I have been using my own hosting service for one month now. Going from a free WordPress blog to a self hosted blog was something I wanted to do so I could try and make a little pocket money for my hobby and work with other companies a little bit more.
I had heard of HostGator.com from several friends and decided to give it a try. Boy, were they right. HostGator has been great for me. It has great speed for my blog, great tools to run my blog effectively, and great customer service.
I was wondering why my blog wasn’t up and running after the transfer and I filed a ticket. I didn’t know much about pointing domains to a different host, but the HostGator staff told me how it worked and advised that everything was working just fine, I just needed to wait on the internet pretty much. They were right, a couple of hours later I was able to see my site no problem. I felt like an idiot since it was something that happened to everyone if they changed their servers, but they really helped me out on that one.
I would recommend HostGator.com to anyone looking to host their sports card blog, blog in general, or any site or business they want to start. With some great prices and great service, I’m glad I signed up with them.
After flying across the country all day, I come home to find a nice package on my dining room table that my friend brought in for me. Inside is my next group of reviews. Everything is opened and had pictures and video done, I am just too exhausted to post one of them right now. Too much flying, then I have to work tonight. But you’ll get a sneak peak on what is coming….
Panini vs. The Cup – Full Dual Box Break Review
Panini Elite Black Box Review
Panini Threads Review
There were some nice cards pulled and finally the epic showdown will commence. I’m just too tired to do that epic showdown right now. Stay tuned!
For those interested, the leaderboard for the NFL POD will be updated tonight as well, just later!
Well, if you’ve been reading the blog and following me on Facebook and Twitter I told you I had something big up my sleeve.
Sports Card Blog has been selected as one of the few hobby blogs out there to run the 2011 NFL Player of the Day Promotion – Sponsored by Panini America. I guess that means I am kinda a big deal? Like Ron Burgundy I will lead you as your anchorman…but I will be giving out fabulous prizes for those who participate.
Now, I just have a list of the prizes right now as they aren’t in hand yet, and won’t be in hand until next week. But let’s just say they are fantastic. Here are some of the prizes that I will be giving away:
-Autographed mini helmet
-Box of Prestige football
-Panini Black Box
-NFL Player of the Day autographed card
-Bobble heads, NFL Player of the Day T-Shirts, NFL Player footballs, NFL Player of the Day card sets, pennants…and apparently there is even more goodies available for me to give out that they aren’t telling me.
So as you can see, this thing is going to be loaded with great things for you to win. When the box of goodies arrives, I will post a ton of pictures and videos showing off the goodies I have available to give away.
So this is how things will be run. The promotion will run from today, September 15, 2011, until November 30, 2011. So this promotion will run from Week 2 of the NFL season until Week 12. There will be 11 contests. Each contest entered will give you at least one point in the standings. If you do well in the contest, you will get more points. We will have weekly winners, 3 monthly winners, and a grand prize winner. The prize structure for the monthly and grand prizes will work like this:
September Winner – Autographed mini helmet (Michael G.)
October Winner – Box of Panini NFL Stickers and Jordan Todman Jumbo 5×7 autograph (Jay R.)
November Winner – Box of 2011 Panini Threads football
Grand Prize Winner – Panini Black Box
Weekly prizes will be announced with the contests.
The first contest for Week 2 of the NFL season will be posted at 9AM EST. Since I am traveling these next couple of days, everything will be posted automatically.
So get ready for awesome NFL action and some great prizes from Sports Card Blog and Panini America trading cards. Check back later for the first contest!
Just added! Those who do not win anything over the course of the promotion will be entered to receive one of three Panini mystery packs put together by me! Just a way to say thank you for checking out the official Panini NFL Player of the Day site and joining this promotion.
I’m a little bit under the weather. We’ll just say that I have things in my body trying to escape and it’s very painful. Very small, but very sharp things.
So tonight I am letting you know I have some things coming up that you just don’t want to miss. Starting week 2 of the NFL season, we will have some big, big things going on here at Sports Card Blog.
So if you are not visiting this blog around September 15th, you will be missing out on the start of some big things that will be going on throughout the entire 2011 NFL season. You won’t want to miss it. I will be giving away some of the best prizes you have ever seen, including a huge prize!
Stay tuned for more information right before the Week 2 games.
