I wanted to pop in and let you know about an awesome (time-sensitive) opportunity to get some free advertising and great consulting whether you’re in a service based business.

I’ve been approached by one of the marketing students (Rob) from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. His class is participating in the 2009 Google Online Marketing Challenge.

What is the Google Online Marketing Challenge?

Google teams up with university professors from all by the world to help their students gain real life, online marketing experience. Unlike in the past when business students were somewhat limited to their local areas whether they wanted to gain “hands on business marketing training” today is a whole new ball game. Now, thanks to the Web, Google and their professors, these students have the ability to put their marketing lessons to work on a world-wide level.

The students are given free AdWords money for online advertising. Each team gets to choose a business they want to work with. Once they’ve chosen their business, they get to put those advertising dollars to use. They’ll help the lucky business owner create and run an effective AdWords campaign from start to finish.

You can read more about the challenge by clicking here. Check out the number of little red bubbles on that map on the

page. Those bubbles show how many teams/colleges are participating in that year’s challenge. Amazing!

Rob’s team, along with 24 other teams at his university, are looking for businesses to work with. Each team will help one service based business owner with their advertising efforts by supplying each winner with:

* Free AdWords Credit of $200 USD
* Free history Setup, Optimization and Research by a group of master students
* Innovative Consulting by a Team of Post Graduate Business students
* The Ability to analysis How Effective AdWords is for Building Leads to Their Business.

Sounds good to me! I think it’s great how universities are realizing the potential of the World Wide Web and online marketing. It amazes me to think that when I first started out as a business owner nothing like that existed. I just love watching the growth of online marketing and seeing how far it really can reach.

In order to enter the contest you’ll need to go the link below and fill out that questionnaire. that will keep you from having to divulge all your business info in the comments section. But rush they are picking their team tonight! :0)

Go Here now to ENTER the Challenge: AdWords Advertising Content

Good Luck!

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Original post by Vera Raposo