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Train Signal’s 6 Year Anniversary Giveaway: Win a Laptop and More

Some things naturally get better with age … wine, cheese, antiques … and you guessed it Train Signal. Although we’ve only been in business for a few years, we’ve come a long way.

Today we’re celebrating our 6 year anniversary and we’d like to THANK YOU for your loyalty and support. We couldn’t have done it without you!

To celebrate this milestone we decided to do something special — so we’re giving away a Sony VAIO Notebook PC, Train Signal’s Complete Training Library and lots of other cool stuff!

Here’s a list of all the great stuff we’re giving away:

Sony VAIO Notebook PC & Train Signal’s Complete Training Library

The Sony VAIO CR Series Notebook PC features 14″ LCD display, 3GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth, built-in camera & microphone, plus a glossy Train Signal blue finish. See the details for this Sony VAIO Notebook PC here.

Our Complete Training Library on an external Hard Drive has all of the training videos we offer including Cisco, CompTIA, Microsoft, VMware and more.

16GB iPod Touch

Apple’s iPod Touch let’s you store all your music, videos, photos and more.

It features a multi-touch interface, 3.5-inch widescreen color display, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and has plenty of room for storage with 16GB of space. See the iPod Touch product details here.

Xbox 360 HDMI System

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 full system includes a 20GB hard drive, custom ATI graphics processor that clocks in at a blistering 500 MHz. You also get the Xbox Live Headset that features noise-canceling and boom microphone. Get more information and the Xbox product details here.

Vizio 32″ LCD HDTV

The Vizio 32″ LCD HDTV offers a 32″ wide display with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels for a great viewing experience. It incorporates 3 HDMI inputs for excellent digital connectivity and provides a high image dynamic contrast ratio of 5500:1. See the product details for this Vizio LCD HDTV here.

5 of the My Book Essential 1TB USB External Hard Drives

We’re giving away not one, not two but five My Book Essential External Hard Drives! These external hard drives offer plenty of storage (up to 1TB) and feature hi-speed USB 2.0 interface that offers 480 Mbps bus tranfer rate. Get all the product details here.

5 Flip Mino Pocket Digital Camcorders

The five Flip Mino Pocket Digital Camcorders that we’re giving away are portable and remarkably slim — fitting nearly in your pocket. But don’t let their size fool you, these little camcorders offer high quality video and storage capacity of up to 2 GB. Featuring a 1.5″ LCD anti-glare display and a built in microphone this easy to use device will quickly become your favorite new gadget! Find out more about the Flip Mino here.

10 $50 Amazon Gift Cards

We’re giving away a total of 10 $50 Amazon Gift Cards … for that thing you’ve always wanted. Use it for books, movies, music, electronics or anything else you want! Find out what you can get at Amazon.com here.

25 Double Fudge Crunch Brownie Cakes

Help us celebrate our birthday with a Double Fudge Crunch Brownie Cake from Bake Me a Wish. Enjoy this fudgy brownie cake, topped with mouth-watering chocolate chip-cinnamon-oat streusel and ribbons of dark chocolate glaze. Mmmmmm … You can take a look at this delicious little treat here.

Here’s How You Can Win:

To enter all you have to do is tell us in your own words what you think of our training — and please be honest! We want to hear the good AND the bad. There are no right or wrong answers — we just want to know what you like and what you don’t like about our training so that we can work on improving it for the years to come.

Email your responses to contest [at] trainsignal.com by Tuesday, September 9th and you’ll be automatically entered to win!

Here’s what we want to know:

1. Which one of our products did you train with and what made you want to buy it?
For example: to get certified, to improve your hands on skills, etc.

2. Did you find our training helpful in achieving your goals?
Be specific — tell us how the training has helped you or why you thought it didn’t help

3. Rate our training — would you recommend it to others or not?
On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 – not recommended & 5 – highly recommended) how do we rate?

Questions? Leave a comment below. And good luck to all!

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Discussion

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Comments

  1. Posted by Srinivas on August 28, 2008, 11:10 am

    Hi,

    Many Happy Returns Of The Day Train Signal Signal.

    I Have studied you CBT,s and i have got lots of information from you.

    Thanks for all your Team….

    Regards
    Srinivas P

  2. Posted by Robert on August 28, 2008, 11:16 am

    what is the deadline for this essay and how many words?
    thanks

    TS rocks!

  3. Posted by William Becker on August 28, 2008, 11:21 am

    I have not used Train Signal products yet, but I’m looking forward to trying them!

    Thanks TrainSignal!!

  4. Post Author
    Posted by Kasia Grabowska on August 28, 2008, 11:31 am

    Hi Robert,

    To participate you have to email me by Tuesday, September 9th.

    There’s no word limit, but we would like to get the details — so please be specific!

    Thanks!
    Kasia

  5. Posted by Kirk on August 28, 2008, 11:38 am

    Happy Anniversary!! Keep up the Great Work.
    Thanks for the best training in IT.

  6. Posted by Sushil Pallemoni on August 28, 2008, 11:43 am

    Congratulations and Celebrations!

    Your training videos are absolutely amazing!
    Keep up the good work and hope that we get to see lot of training materials in other areas as well like, multimedia and other areas

    Best Regards,
    Sushil

  7. Posted by Allan Romans on August 28, 2008, 11:47 am

    The best investment I ever made.
    Will sent more in the essay

  8. Posted by robert veldkamp on August 28, 2008, 11:49 am

    Congratulations, your vidoes are value for money, even the with the shipping costs
    to the netherlands

    greeting from the Hague

    Robert

  9. Posted by Shahin T. on August 28, 2008, 12:10 pm

    Congratulations, Love your videos great investment worth every penny

    Best regards,

    Shahin

  10. Posted by Rich on August 28, 2008, 12:16 pm

    Congratulations! You’ve come a long way in a short time!

    Geat informative instruction. Great value. I look forward to plowing through all the classes. Thanks for making it affordable.

  11. Posted by Kenneth Kumar on August 28, 2008, 12:25 pm

    Congratulations on your 6th Anniversary, I was not aware that TS is only six years. the way the courses you are offering I thought TS must be an old company. but it is just Six years old . so hats off to you Guys at TS who are working so hard to make our life so easy to learn. Thank you guys.

  12. Posted by Anil Mahadev on August 28, 2008, 1:07 pm

    Congratulations and Happy Birthday! :)

    May this year and the years to come bring you folks good fortune and continuous support from of your customers!

    Anil Mahadev

  13. Posted by Frankie IT on August 28, 2008, 2:25 pm

    You guys rock!!! Keep up the great work!!!
    Happy 6th!!

  14. Posted by sinson john on August 28, 2008, 3:18 pm

    wowowow,trainsignal rocks!!!!happy birth day trainsignal!!!!

  15. Posted by Briggs, Deinbo on August 28, 2008, 4:46 pm

    This is thus wishing you the happiest birthday ever. Please keep up the good work, you are sure doing a very great job. From me and all your fans in Nigeria, its HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many happy returns.

  16. Posted by Arnold L. on August 28, 2008, 5:09 pm

    Your TS is really a cool site. I’ve learned so much from your videos. Keep it up and looking forward for more stuff! Happy Birthday!

  17. Posted by Gustave on August 28, 2008, 5:30 pm

    Wishing TS the happiest birthday

    The Training that the team generates is second to none leaves me with no stress whether I’ve covered a whole subject properly, TS team covers all topics very percise and into detail

    thanks for the Great Work Train Signal

    Happy Birthday.

    Keep it up

  18. Posted by NK on August 28, 2008, 5:55 pm

    Congrats Team

    Your vdo’s been nice and easy way out for the newbies…Thanks for making learning a easy task.

  19. Posted by Kevin on August 28, 2008, 6:15 pm

    I enjoy the video training classes, I would like to see an update on CWNA training. I really appreciate the staff at the sales line. They have worked with me several times to make me very satisfied with my purchases.

  20. Posted by Rupen on August 28, 2008, 6:45 pm

    Congragulations on your B’Day.

    Thank you for Improving my Technical Knowledge. Finding the Trainsignal is the Best thing I have Done in my Life.

    I am now one of the Leading Microsoft Engineers in Melbourne Australia. And all I did was to go through the Trainsingnal Training.

    Keep up the good wrok.

    Regards Rupen
    Melbourne, Australia

  21. Posted by James Smith on August 28, 2008, 6:56 pm

    Congratulations on your 6th Anniversary, Your CBT video had been a great help.
    Thank You and keep up the good work……………

  22. Posted by koshy mathai on August 28, 2008, 9:04 pm

    You guys are the best in training cd’s, keep up the good work.

  23. Posted by Karam Singh Khokra on August 28, 2008, 11:16 pm

    Congratulation and Happy Anniversary!

    I have heard of TS for some time and recently bought some training videos on Windows Network Security and Windows Vista. I just love them. I have been using some other brands before, but TS videos are much-2 better than other brands.

    Keep the good work going!

    Cheers,
    Karam

  24. Posted by Jojo on August 28, 2008, 11:23 pm

    Hi Trainsignal,

    My name is Jojo.I am from India.U have helped me a lot in bulding my carrier as System Admin.Thanks a lots and wish u Happy Birthday.Keep going.

  25. Posted by Dennis Yonga on August 28, 2008, 11:59 pm

    I long for the Sony VAIO!!! Your trainings are so awesome!

  26. Posted by Diane Fletcher on August 29, 2008, 12:13 am

    Happy Birthday Train Signal

    May your signal reach and educate millions across our world!

    From sunny South Africa.

  27. Posted by Marco on August 29, 2008, 12:16 am

    To all the Train Signal Team

    Hapy Anniversarry! Though I have’nt purchased any of your product but I keep receiving free study guide downloads and this helps me a lot nurture my IT mind. Plan to purchase one in the future once I moved up for a different certifcation. Happy birthday! wish more blessing on your team.

    Thank you!

    Marco

  28. Posted by Bryan Harris on August 29, 2008, 12:30 am

    Happy 6th Anniversary……..

    It’s indeed with great gratitude I express appreciation for such innovative vision (the birth of Train Signal), your products are very great and particularly my recent purchased of CCNA et al has given me edge on my job.

    Happy-happy 6th Anniversary and May our good Creator blessed your existence/innovation to higher heights.

    Many thanks to you and your Team….

    Regards,
    Bryan Harris

  29. Posted by Vijay Kuppuswamy on August 29, 2008, 12:52 am

    I did try some of the demo but heard a lot and willing to use it.
    I feel your products are at level 5 (the BEST)

  30. Posted by segun Osobajo on August 29, 2008, 4:34 am

    Congratulations on your achievements.
    Your products are fantastic and woh! It made life easy for my Technical employees and I could see the impact on our corporate performance. Looking forward to partnering with you guys. Happy anniversary!!!

  31. Posted by Alton Dixon on August 29, 2008, 5:17 am

    Happy Birthday, I wish you all the best.

    I am living in Geneva, Switzerland. Is it okay for me to enter?

  32. Posted by Matz Edelholt on August 29, 2008, 5:19 am

    And Happy Birthday!

    Please keep up the good work and provide us “eager to learn” the courses to meet the never stopping demand for skilled people.

    Keep up the good work!

    In Swedish – Grattis på födelsedagen = Happy Birthday.

    Best Regards, Matz Edelholt

  33. Posted by Joyce on August 29, 2008, 5:37 am

    Congratulations and God bless
    I have used your videos and they are excellent. Keep up the good work

    Regards,

    Joyce

  34. Posted by Irfan Khan on August 29, 2008, 5:44 am

    Many Many Happy Returns to the all team of the train signals on his 6th anniversary from all around the Pakistan from my side.
    I believe that train signals’ CBT’s are the best training videos all around the world and I learn a lot from them.

    God bless you Train signal.

  35. Posted by Lukas on August 29, 2008, 6:29 am

    Hello to all Trainsignal team,
    Your training videos are great! I try a few demos only and I think that is the best trainings that i saw.
    Keep on with this great work

    Best regards from Prague
    Lukas

  36. Posted by sanjoy on August 29, 2008, 6:40 am

    i feel very proud to get a chance to wish you a happy birthday ever before with full of joy. Hope for a great day ahead.

  37. Posted by Vincent on August 29, 2008, 8:05 am

    Hi
    I thank Train Signal for it professional training most especially in the area of Microsoft.
    I was introduced to train signal by a friend and since, I have made a my study guide.

    thanks

    Vincent

  38. Post Author
    Posted by Kasia Grabowska on August 29, 2008, 8:30 am

    Alton Dixon Said on August 29th, 2008 at 5:17 am:

    “Happy Birthday, I wish you all the best.

    I am living in Geneva, Switzerland. Is it okay for me to enter?”

    Hi Alton!

    Of course it is okay for you to enter! We want to hear from all of you!

    And thank you for the kind wishes :)

    Kasia

  39. Posted by Jobin on August 29, 2008, 8:47 am

    Hi Team,

    Happy Anniversary.

    Train signal is helped me to improve my knowledge.

    Keep your good work.

    Thanks.

    Jobin

  40. Posted by Doug on August 29, 2008, 8:48 am

    I have used your program to change my life, the training is exceptional & has really given me the ability to enhance my resume’ & land the perfect job.

    Thank You
    Doug

  41. Posted by Winston Chan on August 29, 2008, 9:40 am

    Happy B-Day and many happy returns!

    I’ve you guys on my list and also mentioning it to my boss. Excellent products you carried which surpass the off site training I’ve attended.

    Great Job!

  42. Posted by Ahmad Budiman Jalil on August 29, 2008, 10:43 am

    firtly thanks a lot and happy Berthday…for train signal coz train signal a lot help me about technical aspect and knowleage regarding troubleshoot and how to configure,manage etc..

    Lastly thanks again and happy birthday.

  43. Posted by Tom Walker on August 29, 2008, 2:29 pm

    Kudos,on maintaining a high quality standard on your training offerings. I can still remember getting on board the TrainSignal train, (pun intended), for Windows 2000 training when it was all audio only. Scott’s voice on those early audio CD’s came across as a confident and competent trainer who could be counted on to deliver the info that I could apply to my day to day work as a Windows Systems Administrator and my pursuit of becoming an MCP.

    With the introduction of video training I knew I would receive superb training based on my experience with the audio products.

    Keep up the good work. Because of today’s tight IT budgets for most of us, makes it nearly impossible to get affordable traditional class room training. And in all honesty I prefer the high quality of training that I can obtain from your training products while at home or commuting to work on the train.

    Lastly the last 6 years of my total of 18 years working in the IT industry has been truly enhanced from the training videos I have used from TrainSignal.

    Thanks and happy anniversary.

  44. Posted by EDMUND on August 30, 2008, 4:30 pm

    Hi!

    wishing you happy anniversary and all the best.
    I like your CBT’s, its good and it help me in many ways.

    Keep up the good work.
    Thanks

  45. Posted by Thuan Nguyen on August 30, 2008, 5:37 pm

    TrainSignal Staff,

    Thank you for the excelent training material, I have learn alot from your course and looking forward to other course when budget available. I have recommend the course to my co-worker and they are very happy with it.

    Thank you,

  46. Posted by Jothilingam on August 30, 2008, 11:51 pm

    Hi Team,

    Happy Birthday to trainsignal.

    Thank you for Improving my Technical Knowledge . One thing i need to include in this comment keep a separte learning portal for the users. so that they can learn wat they want. It would be easy for all to take the right thing.

    Congrats for the upcoming years…….

    Do Best, Keep the Best, U will be the Best.

    Thanks,

  47. Posted by Angelo C. Rodriguez on August 31, 2008, 8:35 am

    Congratulations on your 6th year anniversary.

    The IT training I’ve earned in trainsignal gives me an exceptional knowledge.
    I am no an IT Professional, I’m an Electrical engineer, but when I begun to know about TRAINSIGNAL, I started to shift in IT field of Industry.

    The trainings i’ve earned here in trainsignal since I started a year ago made me to be more competent IT practitioner over the other IT employees in our office.

    Thanks to you TRAINSIGNAL.. I’ve been always your avid fan .I always keep an eye on your new upcoming videos..MORE POWERS!!!!

  48. Posted by Olivier Ngeleka on September 1, 2008, 7:59 am

    Hi Guys!

    Happy Birthday to you!!! You guys are doing a great job. Tha Active Directory was something like magic, something I couldn’t understand at all, especially the GPO’s. Now it’s like toy. I purchased the all complete set and I am on top of business! I thought I was in IT, but now I am IT. Thank you guys and keep up with the great work!

  49. Posted by Jerry Tigue on September 2, 2008, 10:35 am

    Congrats to you and your staff on the anniversary. I trained with your help to succesfully obtain my CCNA cert. As a Telecom professional, your program was just what I needed to help me with the ongoing transition from TDM systems to the new VOIP platforms. Thanks for the help. I’d rate the programs I used a solid 5!

  50. Posted by Moise Emile NGISSUI on September 3, 2008, 1:20 am

    Happy anniversary, Keep doing cool CBT’s

  51. Posted by Devender sadmake on September 4, 2008, 2:21 am

    congratulation on the sixth anniversary!
    Train signal is the best of the best to offer and all kind of the materials and very very easy way of explanation and ideas to generate more knowledge. thanks 2 all Train signal.

  52. Posted by harminderjit singh sandhu on September 5, 2008, 3:29 am

    many many happy returns of d day ,

    keep it up trainsignaltraining,

    i think most of d community is quite happy about d stuff or abt the trainings,but sometimes v need to go through many sites to find out what v actually want.

    but still v gets it dat matters,it gives so much humbleness wen u can get vedeos of ur choosen topic where ever u want (make sure u have internet).

    and i think train signal is best in dat,might need to improove bit of quality for vedeos.

    so gud luck for ur future,keep ur train running by serving ur people.

    God bless u.

  53. Posted by Shan Gee on September 5, 2008, 2:31 pm

    Thanks for this great contest. I didn’t win the other one, but I still do stand a chance in this one. Good luck to all the contestants, I’m e-mailing my essay soon!

  54. Posted by Fernando Regaldo on September 8, 2008, 5:39 am

    Congrats on your anniversary !
    I have used your W2k Megalabs and CCNA videos and I think they are great, there is alot of How to in them . Keep up the good work !!

  55. Posted by Michael leng on September 9, 2008, 2:50 am

    Congratulation on the Anniversary and happy birthday,
    thanks for many technical aspects which all of you have helped us.

  56. Posted by Bhavana Boddu on September 9, 2008, 7:34 am

    Many Many Happy reurns of the day!!!

    Thanks for you train signal. Helps in improving the knowledge.

    Have a nice time..

  57. Posted by Niluka on September 10, 2008, 12:36 am

    Dear TrainSignal People

    Thanks for being with us and help to us.
    As IT people we really appreciate your trainings.
    Keep it up and be with us forever.

    Your scale is not enough to recommend to others, it needs more. I will give 100 points to TrainSignal’s for my recommendation.

    Best regards
    Niluka.

  58. Posted by Avinash Karemore on September 10, 2008, 6:41 am

    Happy B-Day

    I Love The Training Video Provided By You…

    I Use These video For My Certification

    & Seriousely,,,, It was Realy helpfull For Me…..

    Yes I Will Defintely Recommended to Others I Will Give 5 Out Of 5

    and Once Again Happy Anniversary ………

    Keep It Up

  59. Posted by ABDUL QADIR SIDDIQUI on September 11, 2008, 11:48 pm

    happy Birthday Trainsignal, Happy Birthday to you…………………

    Congratulation on your anniversary!!!

    You People help us for our good carrier, May God bless you all team of train signal and give more success and Growth. Wish you best luck..

  60. Posted by http://it-pro.plus.vn on September 12, 2008, 11:22 pm

    Happy Birthday!
    I want to learn all Certifications, but I have not many moneys. I hope trainsignaltraining will support us.
    Thank for read

  61. Posted by David on September 15, 2008, 8:50 am

    Thank you for the good job done all this year, i will say your intervention breing alot of excitement into mylife.
    Me in person one thing that i will propose if posible you can beat done the price of the video for those of as in and at the same time takes cares of ourself eventhough your price is very the cheepiest. keep the good work you guss are good.
    Happy anniversary.
    Thank you.

  62. Posted by Stephen Rogillio on September 15, 2008, 6:39 pm

    Congrats on your anniversary! I have looked at several of your products, especially
    those recommended by Petri, who is a very knowledgeable IT person. I have used your products for networking and basic PC matters. I have found them to be very useful and would recommend these courses to anyone who wants to improve their IT skills. They are very informative and instructions are understandable.
    Thank you very much.

  63. Post Author
    Posted by Kasia Grabowska on September 17, 2008, 5:56 pm

    Thank you everyone for your comments and your emails!

    We greatly appreciate your feedback and we hope that you’ll keep us as your #1 computer training resource for many years to come.

    Kasia

  64. Posted by Daniel Zombek on September 19, 2008, 8:41 am

    Kasia,

    Can you comment as to when the winners of the contest will be announced?

  65. Post Author
    Posted by Kasia Grabowska on September 19, 2008, 10:36 am

    Hi Daniel,

    Good question!

    The winners of this contest will be announced early next week, hopefully Monday but possibly Tuesday.

    Kasia

  66. Posted by irshad Ahmad on September 20, 2008, 1:52 am

    Thank you so much i like train signal traingnig very much i am wachting ur free vedeos i like it very much i want to study CCNP CCNA and Mcse but unfurtunately i am very poor i dont have extra money for that i am living in afghanistan that is the place war also.

    and rate this train signal 5

    Thank you once again

    your student

    Irshad Ahmad
    Kabul Afghanistan

  67. Posted by irshad Ahmad on September 20, 2008, 1:56 am

    Yes I Will Defintely Recommended to Others I Will Give 5 Out Of 5

  68. Post Author
    Posted by Kasia Grabowska on October 28, 2008, 11:19 am

    Thanks to everyone who participated! We hope you enjoyed this contest & we hope to have more in the future :)

    In case you haven’t seen it, here is the list of the winners:

    /giveaway-winners/2008-09-29/

    Kasia

  69. Posted by Eirtaza on September 25, 2009, 4:17 am

    Congratulation and happy birthday to the whole team of Trainsignal and also wish for you to get more success.

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