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It's time to announce the winners of the TN.com Mother Knows Best Contest! Sure, it's been a few days (okay, okay, more than a few, and we're really sorry), but we had to confirm our winners before announcing! So, without further ado...

Congratulations to our Grand Prize winner, Meghan!

The entire TN team would like to congratulate Meghan for placing the winning entry in the TN.com Mother Knows Best contest. We loved the advice she shared with us, given to her by her wonderful mother! Here's what Meghan wrote:

If you haven't yet entered our Mother Knows Best contest, why not? You have only about 14 and a half hours left, so get to it!

So far we have over 100 entries, and there are a bunch of great ones. We know moms are full of great advice and guidance, and we're definitely seeing that based on the entries already received (also, it seems a lot of people learned the same things). So why not share some of that with us and have a chance to win some great prizes?

Enter now while there is still time, and then join us tomorrow as we announce the winner! Good luck!

Click Here to Enter!

Happy Mother’s Day! … Just kidding, we’re not quite there yet. Mother’s Day is soon, though, so if you haven’t started thinking about what to get your mom (or moms or grandma or aunt or sisters) then the TN Team would like to help you out!

Our 2013 TN.mom Gift Idea Guide offers hand-selected events in concerts, theater, sports, and comedy. But it would be even nicer if we helped foot the bill for some of that stuff, right? Which means…

It's CONTEST TIME!

We’ll be giving away several prizes that you can use for mom! (We won’t tell.) One grand prize winner will receive a $75 TicketNetwork gift card and a $25 Restaurant.com Gift Code; two runners up will each win one $25 TicketNetwork gift card and one $25 Restaurant.com Gift Code; and five randomly selected entrants will each receive one $25 Restaurant.com Gift Code.

To enter the TN.com Mother Knows Best Contest, use the widget below by entering your name and a valid email address, as well as an answer to the question: "What is the best advice your mom (grandma, aunt, or other significant woman in your life) has given you?"

• Did she tell you never to take candy from a stranger? (Very solid.)
• Has she shared the perfect tips for coping with stress?
• Has she told you the secret to a happy life?

Whatever it may be, tell us which piece of mom’s wisdom you treasure most in the comments below.

The contest begins NOW — 9:00 a.m. EDT on May 2 — and we'll collect your responses through 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 9. We’ll announce the winners here, on the TN Team Blog, on Friday, May 10 — just in time for Mother’s Day. Good luck!

Contest is now over, thanks for your entries!

No Purchase or payment of any kind necessary to enter or win. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and who are physically located and reside in the U.S. or District of Columbia. Void where prohibited. Limit of one entry per person. Valid email address required to obtain Grand Prize. For a copy of the Official Rules that govern this Contest please visit: http://www.ticketnetwork.com/blog-contest-rules.aspx.

Congratulations to the winner of our $200 TN.com gift card Grand Prize, Andrew S.! He was selected at random from the more than 550 entries we received in our 5th Anniversary contest.

While Andrew may have taken home the Grand Prize, he was not the only winner. A total of ten people will receive runners-up prizes; all the winners are listed below.

A special thanks to EVERYONE who entered the contest. Your participation made this the most successful contest we have run; it just goes to show how great all of our customers are. Make sure you check back here, or on Facebook and Twitter pages, for any future contests.

Thanks again for making our 5th Anniversary a very special one!

Today is TicketNetwork.com's Fifth Anniversary! Although our site existed in some form or another before then, it's been five years since we launched ourselves as a retail site. And what a journey it has been. In that time, we've changed rapidly and grown dramatically. Let's take a look back at how things have evolved.

We've changed our look quite a bit

When we launched in 2007, the site looked a lot different than it does now. For one thing, there was a lot less emphasis on blue, grey, and red, which we currently feature throughout the site. Instead, there was a lot more green and yellow. In a revision from early 2008, we dispensed with some of the green and began to move toward the blue that would later become a big part of the site for a long time. During this time we also launched our affiliate program.

The TN.com layout at launch.

Revision from January 2008.

By mid-2008, the time had come for a major makeover. Enter bluepalooza. Everywhere you went...blue. Blue logo, blue header, blue gradients. Can you guess our favorite color from that time? Hint: It started with the letter "B." Of course, by early 2009, things started to change again. For the first time, gray started to peek through and the On Sale Now section gained some seasonal color.