Comps Tips - New Thead Help Needed

divadee · 14 June 2007 at 3:25PM

I am in the process of starting to write a new help guide for compers. I need all your tips how to win, how to increase your chances of winning, online and offline comps etc....

You lot all know the stuf I am looking for. Please can we keep this thread just for tips. No chat please all chat to be put in the discussion thread.

Can you all help me????

catz747 · 14 June 2007 at 5:23PM

Check the terms and conditions carefully. E.g. 1 entry per person / email address / household. As multiple / duplicate entries may lead to disqualification.

Mark entries i.e. thanks button so you know which you've entered.

Use roboform or similar to save time.

Someone put a hint about postal entries somewhere as well cause people were getting their postcards posted to themselves :rotfl: something about writing your own address sideways on the back, and the competition address boldly and clearly on the front.

Take time to think about tie-breaker comps - less people enter so there is more chance of winning. The tie-breaker doesn't even always have to be clever or rhyming or anything. Sometimes just an honest comment.

Caption comps - look at the picture / photo and wait a few days before entering as something good might come to mind when the pressure is off.

Is that the kind of thing?

furndire · 14 June 2007 at 6:21PM

Use the thread tools to subscribe to a comp that you can't do or want to do later.

Thrupneybit · 14 June 2007 at 7:54PM

If you're sending postcards write your own address left to right in stead of top to bottom and on the line below your postcode write either your phone number or signature.
It stops the machines reading your postcode and returning your card back to you

snitterling · 14 June 2007 at 9:54PM

Here are some based on some of the silly mistakes people have made entering comps on my website. Being a small site I have been able to sort out and re-filter entries that went to the wrong place - a big company would just delete them.

Send email entries in plain text - no colours or fancy fonts and definitely NO animations, as they make the messages too large to be accepted by most company spam filters so your entry will be deleted.

Don't include any info to email entries other than that which is asked for in email entries - saying "no further information" or "please do not add me to your mailing list" is a complete waste of time as these things are totally automated and computers can't read messages. The only message which will be read by a human is the winning one - or the next one drawn if that one doesn't comply with the rules.

Always use the header specified - you may think you are being clever by correcting the spelling or punctuation in it, or adding flourishes to get yourself noticed, but if you don't use it *EXACTLY* as stated, the entry won't get filtered into the correct mailbox and will almost certainly be deleted.

If it says "One entry per household" make ONE entry per household. Not one for your cousin in Cornwall and your sister in Inverness. The promoter will be able to see the IP address of your computer and if they get three entries with different postal addresses that have come from the same computer, and entry patterns don't suggest that it is from an internet café or college computer, they will delete the whole lot.

snitterling · 14 June 2007 at 9:55PM

Thrupneybit wrote: »

If you're sending postcards write your own address left to right in stead of top to bottom and on the line below your postcode write either your phone number or signature.
It stops the machines reading your postcode and returning your card back to you

And if you do that, make sure your address stays in the lower two thirds of the postcard by starting each line ast the lower edge - otherwise part of it may be obscured by the postmark

catz747 · 14 June 2007 at 9:58PM

Read what you are entering properly so you don't end up with a prize that involves going somewhere you can't make :rotfl:

Thrupneybit · 15 June 2007 at 6:27AM

Originally Posted by Thrupneybit
If you're sending postcards write your own address left to right in stead of top to bottom and on the line below your postcode write either your phone number or signature.
It stops the machines reading your postcode and returning your card back to you

Originally Posted by snitterling
And if you do that, make sure your address stays in the lower two thirds of the postcard by starting each line ast the lower edge - otherwise part of it may be obscured by the postmark

It's not possible for anything to be obscured if you start your name in the bottom LHC .

Thrupneybit · 15 June 2007 at 6:46AM

A quick 'Thank You' to promotors for any prizes received lets them know that they are appreciated, and they'll hopefully keep running comps,,,,,,,,,:T

kit34 · 15 June 2007 at 8:26AM

always thank the original poster if you enter a comp , reason 1 its polite and its hard work finding comps to put on board , reason 2 it helps you keep track of the comps you have entered

kipper_2-2 · 15 June 2007 at 11:17AM

Not really a tip for winning as such, but when entering the comps make sure you tick/untick boxes regarding promotional bumph, you don't want to end up with a load of spam

Comps Tips - New Thead Help Needed

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