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Comping - what is it? If you like competitions, you will love this!

Several years ago, bored and on maternity leave playing the waiting game, I read an article about comping. A lady was making £10,000 a month just entering competitions. Absurd, I thought.

Actually.....

I thought I'd give it a go, in the few short weeks I had before the bedlam of those first few hazy, manic, sleep deprived newborn moments. In those weeks I won £250, some books, some holiday goodies, perfume, cream, a vinyl record, some vouchers and lots of other bits and bobs. It was a far cry off £10,000 but it was something and it helped pass the time and took my mind off the waiting.

If you are interested in comping, here's a few tips (only based on what I do). This is just a quick and easy post to get you started:

Loquax.co.uk 


This site is fabulous! Sign up, I normally pick the tab that says 'closing competitions.' To have a good chance they say entering about 30 competitions a day you will win a few things a week (tried and tested, it works). Obviously this can be a little time consuming so I haven't comped myself in a few months. If you can set aside 15-30 minutes per day or whilst doing other things, pick a date and try entering all of the competitions from that date.

Social Media 



Do you have a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account? Try searching for # which words associated with competitions and see what comes up. Some examples are #win #competition #free #entercompetition . Enter a few of these.

Best advice is to set up a quick and easy seperate email address, you will be spammed. Use this to enter your competitions and voila! I'm going to really try hard to give it a go this month again and I'll publish my results at the end of November. Some people do set up extra social media accounts however do be careful doing this, and check each websites terms and conditions prior to doing so. I normally select those which don't ask me to share the posts now, although at the time I shared a lot to my personal profile (much to the dismay of my friends I'm sure).

If you try this out, let us know how you get on by posting in the comment section below.

Good luck comping!

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