We have some show tickets we’d like to give away to our awesome customers – for our second (and final!) giveaway, we have tickets for the RAW Comedy National Grand Final show on Sunday the 14th of April @ 5pm at The Town Hall – to enter, please fill out the entry form below – entries close April 12th:

We have some show tickets we’d like to give away to our awesome customers – for our first giveaway, we have tickets for Tim Vine’s show on the 4th of April @ 8.30pm at ACMI – to enter, please fill out the entry form below – entries close April 2nd:

As sponsors, we have some show tickets we’d like to give away to our customers – we have tickets to give away for the 31st of March & the 7th of April – enter your name & email below for the show you’d like to see!

Stunt Lounge, Thursday 31st March 6pm

Witness the future of Australian circus from five recent graduates of the famous Flying Fruit Fly Circus as you’ve never seen them before.

Alex Edelman (USA), Thursday 7th April 9.45pm

After a stellar Melbourne debut in 2015, award-winning Boston native upstart Alex Edelman returns with a slick hour comprised of jokes and stories about him and other neurotic, terrified millennials – what does it even mean to have ‘everything handed to you’?

For the month of September, we’re giving away a copy of Obvious Adams – The Story of a Successful Businessman. Written in the 1920s, Obvious Adams is a short story on the beginnings of a young advertising copywriter. The entire book can be read in about 35 minutes, and is essential reading for anyone interested in business, or any other occupation which requires communicating something.

The book is incredibly simple and speaks about simplicity and communicating the obvious rather than the clever and brilliant.

During the dot com golden years, CD Baby was the classic independent startup story, akin to the perhaps better known Craigslist story – a single founder who accidentally starts something huge, and wrestles with personal independence and the independence of their creation.

CD Baby began with its founder, Derek Sivers created a website to sell his own music. As a hobby, he also began to sell the CDs of local bands and friends, and before long he was working full time and rapidly expanding. He chose to make CD Baby a “utopian” online store for independent musicians. To do this, Sivers followed principles based mostly on his personal preferences.

Sivers created a very simple ruleset around his company, which primarily revolved around protecting and supporting the musicians he held within his catalogue:

• The musician will be paid every week
• The musician will get the full name and address of everyone who purchases their music (unless they opt out)
• The musician will never be removed from the system for not selling enough.

I won’t ruin the story for you, but, his book Anything you want is an easy read, and contains interesting insights into independence and sticking with your business philosophy – no matter how utopian others might think it is.

Entries are limited to Australians only (due to the financial and environmental cost of shipping books around the world)

Please enter a name & email to win one of two copies of Anything you want, or two personal hosting packages. Entries close at the end of May, 2015. (entries closed)

We’re giving away two copies of perhaps my favourite business book – Let my people go surfing by Yves Chouinard, founder of Patagonia.

We’re also giving away two web hosting accounts – a personal and business hosting account for one year.

To enter, just add your name and email below:

(For winners of last months giveaway – we’ll be in touch very soon!)

Our giveaway: Each month we run a giveaway which includes our own hosting products, and books which share our values. Some companies give away fluffy mascots, tshirts and pens with their logos on them. That’s not us!

The Serversaurus website, circa 2005

Giveaways

In 2015, we’ll be doing monthly giveaways of hosting products, and pairing them with great books and other products which share our values and provide a source of inspiration. In celebration of Do Lectures Australia coming up in March, (and my recent reading!), we’re giving away copies of DO PURPOSE / Why brands with a purpose do better and matter more, by Do Lectures founder, David Hiatt.

How to enter

We’re giving away 10 hosting packages (5x business packages, 5x personal packages), and two copies of DO PURPOSE. Winners will be selected by the end of Feb! To enter, submit your email address below*:

Entries closed 1st March, 2015

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