Daily Entry and Instant Win Tips

Just a few tips I've picked up by entering the daily entry and instant win games.

I have some folders in my bookmarks for contests with labels like "Dailies" and "Monthlies" and one for each day of the week. I stick the daily entry instant wins in the dailies folder and monthlies are for monthly entries, of course. There aren't a ton of weekly entries usually, but what I do is stick the contests that are daily entry but not instant win in there. I get burned out pretty quickly entering a daily entry game that doesn't have any instant gratification of knowing that I won a prize, but I don't want to enter it just once, so I compromise and enter it weekly. What I like to do is stick links like that in the folder of the day that I'm actually entering it on. That way I don't have a ton of contests to enter on just one day of the week.

When I save a contest link in a folder I will sometimes change the automatic label that pops up and rename it with things like an ending date or a code I need to use to enter or my user ID and password for that site.

There are many articles that will tell you the best time of the day to enter daily contests. They may have research and algorithms to back up their data, I don't know. What I do know is that I personally have won at all hours (I won last night at 8 pm) and I see other people winning all day long as well. Unless it is a game that is giving away one prize per hour, when it would be best to enter early in the morning when less people are entering, I would just enter when it's convenient for you. If you get in the mindset of having to enter before 9 a.m. or something, you run the risk of getting stressed out if you can't get to your contests in time, and this should be a FUN hobby! :D

If you have multiple chances to win per day, you may want to spread those out throughout the day rather than enter them all at once.

Don't worry too much about using specific codes that are provided or answering trivia questions in a certain way. Unless rules specifically state that you must get questions correct to enter or win, none of that is tied to your chance of winning, it's all random.

Even if your screen looks like it's not a winning entry, wait those extra few seconds to see the actual notification that you didn't win. Once my screen picture was not the winning one, but the words that popped up were of congratulations and I was able to fill out a form and claim my prize. I'm glad I didn't click away too quickly!

About Amazon Bouncy Box contests specifically - I won't be featuring those here because they are constantly changing and you can find them all over, including signing up to get an email reminder from Amazon each day. My advice is do not spend very much time on those. If you read the fine print you will see that most of them say something like "Every 25000 eligible entry will win, up to 2 winners. This giveaway started Wednesday, July 10, 2019 and ends the earlier of Wednesday, July 17, 2019 or when all prizes have been awarded". That's their sneaky way of saying unless a ton of people click this box we are not obligated to give out a prize. When they have super high odds like that, they are almost never going to actually award a prize. I have personally won two physical prizes from bouncy boxes: an umbrella and some dog treats. I click on probably between 10-30 a day, spending only a few minutes. I find them fun, especially since you see instantly if you won, but they are not going to be a great source of wins for you unless you are very picky and only spend time entering those with super great odds.

I'm sure this won't be the only tip post I make, but it's just a few things that are good to remember, especially when first starting out sweeping. Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments or on the Let's Sweep Together Facebook page!

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