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UPDATED 8/24/09
There were not enough entrants to select a group of finalists so we are extending the deadlines and making it easier to declare your interest. To declare your interest in competing for the $500 Social Media Marketing Scholarship, send an email to winscholarships@scholarshippoints.com with the subject “$500 Social Media Marketing Scholarship”. In the email you must state why you are a good candidate to compete for this scholarship.

The deadline for entering the competition is now August 31, 2009. New deadlines for the second and final rounds will be posted soon.

Thank you,

ScholarshipPoints.com

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Are you working towards a marketing degree that will take you through the constantly evolving world of multi-channel marketing (mobile, web, email, virtual worlds, social media networks, podcasting) in the 21st century?

How would you like to earn a $500 Scholarship and real world experience at the same time?

We will award one (1) $500 scholarship to the person with the highest number of referred sign-ups to ScholarshipPoints as of midnight, September 30.

Here’s how it will work:

Up to 20 people will be chosen to submit a two-page marketing strategy for driving ScholarshipPoints.com membership. How do you get chosen? Simple: tweet the reason why you should be one of the 20. The only requirements here are your tweet must include the hashtag #SPSMM and it must appear on the public timeline prior to Midnight EST August 23, 2009. Remember you have only 140 characters and only ONE shot to make the cut.

Examples:

• I’ve got 13,177 followers on Twitter and I’ll ask all of them to sign up for ScholarshipPoints. #SPSMM
• I’m a member of the largest sorority at UMass. You’ll be the subject of our next sorority video if I’m chosen. #SPSMM
• My blog has 5,000 daily readers and I can get at least half to sign up! #SPSMM

The 20 first-round finalists will be given one week (August 24 – 30) to submit a one-page marketing plan. How are you going to tell your community, offline and online, about ScholarshipPoints? Twitter, your blog, Facebook?

Your ideas will be submitted to three (3) judges who will pick 10 finalists to go out and execute their marketing plans. The 10 finalists will be given 30 days (September 1 -30) to execute their marketing plan.

The winner will be the person with the highest number of referred sign-ups to ScholarshipPoints as of midnight, September 30.

Frequent updates will be posted with new member sign-ups. All new members will be included in regularly scheduled ScholarshipPoints newsletters and promotions.

All regular ScholarshipPoints terms & conditions apply to this scholarship.

Good luck!

Thanks for reading, here’s  your bonus code: SPSMM

Quincy, MA, November 4, 2008 – When the economy declines, saving money is more challenging and also far more important. For students struggling to pay for college and everyday expenses, this predicament is especially relevant. To help students learn to save, www.ScholarshipPoints.comhas issued a challenge to encourage students to begin saving money. As motivation ScholarshipPoints is offering to pay students to take their challenge.

ScholarshipPoints is challenging students to save $500 by the end of the year.  Each student who enters the challenge will be eligible to win one of two $500 cash prizes to be deposited into the students’ savings account.

“With student loans becoming more scarce ScholarshipPoints has experienced rapid member growth this year adding over 175,000 new student members to our free scholarship website” says program director Mark Marquis. “We believe saving money is something every student can learn to do and we launched this program to encourage them to start”.

Any high school or college student in the US is eligible to enter at www.scholarshippoints.com/savings. ScholarshipPoints is a fast growing free community of students who participate in online activities to earn points. Their points are used as entries into various scholarships the website gives away to its members.

In 2008 ScholarshipPoints will give students more than $50,000 in free scholarship money. In addition to giving away more scholarship money, ScholarshipPoints will help students in other ways such as the College Savings Challenge in 2009.

Working in conjunction with its sister site www.StudentPlatinum.com, a student credit education and credit card comparison site, ScholarshipPoints is adding more educational challenges to their schedule. By expanding the educational resources ScholarshipPoints hopes to teach students to begin helping themselves by making smarter financial decisions.

About ScholarshipPoints

www.ScholarshipPoints.com is an Edvisors company.  Edvisors (www.Edvisors.com) is a leader in college marketing and financial services. The company provides a richer, more fulfilling education experience to students, educators and parents worldwide.

Contact:

Mark Marquis, Director

mmarquis@edvisors.com

(617) 249-1224

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