Some of you may be asking yourself how to earn points and keep up with the pack? Once again each point earned increases your chances of winning up to $50K in cash raffles & prizes are icing on the cake.

A great way to increase points is by making a killer video about LeapFish and sharing it with your friends and followers. Every 1,000 views equals 250 chances at winning up to $50K in 6 cash raffles. JoeTech has earned over 1,000 raffle tickets for getting over 3,000 views on one video!

The video below describes LeapFish Social Profile Pages. Ever want a complete personal social media web profile? Create a free account and setup your new personal social media profile that presents your bio, Twitter stream, videos, images, blogs, links and more in one easy to find page online.

Those in the lead continue to leverage LeapFish Search and our team is pleased to announce our 3 Winners of the Fourth Prize Giveaway. Congratulations on being a lucky winner of a brand new Dell LapTop:

Justin Germino– AZ

Willie Ford Jr – NY

Joe Colburn – AZ

Don’t miss out on your chance to win cash and prizes, remember the MacBook Pro and $50K is still up for grabs and at this point in the contest everyone has a chance to win.

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This week the LeapFish team has seen an influx of Affiliate sign ups. Cash Dash’ers are beginning to realize that by simply leveraging LeapFish search increases your chances to win.

LeapFish is empowering all website owners with an affiliate program that generates up to $500 in monthly income with absolutely no upfront or monthly costs. Not only do you have a chance to monetize your site for free but you can also earn 25 points towards cash and prizes better yet submit it as a link to LeapFish and you will earn an additional 50 points! There you have it folks 75 chances of winning $50K in cash while generating income for free!

One of our Top Ten Kat’s Corner didn’t hesitate to put the widget on her blog and one of our prize winners currently sitting pretty in the Top Three Joe Tech is also a recent affiliate.

Those in the lead continue to leverage LeapFish Search and our team  is pleased to announce our 3 Winners of the Third Prize Giveaway. Congratulations on being a lucky winner of a brand new Wii & Wii Fit:

Justin Germino– AZ

Willie Ford Jr – NY

Samantha Mora – CA

Don’t miss out on your chance to win cash and prizes, remember the iPad and $50K is still up for grabs and at this point in the contest everyone has a chance to win.

Sign up and start earning points today!

Contestants are racking up points by doing what they love online & unleashing their creativity, for example video submissions continue to pour in and some are beginning to go viral!

JoeTech recently entered the contest and has already found himself at the top of the leader board. His first video submission already has 1600+ Views and every 1,000 views equals another 250 points for Joe towards prizes and cash raffles! For those new to Cash Dash take the time to watch his $100K Cash Dash Tutorial:

Contestants are encouraged to stay in the lead and be one of the top 3 to win prizes such as an iPad or LED FlatScreen. However everyone has a chance to win prizes & cash raffles at any point in the contest.

The LeapFish Team is pleased to announce our 3 Winners of the Second Prize Giveaway. Congratulations on being a lucky winner of a brand new Flip Mino HD:

Jason Salangsang – CA

Samantha Mora – CA

Willie Ford Jr – NY

Don’t miss out on your chance to win cash and prizes, remember the iPad and $50K is still up for grabs and at this point in the contest everyone has a chance to win.

Sign up and start earning points today!

Chris Pirillo:

“This contest is a perfect example of being creative with social media resources to engage your community and followers. The more you talk about the contest to your audience, the more chances you’ll have to win. I think this contest is going to be a lot of fun for some people, as well. Good luck to anyone in our community who chooses to enter!”

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Living the Life with LeapFish:

“I’ve been an avid Google home page girl for more years than I can count. I mistakenly thought it couldn’t get any better than that… until now.LeapFish has a simple UI and an excellent design. Why would I need to look for anything else? I have literally everything I could possibly need, other than a Pepsi dispenser.”

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StateofSearch.com:

“Would you do all the things the service asks just to get to those prizes? Many will I’m sure of that. After all, we are all human. If we get the chance to get stuff for free, we will not hesitate. So yes, I think you will. As long as it ‘fits’, right? As for Leapfish. I’m gonna give it a try, who knows, maybe I’ll win .”

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JoeTech.com: 300 Views in 1 Day!

Don’t miss out on your chance to win up to $100K in cash and prizes! Click here to join!

The LeapFish $100K Cash Dash promotion kicked off on Monday April 19th and the response is being heard around the web. LeapFish is giving back to the social media community by giving away up to $100K in cash and prizes. Contestants earn points towards raffles and prizes by setting their homepage to LeapFish and unleashing their social media creativity by tweeting, writing blog posts , creating videos , setting up social profile pages and engaging their followers.

Within 1 day 100+ homepages were set and contestants are well on their way to racking up points. The LeapFish Team is very impressed by the entries thus far. It’s no surprise that Dragon Blogger (A.K.A. Justin Germino ) and The Jamaican Cab Driver (A.K.A. Willie J Ford) are leading the pack, their video submissions were creative & informative:

Contestants are encouraged to stay in the lead and be one of the top 3 to win prizes such as an iPad or LED FlatScreen.  However everyone has a chance to win prizes & cash raffles at any point in the contest.

The LeapFish Team is pleased to announce our 3 Winners of the first Prize Giveaway. Congratulations on being a lucky winner of a brand new iPod Touch:

Jason Salangsang – CA

Dennis Yu – CO

Samantha Mora – CA

A fierce competition is brewing at the top of the leaderboard &  point leaders are holding strong at over 1,000 points and all participants are fighting for the chance to win the next prize, a Nintendo Wii!

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As the web evolves users are beginning to seek out alternatives that provide a comprehensive search experience, far beyond Google & Bing results. Paula J. Hane, believes ” It’s best to keep an arsenal at hand rather than just a single weapon of choice.”

This realization contributes to the growth and adoption of LeapFish:

“In 2009 the company made substantial advancements and innovations to its growing search engine including real time search, deeper search results, personalized homepages, content sharing features, and proprietary Twitter and Facebook applications. The changes have helped grow the engine from an Alexa traffic ranking of 150,000 to 10,000 in less than one year.” - Said Hane

LeapFish growth is also paving the way for new job opportunities.  LeapFish Senior Corporate Recruiter, Rachel Leathers, recently attended the National Career Fair in Silicon Valley and was featured in an article that speaks to the decline in unemployment. Associated Press mentioned LeapFish due to our recent announcement of creating 150+ jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Last week LeapFish helped sponsor web/search strategist & well respected blogger Bas Van Den Beld on his journey to Search Engine Strategies in New York. If you were at the conference you may have seen Bas as part of the group “Search Cowboys”. Bas currently writes for SearchEngineLand, SearchEngineWatch, SearchCowboys and is the Chief Editor at State of Search.  Last year LeapFish sponsored the hit evening event at Search Engine Strategies San Jose, SearchBash , with well over two thousand attendees and was delighted to sponsor Bas.

Search Engine Strategies New York is the premiere search event with well over 6,000 attendees this year and LeapFish was excited to contribute to the conference.  Bas goes on to describe his experience:

“Thanks for Leapfish for sponsoring me to get to SES New York. It is THE place to be when it comes to search engine marketing conferences and I’m glad I didn’t miss it. Next year I’m looking forward to seeing the Leapfish people at the conference ”

Bas writes with authority and always speaks true to innovation in search technology.  You can follow Bas Van Den Beld’s post’s here.

LeapFish was excited to take part in the festivities at SXSW this past weekend. The team was fortunate to engage directly with key influencers in the media, discussing the new web with Kevin Rose founder of Digg, Pete Cashmore founder of Mashable  (right), Robert Scoble of Building 43, Leo Laporte technology journalist and radio show host , and Clay Shirky writer, author and professor at NYU.

Lena Shaw, the Manager of PR and Social Media at LeapFish had the opportunity to sit down with one of SXSW’s featured editors Scott Kelly to discuss LeapFish and LeapFish culture. Scott Kelly currently writes for MyTekLife.com and took the time to understand the team behind the technology. SXSW now knows LeapFish employees are active, creative and love to spread the LeapFish love.  Stay tuned for the Spring issue of MyTekLife featuring Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover.

Our Team would like to thank SXSW for putting on another record breaking conference. SXSW brought it with a vengeance, our team is still recovering and we look foward to SXSW 2011!

The article goes on to discuss the need for real time results in search engines. Studies have shown that users are not finding Google Real Time results useful leading researches to believe that the results in general are not useful. However with their recent announcement, Twitter has seen a rush in innovation allowing smaller real time search engines to have access to their “firehose” feed.  Bas goes on to state that “Bing could be one of the real time search engines and compete with the likes of LeapFish”.

Behrouzi believes there are two types of real time searches that will attract users to sites like LeapFish:

“There are two types of real time searches,” Behrouzi said. “One occurs passively when the user is searching for a specific, potentially non real-time topic and they are offered real time results. The second occurs when a user is actively looking for a real time search experience for a particular topic. Including real time results in SERPs only addresses the first type of real time search, because it is an inadequate experience real-time content. The second type of real time search must be answered with a more multimedia experience that not only captures the piece of news occurring in real-time but also delivers the key imagery, video and opinions that users are looking for when actively performing a real-time search.”

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PLEASANTON, CA – (March 16, 2009) – Ben Behrouzi, President and CEO of DotNext, parent to brands including LeapFish.com, announced today that his Pleasanton California based company is growing to an additional 150 employees in 2010.

DotNext is looking for talented local bay area professionals with search engine marketing, search engine optimization, sales, Microsoft software development or client support experience for new positions announced today.  “Despite a tough economy DotNext is growing and looking for talented professionals to become part of the team,” said Behrouzi, who anticipates the number of employees to approach near 250 in the bay area by the end of the year.

“Growth anywhere is critical to see given the current local and national unemployment rates,” said Behrouzi, who refers to the 10.5% national and near 11% Alameda and Contra Costa county unemployment rates. DotNext currently occupies 15,000 square feet of office space at Pleasanton’s Carr America Corporate center and is preparing to expand to 40,000 square feet of space in 2010.

Behrouzi, who has been recognized as a top 40 under 40 Silicon Valley entrepreneur for helping build brands including iMotors, AgentConnect and LeapFish, also cofounded San Ramon based Reply.com in 2001 which recently filed for a $60 million 2010 IPO on February 22^nd.

To learn more about DotNext and current job openings, visit www.dotnextinc.com.

About DotNext :

Founded in 2006, DotNext is a privately held Internet company operating a growing series of online brands in search, social media and performance based marketing headquartered out of Pleasanton California.  For more information, visit www.dotnextinc.com.