Tom Wethern (aka Weth) and I are kindred souls. He and I are obsessed with entering contests and sweepstakes, enter mainly online, share our prizes and believe the hobby is a free form of gambling (which we both would be addicted to if it were not for the wonderful marketing efforts of corporations).
Check out Weth’s website as he not only shares his wins with friends and family, but the world-at-large. Some prizes he just gives away, but the rest require some effort on your part. You must write a limerick or a haiku in order to win.
If you have not yet seen The Last Mimzy, I highly recommend it. It premiered on TMN today (they also have great contests!) and we watched it as a family. WOW! I thought I was just going to watch a kid’s adventure movie. I really liked how they showed The Universe as one; past, present and future. Also, the Tibetan mandalas were really beautiful, playing an interesting role in the movie.
Carol Shaffer wrote a book in 2002 called Contest Queen. Her book focuses on mail-in and in-person sweepstakes. She was recently interviewed for KETC in St. Louis.
One question I am frequently asked is, how do I win so much. One contesting secret is, not only do I enter all the national promotions; I also enter a lot of local promotions offering smaller prizes. There are less people in the eligibility area and some people just don’t want to win anything less than a large Grand Prize. Your odds of winning are much higher.
Since I started entering on a daily basis, most of my wins have been smaller prizes with a large national prize won several times per year. It’s the small wins that keep you going in between the biggies!
Blogger-based sweepstakes and contest sites are being created at a rapid rate due to the ease of setting up a blog vs. a website. Visit the Resources section of my website for new blog links.
(NOTE: The Resources section of ContestQueen.com, and other areas of the site, will be revamped and updated once the American Edition of You Can’t Win If You Don’t Enter goes to printing. It is currently being edited.)
I was sent a link to this really interesting Law of Attraction tool today. It’s designed to test your manifesting IQ, Smart-Attractor.
When I took the test and I felt as if I was taking one of those quizzes you find in a women’s fashion magazine. You know, the quizzes with titles such as, “Does he satisfy you?” or “Is he the right mate for you?”.
The post-quiz report was quite extensive and gave me suggestions of books to read to help me in areas of manifesting the quiz determined I am weak in. Some of the titles were new to me and others I have already read. (Does that I mean I should reread them?)
Yesterday I happened to get a promotional contest card from Chapters Indigo, so I think I may go pick-up a recommended book or two, and be a winner in more ways than one.
Take the quiz. You never know what you may find out about yourself.
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