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!

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.

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

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....

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!

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.

Olympics, Handbags & DIY

Well that sums up my weekend.

I've been watching the Olympics a lot and we are doing really well aren't we. For a small country we are proving to the World how brilliant we are. ( espeically at cycling! )

I've also been helping (on the technical side of things) my sisters new handmade leather bags site Cherry Leather. If high street handbags are more your thing, as if by magic we have a Win a Designer Handbag competition worth up to £500. What a great prize!

That's the exciting part of my weekend. The dull and practical side was Sunday when I had to do some home improvements to try to finish off our bathroom. (half finished since Easter!)
I hate diy, do you enjoy it? I spent a few hours on Sunday scratching paint off our plastic windows & painting the ceiling, what horrible jobs. Kerry has the day off work today, and is doing some bathroom do it yourself too. Rock & Roll Win4now weekends ;)

Win4now has a competition to win £500 of DIY supplies! Me and Kerry can't enter, but you can - good luck.

We've gone plant crazy!

Here at the Win4now HQ, it's pot plant mania!

This is what a section of the office looked like before the green invasion:

Now it's like an office jungle! I just hope that they aren't triffids in disguise.

The reason we have so many green additions to the office is due to helping a good cause.

Buy a plant and all the ££ goe's towards Malealea charity organisation which Louisa's 14yr old son's school is involved in. He's trying to raise money for an expedition to Africa to help to assist with: Water for life, School / partnerships, Aids Orphans, Smokeless stoves & environmental sustainability.

We also have some garden plant competitions on the site, enter today to Win seasonal plants every month for a year! Maybe with the money you'll have saved on garden plants for the year, you could put towards charity?

Win4now's marketing team introductions day 1

Hello, after writing this blog for some time now I thought I should introduce myself and others from the marketing team over the next couple of days.

My name's Adele. I've worked for Win4now since 2003 doing various internet marketing job roles. I'm currently managing the search engine marketing for some of DMRI's websites and I'm very lucky in that I really enjoy my job!

My main aim is to get more new members to our sites and entering our competitions, but also keeping you existing members happy and still coming back to enter competitions every month. Real People, Real Prizes - this is the message I try to get over.

My main interests outside of Win4now are rock climbing, mountain biking, camping, scrambling, bird watching and generally being in the countryside! Here's a picture of me on my bike in Winter:

My biggest Win4now competition winning tip to you is to stay patient and keep entering every month. It's a game of luck and if you don't enter, you won't be in with a chance.

I'll introduce Rob to you next.
Right what are you waiting for? Help me & help yourself by quickly entering all of July's Win4now Competition's, because there's loads of prizes ending 31st July. (don't worry Toni's preparing loads of new prizes for August)

Windscreen wipers & Win4now medals

Warning Moan alert- skip the first paragraph if you want to

When will it ever stop raining? I don't like moaning about stuff that no one can change, but this is getting silly now... I've had to buy some new windscreen wipers for my car because they've had so much action this 'summer'!

Check out this competition if you agree with me. You can Win European Flight Tickets & escape this nasty weather.

A lot of you have already guessed correctly to our Fun4now comps, well done. But here's some clues if you are still waiting to be sure:
Landmark: Tour de France's rider Cadel Evans is from this country
Image: Traditionally yellow balls used.

Remember to give us your opinions on Win4now Survey Poll's, this week we want to know how many gold medals you think we'll win in the Olympics. Win4now has a potential Olympic athlete in the office, the lovely James competes in Trampolining. Team Win4now! Go James.

Being unfit is healthier than being sporty.

Being unfit & a couch potatoe is healthier than being sporty....

What do you think to this statement?

It got us musing in the office today because Rob from Lucky Hammer-(the amazing reverse auction site) rang us up this morning to tell us he'd been knocked off his road bike last night. Luckily he's just badly bruised, as his bike took the worst of it (I feel your pain Rob! r.i.p bikey)

Now if you were at home watching the tele, you'd be safe and sound.
It's dangerous doing sports.

So get well soon Rob & to our sporty readers, eat some pies, enter competitions from the safety of your living rooms and take care of yourselves!

Fun4now clues: no more clues for this months, but here's a cheeky insight into next months new mystery image. 'buy recycled'

Can you win twice?

If you've won a competition before, can you win again on the same site?

Yes of course you can!

We won't remove your winning entry if we know you've won before.
That goe's for Win4now & Instantwin4now.

You could even win the same competition on Instantwin4now if you wanted.

See the winners pages for proof you really can be lucky more than once - in fact it's endless the amount of wins you could have with Win4now (& instantwin4now)

Fun4now clue:
Fetch

Office banter & fun:
What comes to mind when you hear the words 'Dinosaur Mummy'?
We were in stitches in the office recently, when I was talking about how I'd watched an interesting documentary on A Dinosaur mummy but Rob completely got the wrong end of the stick and thought I was talking about a documentary on old women giving birth. Then to make matters worse looked straight at Kerry! She wasn't a happy bunny! (or dinosaur mummy hehe)
Ah the wonders of the English language :)

I wish I didn't work at Win4now

I know the title sounds a little harsh but,

here I am in the office, writing up new competitions for all our lovely members to win and I can't win any of them!
Not fair.

I wish with my comping knowledge, I could start entering win4now and instantwin4now's competitions. I'd enter every day.

I can see myself now on the Win4now winners page smiling to the world after winning a couple of thousand pound for free, or on the mighty Instantwin4now winners page sitting in my newly won sports car....

I'll have to carry on dreaming, but you can count yourself lucky that you can play. Do me a favour and enter one for me!
Mums the word.


Office gossip alert> Eve is leaving Win4now for real, last day is May 1st. We'll all miss you! x

Going green is good but baby blue is better

OMG! my gorgeous new mountain bike frame (in baby blue) has just arrived in the office today!
I can't wipe the grin off my face. Just check out this for the most beautiful bike ever: My new Orange 5 bike

Win4now doesn't currently have any mountain bike competitions ( Instantwin4now has lots of bike competitions. Just type 'bike' into the search box for a list. )

However Win4now does have this cool Eco friendly Honda Civic hybrid car prize draw that you could win. It not only claims to reduce your carbon footprint but you will also be reducing the cost of your petrol and the car is exempt from the London Congestion Charge.


Let us know if there are anymore green competitions that you'd like us to run for you.

ps. This post is especially for you Jess, I know how much you love me talking about bikes :)

Not winning doesn't = a scam company

It's snowing here in Sheffield again, that would be nice if it was December; but i'm getting a tad fed up of all this cold weather now and i'm looking forward to putting my shorts and sandals back on.

Not a lot of office gossip over the past few days, Evo has had a new tattoo (shes braver than me) & Rob our new team member is experimenting with making his sandwiches more 'city'. Oh and I lost the table football championship in March :( boo

Not winning on comps musings:

I've been buying a lottery ticket now once a week for about a year.
That's £52 i've wasted out of my hard earnings, because i've not even won a tenner!

That doesn't mean that http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/ is a scam and no one ever wins from it.
It just means that I haven't won yet, but its more likely i'll win if I carry on trying and increase my odds.

Win4now is free so if I enter a competition every week it costs me £0, and my chances/odds of winning are massively higher than winning the lottery.

Keep trying compers you will win if you don't quit. Even if its a £10'er, at least your in profit unlike my lottery experience so far!