It seems that the many complaints sent to the Competition Bureau did nothing. Club Season Canada is running their “contest” again, offering a free vacation a year for the next 10 years as the prize.
BE AWARE! This company sells timeshares. They legally do give away the prize. However, there is a catch. You must pay the annual maintenance fee, which by my last calculation added up into the thousands.
In my opinion, it is not worth your time entering. There are hundreds of wonderful contests out there. Go enter those.
To review, read my last two posts on Club Season Canada:
Earlier this week I wrote about how I helped Wendy win a house by recommending she learn from Helene Hadsell, “the woman who won every contest she entered” and author of The Name It & Claim It Game.
Well, since I like to multi-task, I play motivational CDs, MP3s and videos while I work. Since Aprile and I share an office, she is subjected to all the wonderful inspirational and motivational messages. Of course, one of my favourites to listen to is Helene Hadsell’s program.
Aprile took all of Helene’s teachings to heart, followed her SPEC (Select, Project, Expect and Collect) method to heart, and today she won a trip for two to Jamaica from EZ Rock 97.3 FM.
Aprile told me how she decided she to Select a trip to win:
This year is our 5th anniversary and I was hoping to win us a romantic trip for two. One morning while listening to EZ Rock, they announced they were giving away a trip a day. I thought to myself, “This will be an easy contest to win.” When I got to the office, I went on my laptop, read the rules, and took the picture of the resort from the EZ rock website and made it my wallpaper so I could Project plus envision Barry and I poolside with fru fru drinks. I made sure I was up in time every morning to hear when the cue to qualify would be that day. Three days went by and I did not qualify, but I knew I was going to win. Thursday I qualified. When I hung up the phone, I said to Carolyn, “They are going to call me back.” I Expected to win. And they did!
Months ago Wendy emailed me. She required my help and encouragement. A pair of radio stations in her city had teamed up to give away a house. They were taking 700 qualifiers for a key-turn competition and Wendy had qualified. She was on disability and her husband was unemployed. She was desperate to win the house as it would change their lives, their fortune.
I told her to banish desperation from her mind as it would only push her desire away from her. I told Wendy to listen to the interview I did with Helene, take her advice, and go win her house.
This is the email I just got from Wendy:
Hello,
I just wanted to follow-up on my email to you. You may remember I qualified on the radio through our two local radio stations; Rock 95 and 107.5 Kool FM. 700 contestants, over approximately four months qualified for a chance to turn a key to the house. On Friday May 8th, we attended the Gala Party, where upon entry you deposited your ballot with assigned number into a drum. Throughout the evening there were thirty numbers selected. Mine came up in second to last group of five. All thirty of us came to stage where thirty actual keys were in a fish bowl. You would pick a key from the bowl and try to open the door. Twenty-one people before me were unsuccessful. I chose the key that opened the door to a $250.000.00 home.
2 DAYS PRIOR TO THIS EVENT YOU SENT ME THE LINK TO HELEN HADSELL I LISTENED,…..I SELECTED, PROJECTED, EXPECTED AND COLLECTED. Is it a coincidence? This is my biggest win so far. Like the words in Elton Johns’ song SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT. I am on disability and with my husband out of work, we just had signed the papers to re-mortgage our current home to pay off debts. We were able to cancel the re-mortgage because of this wonderful event, and that is my story. THANK YOU!
I feel my purpose is to teach others how to bring more fun, excitement (and even prizes) into their everyday lives. I am so glad I was able to help Wendy do just that.
If you want to know more about Helene Hadsell, and her winning techniques you can:
Coca Cola Tells $10,000 Winner He Did Not Win; Gives Him $500 Instead
A Connecticut limo driver with six kids was thrilled to discover he had won $10,000 in scholarship funds in a new Coca Cola sweepstakes. He even got a message from Coke congratulating him on his win. Read balance of blog post…
This is exactly why I want to consult with even more companies in advance of a sweepstakes launch. If you, as a marketer, know your client’s products are going to be on store shelves before the launch date of the promotion, then your live testing must be done before the product ships. It’s poor marketing to anger your client’s loyal cutomers and generate negative media.
So, are you going to enter the Twist & Text Sweepstakes? It’s open to the US and ends January 31, 2010.
It was so nice to sleep in. (When I say sleep in, I mean 8am. I have a 7-year-old.) After doing my morning exercises (yes, I even packed my wrist weights) I got ready for the day. I then had tea, an apple and potato chips for breakfast (Hey, you gotta support the sponsor!) while I sat at my computer catching up on my contesting. (My husband Craig can sleep through anything.)
When he got up we we thought we would go our for brunch only to discover it was pouring rain out. (When did it start raining? The sun was out when I was exercising.) So after a eating in the hotel restaurant, we went back to our room. I continued to drink tea and enter contests. After a few hours I said, “I wonder what time that game starts tonight?” I pulled the tickets out of my purse. They were marked 16:30. I looked at the clock. It was 4:15pm. “Holy Cow! The game starts in 15 minutes. Let’s go!!” Thankfully, there was a courtesy shuttle car available. We only missed 2 minutes of the game.
We weren’t in our seats one minute before Windsor scored against Kelowna. Pregame, Craig was sure Kelowna was going to win against whoever won Friday’s semi-final game.
Kelowna managed to get in one goal before they finally lost 4-1. “That’s why they play the game.” ~ Chris “Boomer” Berman
We got the courtesy shuttle to drop us off downtown and we went looking for a restaurant for dinner. Our first choice turned out not to be open on Sunday’s. However, we got lucky and found a really funky little spot, Le Bien, Le Malt. It was empty because it was the first Sunday of the season it was open. We had drinks, snack plates and played Mille Bornes. It was so relaxing. It was like hanging out at home. The perfect end to a perfect weekend.
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