Anyone up for free coffee?

Did that get your attention?  I really enjoy writing and this blog is a great vehicle for me to share bits and pieces of psychology.  But I like writing a lot better if I know what I have lovingly written is being read and, hopefully, helping someone.  So here’s a little contest to sweeten the deal.  I’ve got a $10 Starbucks gift card burning a hole in my pocket.  It so wants to go live with you on a short-term basis, quickly to be exchanged for a grande soy mochachino with extra whip and cinnamon sprinkles.  Here’s how to make it yours:

1)  Subscribe to email updates to my blog, or subscribe through whatever blog reader you use.  Leave a comment telling me you’ve subscribed.  If you already subscribed in the past, just tell me you already subscribed.  If you like, tell me what you’d like to read about in the future.  Easy-peesey.

2)  Get another entry by posting a link to my blog and this contest on your facebook page, or tweet about it, or send out an email to all your friends and countrymen, or do whatever high-tech social networking thing you do.  Post a second comment telling me how you’re sharing the love and you get your name in the virtual hat not once but twice.

3)  Get a third (or fourth or fifth, etc.) entry for each person you refer over here who subscribes to my blog.  He or she obviously will have to put his/her own name in the hat in a comment.  You will then need to put in a comment saying “Joe is my friend, I sent him here,” or, “I’m really not that fond of Joe but I really like free coffee.”  Just remember that you are responsible for whatever impact your comments have on your relationships, not me. 

Potentially, you have as many chances to get some free coffee as you have friends.  Pretty cool.  I will leave this contest open until February 7, 2010, at 10pm  mountain time.  MAKE SURE THERE IS A WAY FOR ME TO CONTACT YOU, OR BE SURE TO CHECK BACK AFTER THE 7th TO SEE IF YOU WON.  If no one claims the prize or I cannot get in touch with them within a week, I will pick someone else.  I will use a random number generator to pick a winner. 

And no, it is not that likely that I will check every single entry for truthfulness.  But remember, your integrity is worth more than ten bucks worth of free coffee.  And karma always gets ya in the long run.  I’m just sayin’.

The fine print:  all comments on this blog have to be ”approved” by me before they will post.  So don’t keep posting if you don’t see your comment immediately.  If you don’t see it in 24 hours, post again.  Comments with any inappropriate content will be deleted.

Good luck and thanks for reading!

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