! 200 entries!

Get out there and go for it! Earn some prizes! Don’t hold back!

I am so tired, good night.