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Cynthia Garcia is our iPhone winner! (plus more opportunities to win)

Koichi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:44:14 +0000

Congratulations Cynthia! Out of all the people who have signed up for SuperPass, you were picked at random to receive a $200 Apple gift certificate, just the perfect amount for a fancy new iPhone 3GS! I know everyone at the office is really jealous without our compasses and video recording capabilities. We hope you enjoy it!

But, if you didn’t win something this time there’s still hope. We’ll be giving out another set of prizes on July 4th (easy to remember for everyone in the US. Everyone else? Mark your calendars). Every SuperPass subscriber (including people who subscribed earlier) will be entered in this drawing, so whether you signed up previously or are thinking about it, you can get in on these fabulous prizes.

Win the eduFire Summer Learning Package

Everybody knows what the sun does to your brains (or the snow, if you live in the Southern hemisphere). We definitely want you to keep on learning this summer, so we put together a package worth $100 to help you study. Here’s what you’ll get:

An eduFire t-shirt
$25 LearnOutLoud gift certificate
$50 of 1-on-1 tutoring on eduFire with the tutor of your choice

Check your eduFire inboxes around July 4 to see if you won! Join SuperPass now to be entered (it’s only $1 for your first week, if you want to try it out)!

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Please Help eduFire by Filling Out a Survey

Koichi — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:13:50 +0000

Hey everyone! eduFire has recently put together a survey so we can learn more about the members of our amazing community. It’s only 7 questions long, and we’ll be picking one lucky teacher and student to win $100 in prizes (eduFire t-shirt + 4 free classes or lessons worth up to $20). We’d really appreciate it if you took a couple of minutes to fill it out, and help us out!

We’ve split the survey into two pieces, one for teachers, and one for students. If you’re both, then please just choose the one you associate yourself with most!

Survey for Teachers

Survey for Students

Thank you so much, we really appreciate you taking the time to help us out, and hopefully we can use this information to make eduFire better for you!

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Take an eduFire Classe for Charity

Koichi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:58:43 +0000

Jon and Marco are doing something really cool right now – they’re teaching two absolutely amazing classes, and donating 100% of the proceeds to charity. I’m really looking forward to both of these classes, not just because it’s making a difference, but because the content is fascinating as well. Let’s see what they’re teaching!

How to Easily and Effectively Answer 99% of Your Questions

In an average day we each ask ourselves hundreds or even thousands of questions…How do I market my business? How do I cure myself of this illness? How do I fix my computer?

Increasingly success is determined by our ability to quickly and effectively find answers to many of our questions. In this one-hour presentation I’ll walk through how I use tools like message boards, Facebook, Twitter and Google to get fast and effective answers to many of the questions I face. It’s a big part of the “secret sauce”! :)

This class has a $5 fee associated with it. However, I will be donating 100% of my proceeds to a non-profit I strongly believe in called KIPP. KIPP stands for Knowledge is Power Program and so by signing up for this class you’ll be empowering yourself with knowledge and helping to empower students in low-income areas.

February 17, 5:00pm PST – Join this class now!

That one’s happening in the next 24 hours, so get on that one soon while you still can. If you haven’t taken a class from Jon before, you always come away feeling like you’re ready to take on the world. That’s inspiration + presentation + a bit of Jon Bischke for ya. Let’s look at the other class, by Marco.

Special Memory Class

Please note that I am having eduFire donate 100% of my fee for this class to an amazing charity: http://www.roomtoread.org/

The eduFire team appreciates that money is tight with all of us at the moment in this current economic climate. Therefore, they have kindly donated a couple of eduFire t-shirts and also free coupon codes (value up to $25) for me to give away during this class!

The class will be focused on helping you remember something you never thought possible, so much information, and yet you’ll be able to remember it! Amaze your friends, amaze yourself, chance to win stuff and most of all you’ll be giving to a wonderful cause! Fabulous.

Please do get your friends and family to join, even those who may not have registered on eduFire before, NOW is the time to come! Let’s try and fill the class up with 99 students!

March 8, 3:00pm PST – Join this class now!

Marco is another fabulous teacher – I took a memory class from him a few weeks ago, and came away being able to memorize a list of fifteen different things in a matter of minutes. I could read it backwards, out of order, in order, whatever. To this day, I can still recite the items on the list. I can’t imagine what a class like this one would do to someone. 100 things, perhaps? 1000? I suppose you’ll have to see for yourself!

If you have a passion for learning, and want to help a couple of good causes, sign up for these classes today, and come away a bit smarter! Look forward to seeing you there!

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Announcing our Youtube Contest Winners

Koichi — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:05:39 +0000

EduFire did a little contest a while back, where we had members of the Edufirejapanese Youtube Channel tell us why they wanted to learn Japanese (or another language / skill) in order to get some free lessons on eduFire. Here’s how we narrowed things down:

Best 1-shot video – 3 Free one-on-one lessons, T-shirt, and $25 at learnoutloud

Most Creative video – 3 Free one-on-one lessons, T-shirt, and $25 at learnoutloud

Best non-Japanese video - 3 Free one-on-one lessons, T-shirt, and $25 at learnoutloud

So, let’s not beat around the bush anymore. Here are our three winners! Thank you so much for everyone who made a video, I know we all enjoyed watching them, and it was pretty tough to make our decision. So, here they are!

Our favorite 1-shot (no edits)

Most Creative

Our Favorite “Not-Japanese” Video

Thank you once again to all who applied! We will be contacting people shortly. You can see everyone’s videos on Youtube, by clicking here.

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Win free lessons on eduFire!

jon — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:01:03 +0000

We’re running a contest right now and giving away some free lessons. Koichi has all the details here. To enter the contest all you need to do is create a short video telling us why you want to win (again, read all the glorious details here).

A bunch of people are entered already and I had a blast this morning checking out some of the entrants. A couple of my favorites are below. The contest ends in three short days so get your video together and get entered quickly. Best of luck to all of you who are participating and thanks for the super entertaining videos!

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