CreditCardFinder Sponsors Money Crashers’ Give Away Bash

Money Crashers is a finance website designed to help you get financially fit. In order to celebrate the new year, Money Crashers have rounded up dozens of sponsors to help fund all the groovy prizes up for grabs for their holding their Money Crashers 2010 New Year Giveaway Bash!

If you have a blog or a website you can increase your chances of winning one of 100! prizes by blogging about it. This contest is the perfect start to the year, especially since many of the prizes are cash based.

Who can’t do with some extra cash after some heavy retail therapy over Christmas anyway? Take a look at the cool prizes offered for this give away contest:

* Cash, cash and some more cash! (To be exact, a total of $1,720).
* $905 in gift cards.
* The entire Apple iPod mp3 player line.
* 2 Amazon Kindles for those of you who love to read on the fly.
* Finance books,
* and much more.

All the prizes are sponsored by a large group of finance websites and blogs, and of course with the help of yours truly, CreditCardFinder this give away contest runs from January 4 to January 31, 2010.

The lucky winners will be randomly selected on February 3. Those of you who racked up the most points (more on those soon) can also fetch another $100 for the top three participants.

Money Crashers’ Give Away Bash Prizes

Check out the selection of prizes that could be won by you if you act now and start participating.

CASH

1. 3 $100 Cash Prizes ($300 Total) from Money Crashers
2. $500 Cash from Wise Bread Twitter: @wisebread
3. $250 Cash from Tiner Financial and Financial Organizing Twitter: @susantiner
4. $100 Cash from ETF Topics Twitter: @etftopics
5. $100 Cash from Savings Account Finder and Credit Card Finder Twitter: @savingaccountAU and @creditcardau
6. $75 Cash from Promotional Codes UK Twitter: @twit_codes
7. $60 Cash from The Digerati Life & The Smarter Wallet Twitter: @TheDigeratiLife
8. $60 Cash from Money Crush Twitter: @moneycrush
9. $50 Cash from Consumerism Commentary Twitter: @flexo
10. $50 Cash from Bank Vibe
11. $50 Cash from PT Money Twitter: @ptmoney
12. $25 Cash from Maximizing Money
13. $25 Cash from Ready to be Rich Twitter: @brodfitz
14. $25 Cash from Bible Money Matters Twitter: @MoneyMatters
15. $25 Cash from Think Plan Invest Twitter: @thinkplaninvest
16. $25 Cash from Personal Finance Journey Twitter: @PFJourney

GADGETS

1. Amazon Kindle from J.D. of Get Rich Slowly ($259 value) Twitter: @jdroth
2. Amazon Kindle from Generation X Finance ($259 value) Twitter: @JeremyVoh
3. 8GB iPod Touch from Clean Credit Clinic ($199 value) Twitter: @CleanCrdtClinic
4. 8GB iPod Nano with Video Camera from Debt Kid ($149 value) Twitter: @debtkid
5. 2GB iPod Shuffle from ChristianPF ($59 value) Twitter: @ChristianPF

GIFT CARDS

1. 5 $50 Smarty Pig Gift Cards ($250 Total) from Smarty Pig Twitter: @SmartyPig
2. 2 $50 Barnes & Noble Gift Cards ($100 Total) from Eliminate the Muda Twitter: @LeanLifeCoach
3. $100 Barnes & Noble Gift Card from Save Every Way Twitter: @saveeveryway
4. $100 Best Buy Gift Card from BudgetPulse Twitter: @BudgetPulse
5. $100 American Express Gift Card from Credit Card Chaser
6. $50 Amazon Gift Card from Bargaineering Twitter: @bargainr
7. $50 Visa Gift Card from Budgets are Sexy Twitter: @BudgetsAreSexy
8. $50 Visa Gift Card from moneyStrands Twitter: @moneyStrands
9. $50 iTunes Gift Card from RabbitFunds Twitter: @RabbitFunds
10. $30 Amazon Gift Card from Clean Credit Clinic Twitter: @CleanCrdtClinic
11. $25 Amazon Gift Card from The Greenest Dollar Twitter: @GreenestDollar

SOFTWARE

* 10 copies of Quicken Premier 2010 from the Intuit Personal Finance Group & Mint.com ($90 value each) Twitter: @Quicken

SERVICES

* 30 Minute Consultation with Experienced CFP Professional ($100 value) Financial Advisor Terri Jiganti Stewart, CFP® – Financial Advisor – Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. – Member FINRA/SIPC will show you ways to get your finances back into control during this consultation.
* Sponsored Review from Saving Money Plan ($100 value) Twitter: @savingmoneyplan

PERSONAL FINANCE BOOKS & MAGAZINES

* 10 copies of Upstarts!: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success by Donna Fenn from the Intuit Personal Finance Group & Mint.com ($26 value each) Twitter: @donnafenn This book is sponsored by Intuit. Twitter: @Intuit
* 10 copies of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner from the Intuit Personal Finance Group & Mint.com ($16 value each) Twitter: @BethKobliner This book is sponsored by Intuit. Twitter: @Intuit
* 5 copies of Living Well with Bad Credit by Chris Balish and Geoff Williams ($13 value each)
* 3 copies of Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security by Charles Farrell ($26 value each)
* 3 copies of America, Welcome to the Poorhouse: What You Must Do to Protect Your Financial Future and the Reform We Need by Jane White from Dinks Finance ($23 value each) Twitter: @dinks_finance
* 3 copies of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? by Mariusz Skonieczny ($15 value each)
* 3 copies of Get Financially Naked: How to Talk Money with Your Honey by Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar ($13 value each)
* 2 copies of Money School for Couples by Neal Frankle from Money Smart Life ($47 value each) Twitter: @NealFrankle This book is sponsored by Money Smart Life, Twitter: @moneysmart
* 2 copies of The Total Money Makeover (book and workbook) by Dave Ramsey from 10k College Degree ($43 value each) Twitter: @daveramsey This book is sponsored by 10k College Degree. Twitter: @zachyounkin
* 2 copies of How to Make a Fortune from the Biggest Bailout in US History by Ron Insana ($26 value each) Twitter: @rinsana
* 2 copies of I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi from Green Panda Tree House ($14 value each) Twitter: @Rami This book is sponsored by Green Panda Tree House, Twitter: @Green_Panda
* 1 copy of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson from Weakonomics ($30 value) Twitter: @NFergus This book is sponsored by Weakonomics, Twitter: @The_Weakonomist
* 1 copy of Stop Acting Rich: And Start Living Like A Real Millionaire by Thomas J. Stanley from Bible Money Matters ($27 value) Twitter: @ThomasJStanley This books is sponsored by Bible Money Matters (@MoneyMatters).
* 1 copy of The Investor’s Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between by William Bernstein from The Dividend Guy ($25 value) This book is sponsored by The Dividend Guy, Twitter: @TheDividendGuy
* 1 copy of The Cure for Money Madness by Spencer Sherman from Personal Dividends ($25 value) Twitter: @spencerdsherman This book is sponsored by Personal Dividends, Twitter: @arohan
* 1 copy of Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing by George Cloutier from Personal Dividends ($25 value) Twitter: @TurnaroundAce This book is also sponsored by Personal Dividends.
* 1 copy of Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ($16 value) Twitter: @GregMortenson
* 1 signed copy of Life or Debt 2010: A New Path to Financial Fredom by Stacy Johnson of Money Talks News ($15 value) Twitter: @MoneyTalksNews
* 1 copy of The Financial Physician: How to Cure Your Money Problems and Boost Your Financial Health by Louis Scatigna from Spilling Buckets ($15 value) Twitter: @LouScatigna This book is sponsored by Spilling Buckets, Twitter: @SpillingBuckets
* 1 copy of 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget from Wise Bread ($15 value) Twitter: @wisebread
* 1 year subscripton to Money Magazine from Couple Money ($48 value)This prize is sponsored by Couple Money.

SCHWAG

* Discontinued Mint.com Schwag before the Intuit Acquisition from the Intuit Personal Finance Group & Mint.com (priceless) Twitter: @mint
* 10 “I’m a Money Hacker” Black T-Shirts from Money Hackers ($10 value each) Twitter: @mhnet

How the Contest Works

To be eligible to win one of the above prizes you have to follow the contest rules and collect points. There are several actions you can do to rack up your points score and the more points you collect, the higher is your chance of winning one of the top prizes.

Here is how you get points.

First you must sign up over at the Money Crashers website (scroll down that page until you see the web from).

Then collect entries with the following values by doing the various actions.

* Sign up for the contest mailing list – form above (required) – 1 entry
* Subscribe to the Money Crashers RSS feed via email – form above – 15 entries
* Comment on any Money Crashers blog posts – 2 entries for every comment (note: only useful comments that add to the conversation will be counted – 5 comments per day limit)
* Write a blog post about the Money Crashers 2010 New Year Giveaway – 30 entries
* Follow @MoneyCrashers on Twitter – 12 entries
* Tweet out the following message – “Win $5,900+ in cash & prizes from personal finance blog @MoneyCrashers in the 2010 New Year Giveaway! http://bit.ly/4Amft8 #moneycrashers” – 10 entries (1 per week limit)
* Re-tweet Money Crashers blog posts on Twitter using the “Tweet this Post” link at the bottom of pages – 5 entries (1 per day limit)
* Tweet out a message related to personal finance with the hashtag #moneycrashers – 2 entries each (3 tweets per day limit)
* Follow each of the sponsors on Twitter (links included in the prize list above). Each follow will give you an extra 5 entries to win that specific sponsor’s prize (e.g. if you follow @wisebread, you get 5 extra entries for the $500 prize).
* Become of fan of Money Crashers on Facebook – 10 entries

Good luck! May the best contestant win.