Comping on your foreign holiday
Are you going abroad on holiday this year? Worried about how you’ll cope without your round-the-clock free wifi? If you’re on holiday in Europe you’ll be able to use your mobile data allowance in...
Category: Comping tips
McCain and Highland Spring promotions: ASA complaints upheld
The Advertising Standards Authority have finally published their ruling on the McCain Great Village Raffle, concluding it wasn’t run fairly and McCain ‘exaggerated’ the chance of winning. I’ve written about the Great Village Raffle...
How to find, enter and win Twitter competitions
Do you use Twitter for comping? It’s a fantastic source of short-lived and low entry giveaways, but can be confusing for a new user, with replies, comments, retweets, quote tweets, and plenty more to get...
How to find, enter and win Facebook competitions
Are you new to comping on Facebook? Perhaps you’ve been comping for years but the prospect of joining Facebook terrifies you? Or maybe you’d just like to learn some tips and tricks to improve...
GDPR, competitions and compers
You’ve probably heard the letters GDPR mentioned an awful lot lately! It’s General Data Protection Regulation and came into force across Europe on 25th May 2018. What is GDPR? GDPR is a regulation on data protection...
No more daily tweets…
Twitter recently announced a change in its rules regarding posting duplicate content. Designed to reduce the amount of spam and ‘bots’ on the platform, the new terms of service stop people sending duplicate tweets...
Compers Survey 2018
Later this month I’ll be giving a short presentation at a event in London, hosted by PromoVeritas and the ASA. ‘Be in the know – Compelling competitions’ will cover the CAP Code and best...
National Competition & Survey Entrants Register – is it a scam?
Have you received a letter from the National Competition & Survey Entrants Register? These letters are posted out occasionally to people who’ve entered a prize draw or survey, and in doing so, have given...
How to spot a scam email
Most days I get at least a couple of suspicious looking emails in my inbox – whether it’s about a parcel delivery, chasing an imaginary invoice or news that I’m on a shortlist to...
Less than 1% of prizes awarded in the McCain Great British Raffle
Back in February 2017, I blogged about the McCain Great British raffle. A big budget promotion with a £3 million prize fund (28,515 prizes in total). It seemed too good to be true didn’t...
