Pledging For Change Ethical Business Advantage Award 2009

If you own an Ethical Business or know someone who does, this new competition offers the chance to win £5,000 worth of business image development from the brand image experts at Creatively Minded Design.

Pledging For Change is an ethical community interest company promoting networking in the spirit of harmony with the planet and together with sponsors The SME Brand News, Creatively Minded design, Passion for the Planet and YouCanOnline they want to help small ethical businesses grow.

The organisers are looking for entries from young or struggling ethical businesses which will really benefit from the transformation in image, online presence, marketing strategy and potential revenue this prize can open up.

Pledging for Change are looking for a business owner who is forward driven, ambitious and passionate about their ethical product or service, but someone who doesn’t have the budget for brand development or the knowledge to ensure they exploit their business image at every given opportunity both online and offline.

The Award also hopes to gather stories from ethical entrepreneurs that can be shared with like minded business people to help and advise them on building or starting their own businesses.

The winning business owner will receive a bespoke prize package designed to help their business grow, plus there will be continued support from those backing the award. The prize package will help the winner to re-establish a niche, create the right business image, build credibility, put forward a clear business message, a consistent brand image and engage in marketing and social media promotion activities.

The prize will include a website and training support. The prize is designed to help transform their business and give them a hand up towards a sustainable future.

To enter please join www.pledgingforchange.com (it is free to join) you can then sign up to the Business Image Advantage Group and complete the online entry form. Last date for submitting entries is Friday 11th December 2009. Winner to be announced in December 2009.

While money and finance are still among the most popular areas that visitors are looking at to make savings, the MoneySupermarket site offers a whole lot more with listings for insurance products, utilities and all the best deals for electrical items such as the latest Playstation 3 Slim.

The people at MoneySupermarket are interested to know what people do with the money they have saved after visiting the website and have launched a competition challenging customers to make a short video to demonstrate how they spent the savings they made.

As an example, watch the video to see how one customer chose to use the money that she had saved by buying her pet dog Benson a Batman outfit!

The competition is called Let’s Have The Savings and the video that receives the most views will win a cash prize of £500. Entry is free and details can be found at Let’s Have The Savings, where you will also find the posts of the latest video entries.

It is all a bit of fun, so if you can make a funny video using the strapline ‘Let’s Have The Savings’ you will be in with a chance of the £500 prize money.