Christmas 2009 Piccies

Here's the staged nice photo of the 2009 Christmas party that I have been given to post on the blog.


What a difference from these little beauties I found after a little bit of detective work on Facebook. Ha!


Faster! Faster! You can't catch me!


Is it me or does Graeme look a bit like Harry Hill?
One more for the road....
Paul has his Christmas jumper on already.

Get your coat luv, you've pulled!
Agghhh where's she gone?! She was here a minute ago.

God, I'm soooo bored.Well done Gemma you've spotted Carryn looking like a Christmas elf.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Women drivers huh




Misbehaving new mums.

Christmas Charity

We didn't give each other Christmas cards in the office this year and instead we all put some money to a local charity.

We raised £75 for Sheffield's Cancer Hospital Weston Park.

A worthy cause. Well done everyone.

No corporate gifts, just charity gifts this year

Win4now have decided not to send out Christmas corporate gifts this year and have instead used all the money we were going to spend on wine & hampers on Oxfams unwrapped charity store gifts instead.

We will be choosing to give presents for those in need things like:
goats, chickens, water pumps, school books, health check ups and seeds.

It's given us a warm glow this Christmas to help out those less fortunate than ourselves.

Check it out for yourselves. If you really can't decide what to get for Christmas this year it might mean that you have everything you want so instead you could ask your family & friends to buy something from Oxfam instead?

Office party season - place your bets today

That's right win4now office gossip readers, it's our Christmas party this Friday night.

Place your bets on these scenario's happening to be in with a chance of winning your chance of writing an article for this blog.

1. Over hearing drunken 'whispers' - leading to a full blown fight
2. A dancing injury
3. Non single staff members being unfaithful with other party goer's *major gossip alert if this occurs again*
4. Someone being sick before the meal has even began
5. A female member of the office arrives in an outfit better suited to a brothel than office party
6. A technical support staff member misses the bus home and ends up sleeping in a gutter
7. Everyone behaves themselves and just has a pleasant evening out
8. Kerry actually enjoying the vegetarian food


What do you think? Do any of these silly scenarios sound like your office party goings on?

If you're like Kerry and have been trawling the shops for weeks trying to find that perfect Christmas party dress, then remember to enter this prize draw to win £2000 to pay off your credit card and Christmas excesses.
Go on, get out there & strut your stuff on us!

ps. Pictures of the above event will hopefully go live next week. I can't wait!

What's an Instant Win Competition?

An Instant win competition is just that, you don't have to wait for an end date before the winners drawn. You know on the spot if you have won the prize.

Instantwin4now our sister site is the ONLY website in the UK that offers you the chance to play instant win games without paying to enter them! Seriously, consider that.... 100% free instant win games.

Another popular instant win game company is The National Lottery, where you have to pay from 50p - over £3 per entry. They are a bit like their scratch cards but are shown as computerised games instead of instantwin4nows 3 number choices.
We give you the same opportunities but without paying a penny to have a go!

You can win prizes from the latest cd's, ipods, computer games, washing machines, cruises, garden spades to cars and big cash prizes up to £10,000! Every week we put more & more competitions live.


What are you waiting for? Join up, select 3 lucky numbers, grab yourself some freebie offers while your there & press enter!

A fantastic way to while away a few minutes every day while you wait for other pages to load, are on your lunch break or are just feeling lucky! Little & often is my method because it keeps the experience fun.

I hope to see your name on the winners board soon!

Never forget to enter a prize draw again.

Drum roll please * New for this week is the prize draw counting feature. * da daaaaaaa!

Now when you log in, you will see clearly how many prize draws you still have left to enter. It's easy to get distracted when your life's busy and we would like for you to have the opportunity to enter every free prize draw available to you.

We hope you find this new feature useful.

ps. remember to enter the free offers & quick comps on the right hand side of the home page.

Free Extra Entries Into Competitions

The mystery envelope is a feature where you can gain extra entries into prize draws.

Don't sit back and enter prize draws the normal way, utilise this offer and get bonus prize entries.

This is how you do it:

Enter 5 competitions in one visit to get 10 bonus entries.

Enter 10 competitions in one visit to get 15 bonus entries.

Enter 15 competitions in one visit to get 25 bonus entries.

It's the smart way, so join the fun.

All your motoring needs - we have it all to win!

There's a few sites out there that have car competitions but at Win4now, we can cater for all your motoring competition needs.

We are giving you the opportunity ( for nothing!) to win a car, the petrol to fuel it, a service & mot to take care of it, the insurance to protect it, tax to save you boring pennies, the valeting to make it look pretty and even the entertainment to keep the kids (or big kids) quiet.

What else is there?!
We've covered all bases here so make sure you take us up on our generosity and enter our competitions and remember to sign up to special offers.

Goodbye poll's, Hello freebies

For well over a year we have polls on Win4now for our members to vote their opinions on current affair and interest subjects. This was a nice way for you to see what other Win4now people think too. (averaging 500 votes a week!)

We have decided to re vamp the site and replace the polls with a new feature that we hope you'll like even more than the polls. The new feature will be more relating to giving you stuff than asking your views...... The plans are in with our technical team but lets just say think special offers & freebies and your on the right lines ;)

Keep your eyes peeled where the poll used to be over the next few weeks.

Also 'all about you' special monthly competitions will be launching soon too. Get your glittery dresses & ties at the ready for the red carpet day.

Do people really win cars?

Yeah right as if! I hear you cry. Pull the other one. There are many prize draws and competitions all over the Internet that offer you the chance to win a brand new car, but what's the catch? There's not one on Win4now.

Our car competitions usually run for a year and lucky for you right now, we have 3 choices of cars being drawn at the end of December which is only a just over a month away!

If you don't believe me that Win4now gives free cars away every year then you can ask 2 of our latest car prize draw winners:

Lisa &
John!

To win a car like Lisa & John did, just register on Win4now, enter to win a Mini, Ford Focus or Renault Clio and keep your fingers crossed that on the 31st of December 2009 we will pick your name 'out of the hat!'

Hmm which one would I go for? Mini's are super cool and fast but I couldn't fit my bikes in it, the Focus is a family classic but the Clio is so pretty. Hmm choices choices. *dreams about being the winner*

Good luck!

About us but in the past

I've just looked at Win4now's about us page and seen how out of date it is?!

It says that 'Win4now is a new competition site' but we have been providing our loyal members the chance to win loads of great prizes since 2002!
I've been working at Win4now since 2003 and have seen 100's and 100's of real people winning prizes here. All for free as there isn't any small print or catch to entering our prize draws.

Gotta dash, its time to update the 'about us' page before I forget for another 6 years!
ps. 6 years in one company, that's a massive cv record for me.

A message to our loyal members

We are having some difficulties on our sites due to one of our main database servers breaking. (Halloween weekend! I wonder if it's supernatural?!)

We are currently using a back up server, but this is not as fast so you might notice a delay when entering prize draws on the sites for the next few days. Your entries will still be submitted though so don't worry.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we want you to know that our technical team are working around the clock to get everything back up and working to full speed for you.

Thank you for your patience.

To be Orange or Not to be Orange?

That's the question on my mind right now.

Our beloved Win4now site has only ever evolved twice in the 7+ years it's been 'alive', so we think it's about time to give it a nip & tuck and new lease of life.

The question on every one's mind is whether to keep it as orange and bright as it is now or modernise it with whiteness? You our members had a split opinion last time we asked to loving the 'fun' colour scheme or loathing the 'gaudiness' of the orange.

What do you think we should do? Kill the orange or embrace it in mark 3?

PS. Good luck to Lucy our competition creator in your fitness exams this weekend! Fingers crossed.

Farewell Maciek!

It's Macieks (or 'Magic' as most of us pronounce his name!) last day at Win4now today.

Macieks main role is technical support and is a very popular guy in the office. We will sorely miss him but he's off to Berlin and we wish him & his family well for the future.

Bye bye & good luck from all of us at Win4now x

Sheep Competitions

Everyone and I mean everyone from 10 year old's to 80 year old's wants an iphone.
Why are they so desirable?
What makes them better than all the other phones on the market?
Or is it nothing? and they are the most popular because they are cool and everyone thinks the same?
Well done Apple for creating a masterpiece in a over saturated market and don't get me wrong, i'd also really love to win an iphone too BUT

don't be a sheep win4now'ers; open your mind, be an individual & the most important of reasons.....

INCREASE your winning odds by entering to win the LG viewty smart phone! I bet there will be less entries to win this phone than if we had an iphone on the site. So that's better for you!

Be smart, enter this competition on Win4now

Voucher codes quality

I used some of my voucher codes offers on Friday night but had mixed feelings about the quality of the offers received.

The first voucher was for free cocktails at a bar/restaurant called Olive in Sheffield and the service and quality was great. I could pick any cocktail with no price limit. Brilliant. I left a satisfied freebie hunter and would definitely go back now that I have had my free trial and spend my hard earn't cash. Consumer & voucher provider both happy.

The second voucher was for another cocktail offer at the posh west one complex (I can't remember it's name it's that memorable! ) and we were very disappointed. The cocktail pitcher was described as 'champagne' but was really cheapo fizzy rose wine with a sticky syrup. Nasty. Not only will we not go back, but we will also recommend others don't go there.

The moral of the story for me is that if a company is going to offer a freebie or prize make sure it's a good one.
Don't trick the consumer and don't offer us tat. It will subsequently have a negative branding effect.

Bargain hunters; scrubbers of the internet?

The top dogs of retail decided that they would offer the UK public loads of great offers, discounts, freebies, competitions & money off vouchers to help beat the recession and get us to buy their struggling products and keep their high street stores open.

It worked. Oh boy did it work!

46% of us bought stuff with vouchers that we wouldn't have even bought if it wasn't for the voucher! That's not bad sales figures for the shops!

Restaurants & supermarkets in particular really pushed the vouchers with offers like 2 4 1, buy 1 get 1 free and offering us points for spending with them. So why is it that when you go into their restaurants you see lots of tables rummaging in their handbags and pockets pulling out printed Internet vouchers but made to look like cheapskates by the staff?

The choices are wide for us the consumer, if they don't keep offers alive then their competitors will entice us to buy their products instead.
Why are we embarrassed for grabbing ourselves a bargain though? Really why is that? We should be proud of using our noggin and not being ripped off.

We duly accepted their offers, doing them a favour and in return getting something we want for free too. Now we are made to feel like the scrubbers of the Internet!

Don't be manipulated by the retailers; keep bargain hunting, keep using your vouchers, entering competitions and signing up for freebies! I know I will.

Brand new blog & twitter designs

Check out our new look!
Today our fabulous designer Clare has given this blog and our twitter account a face lift and dragged us into 2009. We've been nipped & tucked in all the right places.

We hope you like it and visit our pages daily for the latest competition news and office gossip.

Hopefully Win4now will be next to be spruced up and made to look more attractive for our members.... Fingers crossed.

Free Fuel

It's that time of year again and us being the generous souls that we are; are offering our freebie hunting members the chance to win 1 of 10 lumps of coal!

That's free fuel! You don't see Esso, BP or Shell doing the same do you?!

Win a lump of coal from Win4now x

Birthday prizes for all

Happy Birthday Momma Cherry!

Unfortunately I can't enter this competition but you lot can. It's our longest standing competition and we have had 100's of winners of this prize over the years.

Win 1 of 15 birthday cash prizes of £20. (that's 15 chances to win! great odd's on win4now)

You could easily get your family member a nice extra bday surprise, bottle of wine or bottle of bubbly with this cash prize.

It's my birthday in a couple of weeks time, so you could always win something for me? :)

Have a look at what the past winners of this prize draw bought with their cheque here.

Who's the brains behind it all?

Here's a piccy of the brains behind Win4now; our lovely boss Sara.

She's the reason our members have so many wonderful prize draws & freebies to win and all for free.

Cool huh.

a4uexpo again

It's time to bring out those power suits because, Vicky & I are attending again the a4uexpo event again this October.

We can't wait to spread the news about how great it is working with Win4now and learn from fellow experts on how to improve the website for all of our members.

This time we've both promised ourselves not to drink so much though! hehe.
If you're going to a4uexpo as well, make sure you say hi to us.

Keep fit with Win4now!

All this week our office staff are dressing up as each other and playing sales style games.

The highlight of every morning is the motivational (snigger) march around the football field & then Lucy's instructed aerobic lessons! So funny watching them star jump & grapevine to banging techno. Lucy gives them a proper workout! (she's newly qualified!) Lot's of deoderant spraying & makeup touch up's goes on afterwards.

The only problem is that the office camera has died so I can't post up any pictures :( Any donations readers?

This office is bonkers.

ps. win4now poll results are so far 99% of all members want to keep win4now free to enter competitions, using advertisements to fund the site (like it is now) instead of having no ads & a monthly subscription fee.

Staff photo's from recent bbq outing

It's getting late now, beer goggles are on and slurring is 2nd nature.
Late on, the beer is still flowing....
"There's only 1!" shouts Thelma on her retirement party!
The accounts ladies. awww aren't they cute
Here comes the boys, boys boys
Gossiping away ;)
This was at the beginning of the evening! This Autumn Sam is running the plastic bag head wear fashion. D&G, Prada, Armani take note, you saw it in Sheffield first.

The lovely Thelma has retired!

Our lovely Thelma from accounts has retired!
We wish you well and hope that you & Rod have a fabulous time in sunny Crete. (very jealous)

Who's going to take up our trousers & bake our birthday cakes now?!

Update your details please

A clip of one of our brand new competitions this month:

Win 1 of 25 Glodoodle toys:

PLEASE NOTE - If you are a winner of this prize, it will be sent directly to you and there is no need to claim. Therefore please ensure we have your correct and up-to-date postal details as we won't replace items due to incorrect postal details.


It's easy, just click on update details after you log in and check that we have your current postal address.

Cracking down on the prize cheats

That's right, we're constantly trying to improve Win4now & making sure that everyone who enters the competitions are not cheating the system.

It's not fair on the genuine members, so we have very strict rules and if you're found cheating you won't get your prize.
Now all the would be members who join using fake & quite frankly obscene names will no longer be able to win. No longer will our lovely Joy have to sift through rude words when picking the latest prize winners! Hooray!

Hard but fair. Everyone has an equal chance of winning our prize draws. No exceptions.

Happy comping everyone.

Competition clues

I've just noticed that the August Fun4now mystery image competition image is pretty hard this month.

Here's an extra clue for you as i'm feeling generous today.

This month's Mystery Image is something you find in your garden when it is feeling a little parched.

I.e this object is in the garden when the garden is parched - not that the object is parched!

That's a tongue twister! Good luck.

Winning Tactics

Thanks so much for your email. I am absolutely delighted to be a prizewinner, I have been a member of your website for many years and this is the first time I have ever won anything. We have just come back from holiday after taking our prehistoric digital camera, which not only looks like a dinosaur but is definitely feeling its age!! Therefore I would like to choose the Sony Cybershot H20 please. Thanks again.

C.Brown - comment here

It just shows that if you keep trying; eventually you'll become a winner! A little bit of effort and it only costs you time not money.

Back from my hols

Hi Win4now'ers,

I'm back from my Alps mountain biking holiday and am in shock at how expensive it is abroad right now! We did the holiday on the cheap via camping and not eating/drinking out and it still cost a fortune. In one of the supermarkets they were charging nearly 9 Euro's for a Toblerone chocolate bar! Madness.

It's made me more enthusiastic about freebies & entering competitions.

These competitions are closing soon so get entering and save up your £££ ready for your next summer holidays!

Win 1 of 2 retro sweetie hampers Here.
Win a Dell Mini 10 Laptop Here.
Win a Kona Town Bike Here.

Good luck!

Have you changed since the recession?

Have your competition entries increased in the last year?
Are you new to online competitions and freebies?
Or would you say your Internet behaviour hasn't changed since the recession?

It's hard for me to say because I've been working in the industry and entering online prize draws & competitions for the past 7 years; I still enter at least 10 competitions every day.

I've got the hang of discount codes and 2 4 1 style vouchers and have used them for the first time within the last 2 years; I'm not sure if that's recession directed or just because I love a freebie! (I recommend the Pizza Express & Loch Fyne vouchers!)
My bf is northern through & through and will never pay for something full price, so the ease of finding a bargin now and so many companies offering free samples and prize draws has made it much easier on us the consumers to get allot more for your money.

To a degree special offers affects my life. Here's an example - I have an Orange mobile in order to get the Orange Wednesdays 2 4 1 cinema ticket offer and due to this I never ever go to the cinema on any other day.... no matter what.
I never pay to have a go on an instant win competition like the National Lotteries & Jackpot joy's because I know I can do the same for free on Instantwin4now.
And I use companies price matching promises to my advantage wherever possible!

So although my behaviour hasn't altered since the recession, it has definitely changed since finding the joys of freebies, competitions & special offers!

What about you?

Daily winner

Our £250 daily star winner staff photo's are being updated this week.

If you see your name being held up by us, then you win £250! It's that easy.
So keep your eyes peeled for new piccies and new staff members.

Latest Prize Draws

cash

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	£400 Cash Win £400 in cash! 31/10/2009 Amazon Vouchers Win £400 of Amazon vouchers 31/10/2009 Tesco Vouchers Win £400 of Tesco vouchers 31/10/2009 Travelodge Break Win £250 to spend at Travelodge 17/08/2009

living

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	Marc Jacobs Win two pairs of Marc Jacobs sunglasses 17/08/2009 New Seekers Win 1 of 5 Best of the New Seekers CDs 31/07/2009 Yo Gabba Gabba Win 1 of 10 Yo Gabba Gabba toy packs 31/07/2009

electronics

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	Sony Cybershot Win a Sony Cybershot camera 17/08/2009

fun4now

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	Anagram Win 1 of 2 outdoor survival kits. 31/07/2009 Mystery Image Win £50 in cash 31/07/2009 Guess Who Win £40 of Play.com vouchers. 31/07/2009 Pub Quiz Win £40 of Voucher Express vouchers 31/07/2009 Riddle Win £40 of Amazon vouchers 31/07/2009 Year In History Quiz Win £40 of Argos vouchers 31/07/2009

wackywin4now

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	Chococlock Win 1 of 3 Chococlocks 30/09/2009

Hot Competition Tip

On Instantwin4now our free instant competition site, you have to pick out 3 numbers and if they match the winning numbers you get to win the prize then & there. No waiting for a draw to end, just an instant win.

Here's a tip for you, the lower the number selections are within the drop downs, the higher the odd's are of you winning! Easy.

I recommend that you mix up your daily competition allowance by entering lots of small prizes and some of the big value ones too. We've had winners of single prizes worth £15,000 before now, so you can get lucky on a big scoop. Nothings impossible on Instantwin4now.

Whats Squarespace?!

Successful promoting by the squarespace staff means lower odd's of winning for the competition entrants.

As you know from previous posts, Win4now is now tweeting daily with the username 'win_prizedraw'. While i've been tweeting, I couldn't help but notice the huge trend success of #squarespace's great promotional competition. They've gone from pretty much being unheard of worldwide to now being a twitter phenomenon. To be honest I wish that I had such a brainwave!

Basically every day they randomly give away a free iphone to people who tweet the word #squarespace. As of a moment ago they have 29,736 followers so that means that your chance of winning is decreasing every day as more and more people follow and enter to win the 1 daily prize.
Great for the promoters themselves for all the brand awareness but not so great for the would be winners.

My tip to you today, is to find little niche competitions to enter, try not to just stick to the national ones that everyone's heard of like gmtv, squarespace & most tv promoted competitions.
Win4now's fun4now section is a great example of low odd's of winning very month.

Happy comping.

The big question, hopefully not mission impossible

Adele your mission if you choose to take it is to find out:

How many competitions the win4now members enter each time they visit in June & how many special offers do they each take advantage of?

Coke zone points hype

Have you heard of the Coke zone?

Of course you have, it seems that the site cokezone.co.uk gets tens of thousands of visits every single day.
I must have been the only person to have not joined until today... (In my defense; I don't drink fizzy drinks very often)

To be honest it's an alright idea - essentially you join up and every time you buy coca cola products you put the codes in to gain points so that you can enter to win prizes and if you take out other companies offers you get the chance of winning more prizes.

The problem is - Win4now, Instantwin4now and Opinionser let you enter & win competitions for free already. You don't have to buy stuff before entering and you can enter to get other companies special offers for free too.

So why is it so popular by comparison to our sites????? You tell me, I don't get it!

Win Stuff On Facebook

Did you know that Win4now has it's own Facebook fan page?

If you have an account on Facebook, join the group today & spread the word to all of your friends.

Without people like you & your friends coming to the site and entering our special offers & competitions - win4now wouldn't exist and I wouldn't have a job.

Support us & enter loads of free online competitions!

Twitter pages

Win4now is on Twitter.

Shortly we will start promoting (or should I say tweeting?) twitter only competitions, so follow us (we are listed as 'prizedraws') and watch this space.

Better odds for winning

We often get told that one of the things you our users want to see on Win4now are more competitions with better odd's of winning.

If your one of those people then this competition to Win 1 of 50 short breaks is right up your street.

So that's 50 chances from 1 prize draw to win a prize instead of the usual 1.

Enter today it's a great prizedraw and remember to enter all of our fun4now and wacky categories because they usually have greater odd's of winning too. (less entries)

Good luck!

Free Money or Prizes?

Would you prefer more cash competitions or more prizes?

Or are you happy with the mix of prizes & cash we currently have live on the site?

Do you like our choice of prizes or are we missing certain types of holidays, gadgets, sporting goods etc that you really want to win?

We listen, so please let us know what you want on your site :)

The office pregnancy chair strikes again!

OMG another one!
Our lovely receptionist is now pregnant!

Will the chair take more prisoners? or has it had it's fill now of our staff? I'm pretty frightened now, I've gone from legs crossed to chastity belt wearing! (just joking)


Win4now has some lovely baby related competitions live at the moment, so if you know anymore 'victims' to the chair then tell them to enter these competitions today:

Win a baby booster car seat here
Win a selection of baby goodies here

And Our Survey Said....

57% believe in aliens & UFO's
40% love baking
87% supported the fuel protests in 2008
and 27% didn't think parents should be prosecuted if their kids committed knife crime

Win4now if you didn't already know, as a fun users survey poll. Every few weeks it changes topic. Sometimes serious, sometimes light hearted.

Tell us what you think - it's just a bit of fun.

also - if your curious what other win4now users think - comment here what question you would like us to ask on the next poll and we'll include it just for you.

Enter these competitions quickly!

12 competitions on Win4now will be closing soon so I suggest you get entering them now before you get distracted with other tasks & chores. (or dare I say it, you click onto another website)

Here's a selection of the prizedraws that I like:

Think new wardrobe, posh furniture, shoes & handbags! Win £300 of House of Fraser vouchers
Only 1 days to go!

Uber posh frocks & menswear with this voucher! Win £300 of Selfridges vouchers
Only 1 days to go!

Romantic weekends away in York, Edinburgh, Bath or Devon maybe? Win a break at a Marriott hotel
Only 1 days to go!

Laaaaddddie in reddddddddd, swoon. Win 1 of 5 copies of Footsteps by Chris De Burgh
Only 1 days to go!

Sexy specs alert! Win a pair of designer FCUK glasses
Only 1 days to go!

Log fires & sheepskin rugs go together like mistletoe & wine. Win a lovely sheepskin rug
Only 1 days to go!

Men don't be shy, get moisturising to keep those chiselled cheeks in condition for the ladies!Win mens skincare products from Body Shop
Only 1 days to go!

Quick enter free competitions on Win4now now before you miss your chance.

ps. I'm on holiday for 2 weeks now, so I will leave you in Rob's arms (big guns). See you when I get back :)

Win free experience days

Why go to Red letter Days when you can win an experience day with us for free?

We currently have a couple of experience day competitions live on Win4now. ( we also have loads on instantwin4now so make sure you get entering those too; you can use the same login as w4n)

If your normal life is going to work then coming home & watching tv or going to the pub, then these adventurous prizes will really give you a day to remember. Who knows you might even get the adrenalin bug and take up a new hobby after.

Imagine the speeds you'll reach and the grin on your face expanding. Get entering these competitions now:
Win a Formula 1 racing experience
we also have a Win a helicopter flying experience - they look so much fun!

It's Brap brap sick innit (just for you Kerry)

Pregnancy chair....

omg I think there must be a fertile pregnancy chair in the Win4now office!

We have 3 ladies pregnant already and due shortly to take maternity leave and now 2 lads have announced their girlfriends are pregnant.

Scary stuff. I'm keeping my legs crossed and not sitting anywhere but from on my own chair....

Cars Just Failed It's MOT

My mates just emailed me all flustered and upset that her cars just failed it's mot. I've told her, not to worry because there's plenty of options:

1. The government have just incentivised people to scrap their cars for cash.

2. Often fixing your car doesn't cost as much as you fear, especially if you opt for small garages and 2nd hand parts.

3. Use this act of fate to become greener (& save money) and start cycling to work, walking or using public transport.

4. Buy a Haynes manual and fix the car yourself? Bribing friends and family members to help if needed.

5. Win4now has lots of car competitions up for grabs. Who cares if your cars failed it's mot when you can win a shiny new car! Check this out chance to win a Clio


There's always options so there's no point in getting stressed. Don't buy stuff, Win them; that's my motto!

Pictures of staff fashion show

Yesterday our sales team did a fashion show whereby they dressed up in the style of the car they were given to represent. (i.e Oliver had a Ferrari hence the shades, scalf & cigar)

Everyone in the office made a big effort and looked fantastic!
Really funny day with a lot of good humoured people being light hearted when often it can be quite stressful in the office!

Here's a selection of pictures - I hope you like them :)

April's Mystery Image Competition

Have you had a nice Easter holiday?
I hope you did, but now its times to get back to serious comping mode ;) (can such a cool hobby ever be serious?)

If you haven't already entered Aprils Fun4now mystery image competition then here's some pointers for you. I had to stare at it for a couple of minutes before I guessed it correctly.




Remember if you want the official clues, click on the clue button below the competition and answer a quick advertisement from our partners.

Here's a sneaky clue from me though; It sounds quite posh and the last part of it's name (common name) is a totally different species to what it is!

Get entering & remember to tell your work colleagues & friends how cool Win4now is.

Free Offer Of The Week

Our partner offer of the week this week is Bingo Cafes great free trial.
If you like a game of bingo or you enjoy the occasional flutter on scratch cards and slot machines then this site has a fantastic selection and is very easy to use.

Look out for this advert on Win4now underneath the competitions.

BingoCafe's FREE PLAY offer: Bingo, Slots, Scratch-cards, PullTabs, cash games and more...

With huge game variety, 24/7 chat masters, Fun and Friendly community, massive cash jackpots and prizes given away all day long, why would you not check out the UK's best online bingo and games site - 100% FREE trial - no strings attached, just come and try your luck on us!

Just select the 'I would try a free trial' on the drop down box and we'll send you more details.

Random images of win4now staff

I've just been digging around in our companies database at the staff photo's and noticed a few funny piccies showing the daily cash price cash amounts. So I thought I'd post them here for you to see.




Here's a random piccy of Rob's recent holiday! looks like he pulled ;)


If that hasn't scared you to much, remember to log on daily and check our daily cash prize - if your names on it - you've won £250!

Puzzles Competitions To Win Prizes

Have you played any of our Fun4now competitions?

Guess Who is quite easy this month so have a go.

If your not sure of the answer you can get a free clue too!

Check it out.

Instant Win Winner Multiple Times!

A lucky member of our instant competition site Opinioniser has had a flurry of of instant wins recently!

Lucky Louisa has won 3 times in the last few weeks! See here the winners page for more details. On all of our competition sites, you can win multiple times! So don't just enter the big prizes, enter them all.

50 free competition entries a day! No wonder she's winning so much. Be patient & enter lots of competitions for your chance to join our winners page!


Well? What are you waiting for? Join Opionionser today!

Snow sports holiday competition or not; you choose!

The BBC's TV programme Ski Sunday is over now - boo!; but we still have some winter prizes for you to win! (As soon as the Ski Sunday music comes on I'm instantly excited. I love it. Do you?)

Win a week in Austria!

At Win4now we realise that not everyone has the same holiday ideals. Your perfect winter holiday might be very different to someone elses! So this amazing Austrian prize draw is worth £800 in order for you to tailor it around your needs.

You could have a relaxing week in the city to see the sights and chill out in the bars & restaurants OR you could pretend to be Ed & Graham and get some air on the slopes! Austria is a skiing/snowboarding heaven afterall.

The competition ends in April so get entering today to ensure your names added to the draw in time.

You can Win a Car on Win4now for Real!

Here's a lovely photo of Vicky passing the keys over to our new prize draw winner of a brand new car! The lucky John Byron.

If you keep entering competitions every month, you could be our next car winner! So what are you waiting for?

Real people, Real Prizes

Top 5 Competitions in Jan

Our most entered competitions in Jan were:

Win a Mini Cooper
Win £2000 in cash
Win a Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec
Win £2000 Marks and Spencer vouchers
Win a Renault Clio Dynamique

Insiders tips of which competitions to enter for a high winning chance:

Win tickets to see Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
Win an aquarium & tropical fish
Win 1 of 3 musical pillows

There's loads of new competitions for Feb too, so log into Win4now now & get entering!

The dreaded V word - Valentines Day.

Did you wish away 24 hours of your life or skip with joy?

Hated by singletons and men regardless of relationship status alike. And usually hated on the day by women when their men forget or don't live up to expectations.
The ladies awaiting to be proposed to are often expectant but disappointed too.

It's hard to have a good valentines day really. (mine was a 7/10, as I was cooked a lovely meal but he failed to get me the orchid or flowers that I wanted)

That's why we sent out a special ladies only valentines email that listed all Win4now's great competitions that are aimed for the faired sex.


Did you get it? Pass it onto your friends.

Make sure you enter all of the competitions and if you win remember Valentines day and don't take him; take your best mate instead!

NB. For all the blokes out there that are romantic, I apologise but you are a rarity :)

Car Winner With Win4now!

Houston we have a car winner!

A very lucky John Byron has won our Peugeot 207 CC Car Competition.

With over 46,000 entries into the competition, he can't believe his luck!

We have just handed over the keys to him and took some lovely pictures which I will be posting online over the next few days (i'm praying they aren't blurred as I took them instead of a professional photographer!)Watch out for the fetching bright orange t-shirts again...

Proving again that Win4now is all about real people, winning real prizes.

Winter Wonderland!

It feels like an age ago that I last blogged.
Last week was an unusual one, what with all the snow we've had here. (and there's more to come!)

But it has given everyone the chance to act like a kid again and get out into the fresh air throwing snowballs, sledging down steep hills or just walking and taking in the gorgeous scenery.

The coolest part of it all was when I went sledging with the boss & her son. So much fun! But I advise you all to avoid yellow & brown snow.....

If you want to play in the snow properly (& in luxury accommodation) enter to win our fab holiday to Austria!
today.

ps. Remember to put some food out for the birds!

Freebies from friends VS winning prizes

I am posing this question because today I brought to work 2 boxes full of old books that I no longer want and there are quite a few book worms at Win4now.

I think the difference is all in the personalisation. I got a 'thank you' in many guises, and 'are you sure? that's brill thanks!' for giving away the books to my colleagues.

Whereas if you print off a voucher code from a website you think that your doing them a favour and they obviously want you to do it, so you aren't as grateful to the company for your special offer.

For instance: I went to Pizza Express last weekend using a 2 4 1 voucher. The place was packed and you could see lots of tables giving the vouchers to the waitress's- this is successful marketing! Looking around though everyone looked kind of embarrassed; wondering if the waitress's thought less of them and if the food would be as good if we showed the voucher before placing the order. Of course none of this was true, companies giving voucher codes have done all the background checking and they really do want you to use them!

There is a real difference in emotions when winning prizes though. You don't feel inferior or cheap - just lucky and it cheers you up for a long time after the initial news sinks in. Everyone like to win something! It gives you a natural high that voucher codes and freebies can't compete with.

Plus you get a personal email or phone call from a real person in our office, that's why on most of our winners comments you can see people saying thank you to Joy ( our receptionist - she gets the glory of our hard work! )

So do you agree? What do you prefer? A Win, A Freebie or a Voucher?

Or is the best option in fact donating things to good causes? Should I have given the books to a charity shop? opps...

Relationship Matching

Ok, so not strictly Win4now related but one of our sites Fastrology has a new feature that we hope you'll find good fun.

It's a zodiac compatibility chart.

The idea is that you can see if your boyfriend/girlfriend is a good love match to your star sign. I'll share with you now, that me & my fiance get the least compatible match! ( Libra & Cancer ) opps.... is it an omen to run now before the big day? ;)

Check it out and see how you and your partner match up.
Do the stars signal true and lasting love or a short unmatched fling?!

ps. Kerry's Op. went well and she'll be home by the weekend.

Get well soon Kerry

Our lovely Kerry is off work after today for about 6-8 weeks as shes 'having her bits whipped out' ( also known as a Hysterectomy. )

So I just wanted to say - We'll miss you Kerry! Get well soon and come back to work!

Innocent until proven guilty

I've just browsed through Win4now's winners comments and I've noticed that people still after all these years of Win4now being around, think that we are fake and that you can't really win.

If you think a companies a bit fishy, surely you wouldn't get involved with them?
But lucky for us, this isn't the case! (innocent until proven guilty)
It seems that some comper's carry on entering competitions but only truly believe we are genuine when either they win or a friend/family member does! I only wish we had enough money to make everyone a winner...

Check out these two recent prizedraw winners testimonials:

“When I first received the email I thought it was one of these famous scams, but after phoning up I couldn't believe that I am in fact a winner. I was firmly of the belief that no one really won these things, but I'm absolutely delighted to say I was wrong. Thank you very much. What a great start to the New Year. ”
J.Fenton
Won £200 Cash

“When I first got the email I thought it was a BIG CON!! but then I phoned up and picked my prize, the £400 PC World Vouchers. Could'nt believe it when they arrived two days later. Thankyou Win4now, a brilliant prize, will be entering more competitions now and telling my friends. Thanks again. ”
S.Roberts
Won a choice of Three Prizes - £400 PC World Vouchers or An Xbox 360 Elite + Five Games or An HP iPaq 914c Handheld Computer

It's a very British mentality though which I respect; Our members are intelligent people and although being skeptical, are open minded and maintain an 'innocent until proven guilty' mindset.
A mixture of curiosity and a bit of hope must make these skeptics ring us to find out if they really have won something.

What kind of win4now member are you? Open minded skeptic or a true believer from the beginning?

Losing your favourite website

Yesterday, I tried to log into my favourite website and I was redirected to another similar site, that the same company owned saying that my site was now dead due to the fact it didn't earn enough money through it's advertising. I was gutted!

The site in question changed my life in a way, because of the people i've met through it and the places i've been to due to my new hobby. (Luckily the friends i've made I have contact details of away from just using the sites forums, so we can stay in touch.)

We sometimes forget this but, websites are really important and affect peoples daily routines and life styles.

Can you imagine what would happen if your favourite sites suddenly disappeared?
What would you do if Win4now was gone today and there was no such thing as an online prize draw / competition anymore.
Don't worry Win4now's isn't going to disappear. We all love it too much and work hard to make it work as a business. If you want to guarantee this; Enter lots of competitions and take interest in our sponsors offers.

Right i'm off to visit all my favourite sites and do my bit to keep them profitable!

Free Offers, Freebies, Free Stuff - Pay Nothing!

Win4now has a new section called 'Free Offers' where you can find brilliant freebie offers. How good are we to you huh.


We'll be updating this area constantly to try to give you our members the best freebies the web can offer. This morning we have 'Get 20 Free Photo Prints' and 'Get up to 2 Free SIM Cards From Orange!' up for grabs. First come first serve.

Everyone likes something for nothing, so keep your eyes peeled on this section.

Also if your a company and you have some promotional products you would like to host on Win4now, please contact us! ( Ask for Lucy or Kerry )

Xmas party pictures or lack of....

After all that hype, the amount of photo's we have from our staff xmas party is pretty disappointing! (some bright spark decided to use a film camera, so heres a few phone picture i've found)

It seems we were drinking and partying more than posing...

Check out the scariest santa you've ever seen! That's someone from our call centre in India. They look to be having loads of fun. Kids beware, behave or santa might right hook you ;)

We have 2 new features on Win4now going live. The free offers section & the mystery envelope. Let me know what you think about them.