Share your top 10 tips for getting away with great family travel deals for a $25 Amazon.com gift card!

Approximately 1 more submission needed as of 12:46 pm PST on 3/14/11. Thanks for participating!

SocialMoms and Alamo have teamed up to introduce another fun blogging program in honor of the Alamo Insiders program. We all want to save money when booking travel for the family, and Alamo would like you to share your tips and insider information for getting away with the best family travel deals with our community.

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

Share your top 10 tips for getting away with great family travel deals in a thoughtful, original essay post of at least 400 original words. What resources do you use to find the best deals? How far in advance do you plan your family trip? Do you get better travel deals during off-peak seasons? Where and when do you get the best off-peak season deals? Do you sign up for loyalty rewards programs? We want to hear how you get away with great family travel deals!

How it works:
We are looking for one hundred creative, original and authentic submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), about your top 10 tips for getting away with great family travel deals. 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 $25 Amazon.com gift card!

Highlights from your posts, tweets and tips will be collected and featured on http://alamoinsiders.socialmoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on March 7, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on April 5, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about April 12, 2011. Full terms and conditions are posted for your review at http://alamoinsiders.socialmoms.com/terms2

Rewards for Participating:
The first one hundred qualifying participants will receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card! See Terms and Conditions

Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:

1. Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing "your top 10 tips for getting away with great family travel deals." 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.

2. Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and Alamo blogging program, for a gift card worth $25. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://alamoinsiders.socialmoms.com/about2)

3. Install this campaign widget in the side bar of your blog by copying and pasting this code:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://nw.twittermoms.com/tmad_alamo_160x600.js'></script>

4. Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #GreatGetaways.

5. 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 Alamo

Founded in 1974, Alamo Rent A Car is a value-oriented, internationally recognized brand serving the rental needs of airport leisure travelers. Alamo offers low rental rates and a hassle-free customer experience at the most popular travel destinations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. In addition, Alamo customers in the U.S. are able to conveniently choose their own vehicles, based upon their advance reservation and requested car class, and then simply drive away from the airport.

The Alamo membership club, Alamo Insiders, offers its members numerous perks including exclusive, member-only deals, quick and simple reservations, and frequent traveler miles with each rental.

Become an Alamo Insider

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Permalink Reply by Anitra Elmore on March 10, 2011 at 8:49pm

If it's not too late.

My post: http://www.themamazone.com/2011/03/10-tips-for-getting-away-with-gr...

My Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/anitra/status/46070726003924992

Widget installed.

Disclaimer included.

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Permalink Reply by Bekah on March 11, 2011 at 12:49pm

blog post

Disclosure in the post, rotating widget from TwitterMOms in the sidebar.

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Permalink Reply by bianca mcneace on March 14, 2011 at 9:21am

HI!

Ok here is my tweet: http://twitter.com/SlickHousewives/status/47330166862651392

Here is my blog post: http://slickhousewives.com/2011/03/14/travel-time-10-tips-to-save-y...

Widget in sidebar and disclaimer is posted also!!

thanks,

Bianca

http://www.slickhousewives.com

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Permalink Reply by Vanessa on March 14, 2011 at 1:21pm

Link to post:

http://thequeenofswag.blogspot.com/2011/03/10-tips-for-getting-away...

Link to tweet:

http://twitter.com/queenofswag4u/status/47391285492973568

And the universal social moms button that changes is installed on my blog in the left side bar that you stated counts so we don't have to keep changing widgets.

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Permalink Reply by Vanessa on March 14, 2011 at 1:23pm

disclaimer included as well.

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Permalink Reply by Alea Shinn on March 22, 2011 at 6:37pm

Has anyone been notified that they are getting the Amazon gift card yet? It's my first time actually blogging before the deadline, so I'm not really sure how it all works. Thanks.