For those who don’t know, today marks the end of the college basketball regular season, and the beginning of the tournament of all tournaments — the NCAA tourney. I’m hyped to say the least.

As many of you know, this week I’ve been down with the flu. I’m feeling better and hoping to get back up to form with more posts this coming week. I did post a few entries this week, and saw some success from them.

I now have 78 subscribers via RSS and my daily uniques have stayed steady.

Early in the week, I published my first guest post on BenBarden.com. I wrote it to give new users to BlogCatalog an idea of how to use the service. I really like some of the new features on the BlogCatalog site. I may go into more detail about those here. I think they’re relavent to many of my readers.

Contests, Contests, and More Contests

We randomly chose Rina, the author of AzrinaAznan.com as our February $100 prize winner. She a blog post about the contest, landing her 25 easy contest entries (entries 852-876) and the winning entry was 875. You still have time to enter the March contest for your chance to win $100. You can subscribe, comment, and post on your blog about the contest to enter.

It seems to be a week full of amazing contests. Winning the Web is hosting the Craziest Internet Marketing Contest with prizes well over $9,000 and growing everyday! You can win some seriously awesome prizes. Go check it out…

If you’re looking for another contest to enter, then you can head on over to Feed Flare, where you’ll find some downright awesome prizes. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) subscription, posting about the contest, and verifying your entry is all it takes to enter. They’re giving away $500 as the top prize. Now that’s a prize! I’m even offering a small banner ad as a prize. Be sure to check it out for your chance to win.

Other’s Explosions

I don’t have much for this week, but I think for any Selection Sunday post we need a tourney. BloggerNoob’s blogger tourney entertains and delights. Everyone should take a peak to see who’s dancing.

It’s been another week. But its also been an exciting week, since this blog’s turned one month old. It seems like I’ve been blogging for a long time now, but only a month has passed by. It’s truly been a great experience. So on to this weeks happenings.

 Happenings this Week
I’m excited to announce I’m now a seller in the Entrecard shop. This week I spent a good amount of time racking up Entrecard credits to do an advertising push. In the meantime, I noticed more and more sellers in the shop selling everything from Stumbles to site reviews. I thought, I have some good ideas I can put in there. Why not shoot Entrecard support an email?

I’m currently selling a post idea item for 30 ECs, under the Consulting category. If you’re interested, you can pick one up here. I’ll be putting up other items this week as well.

Milestone Reached! Some of you may have noticed that I reached an exciting milestone this week. I now have 54 subscribers according to Feedburner’s count! Since I passed the imaginary 50 barrier, I thought it was time to include the Feedburner counter on the site. Have you seen it yet?

Site Tweakings. Thanks again to Si Philps for helping me sort out the div problem in my site’s header. I’ve included a random banner at the top, as well as an announcement box on every page. I hope to create a stickier website, with those images pulling in new readers to interesting content.

Guest Post. I posted a guest post on Buzz My Blog this week (who recently had a guest post on John Cow).  I’ve also been asked to guest post on a neighboring blog on a semi-occasional basis. I’ll reveal more on that later. I have also been commissioned to take the reins on a new blog. I’m looking forward to that opportunity.

Posts. I think my post was overlooked yesterday. I had some server trouble late in the evening and believe the email RSS didn’t go out on time. For those who didn’t see it, check out the interview with the Second Life character Kabalyero. It’s an exciting look into marketing and branding in the virtual world.

From the engaging comments, the Blog Perfume page post was a big success. I’m working on a followup to that discussion, as many readers had relevant questions that opened up new ideas for me. That will be coming this week.

Which brings me to…

Upcoming Explosions
As was just mentioned, I’ll be writing a second part to the art of branding through smell. It may evolve into a larger series as well. We’ll see.

I’m going to do a Podcast soon. It will be a trial thing. I think everyone has voiced their opinions and I will give it a shot.

As always, this week will find me hard at work providing new content, lively discussions, and exploring new opportunities. If you haven’t done so this week, backup your Wordpress installation. You may regret it otherwise.