I think if we were able to figure out the random time we would all be winners. I have entered in the beginning, in the middle and at the end of one time sweeps. Have won many times and feel confident in saying that it doesn't matter when, it just matters that you do enter!

The biggest strategy is to make sure you get an entry into the sweep before it ends.

I tend to pre-screen the new stuff on a daily basis and dump the stuff I want to enter into a mysweep category (since I'm plus, I have a custom where I also dump all the 1x FB, CD, DVD, Book entries too, but the regular one worked fine before I upgraded). And then I sort and enter trying to stay as far ahead of the expiration dates as I can and remove them from mysweeps as I go. It's nice to watch that number drop and I've gotten it down to 0 a couple times, but with as many 1x's that are added every day (+ the 1x that are in those other categories) it's not easy to keep up with and I usually have a few hundred with further out expiration dates that linger for a while.

I also will look through the list on occasion and make sure I enter the 1x that have daily or weekly prizes earlier rather than later.

So, that's more of an organizational strategy that a strategy strategy, but it works for me

I am still *fairly* new at this (a little over 3 months contesting), and I have entered at various times in the contest runs for many contests and still have not won one- 1 entry contest! I would *like* to though! LOL