Whether we like to admit it or not, we're all guilty of falling victim to popular giveaways. Usually the result is the feeling of disappointment when the winner is announced, but one woman believes she has the answers to increase your chances of being successful.
Competition expert Katy Spence has revealed the vital mistakes we're making in our entries. Katy, who admits to entering over a hundred giveaways a day, has shared her essential advice for winning competitions on popular streaming platform TikTok.
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She believes that most of us enter giveaways wrong, so has set the record straight with the easiest way to secure those popular prizes.
Katy, who has raked in over 12,400 followers on TikTok from her essential tips, detailed the mistake of entries in a recent video.
Sharing the revelation online, she admitted her disbelief of how "no one is talking about this".
She said: "Here's how to enter and win competitions in the UK.
"First tip - where do you find the competitions? I used a selection of websites, I use competition database, prize find, and use the money saving expert forum - that's it!
"There's a whole forum of all competition and they're all put in date order, so you can see the date ending and what the prize is.
"The answer to all the questions is actually in the forum as well - so it's all done for you!"
Her next tip primarily focused on the people who are guilty of saying that they never win anything, which led to her next question - how much are you entering?
"Enter them a lot!" She explained.
"If you've got 90 tickets and a 99 ticket raffle, you've got more chance of winning. I will sometimes enter hundreds a day!
"I will sat at night on my laptop for an hour and and just fire off these entries, so the more you get entered, the better chance you could have of winning something."
Following the abundance of competitions out there, Katy answered one of her most popular questions - what's the best kind to enter?
She admitted: "I will say that the hardest something is to enter, the easiest it's going to be to win.
"Creative competitions, tie breakers, photography videography, anything where you can put some effort into, they are the ones you have the better chance, because they do get less entries."
Several concerned TikTokers were wary of the infinite amount of emails that will spam their inbox, where Katy explained the benefits.
"It's not spam, it's newsletters, but you can (and I would) set up a brand new email," she said.
Receiving newsletters can work in the long run as you'll be made aware of future competitions - but she advised that it's best to make a new account.
"I'm going to give you a bonus tip because you're staying around for the end - text competitions," she added.
"When you go into a supermarket, pay attention at packaging at the little end banners.
"There are some little gem prizes in there that don't get that many entries!"
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