2011: …you lose some!
I blogged yesterday about some of the fabulous wins I had from creative competitions in 2011, but of course I don’t win EVERY competition I enter – that would be boring! Here I’m looking...
Category: Di’s diary
2011: You win some…
At the end of each year I like to have a look back at my competition successes, but for 2011 I also want to mention a few of my favourite failures, which you can...
Merry Christmas from the O2 Santa!
I couldn’t resist tweeting the O2 Santa this morning when I saw his fab YouTube video asking for your Christmas wishes! And this is what I got in return – a Christmas greeting for you...
IPM to help revise Facebook Promotion Rules
If you’re a comper then you’ve probably heard about the IPM – Institute of Promotional Marketing (previously the ISP, Institute of Sales Promotion), the trade association that represents promoters, agencies and service partners engaged in...
WANTED: Your Superlucky stories!
Ack, I’m so unbelievably busy this week! The deadline for the January issue of Compers News has been brought forward to next Thursday, and the launch of the new look PrizeFinder website – featuring my...
Double Trouble – ditch your comping Facebook account!
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a flurry of requests from Facebook friends to add their ‘new comping account’ as a friend. As a comper, it’s easy to annoy your ‘normal’ friends with...
Why I’m not changing my Facebook profile picture to a Seabrook logo
I used to love Seabrook Crisps. They bring back happy memories of my student days in Bradford, and the hilarious time JoJoEbi and I made a short film for her final year project about...
How to enter a blog competition
Blog competitions and giveaways are a relatively new phenomenon, and can be totally bewildering if you’ve never seen a blog before! Perhaps first I should explain what a blog is – it’s short for...
A foodie weekend in Paris
Ah, Paris. Surely the most famous of romantic destinations? And of course the ideal choice for me and Mr Coke to spend our first weekend away from the boy… We crept out of Nana’s...
My page 3 fella!
You know how the local paper loves a happy story? Well after being bumped from the Friday, Saturday and Monday editions due to murder verdicts and Forest losing Steve McLaren, my boy made an...
