The prizes won through sweepstakes are definitely amazing. The motivation of being a big winner drives a larges number of people to enter the sweepstakes sites. As a result, some companies take advantages of this chance. They disguise themselves as sweepstakes, aimming to get personal information for spam markeing, scams, or identity theft. To avoid of being deceived, it is necessary to know whether the site is legal or not.
The first reference is checking if the site has a Privacy Policy. Legitimate sites always make it clear that how they use your personal information. You must be patient enough to read though the Private Policy, as some sites may have a private policy but clearly say that they will misuse your personal information.
The basic sweepstakes laws is another factor for your reference. Legitimate sweepstakes follow the basic laws. They will tell you that you have not won before your enter and they won’t charging a fee to enter. A reasonable way to enter is given on the site. The legitimate sites have a set of rules by following the sweepstakes laws. They make these rules clear for governing their entrants. No matter how long the displayed pages is, they are supposed to be easy to find.
Is there a company behind the sweepstakes? You must bear this question in mind beforing entering. Sweepstakes are used by legitimate sponsors to promote their products, websites or services. If you cannot find what the site promote and there is not a company behind a sweepstake, you must be highly caution of the site.
2008-10-30
2008-10-28
The secret behind cross-promotion
Nowadays, cross-promotions are very popular. Then what’s secret behind it?
According to Anderson, president of the Compelling Comminications Group, critical mass may be one of the factors. Some companies follow others to run joint promotions. Or many companies see the benefit getting from the cross-promtions, including brad-awareness and cash earning.
The motivation sounds simple, but it is not to say that cross-promotion is very easy to do. If you don’t plan well before you start, you may not only waste your time but money.
In oder to reach the goal of promising new markets and customers, you should work with a company that is reputable and trustworthy. What’ more, if the partner can supply some marketing resources you lack, then that is the best choice.
Before starting cross-promotion, you should have the following question in your mind: Do we enhance each other’s credibility? If we offer different resources? Is the sum of our parts bigges than the whole?
According to Anderson, president of the Compelling Comminications Group, critical mass may be one of the factors. Some companies follow others to run joint promotions. Or many companies see the benefit getting from the cross-promtions, including brad-awareness and cash earning.
The motivation sounds simple, but it is not to say that cross-promotion is very easy to do. If you don’t plan well before you start, you may not only waste your time but money.
In oder to reach the goal of promising new markets and customers, you should work with a company that is reputable and trustworthy. What’ more, if the partner can supply some marketing resources you lack, then that is the best choice.
Before starting cross-promotion, you should have the following question in your mind: Do we enhance each other’s credibility? If we offer different resources? Is the sum of our parts bigges than the whole?
2008-10-27
The Best Sweepstakes to Enter
There are a large number of sweepstakes out there, but you can't enter all of them every day. So, what are the best sweepstakes to enter? How to decide which are the best sweepstakes to enter, and which have the best odds of winning? Generally speaking, there are three aspects of any sweepstakes that can increase your chances of winning: there are fewer competing entries, you can boost your number of entries, and more winners will be selected. Let's look at the three aspects one by one:
The Best Sweepstakes Have Fewer Competing Entries
Some sweepstakes have a very low number of entries. When you have a 1 in 50 chance of winning as opposed to a 1 in 50,000, your winning chance is obviously much more. There are some signs if a sweepstake will have fewer entrants. The signs include the following aspects:
· There are some cockamamie procedures, such as a long survey, or multi-page registration. Such sweepstake is not easy to enter.
· Entry is restricted on the basis of state of age, gender, residence,etc.
· Some element of skill is required to enter. Fewer people even attempt to enter video, writing, photography, or poetry contests.
You Have Better Odds When You Can Enter More Often
If you are diligent about entering daily, your chances will rise. That is to say, when you can get more entries than other people, the best sweepstakes odds come to you. You can get the best odds of winning sweepstakes by entering the maximum number of times specified in the rules, or using sweepstakes referrals when available.
Paying your attention to other chances to get extra entries that the sponsor may offer. Some will give extra chances to win for watching an advertisement or completing a survey.
The Best Sweepstakes Offer More Prizes
The best sweepstakes will offer a lot of prizes. Sweepstakes that are giving away 100 prizes have 100 times the odds of winning compared to those giving away just one prize. Even if the prizes have a lower value, the motivation that winning brings makes them worth entering. Find sweepstakes with multiple winners in the Lots of Prizes sweepstakes list.
Online Sweepstakes
A sweepstake is a promotion way in which prizes are awarded to participants on the basis of chance, not skill. Now sweepstakes are very popular, and one of the reasons for their popularity is that online sweepstakes are usually promotions or contests that entrants can enter for free, but have the chance to win huge amount of prizes. The most popular prizes are cruises, home appliances, cars and money.
Sweepstakes are popular tools for businesses, marketers, and agencies to build customer loyalty and collect valuable demographic information about potential consumers.
Most people love the excitement and adrenalin of winning a competition. They enter many sweepstakes to have much more and bigger chances of winning and keep track of all the competitions they have entered. However, to avoid disappointment, entrants should always ensure that they are eligible to enter the online sweepstakes. They should also ensure that they follow all the rules to avoid being disqualified from the online sweepstakes.
Sweepstakes are popular tools for businesses, marketers, and agencies to build customer loyalty and collect valuable demographic information about potential consumers.
Most people love the excitement and adrenalin of winning a competition. They enter many sweepstakes to have much more and bigger chances of winning and keep track of all the competitions they have entered. However, to avoid disappointment, entrants should always ensure that they are eligible to enter the online sweepstakes. They should also ensure that they follow all the rules to avoid being disqualified from the online sweepstakes.
2008-10-26
Sweepstakes Information for Beginners
I guess there are many people think of entering sweepstakes, but they don’t have a clear idea about it.
Here are some general information about the contests and sweepstakes.
Sweepstakes are prize giveaways where the winners are chosen by chance. Prizes may be from stickers and t-shirts to houses, cars, and enormous cash wins.
Contests, on the other hand, draw a winner based on some merit. The person with most beautiful photograph, tastiest recipe, the funniest pick-up line, most moving essay, or whatever will be chosen as the winner. Lotteries are prize drawings where people must pay money to buy a chance to win. Lotteries are highly regulated. Generally speaking, only those run by the government is leagal.
Here are some general information about the contests and sweepstakes.
Sweepstakes are prize giveaways where the winners are chosen by chance. Prizes may be from stickers and t-shirts to houses, cars, and enormous cash wins.
Contests, on the other hand, draw a winner based on some merit. The person with most beautiful photograph, tastiest recipe, the funniest pick-up line, most moving essay, or whatever will be chosen as the winner. Lotteries are prize drawings where people must pay money to buy a chance to win. Lotteries are highly regulated. Generally speaking, only those run by the government is leagal.
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