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First, you'll need a Google login. Most everyone has one, so that's the easy part!
Next, find a giveaway you want to enter. I hear there's some awesome ones over here.
Now, read the giveaway rules and requirements. Most blogs have a mandatory entry where you have to follow them with Google Friend Connect. That's where your Google login comes in handy! You can usually find a link that looks like this that will let you start following the blog:
Just click "Follow" and confirm in the next step. Done!
Now what you need to do is make sure to COMMENT on the giveaway entry and tell the blogger that you follow them! Comments are your entries, not just the action of following itself. So go to the giveaway post and leave a comment along the lines of "I follow you via Google Friend Connect! ashley at freckleberryfinds dot com". It's important to type out your email address like this so that spam bots don't snag your email address.
Do this for each "extra" entry that you wish to do, also. If you follow them on Twitter, for example, and they say you get two extra entries for doing so, leave TWO comments on the giveaway post saying something like "I follow you on Twitter!
@freckleberrymom
ashley at freckleberryfinds dot com
entry 1".
Repeat for the next comment, just replace the "entry 1" with "entry 2".
Make sure you always leave your email address...that comment could be the winning one, and if they don't have your email address, they can't tell you you've won!
I hope this crash course helps some of you out...I know that when I started entering giveaways, I had to kind of figure it out for myself. Now you've got a basic idea of what the heck is going on around here. Remember, you gotta be in it to win it, so enter those giveaways!
