Want to win free access to one of the worlds best online press release sites?

You can by joining the competition just launched by PRWeb.com

Just tell PRWeb on Twitter your best tip for creating online newsreleases that get noticed and they will be selecting five respondents in an online news release contest for their cause of choice.

The person who publishes the news release with the most page reads over a seven day period will win US$1000 from PRWeb and one free news release each month.

To enter the competition send a Tweet to @PRWeb by April 6th telling them your best tip for creating online news release. PRWeb will select five contestants from the respondents, and provide them each with one free distribution on PRWeb. Contestants will use that free distribution to write and publish a news release for a good cause of their choice – for example a non-profit organisation or a small business that would not ordinarily have access to professional marketing or PR services.

The news releases will be published on the same datea and the writer who obtains the most page reads over seven days will win $1,000 and free releases for a year.

The contest is open to anyone, though participants will need to sign up for a free account on PRWeb.com if selected as one of the five contestants.

More details about the competition on PRWeb here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/News-release-tips/media-visibility/prweb3818794...

Twenty Christmas classics like “Silent Night,” “The First Noel,” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” for free.

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for telling us about this.

Get your iTunes Holiday sampler here. I know my middle daughter will be loading them onto her MP3 player and singing along with them when she is in the car on the way to school!

Have you noticed the increase in online vouchers - be them on websites, Facebook or Twitter? Consumers are looking for bargains and it seems we like online discount vouchers saving money on retail purchases. The Financial Times reports:

Internet searches in the UK for “discount vouchers” grew by 47.5 per cent in the year since last August, according to Hitwise, the internet research company. Google’s records show a 67 per cent jump in searches for the term “discount vouchers” between December 2007 and December 2008.

Last month, Ask Jeeves became the latest internet search engine to join the voucher trend. The site, which is keen to differentiate itself against bigger competitors such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing, unveiled a new feature that displays online discount vouchers related to any of the search terms users enter.

One of the biggest hits was the Pizza Express two-for-the-price of one main meal offer voucher, which ran in a Sunday newspaper and online last year. “Pizza Express voucher” was the second most popular voucher-related search term after the more generic “voucher codes”, according to Hitwise.

Robin Goad, UK director of research at Hitwise, said searching for vouchers had become an established part of online shopping. “Consumer behaviour has changed so that people are looking online to research a product, looking at where to find the best price and finally doing a search to see if there is a voucher for it.”

The article also comments that 70 per cent of ABC1 consumers – classed as professional and white-collar workers – say they have used money-off vouchers in the past six months, according to research by Future Foundation, a consumer trend think-tank. This equates to nearly 20m adults in the UK.

Only 62 per cent of consumers classified as C2DEF, which include manual workers and the unemployed, said they had secured bargains in this way.

I have also noticed the ability to add vouchers on some of the online directory listings which are free or a minimal cost to join.

So how could you use online vouchers for example on Facebook or Twitter or on your website? And if you have used online vouchers, what results have you experienced?

The new school term has started and when the children return to school I always like to look at new areas I can develop and most years look to do a new course or study a topic of interest. Here is a great opportunity if you are interested in acting or dance and you are in Dublin - free passes to courses at the Gaiety School of Acting.Here is what they announces recently:

 

Patrick Sutton, Director of The Gaiety School of Acting, has gone a little mad! He has decided to give away €5,000 worth of courses in celebration for launching our new Part-Time Programme 2009-2010! All the details can be found in our courses section!

 

You can win a free course by completing a short form on the Gaiety School website HERE. Winner's will be announced at the Gaiety School Free Taster Workshops on Culture Night 25th September 2009.

 

Tots2Teens are running a Competition for a Free Place at our Paediatric First Aid Class of 29th August in Bewleys Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Our Paediatric First Aid class is suitable for Parents and Carers of Babies and Young Children. It teaches you how to apply life saving skills to any baby or child in an emergency.

The class is invaluable, it covers Disorders of Breathing and CPR (for infant, toddler, child), choking, wounds, bleeding, fractures, broken bones, burns and various medical emergencies.

In order to win, applicants must agree to write a Short Review or even better a Blog on the class and what they thought of it.

If you are free on Saturday 29th and interested then please comment on this Blog or send an email to info@tots2teens.ie with your name, email and contact number.

Your name will be put in a hat for the draw which will take place on Monday 24th.

If you have a little one under 8 years of age and are in the Dublin area I definitely recommend that you leave a comment on the Tots2Teens blog to enter their competition for a free place.

Do check out their website too as they also run other workshops for parents.