So many sweepstakes, so little time, right? As most of you know, I enter somewhere around 60-80 sweepstakes per day. If I find it and it looks legitimate, I enter it and add it to my list.
If you want to enter lots of sweepstakes, you have to have a system. I’m sure there are lots of individual systems out there, but I will tell you what works for me. My guess is that they are all fairly similar.
First and foremost, you HAVE to use an auto-fill program. This is a program that you add to the toolbar of your browser. You enter all of your personal information into the program and save it there. Every time you have to fill in your personal information on a sweepstakes page, just press the program button on your toolbar and most will fill in. This only works for some types of pages (although it seems to be the majority), but it will save you A LOT of typing time.
The next part involves keeping track of all of the sweepstakes you want to enter. This is what I do: I have a sweepstakes folder in the bookmarks of my browser and another in my email. When I enter a sweepstakes, I bookmark it and include the end date with the name. After entering, you will either get a confirmation email asking you to play again tomorrow or you won’t. If I get that email, it goes into the sweepstakes folder in my email box and I delete the bookmark. If I don’t, the bookmark gets added to my sweepstakes bookmark folder from my browser.
When I go to enter my sweepstakes, I start with my email folder. I click on five different sweepstakes links from the emails and let the five windows load. I enter the first sweepstakes. After I am done, I open the first sweepstakes listed from my bookmarks folder in that same window and let it load. While it is loading I enter the sweep in the next window. I keep that rotation going until I am done.
If you can cut out the wait time while your sweepstakes load and the typing time that the Auto-Fill program solves, you can get a lot of sweepstakes entered in a short time. Like I said, there are lots of ways to do this, you just have to figure out what works best for you!
Alli is a Chicago based wife and mother of two children. She has turned money-saving into a game and enjoys searching out the best deals to help you save money! Alli shares her insight, tips and up-to-the-minute deals for local and national retailers and brands. Her hope is that you will play the game and learn to save money at the same time!