In Other News
We are gathering articles of interest. They are archived by their published date. Articles featuring Carolyn, or The Contest Queen can be found here. All articles are in Adobe PDF format, unless otherwise noted.
| 2011.09.12 | Is Your Facebook contest illegal? By Kristen Squires ClearRiver Advertising & Marketing account service representative |
| 2011.09.12 | With online contests, walk a fine line Part Three: Online Contests by Ivor Tossell, Special to Globe and Mail Update |
| 2010.09.05 | Rules for running an online contest Part Two: Online Contests by Ivor Tossell, Special to Globe and Mail Update |
| 2011.08.29 | Want to Rope in customers? Run an online contest Part One: Online Contests by Ivor Tossell, Special to Globe and Mail Update |
| 2010.08.16 | And the Winner Is… You Entrepreneurs find that contests can be a great way to boost their business by Louise Lee, The Wall Street Journal |
| 2010.07.26 | Contest junkie turns party host by Debbie Bruce, Mississauga.com |
| 2009.10.07 | How Monty Hall made a deal with fame by Martin Knelman, TheStar.com |
| 2009.10.02 | City senior wins car in national contest by W.Brice McVicar, The Intelligencer |
| 2009.09.27 | What to be a winner? Here’s how by Rose Panieri, The Herald News |
| 2009.09.19 | Contest glitch puts Future Shop on hot seat by Ellen Roseman |
| 2009.08.06 | Controversy Cubed Nissan’s groundbreaking Cube launch illustrates how, in the age of social media, following the letter of the contest law isn’t enough by Matt Semansky, Marketing Magazine |
| 2008.12.01 | Contestants spend 55 days in truck by The Associated Press |
| 2008.11.14 | Contest Queen wins big by Kirsten McIntyre, NEWS 9 |
| 2008.10.11 | Nashua man finds 10,000 reasons to answer the door by Albert McKeon Staff Writer, Nashua Telegraph |
| 2008.09.28 | A winning ‘red’ carpet moment by Kevin Cowherd, baltimoresun.com |
| 2008.09.24 | The stuff of winning contests by Traci Rader, Times Correspondent |
| 2008.09.10 | ‘Sweepers’ clean up You can too, they say, in ever-more-popular sweepstakes. But bagging the big win takes work. by Natalie Pompilio, for The Inquirer |
| 2008.08.28 | Family wins sweepstakes that nearly went unclaimed Notifications thought to simply be junk e-mail by Tim Gelles, Gazette.Net Maryland Community Newspapers Online |
| 2008.08.06 | Easy money, but hard living More people drawn to contests and sweepstakes as economic times get tough, but winners find prizes come at a price by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune correspondent |
| 2008.05.27 | Scam artists play ‘dialing for dollars’ by Lawrence Walsh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| 2008.05.24 | Bad Marketing takes contest users aback by James Daw, TheStar.com |
| 2008.03.08 | Sweepstakes Addicts Win Big! ’Sweepers’ Treat Entering Contests Like A Job And Have The Rewards To Show For It by Ron Claiborne and Michael Milberger |
| 2008.02.28 | Local woman wins sweepstakes by Jason Smith, The Facts.com |
| 2008.02.13 | Win a free divorce at W.Va. radio station Canoe Network, cnews |
| 2008.02.07 | Winner Takes All Inside the prize-filled trophy home of a seemingly obsessive compulsive contest enterer by Caitlin E. Curran, The Phoenix |
| 2008.01.30 | Local woman wins truck through online sweepstakes by Kelly Young, Your Jacksonville Daily Progress |
| 2008.01.27 | Donna wins the luckiest job on earth by Lana Verco, The Sydney Morning Herald |
| 2007.10.00 | Do you suffer from bad luck? by Adrian Savage |
| 2007.09.23 | Contest winner: It’s more about persistence than luck by Susan Gilmore, Seattle Times staff reporter |
| 2007.09.02 | Winners have a stake in dozens of contests by Paula Lloyd, McClatchy Newspapers |
| 2007.07.14 | Raffle ticket sales champs have lucky edge by Hillary Wundrow, Daily News staff writer |
| 2007.06.23 | Yo, ho ho! Local company goes after ‘Pirates’ deal Burlingame’s Limbo 41414 plans text messaging contest with movie, book tie-ins by Aaron Kinney, InsideBayArea.com |
| 2007.06.21 | Weltys get traveling call Internet contest sends family to Cleveland by Nathan Lindquist, The Register-Mail |
| 2007.06.12 | Want to win big? Talk to Rosemary by Joan Ransberry, Staff Writer — yorkregion.com |
| 2007.05.17 | Author Terry Ryan, 60 dies in San Francisco Home Terry Ryan, author of the bestselling book, “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less,” died Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 60. |
| 2007.03.18 | The Secret life of self-help books Ask. Believe. Receive. Or not… by Murray Whyte/Toronto Star |
| 2007.02.00 | Want to win $10,000 a year? With enough persistence, you don’t need luck |
| 2006.12.00 | Get Lucky! by Susanne Ruder From the December 2006 issue of PROFIT magazine. |
| 2006.11.26 | ‘The Secret’ to Success? Hit Internet Movie Claims to Reveal Centuries-Old Secret to Getting What You Want in Life by Frank Mastropolo |
| 2006.08.29 | Gimme, gimme gets They’ve got it, you want it, here’s how to get it all for free |
| 2006.08.23 | Choose winning way with all 10 digits in one system It’s a three-digit maximum-effort boxing system that uses all 10 of the possible digits and should only be used when conditions are right. |
| 2006.08.18 | Hollywood, the I.R.S. Is Watching Hollywood celebrities who show up at awards ceremonies and leave with armloads of booty can expect one more item with their gift baskets: a tax form. |
| 2006.03.08 | Rim-rolling girls fight for prize Found cup leads to spat over vehicle |
| 2006.03.07 | Roll up rim to win without a coffee If the Roll Up The Rim To Win contest at Tim Hortons has become a Canadian spring ritual, then surely the number of people expected to cop free cups to play is a national shame. |
| 2006.02.22 | Eight share $365M US lottery win Eight lottery players in the US have shared $365M (£210m) jackpot — the biggest win in the game’s history. |
| 2005.12.22 | Catalan town blessed with massive wins in lottery Christmas lottery, showering $612 million US in winnings on a town with the bite-size name of Vic. |
| 2005.10.29 | Slow payout OK by kicker Gets $25Gs a year over 40 years |
| 2005.10.27 | $1 million kick Toronto — Brian Diesbourg made the kick that mattered Thursday night. |
| 2005.10.20 | Constant contestants A new breed of enter-to-win enthusiasts are answering all the skill-testing questions they can in order to win big. |
| 2005.06.18 | The burning issue of Quebec’s exclusion from North American contests Void in Puerto Rico, Quebec and New York. This legal small print appears on all almost 90% of North American sweepstakes and contests. |
| 1940.10.21 | Contestor’s Holiday Into Manhattan last week trooped 221 delegates to the National Contesters’ Association’s fourth annual convention. |