The leathal mix of free booze & close friendships

That's right, it's the work Christmas do season!

We had ours last night. Oh dear, it was messy; but fun!
Pictures to come soon hopefully.... (we had 3 camera spies in force)And there was lot's of drunken behaviour.

Today everyone in the office is very tender and slightly green looking. The office also has a slight odour of egg butties and stale beer.

How was yours? Did anyone do anything embarrassing?

3 more working days until our Christmas break, yay!

Car Competitions & Bulging Cupboards!

OMG you should see the amount of prizes we have in our office cupboards ready for the Christmas rush!

I'm practically green! You non win4now employee's are so lucky.(we can't win anything)

Myself, Lucy & Kerry have just been discussing which new car competitions we are going to run next year. Should we go for another Mini Cooper? a Focus? a Fiesta? a Mx5? or Win a Zonda... hehe just messing, we aren't that rich!

How cool would it be to Win a car online though!?! wow. You'd be stoked for years to come.

Quickly make sure you've entered our car prize draws on Win4now at the moment, because they end on the 31st of December.
Win a Toyota Yaris here
Win a Honda Civic Hybrid here
Win a convertible Peugeot 207 here

I haven't done all of my Christmas shopping yet, so I'm actually tempted to 'borrow' some prizes..... I'm sure no one would notice if I disappear for a few weeks and return with a tan :)

I can't afford to buy any Christmas presents

Oh yes you can! (full panto styleee)
Don't buy stuff, Win it!

That's right, enter Win4now's competitions and you still have time to win stuff for Christmas. No one needs to know that you didn't pay for the presents yourself.... we won't tell.

We've been busy little elves at Win4now to make sure that we have a great selection of Christmas prizes that you'd really want to win, so return the favour and enter as many competitions as you can.
Tell all your friends about the site and say yes to joining a few of our partners offers, because they help fund the competitions - without the special offers Win4now would not be alive today.

Give it a go, it won't cost you a penny to try. Join Win4now today.

Here's a few free entry Christmas competitions to get you started - click the word win:

Win £100 worth of luxury Christmas food here
Win 1 of 2 Ninetendo DS handhelds and games
Win a laptop so you can enter Win4now competitions anywhere!


ps. Thank you to everyone that has left comments after reading the blog, we're glad your enjoying it.

Free Instant Win's VS National Lottery Instant Win Games

This morning I received an email from the National Lottery to tell me my tickets had ran out. So I clicked on the link and re funded my account so that I had another 8 weeks worth of Lotto tickets. I'm old school because I only play Lotto and don't even do the extra dream number jazz.

Anyway I digress, the point is that I noticed after buying my tickets, I still had £3.50 left so I thought I'd give the instant win games a go. At £1 and £2 per game I decided to choose carefully which I wanted to play. (they were all very hi tech looking with interactive features and movie style graphics)

Well all I can say is that I lost my money within a few minutes!

It felt like a game, rather than actually handing over money. I know for sure if i'd have had to have handed over real money and play via a scratchcard that I would have stopped at 1 game. With these I had to really control myself from re funding my account again to play more games until I did win.
I'm not blaming the National Lottery at all, because they had numerous warning pages and security features to try and help; its just that there is something in your head that makes the whole experience not feel like your using real money.

I'm going to stick with free entry instant win games like our site Instantwin4now.

Pro's -
It's completely free to join and play
Loads of prizes and cash to win
You can instantly win
Con's -
Nothing worth more than £20k in prizes

Whereas the National Lottery:
Pro's -
Big cash prizes - life changing amounts
You can instantly win
Some of the money is donated to good causes
Con's -
It's NOT free, you have to pay to play
It's addictive and may lead to gambling problems

It doesn't take a genius to tell you which one's more cost effective! Free Competitions are ace.

Do you refer friends to competitions?

When I say 'refer friends' to competitions; I mean do you tell your friends the website url/link, forward email newsletters, tell them about it when you see them face to face or do you tell effectively strangers via comping forum communities?
After all it's a game of luck so why not share it out and see what fate decides?

Or do you prefer to increase your odd's (less people entering) and sneakily enter alone. Rubbing your hands together cackling away in your secret hide away? (Sorry I got carried away there.)

Would you be more likely to share good competitions with your friends if you had an incentive; like an extra entry into the competition, if the company makes a charity donation on your behalf or a small reward like a voucher code?

I would recommend that you start a little syndicate, where you all enter the same competitions sharing any new prize draws leads as you find them.
Then if any of your syndicate wins, you share the prizes between your group. You might need a contract between you or just good old fashioned honour & trust.

Power in numbers.

Most popular competitions in November

Top 5 competitions on Win4now in November were:

Win Argos Gift Vouchers
Win £300 in Cash
Win Amazon Gift Vouchers
Win a Nintendo Wii Package
and Win Christmas Food!

Good luck to everyone who entered.

We have lot's of new competitions starting today, so log in and get entering!