India Broadband Forum is pleased to announce a new contest and way to earn some money. This contest is all about writing. It entails you to submit an knowledge base (KB) articles, guides, tutorials and "how-to" instruction sets, on any topic relevant to the tech sections of this thread. Tech sections are the following:
- All types of modems and their setup/configuration
- Broadband technology including Wimax, Edge/CDMA/3G
- Broadband service providers including mobile
- IT Hardware
- Mobile Phones
- Operating systems/Software
- Web technology including HTML.x
- Consumer/home Appliances and Gadgets
- Investment and Finance
General Rules:
- You may submit as many articles as you like.
- Submit articles related to technology sections only as stated above.
- Do not submit before the contest start date.
- An article could be a KB article or a guide/tutorial/step-by-step instruction, or an insight into technology, review, etc.
- Use English language only.
- Article must be of minimum 150 words (not including simple words such as 'a','an','the,'with','if', etc.).
- All articles must be posted/submitted in the "Contests" section only. We will not be in a position to entertain mistaken entries in other sections.
- Article must not be copied from anywhere else including this forum.
- Use your own judgment/descretion about reviews of any kind. Simple rewriting/rehashing of content from other places but not adding anything new will be discarded.
- Ensure that your article has no spelling or grammatical mistakes.
- The thread owner may withdraw his/her article with a PM request to Admin/Moderators within 24 hours. In this case, the aricle will be deleted. But if someone else has read the article and submits it after such removal, that person article will be in the contest.
Judgment:
- A lot of weight will be given to writing method/style, correct language, illustrations and examples, etc.
- Use of pictures/diagrams will enhance the quality of the article and its quick acceptance.
- All entries shall be judged by admin/moderators and accepted entries will be moved to proper section.
- All unacceptable articles will be deleted.
- There shall be no infractions/banning for the contest articles, even for copy/pasted articles; just that the articles will be deleted.
- Other members may applaud (like) or report the articles. The number of "likes" will also help in acceptance of the article.
- Decision of Admin/moderaters shall be final.
Prizes:
Each accepted entry shall earn a minimum of Rs. 100.
Here is the payment structure:
150-300 words = Rs. 100.00
301-500 words = Rs. 175.00
501-700 words = Rs. 250.00
701-1000 words = Rs. 350.00
1001-1500 words = Rs. 400.00 (thanks to smartflight for pointing this omission)
1501+ words = Rs. 500.00
Bonus Earnings
Now this will surely interest you – Bonus Earnings! We have set some benchmarks of page views and some additional payments with each benchmark. From the date of publishing to the 181st day of any of your post, if you get the following page views you’ll get additional bonus with your earned amount for that post only:
- below 250 views = Nill
- 250+ views = 10% additional bonus.
- 500+ views = 25% additional bonus.
- 1000+ views = 50% additional bonus.
- 3000+ views = 100% additional bonus.
- 5000+ views = 200% additional bonus.
- 7000+ views = 300% additional bonus.
- 10000+ views = 400% additional bonus.
- 15000+ views = 500% additional bonus.
- 25000+Views = 700% additional bonus.
- 50000+ views = 1000% additional bonus.
Bonus will be calculated on the 181st day after the publishing date. For example, if your article gets published on 17th March, your page views and the bonus will be calculated on 17th Sep. To explain additional bonus, suppose you write a 1000 words article and it gets 7000 views within 60 days, then you’ll earn Rs. 1,400 [Rs. 350 + Rs. 1,050 (300% bonus) = Rs. 1400] for that post.
Tips on how to make sure you get a good number of views for your thread:
- Use a good title that you believe people are searching for or would be of interest to a lot of people.
- Try to write about something that is not momentary and will be forgotten in a few days; so its best to avoid news and stuff and concentrate on other things that people will search for say even after 3 months or 4 months.
- Share your thread on social networking websites like Facebook, Google plus, Myspace, etc.
- Invite your friends to join the forum (and contribute).
- Link your thread from your personal website/blog etc.
- Link to your thread as a signature on our forum as well as others (even email) to attract more visitors.
- DO NOT COPY/PASTE from other sites
- Do not simply rephrase words from other sites
Period:
The contest starts from Monday, 12-March-2012 12:01 AM. As of now, there is no set end-date. But we shall announce that in due course and give at least a week's notice.