Top 5 Competitions - it's all about the ££££

I've just been doing some analysis on which of our competitions are the most popular.

We try to ensure our new prizes featured on the site are the kind of prizes you want to win most, and I thought I'd share the results with you:

In Aug 08 - W4n's favourite competitions were:
1. Win £2000 cash
2. Win £500 cash
3. Win Hong Kong flight tickets
4. Win £2000 supermarket vouchers
5. Win a Debenhams £200 gift voucher

So loyal compers, doe's this mean you want more cash prizes rather than products?

Extra Competition Clues For Fun4now - Goe's Live

Wahoo! The Fun4now clues feature is now live on Win4now.

This means that you can increase your odd's of winning Fun4now competitions by checking if your on the right lines before submitting your answers.

All you need to do is login and answer a question to see a clue. Remember to make a note of it though as it will disappear once you've logged out.

We'll start with one clue a month but we may well change this if you want more help and offer weekly hints. (put comments on here - we listen to all our members) You'll find out first if we change the frequency here.

We hope you enjoy the new clues pages and happy competition entering!

Do people really win competitions?

Yes! Real people do really win competitions!

However I can totally understand how people can be sceptical and I can relate to your frustrations.

On a personal note, for about 2 years now I've entered the same monthly competition on a furniture website to win £100 vouchers for that store, and for about 4 years I've entered the monthly competitions on an extreme sports site.
I still haven't won!

BUT every month other lucky peoples names are listed on the sites to have won the goodies. I know they are real because I've even seen their names on different forums bragging how happy they are to have won such cool prizes. I think you'll agree, it's lovely to see other peoples enjoyment. So I can't stay miffed for long.

I keep entering prize draws, as every good compers knows that people really DO win competitions online, you just need patience and to understand that you can't win everything! (riddle time) Because then everyone BUT YOU would be asking the same question! (do people really win competitions?)

PS. Boss if your reading this err, I keep entering other companies competitions during work time for research purposes.... honest ;)

Personalized Prizes & Rob's back from his adventures

Rob's back from his 2 weeks holiday walking & camping along the coast of Devon & Cornwall. It was wet & windy, but he has been furnishing us with funny stories all morning.

The Dmri Group is doing so well across all of our websites, that we are expanding fast and pouring more and more cash into buying more prizes for you to win!
It's not long now until it's 'meet the marketing team part 5'. We have a new starter joining us in October who will be writing up new competitions for Win4now, Instantwin4now, Voiceinacrowd & Opinioniser sites.

So if you have any ideas of what prizes you'd like to enter, write some comments here (model number, price & link to product on another site) and we'll see if we can make a prize especially for you. Talk about personalized prizes 4 now! (ooo that's an idea....)

One last thing, did you know that on Win4now there is a links page?
Get in touch with us ( ask for Adele ) to discuss swapping links if you have a website that you think our competition members would enjoy.

ps. Have you entered the new Wacky Win4now Prizedraws yet?

Meet the marketing team part 4

Meet Vicky! Our new affiliate marketing team member. Vicky wrote this to introduce herself to you:

"I think it’s only right that I tell you about my obsession with food as you will probably find out soon enough that I enjoy pretty much all aspects of food. When I am not working I am usually watching cooking shows, reading cookery books or just thinking about food in general. I do try and cook from time to time but would much rather eat food that other people have made and as I only have a camping stove at the moment (we are in the process of having a new kitchen fitted) it can be quite difficult if not challenging!

I have just recently bought a new house and moved to the Sheffield area, hence the new kitchen, so the rest of my spare time is primarily taken up with DIY pretty much or just socializing with friends over a glass of wine.

I am really looking forward to starting my new role within DMRI and have thoroughly enjoyed my time so far."

So young, so naive..... I wonder how long it will take before we crack her ;) hehe


Also today; Going, Going live!

Check out Wacky Win4now & Win4now's Competitions Tips Pages.
Awww look at this little doggy in it's coat. Just one of the Wacky competition prizes you could win our new feature!

We'd love to hear your thoughts on what you think about the new features and if you have any further recommendations to what you'd like to see on Win4now.

Win a breadmaker, irons, grills, icecream makers & more!

Why is it that when an electrical appliance breaks shortly after, another few break as well?!

This weekend saw the last dance of my faithful BaByliss hairdryer & our hand-me-down Dyson Hoover! So off to Argos I went to buy some cheap replacements products.
My new hairdryer is so far doing a good job of making my hair sleek & shiny, but jeez the bag less hoover is a mistake! You need to have Popeye muscles to just push it along it's so powerful!

So as bad luck always comes in 3's, I'm now waiting for the next explosion....

Win4now has a few cool electrical competitions currently live on the site, like this:
Win a Steam Simac Iron competition
or this Win a selection of Kitchen Gadgets including; a Panasonic Bread Maker, Magimix Le Micro Mini Chopper, George Foreman Grill & Magimix Ice Cream Maker.
I can highly recommend that you get (or even better win!) a bread maker, we use ours quite a bit for bread and making pizza dough. You can even freeze it if your not going to eat it in time.

Wacky Win4now Employee's

It's Friday afternoon, raining so hard were worried it's going to flood again, and everyone's going slightly mad in the office.

We've now had about 20 silly emails from the staff after this simple group email was sent. "Can we have a Tea Spoon amnesty as we have only one Tea Spoon in the kitchen."

Here's a few crazy snippets:

"I once remember, I had a teaspoon on my desk… It was brusk and chill morn way back in November, where shafts of sunlight would occasion, break through the skies hangin o’er’ed, and dance across the tree shadows cast onto the car park. I remarked to my colleague at the time, I think it was Oliver, but it may have Rudyard Kipling, that my zealous guarding love of the said shiny could cause a rankling amongst my colleagues, who were erstwhile seeking an implement with which to stir their hot beverages and measure in sweet demerara. Hot sweet sugar to dissolve into their cradled dreams and carry them onward through the day. Alas for spoons, zootikins… etc"

"Dear Randall, Kieran and to whom it may concern. As chance would have it, I was driving into work today when I noticed a figure, loitering at the work gates. Through the mist, he beckoned to me and I wound my window down. He explained that he was a travelling cutlery salesperson – “Gobblin-irons Inc and had a selection of fine silverware up for grabs. On enquiring further, he opened his coat to reveal no fewer than 17 teaspoons for the special price of £11.24 or a date with Kath in reception. Obviously I baulked at such a suggestion and sent him on his way.
Beware the tinker!!!!"

Are other offices like ours on a Friday?

Anyway here's a Sneaky Wacky Win4now Prize Preview!
I've just made 2 new competitions ready to start next week and quite sadly I've been chuckling to myself whilst researching the prizes. Can you believe that people sell pet dog all-in-one trouser suits?! .....

Have a lovely weekend, think like a duck and you'll be reet.

New Fun4now Quiz

September marks the start to our new Fun4now competition Guess Who, which has replaced the famous landmark quiz.

We'll give you a few clues about the person and the picture will signify if they are male or female.
BUT NOTE the silhouette picture isn't actually the person so don't worry if it doesn't look like the person you think it is!

All you need to do is guess correctly who it is and you could win a prize!

The Guess Who person could be anyone from; film stars, politicians, scientists, musicians etc, and be from any era in our human history!

I hope you enjoy our new feature.

Here's a sneaky clue to this months Win4now's 'Guess Who' quiz:
He has famously stated that he hates his feet. (he's still perfect in my eyes.... drool)

Red squirrels, wasps, wind & new prizes

I'm back from my adventures! And boy what an exciting time I've had.

Day 1 my boyfriend broke a rib after crashing his mountain bike chasing me ( i'm too fast for him! ) then we didn't think we'd make it through the night it was so windy; sure enough in the morning the tent pole had snapped!
So day 2 we slept in a shed (he treats me well doesn't he?!), day 3 onwards we stayed at an amazing camp site that has wigwams, red squirrels, free hot tubs & saunas, high wires & rope courses. It was like the Ewok scene from Star Wars (but alas without the Ewoks)

The only problem camping there was how every morning wasps would come into the tent and buzz around.. ( I'm petrified of them and just shivered scared in my sleeping bag praying they wouldn't evolve to figure out how to unzip the sleeping compartment )

Anyway, enough about me, lets talk about what's new on Win4now in September! Loads of new prize draws have opened today.

Here's a few new free entry holiday prize draws that you can get started on:

Win Flights to Dublin competition ( Don't worry they are return flights and we'll also give you £250 spending money as it's quite expensive in the city )

Win A mini break of your choice (worth £600) competition ( you could stay in a wigwam at the Scottish camp site like I did....)

Win a York Weekend break competition (I'd love to go to York, great shopping & museums)

I'll give September's first Fun4now clues later in the week, so come back soon.