World of Win4now Competitions

Do people really win cars?

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:34:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:00 +0000

I've just looked at Win4now's about us page and seen how out of date it is?!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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:54:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:40:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:49:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:47:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:15:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:41:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:13:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:59:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:22:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:48:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:32:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:10:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:28:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:54:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:40:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:26:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:53:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:11:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:43:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:32:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Win4now Marketing Team) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:36:00 +0000

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.