In only the first two months of exis­tence, the Free­lance Show has received an over­whelm­ing amount of sup­port and pos­i­tive com­ments from our read­ers. In appre­ci­a­tion of your inter­est and sup­port, I have assem­bled a mas­sive prize give­away con­test—just in time for Christmas!

We have some big things in store for 2010. By par­tic­i­pat­ing in this con­test and fol­low­ing us on Twit­ter, Face­book and RSS, you’ll stay up-to-date on the lat­est hap­pen­ings and help the Free­lance Show con­tinue to grow and become a resource of free­lance advice.

A sin­cere and spe­cial thanks go to each of the gen­er­ous com­pa­nies who have con­tributed almost $4800 worth of prizes to this pro­mo­tional giveaway.

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Enter­ing is quick and easy!

We have pro­vided mul­ti­ple ways to enter—each listed below.

Each time you enter, you earn points. The more points you earn, the bet­ter chance you have.

Sim­ple enough?

When the con­test ends, we will total everyone’s points and deter­mine the top 28 points earn­ers (that’s how many total prizes we have). Then those will be put into a ran­dom draw­ing to deter­mine their prize.

You may enter each day from now until Thurs­day, Decem­ber 24 at Mid­night (EST). Win­ners will be announced here on the Free­lance Show on Tues­day, Decem­ber 29.

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Ways to Enter…

We’ve made it quick and easy to enter in many dif­fer­ent ways and earn lots of entry points! Remem­ber you can con­tinue to build points each day until the con­test ends!

Fol­low us on Twit­ter (2 points)

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Become a Fan on our Face­book page (2 points)

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Sub­scribe to our RSS feed by email (2 points)

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Tweet the con­test, using @freelanceshow and #fscon­test in your tweet (2 points for each tweet*)

Here are some exam­ple tweets you can use to make it even more convenient.

• Great con­test @freelanceshow! $4800 worth of great prizes donated by some awe­some com­pa­nies! http://bit.ly/7tTDCS #fscontest

• Just entered huge give­away from @freelanceshow. Easy to enter and lots of great prizes! Check it out http://bit.ly/7tTDCS #fscontest

• Have you seen the Mas­sive Hol­i­day Give­away by @freelanceshow yet? $4800 in prizes for free­lancers: http://bit.ly/7tTDCS #fscontest

• I just entered the Mas­sive Hol­i­day Give­away by @freelanceshow. Awe­some prizes from great com­pa­nies! http://bit.ly/7tTDCS #fscontest

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Post a com­ment below and list your biggest chal­lenges or ques­tions in free­lanc­ing
We will use these to form upcom­ing blog posts! (2 points total)

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Write a blog post about this con­test (5 points**)

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Post a video about this con­test to YouTube (5 points**)

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The Rules…

There is a max­i­mum of one prize per per­son. You will be ran­domly matched with a prize from the list below. No sub­sti­tu­tions or cash value given. All deci­sions are final.

If you enter mul­ti­ple ways, and your account names do not match, send us an email (or com­ment below) list­ing your Twit­ter, Face­book, YouTube account names so we can make sure to match them up when total­ing your points!

* We do not encour­age spam­ming your friends or fol­low­ers. To that extent, we will only count a max­i­mum of 10 tweets per day, per entrant. Any tweets beyond 10 per day will not be counted. Exces­sive entries derived from auto­mated means (scripts for exam­ple) will be disqualified.

** If you write a blog post or sub­mit a video to YouTube, you must either email us the link, or leave the link in the com­ments sec­tion below, by the con­test dead­line in order to have your points counted.

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$4800 worth of prizes listed below!

Scroll down to see all of the prizes offered dur­ing our Mas­sive Hol­i­day Giveaway.

Fresh­books

PRIZE:

1 year “Shut­tle Bus” sub­scrip­tion
($288 value)

37signals

PRIZE:

1 year “Plus” sub­scrip­tion to any (1) of the fol­low­ing prod­ucts (your choice!):
Base­camp, High­rise, Back­pack or Camp­fire
(up to $588 value)

Cam­paign Monitor

PRIZE:

1 account with $200 worth of email cred­its
PLUS…3 free Cam­paign Mon­i­tor t-shirts to the win­ner (see the cool shirts here)
($200+ value)

Things

PRIZE:

1 license for Mac
($49.95 value)

Sur­real CMS

PRIZE:

1 year “Designer Account” sub­scrip­tion
($275 value)

Free­lance
Total

PRIZE:

1 year “Mega Plan” sub­scrip­tion
($600 value)

Form­Spring

PRIZE:

1 year “Busi­ness” sub­scrip­tion
($700 value)

Client Spot

PRIZE:

Free 6 month “Basic” sub­scrip­tion
($60 value)

shopHTML

PRIZE:

1 Free PSD-to-XHTML slic­ing
PLUS— a one-time 20% dis­count to each per­son who enters!
($79 value)

Mar­ket­ing Geeks, Inc.

PRIZE:

5 hour pack­age for Vir­tual Assis­tant ser­vices
($189 value)

Jumpchart

PRIZE:

1 year “Super” sub­scrip­tion
($300 value)

Stac­tion

PRIZE:

1 year “Super” sub­scrip­tion
($180 value)

Bids­ketch

PRIZE:

1 year “Pre­mium” sub­scrip­tion
($288 value)

Ele­gant Themes

PRIZE:

1 year sub­scrip­tion
($19.95 value)

CSS Edit

PRIZE:

(3) licenses (3 dif­fer­ent win­ners!)
($130 value)

Espresso

PRIZE:

(3) licenses (3 dif­fer­ent win­ners!)
($260 value)

Con­cen­trate

PRIZE:

(5) licenses for Mac (5 dif­fer­ent win­ners!)
($145 value)

Wes­fed Hosting

PRIZE:

1 year “Pro” plan + 1 year Domain Reg­is­tra­tion
($135 value)

Moo

PRIZE:

200 Busi­ness Cards + 25 Greet­ing Cards
($100 value)

Foxy­cart

PRIZE:

1 year Stan­dard Plan
($228 value)

Thanks again to all of the spon­sors for donat­ing these great prizes. Good luck to every­one who enters! Remem­ber, you can enter every day until Thurs­day, Decem­ber 24 at Mid­night (EST).