When it comes to offering hints and tips about comping we usually go for the obvious one – “enter competitions and prize draws” – as after all if you’re not in then you can’t win. After that it’s simply a case of you deciding how many or how few you wish to enter and what type of competitions you may prefer. Some folk like the do them all approach whilst others are more selective and target creative entries. Below are some blogs containing plenty of pearls of comping wisdom. For more you might wish to review our comping guide.
I first started taking an interest in competitions in 1997. Back then the only books I remember being available on “how to win competitions” were all about tiebreakers. Fast forward to 2015 and a quick
If you read comping forums and social media, it’s generally regarded that winning prizes has got a lot harder. On top of that the quality of prizes is perhaps not as good as it was.
Facebook has played a massive role in changing how competitions work online. However, one thing they’ve not been good at it stopping fake competitions manifesting themselves across the network. Most regular compers will probably already
The comping community is all a buzz at the moment with regards to the latest newspaper articles to feature a successful comper. As ever the headlines scream out the amounts won and the number of
Last week an article appeared on Reddit titled “The Daily Telegraph rig their competitions to be won by friends/contributors”. In the article the author, telegraphpolygraph, outlined how they believe that prizes from a recent Men
The comping world has been relatively quiet of late, but Facebook have just changed all that with a shock announcement. After months of insisting that brand pages run competitions through third party apps, the social
It’s probably wrong for a competition site that couldn’t continue to make the ‘free model’ work as we’d have liked to commentate on subscription services. However, one of the aims of Loquax back in the
Over the years we’ve seen a lot of competitions, contests and prize draws – for the most part they’re fine and we’re happy to tell our users about them. However more and more we’re seeing
As The Olympics are about to kick off we thought we’d have a bit of fun on the blog and come up with some comper categories. Basically we’ve picked some of the events taking place