Yesterday I got a Jordons muesli sample through the post. To be honest I don't even remember asking for it, but it had a nicely written letter enclosed that explained I'd requested the sample and they have even included a 50p off token if I decide I like the cereal and buy myself a box.
Great I thought! I love freebies.
Now this got me wondering, what's the point in free samples? Will I actually buy the Jordon's cereal now rather than my Tesco's own brand? The answer for me will be yes; if I like the taste, if it's as healthy as my current brand and the most important factor for me (being a skin flint) - is it as cheap? If they can satisfy these 3 factors, they will have themselves a new customer.
Why do companies do it? Well free samples are a great tool to spread their brand and new product as long as they're confident it should increase sales, as people were so happy with the free sample. (There is a negative risk though - if it's rubbish, it can have a worse effect on the brand, than if not letting so many people know about their product!)
I think that free product samples are fantastic for us the customers. It's a win-win situation.
Thank you Jordon's, and all the other companies who give us consumers something for nothing. :)
Win4now currently has quite a few free sample offers ( look underneath the competitions for our partners offers. ) We will soon have a special free offers section for you, so that you can easily spot the freebies from our other promotions.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Offers underneath the competitions.
On Win4now underneath every competition there are 3 offers or questions about yourself that we have hand picked for you personally.
All you have to do is say yes please or no thanks to these to enter the prize draws. Hopefully you'll say yes to a few that you think are good deals.
Today, I want to talk about my personal favourite 5 offers that are currently active on the site.
1. Cheapflights - A simple newsletter join up. Easy and it means that you get to hear about their latest special offers and cheap flight prices first.
2. 02 - This mobile company are offering you free sim cards if you join them. (You can get up to 4.)
3. Intrepid travel - Another simple newsletter sign up, which means you are kept up to date with Intrepids latest adventure holidays. They are currently sponsoring the Adventure holiday to China competition. Emma from our office actually took a few months off work to go travelling with them and had the time of her life! Very cool company.
4. Consumer Information Centre - free brochures sent to your home (so you don't get weighed down when your in town!) loads to choose from and completely free.
5. Instantwin4now - This is another one of our sites that I think every Win4now member should join up to. It's just like Win4now in that it's free to join and enter the competitions, the main difference is that you have to select 3 numbers and if they match the winning combination then you win the prize instantly! You get 50 entries per day and theres 100's of prizes to enter. Well what are you waiting for? Join Instantwin4now today :)
Check these out next time your on Win4now. Don't be scared to tick yes please, these are genuine companies. We won't allow dodgy offers on Win4now.
All you have to do is say yes please or no thanks to these to enter the prize draws. Hopefully you'll say yes to a few that you think are good deals.
Today, I want to talk about my personal favourite 5 offers that are currently active on the site.
1. Cheapflights - A simple newsletter join up. Easy and it means that you get to hear about their latest special offers and cheap flight prices first.
2. 02 - This mobile company are offering you free sim cards if you join them. (You can get up to 4.)
3. Intrepid travel - Another simple newsletter sign up, which means you are kept up to date with Intrepids latest adventure holidays. They are currently sponsoring the Adventure holiday to China competition. Emma from our office actually took a few months off work to go travelling with them and had the time of her life! Very cool company.
4. Consumer Information Centre - free brochures sent to your home (so you don't get weighed down when your in town!) loads to choose from and completely free.
5. Instantwin4now - This is another one of our sites that I think every Win4now member should join up to. It's just like Win4now in that it's free to join and enter the competitions, the main difference is that you have to select 3 numbers and if they match the winning combination then you win the prize instantly! You get 50 entries per day and theres 100's of prizes to enter. Well what are you waiting for? Join Instantwin4now today :)
Check these out next time your on Win4now. Don't be scared to tick yes please, these are genuine companies. We won't allow dodgy offers on Win4now.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Unusual Thrifty Tips
I don't know about you, but I'm sick of hearing the word credit crunch and economic downfall!
Entering competitions and winning free stuff is a easy & free option that you should already be doing on a daily basis if your even reading this blog. But what about being thrifty in the more unconventional ways?
I asked a few people from Win4now to give me their top 3 money saving tips - what they actually do themselves not what we should do....
Here are our personal thrifty tips:
Rob uses free moisturiser samples and makes sandwiches in the morning rather than buying them every day for lunch. He also uses Deezer to listen to music ("never buy another cd!" he says!) and rides or runs to work to save money on fuel (an extra bonus to this is, if you can have a shower at work it saves your own electricity bill as it reduces the number of showers you take at home!).
Adele uses hot water bottles instead of leaving the heating on at night, brews her own beer and bakes her own bread.
Gemma keeps the same hairstyle for two months - this saves her £40 a month! She also goes to her mum's for tea and gets lifts to work so that she doesn’t have to pay bus fare.
Patrick keeps his heating on all the time but at a low rate and turns it up when entering the room.
Kerry says she shops at 'Primarni' (Primark) and warns everyone not to have children because they cost too much!
Graeme says that you shouldn't fully fill your car up with petrol at the garage as, when you only put a tenner in, you're saving money due to the extra weight loss thus improving mileage. Take out anything in your car that does not need to be there (grannies in the boot, sledgehammer on the roof etc) to make the car lighter, once again saving petrol.
Steve says he freezes his credit card in a bowl of water in the freezer (It doesn't damage it) and leaves it there. That way you don't make any rash purchases and will have to think before you use it (and it'll probably taste a lot less like plastic than the vegetarian bacon that someone left behind after the BBQ in the summer).
He also says once you break into a note (currency), put all the coins in a jar. That way you will always have money at the end of the month and, if you are like me, you make full use of every note you break into.
Annette turns up at parties with a bottle of Lambrini - then just drinks everybody else's nice expensive wine. (I don’t do this but I notice lots of other people do….)
Ruth cooks on residual heat, does menu plans and then writes shopping list to avoid food wastage.
Carryn says it's good to do your grocery shopping online if you can – make a list and stick to it. You’re less likely to impulse buy if you have to search through pages and pages of offers! Make use of club card points, especially when buying petrol/diesel – we often get vouchers through saving us loads of money.
Start a £1 jar – every time you have a pound in your pocket – put it in the jar. It’s amazing how you never miss a £1 and even more amazing how quickly it adds up so you can use it to pay something off!
Helen says she has a thermostat on the radiator in each room so that you can heat the room you are in without having to heat the whole house.
Also instead of buying compost make your own with a compost bin. But don’t buy one from a garden centre or DIY store - contact Recycle Now who work with your local council to sell a variety of home composters cheap and deliver them to your house at no extra charge.
There you have it, money saving tips from the Win4now staff themselves! ( We can't guarantee any of these tips will save you money, these are just the things that we do. )
Entering competitions and winning free stuff is a easy & free option that you should already be doing on a daily basis if your even reading this blog. But what about being thrifty in the more unconventional ways?
I asked a few people from Win4now to give me their top 3 money saving tips - what they actually do themselves not what we should do....
Here are our personal thrifty tips:
Rob uses free moisturiser samples and makes sandwiches in the morning rather than buying them every day for lunch. He also uses Deezer to listen to music ("never buy another cd!" he says!) and rides or runs to work to save money on fuel (an extra bonus to this is, if you can have a shower at work it saves your own electricity bill as it reduces the number of showers you take at home!).
Adele uses hot water bottles instead of leaving the heating on at night, brews her own beer and bakes her own bread.
Gemma keeps the same hairstyle for two months - this saves her £40 a month! She also goes to her mum's for tea and gets lifts to work so that she doesn’t have to pay bus fare.
Patrick keeps his heating on all the time but at a low rate and turns it up when entering the room.
Kerry says she shops at 'Primarni' (Primark) and warns everyone not to have children because they cost too much!
Graeme says that you shouldn't fully fill your car up with petrol at the garage as, when you only put a tenner in, you're saving money due to the extra weight loss thus improving mileage. Take out anything in your car that does not need to be there (grannies in the boot, sledgehammer on the roof etc) to make the car lighter, once again saving petrol.
Steve says he freezes his credit card in a bowl of water in the freezer (It doesn't damage it) and leaves it there. That way you don't make any rash purchases and will have to think before you use it (and it'll probably taste a lot less like plastic than the vegetarian bacon that someone left behind after the BBQ in the summer).
He also says once you break into a note (currency), put all the coins in a jar. That way you will always have money at the end of the month and, if you are like me, you make full use of every note you break into.
Annette turns up at parties with a bottle of Lambrini - then just drinks everybody else's nice expensive wine. (I don’t do this but I notice lots of other people do….)
Ruth cooks on residual heat, does menu plans and then writes shopping list to avoid food wastage.
Carryn says it's good to do your grocery shopping online if you can – make a list and stick to it. You’re less likely to impulse buy if you have to search through pages and pages of offers! Make use of club card points, especially when buying petrol/diesel – we often get vouchers through saving us loads of money.
Start a £1 jar – every time you have a pound in your pocket – put it in the jar. It’s amazing how you never miss a £1 and even more amazing how quickly it adds up so you can use it to pay something off!
Helen says she has a thermostat on the radiator in each room so that you can heat the room you are in without having to heat the whole house.
Also instead of buying compost make your own with a compost bin. But don’t buy one from a garden centre or DIY store - contact Recycle Now who work with your local council to sell a variety of home composters cheap and deliver them to your house at no extra charge.
There you have it, money saving tips from the Win4now staff themselves! ( We can't guarantee any of these tips will save you money, these are just the things that we do. )
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Big Christmas Giveaway
Here's some news for avid compers from Rob at Smartspend...
There is over £50,000 worth of prizes to be won in SmartSpend’s Big Christmas Giveaway including £10,000 cash, gadgets, games, furniture and days out!
You’ll be pleased to know that you can get even more entries (we’re talking thousands here) simply by using SmartSpend or by completing selected online questionnaires.
Get over to the Big Christmas Giveaway to find out more about how you can win.
Extra Fun4now mystery image clue:
Go to this Wiki page for your Charity event clue.
There is over £50,000 worth of prizes to be won in SmartSpend’s Big Christmas Giveaway including £10,000 cash, gadgets, games, furniture and days out!
You’ll be pleased to know that you can get even more entries (we’re talking thousands here) simply by using SmartSpend or by completing selected online questionnaires.
Get over to the Big Christmas Giveaway to find out more about how you can win.
Extra Fun4now mystery image clue:
Go to this Wiki page for your Charity event clue.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Save Money On Christmas Presents
Winning stuff is an exciting surprize to any day and really cheers you up whatever you win (no matter how big or small.) You've got something for nothing!
When it's this close to Christmas and you have to spend so much more money than usual months; winning a free prize from a competition site is even more thrifty.
I've just counted the Win4now prizes that end before 24th December and there's 42 as of today!
That's 42 chances to win some Christmas presents for your friends and family! (or even yourself if you've been a good boy or girl this year)
Enter as many prize draws as you can from today until Christmas to increase your chances of saving yourself money. Good Luck!
When it's this close to Christmas and you have to spend so much more money than usual months; winning a free prize from a competition site is even more thrifty.
I've just counted the Win4now prizes that end before 24th December and there's 42 as of today!
That's 42 chances to win some Christmas presents for your friends and family! (or even yourself if you've been a good boy or girl this year)
Enter as many prize draws as you can from today until Christmas to increase your chances of saving yourself money. Good Luck!
Monday, November 03, 2008
More charity pink wearing win4now staff
Between us in the office we made over £100 to support the Breast Cancer charity, which is an excellent days work.
Pink Wearing Win4now Staff
On the 31st Of October the Win4now office dressed up in pink & made cakes to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Here's a picture of James in his pink tutu, looking fabulous.... or is that terrifying?
Hopefully later this week I'll have a scary picture of Kerry in a pink wig and dressing gown for you & Gemma in her masseuse outfit.
Congratulations to all the staff members for doing their bit for charity!
ps. the Fun4now mystery image charity competition clues will be coming on the blog shortly, so if you're struggling, come back soon for help.
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