How to win online competitions

Lets be honest, when it comes to competitions it’s not the taking part but the winning that counts. That’s why I thought I would give you my tips to help you win online competitions.

Tip: 1 Never give up – This is the most important tip and why it’s first, just don’t give up trying to win, don’t be negative. Negative people always lose!

Tip: 2 Find a good site that lists competitions, I mentioned this in my post First things first. You should find a site that is regularly updated with free competitions and subscribe to their rss feed, doing this will get you updated everytime they add a new competition.

Tip: 3 Read the rules, make sure you enter properly and that you are elegible to win. Refering back to tip to if you find a good site that lists competitions, they will tell you the rules, who can enter and win the draw closes etc.

Tip: 4 Use a different email address, use a genuine email address and check it regularly, but make sure it’s not your main one.

Tip: 5 Avoid text competitions, these types of competitions can be costly. If you see a competition on tv, like itv, don’t use the number they give you to call or text, do a quick search online you can always enter for free via their website.

That’s it for today, subscribe to this sites feed and get more tips soon.

Money Competitions

I love winning money it’s so versatile isn’t it? Who wouldn’t want to win money?

Here is some of the biggest money competitions available at the moment PCH Prizes have some big cash competitions, they currently have one to win £2,500 a week for this rest of your life. Imagine that.

Here is a couple of others that offer big money prizes

http://onlinecompetitions.org/free-competition-to-win-money/ – this ones for £2,000, not life changing but it would help wouldn’t it?

http://onlinecompetitions.org/win-thousands-of-pounds/ – This ones a bit better, £10,000

http://onlinecompetitions.org/win-loads-of-cash/ – This is the biggest I could find after PCH, £15,000 imagine all that.

This site onlinecompetitions.org Have quite a few money competitions, check them out.

Spar Video Competition

I love this competition from Spar, such a great idea. Contestants are competing for a four month round the world trip. To enter the need to create a video, upload it to youtube and get votes. The person with the most votes wins, only 12 days left now. Below are some of the entries.

Which one do you think should win?

Ben the Chilli Beast

This is a funny video of “Ben the Chilli Beast” Eating a Dorset Naga Chilli.

Did you know the Dorset Naga is the hottest chilli in the world, one of them anyway.

See more info about chilli in this article from BBC News.

Free Online Competitions in the UK

As I said before competitions are a very popular past time in the UK, are they popular in your country? I can only tell you about the UK because that’s where I live.

What I often used to ask myself is: Why do companies in the UK have competitions?

There are many reasons companies do this, one reason is because it’s actually their business. Believe it or not giving stuff away actually makes them money. Online retailers do it because it’s a good source of marketing and a great way for them to find potential customers.

Other companies do it for branding presence and to build their market awareness/share.

Look at this video from Spar for example

They have people making videos and sharing them on youtube so they can win a trip around the world, what a great and cost effective form of marketing!

2 Competition Tips

In my list post I told you a few competition sites I use and gave you a very good tip, when entering competitions use a seperate email address, this is so you won’t be annoyed by emails.

Below are 2 more tips:

Competition tip One: Enter competitions that have First, Second, Third, Fourth – you get the idea the more prizes the better, if you don’t win the big disneyland holiday or house you could still win a few hundred quid, any prize is a good prize. Right?

Tip Two: Enter your real info! Use a seperate email account yes, but make sure you check it regularly or you won’t know if you win will you?

You can see some more competition tips here. That’s where I nicked them from anyway 🙂

First Things First

To start off your competition entering career you need to know where to find the best competitions, below are my favourite competition sites. I am in the UK so these are all UK sites:

The Sun Competitions The sun is a UK tabloid newspaper, part of News International, owned by Rupert Murdoch. You may have heard about the recent phone tapping scandals etc. They have some great competitions.

The Mirror Another UK Tabloid. Had a scandal many, many years ago when it’s owner Robert Maxwell mysteriously fell off a boat.

UK Competitions to Win Free Stuff This site lists competitions from all over the UK. By entering some of the competitions on this site you will recieve a lot of junk emails so it’s worth setting up a seperate email address.

Where do you like to find your competitions?