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		<title>March Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2010/03/01/march-menuism-restaurant-review-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Even if you&#8217;re not Irish, you may still have the luck of the Irish and win $100.  All you have to do is write a review about a wonderful or not so wonderful dining experience and in the process, you could win some cash!   Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1556&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>Even if you&#8217;re not Irish, you may still have the luck of the Irish and win $100.  All you have to do is write a review about a wonderful or not so wonderful dining experience and in the process, you could win some cash!   Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a cool $100.  That&#8217;s a nice bit of change that can go towards some fun shopping.  Just put fingers to keyboard and tell us all about your dining experiences, from meal to ambiance to service.  We want to know it all.</p>
<p>Now there’s even <strong>more</strong> chances to win with both 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes that are available.   The criteria for winning entries will be on how <em>helpful</em> other Menuism’ers find your reviews to be.  So what makes a review helpful?  Check out a past Menuism article called <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2007/08/15/5-tips-towards-writing-a-great-restaurant-review/">5 Tips Towards Writing a Great Review</a> for some ideas or you can even  emulate some of our <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/?s=featured+reviewer&amp;searchbutton=Go%21" target="_self">Featured Reviewers</a>, who have done a fantastic job sharing their dining stories with all of us.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s all about quality, not quantity.  So how can you improve your chances? Things to do could include giving dish reviews and uploading pictures and when combined with your informative review, those will definitely get you those “helpful votes.”  You can even encourage friends to sign up to Menuism.com and vote for your reviews and even contribute some of their own.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get out, dine out and than get your fingers a-typing.  With a total of $170.00 in prize money, think of what you can do with any part of those dollars  Enjoy a Sunday brunch.   Purchase a lovely bottle of wine.  Get that new kitchen gadget you’ve been eyeing. You won’t have a chance of winning, if you don’t even try, so let’s see what you got.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>How to Enter:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dine out and than post your restaurant review to the Menuism website.  There are no limits to the number of reviews per month. <em>No need to manually submit your reviews to the contest</em></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restaurant Review Criteria:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Winners will be decided based on the number of helpful votes for the reviews they’ve written in the given month with awards going to the top 3 users with the most helpful votes.  <a href="http://www.menuism.com/contests" target="_self">Click here to see if you&#8217;ve made it to the Leader Board</a> and <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/05/20/running-neck-to-neck-at-the-may-menuism-restaurant-reviewer-contest/" target="_self">click here to get more info about how the Leader Board works!</a></li>
<li>Reviews must have 50 words or more to qualify.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Announcement of Winner and Prize:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>After the contest due date, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners will be  announced the first week of the following month.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>PRIZES:</strong>
<ul>
<li>1st: $100</li>
<li>2nd: $50</li>
<li>3rd: $20</li>
<li>Profile Badge for Each Winner!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Rules:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Reviews that are considered inappropriate, vulgar or lacking information will not be considered.</li>
<li>Winners who do not claim their prize within 7 days of the announcement of the winner will forfeit prize money, but not the award.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Ready to get started? </em><a href="http://www.menuism.com/user/signup"><em>Sign up for your free Menuism account</em></a><em> and start writing reviews!</em></p>
<p>March is now here, so we’d definitely love to see all of your great quality reviews. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line at abby@menuism.com.</p>
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		<title>February Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2010/02/04/february-menuism-restaurant-review-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February is Happy Heart Month, so why not show how much you heart some of your favorite restaurant by typing their praises?  Or perhaps, you&#8217;re not feeling the love a restaurant or two.  In either case, share your experiences with Menuism readers and in the process, you may win some cash!  After all, how often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1525&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" title="chocoheart" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WnShf5bQH2Y/R6t8una4opI/AAAAAAAAAbo/Tbsi3f5cyhI/s320/Valentine+chocolate+heart.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="304" />February is Happy Heart Month, so why not show how much you heart some of your favorite restaurant by typing their praises?  Or perhaps, you&#8217;re not feeling the love a restaurant or two.  In either case, share your experiences with Menuism readers and in the process, you may win some cash!  After all, how often do you have the chance to make some money just by writing about your fun and maybe, not so fun restaurant outings?  Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a cool $100.  That&#8217;s a nice bit of change that can go towards some fun shopping.  Just put fingers to keyboard and tell us all about your dining experiences, from meal to ambiance to service.  We want to know it all.</p>
<p>Now there’s even <strong>more</strong> chances to win with both 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes that are available.   The criteria for winning entries will be on how <em>helpful</em> other Menuism’ers find your reviews to be.  So what makes a review helpful?  Check out a past Menuism article called <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2007/08/15/5-tips-towards-writing-a-great-restaurant-review/">5 Tips Towards Writing a Great Review</a> for some ideas or you can even  emulate some of our <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/?s=featured+reviewer&amp;searchbutton=Go%21" target="_self">Featured Reviewers</a>, who have done a fantastic job sharing their dining stories with all of us.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s all about quality, not quantity.  So how can you improve your chances? Things to do could include giving dish reviews and uploading pictures and when combined with your informative review, those will definitely get you those “helpful votes.”  You can even encourage friends to sign up to Menuism.com and vote for your reviews and even contribute some of their own.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get out, dine out and than get your fingers a-typing.  With a total of $170.00 in prize money, think of what you can do with any part of those dollars  Enjoy a Sunday brunch.   Purchase a lovely bottle of wine.  Get that new kitchen gadget you’ve been eyeing. You won’t have a chance of winning, if you don’t even try, so let’s see what you got.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>How to Enter:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dine out and than post your restaurant review to the Menuism website.  There are no limits to the number of reviews per month. <em>No need to manually submit your reviews to the contest</em></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restaurant Review Criteria:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Winners will be decided based on the number of helpful votes for the reviews they’ve written in the given month with awards going to the top 3 users with the most helpful votes.  <a href="http://www.menuism.com/contests" target="_self">Click here to see if you&#8217;ve made it to the Leader Board</a> and <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/05/20/running-neck-to-neck-at-the-may-menuism-restaurant-reviewer-contest/" target="_self">click here to get more info about how the Leader Board works!</a></li>
<li>Reviews must have 50 words or more to qualify.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Announcement of Winner and Prize:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>After the contest due date, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners will be  announced the first week of the following month.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>PRIZES:</strong>
<ul>
<li>1st: $100</li>
<li>2nd: $50</li>
<li>3rd: $20</li>
<li>Profile Badge for Each Winner!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Rules:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Reviews that are considered inappropriate, vulgar or lacking information will not be considered.</li>
<li>Winners who do not claim their prize within 7 days of the announcement of the winner will forfeit prize money, but not the award.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Ready to get started? </em><a href="http://www.menuism.com/user/signup"><em>Sign up for your free Menuism account</em></a><em> and start writing reviews!</em></p>
<p>February is now here, so we’d definitely love to see all of your great quality reviews. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line at abby@menuism.com.</p>
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		<title>January Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2010/01/01/january-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.menuism.com/2010/01/01/january-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2010! It&#8217;s a new year and it&#8217;s time to try some new things!  Perhaps there&#8217;s that restaurant you&#8217;ve heard about that&#8217;s all the rage?  Or you&#8217;ve been driving by this deli for years and always wanted to know if their pastrami sandwich is any good?  Time to venture out and explore some new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1452&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/fireworks4.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1011" title="fireworks4" src="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/fireworks4.jpg?w=244&#038;h=300" alt="" width="244" height="300" /></a>Welcome to 2010! It&#8217;s a new year and it&#8217;s time to try some new things!  Perhaps there&#8217;s that restaurant you&#8217;ve heard about that&#8217;s all the rage?  Or you&#8217;ve been driving by this deli for years and always wanted to know if their pastrami sandwich is any good?  Time to venture out and explore some new culinary landscapes and when you&#8217;re done, post a review on Menuism.  After all, how often do you have the chance to make some money just by writing about your fun and maybe, not so fun restaurant outings?  Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a cool $100.  That&#8217;s a nice bit of change that can go towards some fun shopping.  Just put fingers to keyboard and tell us all about your dining experiences, from meal to ambiance to service.  We want to know it all.</p>
<p>Now there’s even <strong>more</strong> chances to win with both 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes that are available.   The criteria for winning entries will be on how <em>helpful</em> other Menuism’ers find your reviews to be.  So what makes a review helpful?  Check out a past Menuism article called <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2007/08/15/5-tips-towards-writing-a-great-restaurant-review/">5 Tips Towards Writing a Great Review</a> for some ideas or you can even  emulate some of our <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/?s=featured+reviewer&amp;searchbutton=Go%21" target="_self">Featured Reviewers</a>, who have done a fantastic job sharing their dining stories with all of us.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s all about quality, not quantity.  So how can you improve your chances? Things to do could include giving dish reviews and uploading pictures and when combined with your informative review, those will definitely get you those “helpful votes.”  You can even encourage friends to sign up to Menuism.com and vote for your reviews and even contribute some of their own.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get out, dine out and than get your fingers a-typing.  With a total of $170.00 in prize money, think of what you can do with any part of those dollars  Enjoy a Sunday brunch.   Purchase a lovely bottle of wine.  Get that new kitchen gadget you’ve been eyeing. You won’t have a chance of winning, if you don’t even try, so let’s see what you got.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>How to Enter:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dine out and than post your restaurant review to the Menuism website.  There are no limits to the number of reviews per month. <em>No need to manually submit your reviews to the contest</em></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restaurant Review Criteria:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Winners will be decided based on the number of helpful votes for the reviews they’ve written in the given month with awards going to the top 3 users with the most helpful votes.  <a href="http://www.menuism.com/contests" target="_self">Click here to see if you&#8217;ve made it to the Leader Board</a> and <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/05/20/running-neck-to-neck-at-the-may-menuism-restaurant-reviewer-contest/" target="_self">click here to get more info about how the Leader Board works!</a></li>
<li>Reviews must have 50 words or more to qualify.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Announcement of Winner and Prize:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>After the contest due date, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners will be  announced the first week of the following month.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>PRIZES:</strong>
<ul>
<li>1st: $100</li>
<li>2nd: $50</li>
<li>3rd: $20</li>
<li>Profile Badge for Each Winner!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Rules:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Reviews that are considered inappropriate, vulgar or lacking information will not be considered.</li>
<li>Winners who do not claim their prize within 7 days of the announcement of the winner will forfeit prize money, but not the award.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Ready to get started? </em><a href="http://www.menuism.com/user/signup"><em>Sign up for your free Menuism account</em></a><em> and start writing reviews!</em></p>
<p>January is now here, so we’d definitely love to see all of your great quality reviews. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line at abby@menuism.com.</p>
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		<title>The Clock is Ticking:  End of December Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2009/12/30/the-clock-is-ticking-end-of-december-menuism-restaurant-review-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minutes, Hours and Days are flying by and soon the December Menuism Restaurant Review Contest will be history.  If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to post reviews about your latest restaurant outings and encourage friends, family, co-workers or whoever you&#8217;d like to give a helpful vote to each of your reviews.  The three top Menuism Reviewers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1442&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/salsa-clock.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1285" title="salsa clock" src="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/salsa-clock.jpg?w=128&#038;h=128" alt="" width="128" height="128" /></a>Minutes, Hours and Days are flying by</em> and soon the December Menuism Restaurant Review Contest will be history.  If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to post reviews about your latest restaurant outings and encourage friends, family, co-workers or whoever you&#8217;d like to give a helpful vote to each of your reviews.  The three top Menuism Reviewers with the most votes can win cash prizes.  To refresh your memory about the rules, <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/12/02/december-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/" target="_self">click here!</a> So come on, get those fingers a typing because how often can you truly say that eating out can actually pay you. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   The December Menuism Restaurant Review Contest officially ends December 31, 2009.</p>
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		<title>Congratulations to our November Winners!</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2009/12/03/congratulations-to-our-november-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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They dined, they wrote and were voted the most helpful.  Congratulations to our top 3 winners for November&#8217;s Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. Between the 3 of them, they garnered 100+ helpful votes.  Wow!  This trio definitely knows their stuff and apparently, many of you agreed.  Hat&#8217;s off to them and if you&#8217;d like to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1354&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>They dined, they wrote and were voted the most helpful.  Congratulations to our top 3 winners for November&#8217;s Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. Between the 3 of them, they garnered 100+ helpful votes.  Wow!  This trio definitely knows their stuff and apparently, many of you agreed.  Hat&#8217;s off to them and if you&#8217;d like to keep up with their reviews, check out their profiles below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/Food_Posse_Miami" target="_self">Food_Posse_Miami from Miami, FL</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/tomato" target="_self">tomato from Seattle, WA</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/Goodeatin" target="_self">Goodeatin from Miami, FL</a></p>
<p>As you can see, all three of our winners also received some prize money and if you&#8217;d like a chance to compete, than be sure to <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/11/01/november-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/" target="_self"></a><a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/12/02/december-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/" target="_self">click this link to get more info on the December Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest.</a> Good luck and maybe, in a month, we&#8217;ll be announcing you as winner as well.</p>
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		<title>December Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2009/12/02/december-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the season of giving and we&#8217;d love to give you awesome prize money to celebrate with!  After all, how often do you have the chance to make some money just by writing about your fun and maybe, not so fun restaurant outings?  Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1350&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/christmas-candles-04wallpapers-478400.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1351" title="Christmas-Candles-04wallpapers-478400" src="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/christmas-candles-04wallpapers-478400.jpeg?w=300&#038;h=214" alt="" width="300" height="214" /></a>It&#8217;s the season of giving and we&#8217;d love to give you awesome prize money to celebrate with!  After all, how often do you have the chance to make some money just by writing about your fun and maybe, not so fun restaurant outings?  Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a cool $100.  That&#8217;s a nice bit of change that can go towards your holiday shopping.  So check out that new restaurant you&#8217;ve always wanted to dine at or re-visit old favorites.  Afterwards, put fingers to keyboard and tell us all about that restaurant, from meal to ambiance to service.  We want to know it all.</p>
<p>Now there’s even <strong>more</strong> chances to win with both 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes that are available.   The criteria for winning entries will be on how <em>helpful</em> other Menuism’ers find your reviews to be.  So what makes a review helpful?  Check out a past Menuism article called <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2007/08/15/5-tips-towards-writing-a-great-restaurant-review/">5 Tips Towards Writing a Great Review</a> for some ideas or you can even  emulate some of our <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/?s=featured+reviewer&amp;searchbutton=Go%21" target="_self">Featured Reviewers</a>, who have done a fantastic job sharing their dining stories with all of us.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s all about quality, not quantity.  So how can you improve your chances? Things to do could include giving dish reviews and uploading pictures and when combined with your informative review, those will definitely get you those “helpful votes.”  You can even encourage friends to sign up to Menuism.com and vote for your reviews and even contribute some of their own.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get out, dine out and than get your fingers a-typing.  With a total of $170.00 in prize money, think of what you can do with any part of those dollars  Enjoy a Sunday brunch.   Purchase a lovely bottle of wine.  Get that new kitchen gadget you’ve been eyeing. You won’t have a chance of winning, if you don’t even try, so let’s see what you got.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>How to Enter:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dine out and than post your restaurant review to the Menuism website.  There are no limits to the number of reviews per month. <em>No need to manually submit your reviews to the contest</em></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restaurant Review Criteria:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Winners will be decided based on the number of helpful votes for the reviews they’ve written in the given month with awards going to the top 3 users with the most helpful votes.  <a href="http://www.menuism.com/contests" target="_self">Click here to see if you&#8217;ve made it to the Leader Board</a> and <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/05/20/running-neck-to-neck-at-the-may-menuism-restaurant-reviewer-contest/" target="_self">click here to get more info about how the Leader Board works!</a></li>
<li>Reviews must have 50 words or more to qualify.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Announcement of Winner and Prize:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>After the contest due date, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners will be  announced the first week of the following month.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>PRIZES:</strong>
<ul>
<li>1st: $100</li>
<li>2nd: $50</li>
<li>3rd: $20</li>
<li>Profile Badge for Each Winner!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Rules:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Reviews that are considered inappropriate, vulgar or lacking information will not be considered.</li>
<li>Winners who do not claim their prize within 7 days of the announcement of the winner will forfeit prize money, but not the award.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Ready to get started? </em><a href="http://www.menuism.com/user/signup"><em>Sign up for your free Menuism account</em></a><em> and start writing reviews!</em></p>
<p>November is now here, so we’d definitely love to see all of your great quality reviews. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line at abby@menuism.com.</p>
<p>By <a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/pleasurepalate" target="_self">Abby C. Abanes</a><br />
Menuism Community Manager</p>
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		<title>Congratulations to our October Winners</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2009/11/04/congratulations-to-our-october-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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They dined, they wrote and were voted the most helpful.  Congratulations to our top 3 winners for October&#8217;s Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. Between the 3 of them, they garnered 100+ helpful votes.  Wow!  This trio definitely knows their stuff and apparently, many of you agreed.  Hat&#8217;s off to them and if you&#8217;d like to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1314&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>They dined, they wrote and were voted the most helpful.  Congratulations to our top 3 winners for October&#8217;s Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. Between the 3 of them, they garnered 100+ helpful votes.  Wow!  This trio definitely knows their stuff and apparently, many of you agreed.  Hat&#8217;s off to them and if you&#8217;d like to keep up with their reviews, check out their profiles below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/sunshyne76">sunshyne76 from Corona, CA</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/Food_Posse_Miami" target="_self">Food_Posse_Miami from Miami, FL</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/Goodeatin" target="_self">Goodeatin from Miami, FL</a></p>
<p>As you can see, all three of our winners also received some prize money and if you&#8217;d like a chance to compete, than be sure to <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/11/01/november-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/" target="_self">click this link to get more info on the November Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. </a>Good luck and maybe, in a month, we&#8217;ll be announcing you as winner as well.</p>
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		<title>November Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2009/11/01/november-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Turkey Time and time to give thanks for the November Menuism Restaurant Review Contest?  After all, how often do you have the chance to make some money just by writing about your fun and maybe, not so fun restaurant outings?  Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a cool $100.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1289&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1291" title="cornucopia" src="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/cornucopia.jpg?w=240&#038;h=300" alt="cornucopia" width="240" height="300" />It&#8217;s Turkey Time and time to give thanks for the November Menuism Restaurant Review Contest?  After all, how often do you have the chance to make some money just by writing about your fun and maybe, not so fun restaurant outings?  Three chances to win and if you&#8217;re top dog, you win a cool $100.  That&#8217;s a nice bit of change that can go towards your holiday shopping.  So check out that new restaurant you&#8217;ve always wanted to dine at or re-visit old favorites.  Afterwards, put fingers to keyboard and tell us all about that restaurant, from meal to ambiance to service.  We want to know it all.</p>
<p>Now there’s even <strong>more</strong> chances to win with both 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes that are available.   The criteria for winning entries will be on how <em>helpful</em> other Menuism’ers find your reviews to be.  So what makes a review helpful?  Check out a past Menuism article called <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2007/08/15/5-tips-towards-writing-a-great-restaurant-review/">5 Tips Towards Writing a Great Review</a> for some ideas or you can even  emulate some of our <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/?s=featured+reviewer&amp;searchbutton=Go%21" target="_self">Featured Reviewers</a>, who have done a fantastic job sharing their dining stories with all of us.</p>
<p>In the end, it’s all about quality, not quantity.  So how can you improve your chances? Things to do could include giving dish reviews and uploading pictures and when combined with your informative review, those will definitely get you those “helpful votes.”  You can even encourage friends to sign up to Menuism.com and vote for your reviews or even contribute some of their own.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get out, dine out and than get your fingers a-typing.  With a total of $170.00 in prize money, think of what you can do with any part of those dollars  Enjoy a Sunday brunch.   Purchase a lovely bottle of wine.  Get that new kitchen gadget you’ve been eyeing. You won’t have a chance of winning, if you don’t even try, so let’s see what you got.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Menuism Restaurant Review Contest</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>How to Enter:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dine out and than post your restaurant review to the Menuism website.  There are no limits to the number of reviews per month. <em>No need to manually submit your reviews to the contest</em></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Restaurant Review Criteria:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Winners will be decided based on the number of helpful votes for the reviews they’ve written in the given month with awards going to the top 3 users with the most helpful votes.  <a href="http://www.menuism.com/contests" target="_self">Click here to see if you&#8217;ve made it to the Leader Board</a> and <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/05/20/running-neck-to-neck-at-the-may-menuism-restaurant-reviewer-contest/" target="_self">click here to get more info about how the Leader Board works!</a></li>
<li>Reviews must have 50 words or more to qualify.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Announcement of Winner and Prize:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>After the contest due date, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Winners will be  announced the first week of the following month.</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>PRIZES:</strong>
<ul>
<li>1st: $100</li>
<li>2nd: $50</li>
<li>3rd: $20</li>
<li>Profile Badge for Each Winner!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Rules:</strong></p>
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<li>Reviews that are considered inappropriate, vulgar or lacking information will not be considered.</li>
<li>Winners who do not claim their prize within 7 days of the announcement of the winner will forfeit prize money, but not the award.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Ready to get started? </em><a href="http://www.menuism.com/user/signup"><em>Sign up for your free Menuism account</em></a><em> and start writing reviews!</em></p>
<p>November is now here, so we’d definitely love to see all of your great quality reviews. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line at abby@menuism.com.</p>
<p>By <a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/pleasurepalate" target="_self">Abby C. Abanes</a><br />
Menuism Community Manager</p>
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		<title>The Clock is Ticking: End of October Menuism Restaurant Review Contest!</title>
		<link>http://blog.menuism.com/2009/10/30/the-clock-is-ticking-end-of-october-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minutes, Hours and Days are flying by and soon the October Menuism Restaurant Review Contest will be history.  If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to post reviews about your latest restaurant outings and encourage friends, family, co-workers or whoever you&#8217;d like to give a helpful vote to each of your reviews.  The three top Menuism Reviewers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1284&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1285" title="salsa clock" src="http://menuism.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/salsa-clock.jpg?w=115&#038;h=115" alt="salsa clock" width="115" height="115" /><em>Minutes, Hours and Days are flying by</em> and soon the October Menuism Restaurant Review Contest will be history.  If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to post reviews about your latest restaurant outings and encourage friends, family, co-workers or whoever you&#8217;d like to give a helpful vote to each of your reviews.  The three top Menuism Reviewers with the most votes can win cash prizes.  To refresh your memory about the rules, <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/09/30/october-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/" target="_self">click here!</a> So come on, get those fingers a typing because how often can you truly say that eating out can actually pay you. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   The October Menuism Restaurant Review Contest officially ends October 31, 2009.</p>
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		<title>Congratulations to our September Winners!</title>
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They dined, they wrote and were voted the most helpful.  Congratulations to our top 3 winners for September&#8217;s Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. Between the 3 of them, they garnered 100+ helpful votes.  Wow!  This trio definitely knows their stuff and apparently, many of you agreed.  Hat&#8217;s off to them and if you&#8217;d like to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.menuism.com&blog=478148&post=1210&subd=menuism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>They dined, they wrote and were voted the most helpful.  Congratulations to our top 3 winners for September&#8217;s Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest. Between the 3 of them, they garnered 100+ helpful votes.  Wow!  This trio definitely knows their stuff and apparently, many of you agreed.  Hat&#8217;s off to them and if you&#8217;d like to keep up with their reviews, check out their profiles below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/bunmom" target="_self">bunmom from Valparaiso, IN</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/ninathomas" target="_self">ninathomas from Corona, CA</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.menuism.com/users/RJones" target="_self">RJones from Hellerton, PA</a></p>
<p>As you can see, all three of our winners also received some prize money and if you&#8217;d like a chance to compete, than be sure to <a href="http://blog.menuism.com/2009/09/30/october-menuism-restaurant-review-contest-2/" target="_self">click this link to get more info on the October Menuism Restaurant Reviewer Contest</a>. Good luck and maybe, in a month, we&#8217;ll be announcing you as winner as well.</p>
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