Winning a sweepstakes

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zionsmama

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I check my email religiously waiting for a win...but I am curious, what are the bigger wins normally as subject lines? Do they specifically state "congrats" or "you won" in the subject? I am so afraid I am going to miss one so I read all my other B.S. emails! LOL
 
Definitely add "win notification" or "winner notification" to your subject line search.
 
I open every email unless it says something about saving a % in the subject line. Every so often I go through and unsubscribe from the newsletters and that seems to keep the volume of emails reasonable.
 
I don't read all emails, none except the important ones. I have Gmail and I just look at the subject line. I get a lot of emails trying to sell products, and its obvious by the title subject line... I don't have enough time to read emails, and I'd probably go crazy because my emails is full of junk spam emails. I never really unsubscribe from emails either because I've read a few times where you have to be subscribed to win, I can't remember the particular contests though.

But, I also use my search bar (sometimes, I guess I should more) and hunt for 'winner', 'win', 'won','congratulations'...( some keywords describing a win basically).

Now, I don't read emails because I only enter the major sweeps usually.. I'm planning to try & enter more in the future so I'll just use my search bar. Because ultimately if I read the subject line and rely on that. But, like you say it would be terrible to miss out on a win from not reading an email so it is up to you! That's my advice!

Oh yeah, let's say you have 2 hours of free time a day, well if you spend thirty minutes reading emails that decreases your entering time. After all, one cannot spend every waking moment sweeping usually people have chores, sleep especially, and eating, and appointments such as commitments, plus family time, tv time, kids, a job, etc. One entry can be the winner so If I were you I'd just balance my time accordingly. But I have read on different times where the email did not have something in the subject line for a win. I don't worry though, and I've never opened all emails or any really. Personally, I worry more about submitting my winner info, that's my big thing. I'm always in a rush so I wonder if I entered the info to ship stuff correctly lol...I do have an auto fill program though and it's 'last pass' and has never let me down as far as getting my prizes I've won.

Just don't forget the search bar!
 
Email management really is important for wins though. When we run our own giveaways it usually takes us on average 3-5 win notification
emails before we get a reply from a winner. We give people 72 hours to respond so sometimes it may be 2 weeks before we get
a response.

doll38 said:
I don't read all emails, none except the important ones. I have Gmail and I just look at the subject line. I get a lot of emails trying to sell products, and its obvious by the title subject line... I don't have enough time to read emails, and I'd probably go crazy because my emails is full of junk spam emails. I never really unsubscribe from emails either because I've read a few times where you have to be subscribed to win, I can't remember the particular contests though.

But, I also use my search bar (sometimes, I guess I should more) and hunt for 'winner', 'win', 'won','congratulations'...( some keywords describing a win basically).

Now, I don't read emails because I only enter the major sweeps usually.. I'm planning to try & enter more in the future so I'll just use my search bar. Because ultimately if I read the subject line and rely on that. But, like you say it would be terrible to miss out on a win from not reading an email so it is up to you! That's my advice!

Oh yeah, let's say you have 2 hours of free time a day, well if you spend thirty minutes reading emails that decreases your entering time. After all, one cannot spend every waking moment sweeping usually people have chores, sleep especially, and eating, and appointments such as commitments, plus family time, tv time, kids, a job, etc. One entry can be the winner so If I were you I'd just balance my time accordingly. But I have read on different times where the email did not have something in the subject line for a win. I don't worry though, and I've never opened all emails or any really. Personally, I worry more about submitting my winner info, that's my big thing. I'm always in a rush so I wonder if I entered the info to ship stuff correctly lol...I do have an auto fill program though and it's 'last pass' and has never let me down as far as getting my prizes I've won.

Just don't forget the search bar!
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One feature of Microsoft Outlook (old hotmail accounts) that I like is the right click on the message. That opens a screen where you can click "view message source". This screen will let you look at the message without opening it. Frequently the message is garbled, but you can usually read enough to decide if you want to open the email. I'm sure this has saved me from malware, and it's saved me from deleting wins.

I wish Gmail had something similar.
 
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