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Write About Cars and Win an Apple iPad: August Winners Announced
Participation for this month’s August contest (write about cars and earn a chance to win an Apple iPad) has been amazing – everyone is getting excited about writing about cars with High Gear Media using our easy-to-use open blogging platform.
And we have a winner, and she is… Anne Proffit.. Congrats Anne!
Anne’s been bustling and hustling all month long, kicking in 12 stories and it pays off with a shiny new Apple iPad !
Check out Anne’s recent coverage of the Grand Prix of Sonoma and a review of the 2011 Scion tC (hint: it rocks!).
Also… we have two great mystery prizes to deliver:
* 50 Years With Car & Driver, by High Gear’s very own editorial director Marty Padgett. This prize goes to Nathalie Allison.
* The Complete Book of Shelby Automobiles: Cobras, Mustangs, and Super Snakes – awarded to Vernon Marker.
We’re all about writing about cars, creating great community around automotive and the web, and dishing out cool cash, prizes, and swag in the process!
Congrats again to Anne, Nathalie, and Vernon, and thanks much to all who have participated.
And we will have PLENTY more going on in September, so stay tuned…
And as always, write about cars right here in the meantime!
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Boom! — David Armitage Joins High Gear Media As Chief Revenue Officer
The High Gear Media crew is very excited to welcome David Armitage as our new Chief Revenue Officer starting, well, as soon as he gets a cup of coffee.
David most recently served as VP and GM of the automotive group at Blue Kai. Previously he was VP of Advertising at Autobytel and also Executive Director of Advertising & Sales for Edmunds.com. He’ll put his expertise and experience to use overseeing all revenue initiatives at High Gear Media, with a focus on growing brand advertising on our network of owned and operated automotive destinations like our anchor site: TheCarConnection.com, our luxury site MotorAuthority.com; our green and electric car sites, GreenCarReports.com and AllCarsElectric.com; our family-focused site FamilyCarGuide.com and our industry site, SocialCarNews.com.
That network of automotive sites by the way? Growing quickly. At the same time we’re announcing David, we’re also fired up to say that our July traffic hit an all-time high of 3 million visitors — representing year over year growth of 104%. We’re producing some of the very best automotive content on the Web — and it’s working.
You can read our full press release here.
As a side note, please make sure you check our team’s excellent coverage of this past weekend’s luxury and exotic car extravaganza, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Finally, if you are interested in exploring writing with us, drop us a line.
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Write About Cars and Win: BIG July Contest Winners Announced, and August Heats Up
The BIG July contest winners are in, but before we get to that let’s talk August.
Write about cars in August and earn a chance to win an Apple iPad!
The deal could not be simpler: every time you publish a story about cars using our easy-to-use open blogging platform, it counts as an entry into our Apple iPad sweepstakes. So the more you write, the better your shot to win.
And as always there will be all kinds of mystery prizes along the way.
Now, let’s get to that BIG July contest…
First of all, we have Pauline Abreu walking away with $300 in cold hard cash this hot summer for publishing the most stories during the final week of July. She’s been rocking it out all month long and wrote four stories in the final stretch to take away the prize. Congrats Pauline!
We also had a month long mystery prize that was recently revealed to be a Microsoft Zune, and a 16gb, wi-fi enabled and HD radio edition at that. Every story published in July counted as a sweepstakes entry, and new writer Martin Smith snagged it!
Keep it dialed in to High Gear Media for hot car writing contest action all summer long.
And in the meantime, you know what to do…