Exchanging Time For Products
July 2, 2008 – 10:48 am|
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We’re celebrating today. Our recent article on how to make money using video has won the very prize we told you about - yes we’ve won a video camera, courtesy of Click Consultants.
Which leads me onto the point of this article…
It took probably an hour of so from beginning to end to understand what they were looking for in a winner, then writing, editing and submitting the article. But we won.
So in essence we exchanged an hour of our time for a camcorder, which doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, does it?
If you look into competitions online you’ll find there are a whole host of them around from winning the most random things (like someone I know who won a years supply of Oasis drink!) to BMW cars and more. It’s all available if you’re willing to put the time in.
I’m not a heavy competition-enterer myself, so I couldn’t tell you where your chances of success are greatest, but if you’re spending plenty of time at home because you have children, or you’re ill in bed, or you just have one of those jobs where you can spend plenty of time online and you don’t want to get into actually setting up an online business with all the effort it involves, you might want to consider entering some competitions to see what you’ll win.
I have entered probably 10-15 competitions in the last month and won 2 of them so while I don’t have a huge amount of data to go on, the key *seems* to be to find competitions with few entries and that require some effort to enter.
An example of a bad competition to enter would be one on a popular website like MSN that receives hundreds of thousands of visits each day, and to enter all you have to do is type your email address into a bix and click the button.
Too many people, too easy. That means your odds of willing will be slim to none. And the prize is likely pretty small.
Better to find a new website, product or blog that is looking to get noticed, and so decides to run a competition where you have to take a photo, write an article, make up a poem etc. Something creative that will cost you nothing to do, but is enough to scare off 90% of the competition.
Good luck - and let me know if you win anything 
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