Have you seen some of the
free prizes on offer in online competitions? A lot of them really are fantastic! You could
win a car, a holiday or even cash. When you think about it the opportunities are not to be casually passed by.
Of course we all know there’s no guarantee that your entry will win the first prize or indeed any prize at all. That much is obvious but what’s equally obvious is that if you don’t even enter any competitions then you’re guaranteed not to win anything. It’s an old cliché now but still as true as ever. You have to be in it to win it!
So don’t just envy the people who walk off with these stupendous prizes. Give yourself the chance to join them! It costs you nothing to enter and you just never know!
Now it pays to be organised in your approach. You really want to know what competitions are out there for you to enter. You don’t want to rely on just coming across them by chance. There are websites on the net that will lead you to the best competitions to enter. A good tip is to Google the words, “free prizes” the result will be a revelation! You wouldn’t believe how many sites there are just waiting to introduce you to lots of free competitions for some very juicy prizes.
Once you’ve found a few competitions offering free prizes that take your fancy don’t just fantasise over what it would be like to win one or more of these plum prizes. Give yourself a chance. Get your entry in now! In fact give yourself several chances. Enter them all! Well why not? It costs you nothing and you must be improving your chances of winning.
Actually a lot of people find entering competitions like this quite a rewarding hobby. How many hobbies do you know that don’t cost you anything to pursue? We know that the more competitions you enter the more you improve your chances of winning. The law of averages sees to that. But it’s also true to say that the more you enter the better at it you’ll become. It’s like anything else, practice makes perfect.
Most competitions ask you to answer two or three absurdly simple questions and then hit you with the one that counts. You may be asked to write a slogan or say in so many words why you like a particular product or something of that kind. That’s where you’ll improve with practice. It’s that tiebreaker question that decides who wins the
free stuff.
That’s why it’s so important to enter as many competitions as you can so that you hone your skills at composing those prize winning lines. The reason why at first it’s always somebody else that’s winning those prizes that you’d like to get you hands on is simply that they’re the ones who kept on entering and getting more skilled all the time. You can do the same if you really want to.
Every time you enter an online competition or indeed any competition you should keep a copy of your entry. If you don’t want to keep the whole thing at least keep your copy your answer to the tiebreaker. Make sure you keep a note of when and where the results are to be published. When they are take copies of the winning entries. Compare the winning phrases with your own. Very soon a picture will form of some winning formats.
When you fill in your entries, don’t copy what the winners wrote but learn how they’ve put their words together. They’ve developed a bit of insight into the minds of the people who set and judge the competitions. This way, with practice you’ll find yourself doing the same and then it’ll be you picking up those free prizes.
Author Bio
Emma Paterson is the founder of Plum Prizes. Plumprizes is a UK site and unless otherwise stated all prize draws offered are open to UK residents aged 18 or over, except for employees of TMN plc, their families and anyone else who is professionally associated with the draw. You can visit the website at
competitions at
www.plum-prizes.com
