It’s time to Get Up and Play with Fanta as they’ve launched their brand new competition offering 560 prizes, 10 a day for 56 days. The competition runs from 14th May to 8th July 2007 and the prize is described as “The Ultimate Games Room”! Fanta competitions have been very popular with compers, and with such a large number of great prizes on offer, it’s one you should try and enter every day! The prize includes a Nintendo Wii Console and a Samsung 26″ LCD TV, a cool mini fridge packed full of ‘Fanta’, ‘Sprite’ and ‘Dr Pepper’!
Even better, you can get free entry into the prize draw. Just send in your details and a code will be sent to you by mobile or email, so that you can enter the prize draw. You can enter once every day during the promotion. Codes are also available on “ringpulls on 330ml promotional cans or on the reverse of labels on 500ml and 2lt promotional bottles of ‘Fanta’ Orange, ‘Fanta’ Orange Zero, ‘Fanta’ Fruit Twist, ‘Fanta’ Icy Lemon, ‘Sprite’, ‘Sprite’ Zero, ‘Dr Pepper’ and ‘Dr Pepper’ Zero”.
All entries received up until midnight will go into that day’s draw. You may not know this, but Fanta are also giving away 1800 Nintendo DS Consoles. All you have to do is enter three times or more and you will be entered into a weekly prize draw. Good luck!
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How often do you read the rules or competition terms and conditions? How often do you check the site you’re visiting to learn about the site and who’s running the prize draw? Do you read the blurb before the competition or do you head straight for the entry form and send in your details and suggested answer if provided? You could be missing out on prizes by not taking a few minutes to do one or all of these steps!
This blog post is part inspired by a current discussion on Loquax forums - Maybe this is why I don’t win????? - and something that cropped up thanks to a subscription service sending user’s to Loquax’s Fight Climate Change site.
A week or two ago we noticed that people were registering on Fight Climate Change (FCC). Sadly, it wasn’t because they were interested in energy saving or being eco-friendly, they were visiting the site to try and win a car. The FCC site contained details of ITV’s current Toyota Prius competition at ITV Climate Change and a link to the site, but despite this people were registering with FCC, not going to ITV and entering the proper competition.
Even after we changed the details compers were still registering. Making it totally clear that they just weren’t reading what was in front of them! Had we not sent them an email and informed them of their error and pointed them in the right direction, they’d have no chance of winning the car!
This though is not the only example. Zoo Weekly now have a social network type blog site, but on their competitions it clearly states “email in your entry”, yet week in and week out people still post answers in reply to the original post. The same thing happens on other sites too including Lastminute’s Something for the Weekend blog (the forums). Compers are missing out on the prize draw simply because they don’t read the information in front of them!
Our advice to all compers is simple - take a few minutes to read!
1. Read the competition blurb, it can tell you about the prize on offer, may contain the answer to any competition question and may explain how to enter the competition.
2. Read the competition question and multi choice answers. Don’t rely on suggested answers as questions may be randomised, or different from day to day! If you’ve read the competition blurb you may already have the required answer in front of you.
3. Check for competition terms and conditions or rules! You may find the tiebreaker you’ve just spent an hour working on has been for nothing as the competition you’ve found closed in 2003. Don’t waste your time on out of date competitions! The rules may also explain any restrictions to entry, information about the prize or any conditions related to claiming the prize.
4. Look for the small print and opt in/out boxes! Remember competitions are run by promoters who may want your details for marketing purposes - make sure you’re not signing up for mobile clubs, book clubs, or accepting third party adverts and emails!
5. Look round the website! A lot of compers don’t do this and it’s something we advise you try and do - some prize draw landing pages don’t fully indicate the type of site you’re visiting. Not only is it a decent thing to do to get to know the promoter (after all they’re running the competition) but it may turn out the prize draw you’re entering is aimed at specific groups or ages! Looking round the site also gives you a feel for the type of company running the competition, and you may find more competitions or, as sometimes happens, that the website hasn’t been updated for months.
But won’t this take up precious comping time? Well, yes, but a few minutes taking your time to enter a few competitions properly is better than entering as many comps as you can, without knowing the sites you’re visiting and even getting disqualified because you’ve not entered the competition properly.
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Loquax recently sponsored two different events, CompEx 2007 and The Herts 24 Web Awards, and the winners have been now announced. Thanks to Anne Howe for letting us know that “CompEx 2007 was a great success again” and that “they raised £847.25 for Diabetes UK”!
The Loquax Eliminator Quiz as won by Sue Barker and Anne tells us that Sue was extremely pleased with her prize. Loquax donated £100 as the prize for this event and hopefully we’ll be asked again to take part next year.
Loquax also recently sponsored The Herts 24 Web Awards. We sponsored the Best Hobby / Pastime Website and also took part in the judging of all the categories. The winner of the Loquax sponsored section was Luton FC - a fan’s football site.
Amongst the other winners was Amazing World of Cuddly, a site that features the travels of a cuddly bear - which is a timely reminder that we should really try and get the duck holiday back on track!
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To celebrate the release of the forthcoming third instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, Volvo have launched a treasure hunt giving you the chance to win buried treasure, $50,000’s worth of gold doubloons, and a brand new Volvo XC90 car too. Take up the pirate challenge by registering at Volvo today and start solving the clues to help you deduce where the treasure is buried.
During the treasure hunt, you will need to make a trip to your local Volvo car dealership to collect a special pirate decoder as this is required for the quest - we’re not sure if the pirate code is the same for everyone on unique to each decoder. The competition closes on the 30th May and the first person in the UK to solve all the clues and submit the correct location of the hidden treasure will be entered into a worldwide final challenge on June 2nd to win the car and the gold.
It’s not going to be easy as there are 22 puzzles to solve (although Volvo are happy for participants to discuss the competition and there are discussions ongoing already on Loquax’s Forums) and even if you win the UK part of the competition you must then pit your wits against other winners from the 22 other countries participating in the promotion. However, with such a huge prize on offer it might be worth taking time to search for that buried treasure.
Last summer, Volvo held a similar treasure hunt to find a buried Volvo XC90 V8 to tie in with Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and according to the press release more than 100,000 participants from around the world joined in!
The Hunt 2007 Blog
Join the Hunt (UK)
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We recently signed up for MyOffers and Clash Club (ukprizedraws) to monitor the amount of email we receive from these companies. Over a month has passed since signing up and the surprise news is .. we haven’t received much from them!
Clash in the last month have sent 4 emails, whilst MyOffers have managed only 2 - one of which was a monthly newsletter and the other from Dialaphone (which we unsubscribed from and haven’t received anything else since). The number from MyOffers may be small as when we tested the site we only entered one prize draw - if you enter more, you’re probably going to get more marketing communications.
Why don’t we call it “spam”? Spam has become a term for just about any unwelcome email, however remember when you register for sites like MyOffers, Clash and even Loquax you’re optting in to receive email from them. If you unsubscribed from one of these sites, and still received offers and promotions, it would be unsolicited and therefore spam.
We’ll continue to monitor our emails and report back with any further findings.
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