Make Money By Entering Contests

Did you know that there are people out there who enter contests and sweepstakes as their hobby?  They enter dozens of contests a day and win hundreds of dollars worth of prizes a month.  Sweeping, as it is called, is a good hobby because you can do it as much as you like, and you actually make money doing it.

I dabbled in sweeping for a month or so a while back.  I entered about 20 contests a day; which took me about 40 minutes.  Although I did not win anything huge, I did win some smaller prizes.  Here are some of the things that I won:

- 2 vouchers for a free Crunch Bar
- 3 vouchers for a free movie
- 4 vouchers for a free music download
- 1 fleece blanket

Here is how you can get started:

1.  Make a free e-mail account for the contests

You will make one specifically for sweeping because your e-mail will get tons of spam after you enter the contests.  Any Yahoo, MSN, Google or other e-mail will do the trick.

2.  Get a free Internet phone number

Just as your e-mail will be sold to marketers, so may your phone number.  I didn’t want to take any chances, so I got one of Internet numbers.  There are some choices out there, but I went with http://www.ringcentral.com/.

3.  Find some contests to enter

There are a lot of sites that have contest listings.  I use the contests and sweepstakes forum on Fatwallet.  You can find it here: http://www.fatwallet.com/c/45/.

4.  Enter the contests

There are once, daily, monthly, and quarterly sweepstakes that you can enter.  Make sure you keep track of which ones you can enter more than once.  By entering more, you give yourself more of a chance to win.

Now if you’re really serious about winning, you should try to get into the local contests and sweepstakes.  You can often find these at grand openings of stores and radio station promotions.  Keep an eye out for these or search for them on the Internet.

That’s it.  Good luck, and if you win a car, remember who told you about this…

Written by admin on July 21st, 2006 with comments disabled.
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