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CMEpalooza Flash Mob!!: Gold Sponsors

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As described on the blog earlier in the week, we’re rolling out a new Sponsor event this spring based on the “flash mob” concept. It’s called, in a touch of creative genius, CMEpalooza Flash Mob!!

We’re starting today with the Gold sponsors of CMEpalooza Spring. It’s now officially noon ET/9 am PT. You have 2 hours to complete today’s entry, meaning that the entry form will close at 2 pm ET/11 am PT. I was going to limit this to 1 hour, but I know we’re all busy and there is only so much time each day that the boss will let us dilly dally, even if we are all working from home.

There are only three Gold sponsors so this particular quiz should not take you much time to complete.

Here is how you play:

  1. Click on this link to access today’s entry form
  2. Call up our Sponsor tab in a different window – you’ll need the links on here to visit our Gold sponsors
  3. All of the answers to today’s questions can be found within 1 or 2 clicks on each sponsor site. We didn’t choose any questions that were so obscure as to require excessive digging.
  4. When you are done and satisfied with your answers, hit the submit button
  5. If you got every question right, you will be entered into our prize drawing at the end of the week, where you can win a $100 Amazon gift card (we’re giving away five of them)

That’s all there is to it. Good luck everyone. And… go!!

 

 

 

A New Sponsor Event: CMEpalooza Flash Mob!!

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A few years ago, flash mobs were a big thing. They were goofy but usually fun. Basically, a group of people would congregate somewhere unannounced and have an impromptu performance or just do something random. Here in Philadelphia, the city’s opera company did a bunch of flash mobs at the Reading Terminal Market. Other cities had flash mob pillow fights. You can go down the YouTube rabbit hole and find all kinds of stuff.

Yet as with everything trendy, the day of the flash mob came and went. It’s been maybe 5-6 years since I remember hearing anything about them. But you should know better than to think that would stop the CMEpalooza train. Being that Derek and I are always on the tail end of every trend (Derek has started wearing his clothes backward again like his boyhood heroes, Kris Kross), we’re bringing the flash mob back, baby!

That’s right people, it’s time for a brand new sponsor event that we are calling CMEpalooza Flash Mob!! This is your chance to learn about all of the brilliant sponsors of CMEpalooza Spring with the possibility of winning loads and loads of cash.

Here is how this is going to work:

  1. On each of the next three days (Tuesday, March 2 through Thursday, March 4), we’ll make an announcement that “Today’s CMEpalooza Flash Mob!! has begun.” Tuesday will be for our gold sponsors, Wednesday for our silver sponsors, and Thursday for our bronze sponsors. The announcement will go out through our blog as well as social media (@thecmeguy or @medcasewriter on Twitter or via our LinkedIn profiles).
  2. You will have a limited amount of time to complete that day’s entry form online. We’ll give you 1 hour for the Gold sponsors, 2 hours for the Silver sponsors, and a generous 4 hours for the Bronze sponsors. We’ll even set the completion bar a bit lower as the days go on and the number of sponsors in each category increase. We won’t tell you when each day’s Flash Mob!! will begin, but we’re not so cruel as to do it at a random time in the middle of the night. We’ll be reasonable.
  3. Each day you successfully complete the online form, you will earn you one entry into our prize drawing. There will be five winners announced at the end of the week, each of whom will win a $100 Amazon gift card. With that kind of scratch, you could decorate your bedroom like Derek by purchasing one of these and still have plenty of money left over.

So bookmark the CMEpalooza homepage (or just subscribe to our blog), give Derek and I a follow on social media, and prepare to dig in.

We Need to Have a New Chat About CMEpalooza

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My son does this thing where he pretends not to hear me when I’m trying to get him off his iPad and into the kitchen for dinner table (Wait, your kid, too? Amazing).

“Time for dinner. Turn the iPad off.” (No response)

“Time for dinner. Turn the iPad off.” (No response)

“Time for dinner. Turn the iPad off.” (No response)

(Walks over and puts hands in front of iPad screen)

“Hey, what the heck? Why’d you do that… Oh, it’s time for dinner. I didn’t hear you!”

Every. Single. Night.

Turns out, however, that it’s not just the youth of America who are experts at tuning out vital information. You, too, are to blame! Yes, you, the loyal followers of CMEpalooza! For shame, for shame!

Now before you run to mommy and daddy whining, “But I didn’t do anything!!!” allow me to explain.

First in 2017, then again in 2018, and then again just this past July, Derek tried his best to get across a very important message about CMEpalooza.

The message is simple.

It’s CMEpalooza.

Big “CME”

Little “palooza”

Now mash it together.

CMEpalooza

Sounds simple enough, but trust me, our experience tells us otherwise. All joking aside – and that’s hard for me to do – at least 50% of our friends and fans mess it up. Just this past week in my email, it’s been “CMEPalooza and “CME Palooza” and, my personal favorite “CMEPalozza.”

I know, I know. Who cares, right? As long as you get it close, that means you know who we are and that’s all that should matter. I get it. And I really don’t think people get it wrong on purpose, at least not most of the time. So we should, I suppose, agree to brush it aside like those crumbs that end up around my son’s plate because he refuses to use his fork at the dinner table (Wait, your kid, too? Amazing).

I hear you. But Derek doesn’t. And so every time we get a “CME palooza” or a “Cmepalooza” or a “CME Pepperoni Pizza” or some other combination (you’d be amazed how many different ways there are to butcher CMEpalooza), I get an email with a cringy emoji from Derek. It’s his way of telling me how he dies just a tiny bit inside every time our event is butchered in print (note from Derek: all true.)

You are probably asking yourself right now, “Isn’t this all kind of your fault? I mean, you did come up with the name knowing how weird it is?”

Again, fair point, and I’ll need to defer to Derek on this one. He came up with the name CMEpalooza. It’s his baby (I guess that makes me the cool babysitter? [note from Derek: It does not, no.]). But it’s too late now. It’s CMEpalooza.

Big CME

Little palooza

CMEpalooza

But hey, if you want to torture Derek, be my guest. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to remind someone that, “You don’t need to scream into the iPad when you are playing a game with your friends. Inside voice!”