Any tips?

Luckyuser12345

Been comping for a few months now & I enter so many, but I’m just not having any luck whatsoever! Has anyone got any tips for me? 😊

FlorayG

How many is 'many'? You can expect to win something maybe once in 1000 entries, so if you enter 50 competitions a day you can expect to win something about every 20 days. That's about my average over the peak season before Christmas
If you consider 'many' to be half a dozen a day then you're going to wait 166 days - and that's only average, so you may win three in one day ( I did once) or nothing for a whole year

liv241010

I'm the same! I enter anything from 20-60 per day. I've been comping since April and I've won nothing. Feel a bit deflated but not giving up. Our time will come!

JamboDP

FlorayG said:

How many is 'many'? You can expect to win something maybe once in 1000 entries, so if you enter 50 competitions a day you can expect to win something about every 20 days. That's about my average over the peak season before Christmas
If you consider 'many' to be half a dozen a day then you're going to wait 166 days - and that's only average, so you may win three in one day ( I did once) or nothing for a whole year

I wish I could win once every thousand entries, I am now lucky if I win 3 or 4 a year going back when I started 20 years ago I would win between 70 and 80 a year and they were usually very good prizes. most comps these days are on social media which I do not do as you keep getting banned and locked out from sharing and tagging too many people.

jaydeetee

JamboDP said:

FlorayG said:

How many is 'many'? You can expect to win something maybe once in 1000 entries, so if you enter 50 competitions a day you can expect to win something about every 20 days. That's about my average over the peak season before Christmas
If you consider 'many' to be half a dozen a day then you're going to wait 166 days - and that's only average, so you may win three in one day ( I did once) or nothing for a whole year

I wish I could win once every thousand entries, I am now lucky if I win 3 or 4 a year going back when I started 20 years ago I would win between 70 and 80 a year and they were usually very good prizes. most comps these days are on social media which I do not do as you keep getting banned and locked out from sharing and tagging too many people.

Entering for a few years less than you JamboDP but 10 years or so ago I won 3 IPads, 2 TV’s and sound systems and lots of good prizes over the years. Last decent win was a few years ago when I was lucky enough to win £3,400 on a radio comp. Last few years I think I have only won minor things a couple of times. I don’t enter MD or social media  but still enter as many as I can as it keeps me busy.

pinkspideruk

Have a look for local competitions where there may be less entries esp if the prize is pick up only - e.g. local garden centres, estate agents, salons, shopping centres etc they often only get a few entries.

Also if your entering on social media make sure your social profile is more than comps - consider deleting old comp shares etc when the deadlines passed and if your entering loads daily try and have a few non comp posts - if you have pets, kids, hobbies etc include those - it makes you look like areal person and if what your posting alligns with the business it cant hurt your chances.

On socials esp make sure your actually doing what they ask for - so many times they ask for you to post a specific emoji or similar and people just post wow I would love this please my kid wants it blah blah blah and fail to do the actual task asked for which means their entry is wasted.

comping84k

pinkspideruk said:

Also if your entering on social media make sure your social profile is more than comps - consider deleting old comp shares etc when the deadlines passed and if your entering loads daily try and have a few non comp posts - if you have pets, kids, hobbies etc include those - it makes you look like areal person and if what your posting alligns with the business it cant hurt your chances.

Do you genuinely think this helps?

Anybody else have anecdotal evidence?

I just started up a dedicated comping Instagram, last time I just used my own account and lost a ton of followers and following all the businesses kinda ruined my main account.

Same question with subscribing to newsletters when entering if it's optional, is this taken into account or are these competitions genuinely random?

comping84k

FlorayG said:

How many is 'many'? You can expect to win something maybe once in 1000 entries, so if you enter 50 competitions a day you can expect to win something about every 20 days. That's about my average over the peak season before Christmas
If you consider 'many' to be half a dozen a day then you're going to wait 166 days - and that's only average, so you may win three in one day ( I did once) or nothing for a whole year

I think you've been getting very lucky! Haha

I was comping through the whole of 2022 and gave up early 2023 after winning absolutely nothing in about 15 months.

Must have entered around 30-50 a day, every day straight in that time period.

Currently got over 90 tabs open just from here 🤣

CloWithTheFlow23

comping84k said:

pinkspideruk said:

Also if your entering on social media make sure your social profile is more than comps - consider deleting old comp shares etc when the deadlines passed and if your entering loads daily try and have a few non comp posts - if you have pets, kids, hobbies etc include those - it makes you look like areal person and if what your posting alligns with the business it cant hurt your chances.

Do you genuinely think this helps?

Anybody else have anecdotal evidence?

I just started up a dedicated comping Instagram, last time I just used my own account and lost a ton of followers and following all the businesses kinda ruined my main account.

Same question with subscribing to newsletters when entering if it's optional, is this taken into account or are these competitions genuinely random?

@comping84k I started up an IG account solely for comping purposes a few months ago (mainly for travel comps as there's a few really good ones on there).

In the first month or so I had to be really careful with the amount of tagging I was doing per day and had quite a few 24 - 48hr account limitations/suspensions, also 2× "we think you're a bot" bans complete with threats to delete me altogether.

New accounts are extremely restrictive in terms of how much tagging you can do (and even following too).

I had a look online for advice, there's a few social media groups/posts for this kind of comping.

Basically, with a new account you have to take it really slowly which means you will not be able to enter very many at first.

Avoid doing batches of tagging/following very quickly or all at once!

Do a lot of non-comping scrolling, liking, posting, sharing, following and commenting.

Watching lots of reels is good.

The best advice is I have had is: "Instagram likes INTERACTION" (& hates spammers). 

You need IG to think you are a regular person and not a robot or spam factory.

Find some other compers for mutual following, liking, commenting, sharing (& of course tagging).

Create your own original content at fairly regular intervals e.g. posts &/or reels of your dog/dinner/sunsets/whatever.

Like & comment on content from profiles you follow.
Other compers are likely to do the same for you.

Direct shares to other profiles are good if reciprocated or liked, direct messages which are mutual are great!

Gradually IG will increase your allowance of tags.

When I started out in September maybe I was getting away with around 6 - 12 tags per day in total. Now, easily 100 (maybe more, if done in small batches throughout the day, but I don't push it).

If you get a suspension/limitation always click the "tell us we've got it wrong" button. (Sometimes, logging out of your account completely and logging back in a bit later will get rid of these.)

If you get a serious ban always appeal following the option offered. (It's very quick)

Other comping tips:

'Save' comps to 'collections' titled with end dates, so you can go back to them later and enter a bit at a time to help with avoiding bans.

Be patient initially and therefore very selective about which/how many comps you enter.

To begin with focus on getting the IG AI to deduce you are a real person - so behave like the average human e.g. when you go to a profile to do a comping follow, first look at other posts maybe like &/or comment on one or two, look at a link through their bio (behave as though you were genuinely browsing before deciding to follow them). Then do some scrolling, watch some reels, like some cat/surfing/cooking/beauty/whatever content before entering another comp.

Do 30mins - 1hr SLOW comping then do a bit more a few hours later.

Follow a compers advice account on IG that encourages activities to stimulate the aforementioned interactions.

Join FB comping groups as you can post/search there for Socials 'friends/followers' and advice.

I think to be a successful IG comper you essentially need to enjoy using the platform itself to some extent and be able to get at least a little bit if something else out of it other than purely comping only.

I hope that helps!

🍀Good Luck🍀

comping84k

Wow, that's very comprehensive, thanks for the write up.

I figured I was doing okay til I got halfway down, I've been tagging about 15/20 a day and had no issues yet, I can't really see me going over that number as I'm only finding about 40/50 competitions a day I want to enter and most aren't on Instagram.