share your ten time-saving tips to make your life as a busy mom easier for a $30 starbucks gift card!

THANK YOU EVERYONE! We have reached our quota of 100 posts. We are reviewing current submissions to make sure they are qualified. You will be notified via email if you were one of the qualifying participants. Thanks for participating! Even if you are not in the first 100 submissions, you are welcome to continue submitting your posts, and we will share all of them with the team at Starbucks.

What mom doesn’t wish she had a little extra time in her day? We sure do, and we are always looking for ways to speed things up and save a few minutes of time. With Starbucks Card Mobile App you can use select smartphone devices to pay for your Starbucks purchases, allowing you to experience the fastest way to pay at nearly 9,000 locations in the U.S., including 6,800 company-operated stores, more than 1,000 Starbucks locations in U.S. Target stores and nearly 1,000 Starbucks locations in Safeway stores. By offering the fastest way to pay in stores, Starbucks is making your morning coffee run even more convenient, giving you more time to get on with your busy day!

Starbucks for Android™ and the Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry®, iPhone® or iPod® Touch have five core features:

Pay with your phone: Enjoy the fastest, more convenient way to pay at nearly 9,000 Starbucks locations. Just download the app, enter your Starbucks Card number, scan and go.
Manage your card account: Access your Starbucks Card balance directly from your phone.
Reload your card balance: Use your smartphone to reload your Starbucks Card using any major credit card.
Check your My Starbucks Rewards status: Find out how close you are to earning your next free drink.
Find nearby Starbucks stores: Save time by finding a Starbucks store near you.

We are celebrating the launch of Starbucks for Android™, Starbucks newest addition to the mobile payment platform, with a fun, new blogging program. We are looking for 100 quality blog submissions to share ten time-saving tips to make your life as a busy mom easier. Do you select a regular weekly grocery shopping time when the stores are less crowded? Instead of letting weeknight dinners stress you out, do you like to prep or batch-cook food for midweek meals on Sunday night? Do you program your weekly schedule and stay organized and on top of important tasks, to-do lists, projects and other daily worries by using your smartphone? Do you start your day the night before to ease your morning stress by choosing your children’s outfits, packing school bags and getting lunches made ahead of time? We want to hear all your time-saving techniques and tips to make life as a busy mom a little easier.

We're looking for quality over speed, so please read on.

How it works:
We are looking for one hundred creative, original and authentic blog submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), sharing ten time-saving tips to make your life as a busy mom easier. Include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement that is below in your post and install the campaign widget in the sidebar of your blog. Then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will review every post and select the first one hundred qualifying submissions to receive a $30 Starbucks gift card!

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://starbucksmobile.socialmoms.com , and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on June 22, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on July 21, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about July 28, 2011. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://starbucksmobile.socialmoms.com/terms .

Rewards for Participating:
The first one hundred qualifying participants will receive a $30 Starbucks gift card! See Terms and Conditions.

Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:

Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing "ten time-saving tips to make your life as a busy mom easier." Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to the main body of your essay. Give it plenty of thought, and include content that your readers would like to hear about and can connect with! Short or poorly written posts will not be accepted. Copying and pasting does not count. Blank posts submitted to create a blog link on the discussion page will be disqualified. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas. Plagiarism is grounds for immediate disqualification.
Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and Starbucks blogging program, for a gift card worth $30. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://starbucksmobile.socialmoms.com/about)

Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog

Get Widget Here

Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #StarbucksApp.
Return to www.SocialMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.socialmoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission.See Terms and Conditions. Please see SocialMoms FAQs for more information on blogging programs.

About Starbucks

Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company has been committed to ethically sourcing and roasting the highest-quality arabica coffee in the world. Today, with stores around the globe, the company is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world. Through our unwavering commitment to excellence and our guiding principles, we bring the unique Starbucks Experience to life for every customer through every cup. To share in the experience, please visit us in our stores or online at www.starbucks.com. Download the Starbucks Card Mobile App Today!

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