Commenter #1 Jessica!

Congratulations, Jessica. I’ll be contacting you shortly about the details of your prize.

Thanks to everyone who entered. We appreciate you stopping by. We have more contests coming up soon, so stay tuned!

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To help small business owners along these lines, Carbonite is offering a free one year subscription to My Organized Biz readers. Here’s some information from them:

It’s never too late for small business owners to consider how they can best organize and prepare for potentially catastrophic affects such as fires, natural disasters or hard drive failures. The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that a quarter of small businesses that have to temporarily close during a disaster never reopen. The U.S. Department of Labor has estimated that figure as high as 40 percent. As a result, small businesses should look no further than a solid online backup resource to keep the data safe and offsite.

Online data backup services, like Carbonite, offer the peace-of-mind of affordable, simple and unlimited backup that’s available no matter what happens to your computer. It takes the hassle out of protecting the irreplaceable data filed and created on computers. Files are automatically and securely backed up over the Internet and stored safely offsite for easy, on-demand retrieval – perchance the inevitable happens, your files are lost. Carbonite can be purchased for $49.95 per year for unlimited backup at www.carbonite.com, and also offers free 15-day risk-free trials.

A one year subscription is valued at $49.95. Go over to Carbonite’s site and take a look at the details of this product. Then come back and leave a comment, telling us how you think Carbonite can help your business.

We’ll have the drawing next Friday, so be sure and spread the word! Entries will be accepted until 5 p.m. PST. Any entries after that time will not be eligible to win.

Entries are limited to one per person. Winner will be chosen using a random number generator based on the order of comments left on this post. If winner is unable to respond within 48 hours of email notifying them of their win, a new winner will be chosen. Void where prohibited and all that jazz.

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Congratulations Suzie G. I’ll be sending you an email asking for your shipping details.

Thank you to everyone who participated. We have even more fabulous things to give away in the next few weeks. Please stay tuned!

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Fantastic response. Thanks again. We have much more to come!

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Just leave a comment below. Winners will be chosen by a random drawing. Please leave your name and a valid email address. Entries are limited to US residents only. Contest will close next Friday, August 8 at 9 p.m. PST.

Feel free to repost, and send people over here to enter. The more, the merrier!

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Have a lot of projects to keep track off with many deliverables and tasks? We have just the thing for you! Tomorrow we’ll open a contest to give away the 7-column BBB weekly fridge grid pad. It comes with 52 pages, so you can get a year’s worth of planning in.

The pad is 3-hole punched so you can put it in a binder. It’s also magnetic, made to hang on your fridge. But it’s perfect to put on the side of a metal filing cabinet. See a week’s schedule all in one glance, but broken up by project. Which project is sucking up most of your time? Which one is not getting enough attention? Track your progress week-by-week.

Starting tomorrow, I’ll open up a thread for you to leave comments. I’ll ask a question, you answer, and you’re entered. Winners will be chosen at random.

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Do you want one but have hesitated to spend the money? Would you like to win one?

Then head on over to Biz Chicks Rule and enter their contest to win an iPod shuffle. You won’t win if you don’t enter! I’ll be back later today with another post.

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Of course, another great way to try something is to win it. And that’s even better than a free trial! Charlene over at Essential Keystrokes is giving away some great tools that can help you get your business organized.

I’ve used several tools from 37 Signals, including BackPack and Basecamp. So I’m a fan of the work they do. You have a chance to win a 6-month subscription to Highrise, a contact management solution. You can keep notes on each client and set up to-do lists related to that client. I haven’t checked it out yet, but I plan to.

Additionally, Charlene is offering a free year of Freshbooks, an online invoicing system. This one sounds really interesting. You can create invoices and send them to clients. Accept payments using services like PayPal and Authorize.net. By using this service, you can have your clients check their billing history online. I use Quicken, but I could certainly see where this could come in handy.

There are more prizes in the contest, like a copy of Darren Rowse’s Problogger book* or access to pMetrics, a blogging stats program. So if you like free stuff, head on over and see if you can win something. And let us know if you do.

*We occasionally use Amazon’s affiliate links. You don’t have to use them – you are welcome to search for the products directly on Amazon’s site.

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