In different words, experienced contest fans may call it:

“getting two entries for the price of one”.

It is almost like doubling your chance at winning the cash, iPhone or other prizes being offered. Or should I say try to “win two prizes with one purchase”?

Whichever idiom your prefer, it just means that you should strive to get more value for your money. If you can get more entries for the same amount of money spent, why not? You just increased your chances of winning without spending extra money, right?

So let us imagine this situation:

You went to Tesco because you needed to buy some facial products (and of course other groceries and things for your home) for yourself or for your significant other. You walked the aisle with shampoo, cosmetics, soaps, and other beauty products on the shelves on your left and on your right.

Then you saw this big cardboard banner saying “NIVEA Chinese New Year Contest – Celebrate the Abundance of Love and Care and WIN RM188,888 worth or prizes”. You thought to yourself, “If I am buying some products anyways, why not try and win some cash as well”.

So you continue to read the striking advertisement with an image of tall dark and handsome guy staring straight at you.

This contest offers the Grand prize of RM18,888 for every 888th Participant. On the other hand, if you just win the 2nd Prize of RM888 cash, you will be already be jumping up and down with joy.

The 2nd prize is awarded to every 88th Participant.

In addition, even winning the daily prize of RM88 can get you good meals for the day for the whole family.

You continue to scan the same banner with that bold and bright words on it. It also says there, that there will be daily winners too. This is a good thing because every 8th Participant will win this daily prize of RM88!

So what do you do now?

You did the obvious. You purchased the Nivea Men product worth RM30 as required to enter. You walked quickly to the cashier, and paid for your items. You then quickly used your phone, typed away your name and other required details. You immediately filled the online form using your phone. You snapped a photo of your receipt and lastly pray that your name will be listed in that winners list.

So now you had to wait.

Right?

NO.

You can do more.

Wait! Think of some ways to optimize the money you just spent.

How about if you buy the same products online? Can you still enter the contest? A quick glance at the contest form via your smartphone screen will reveal the answer – yes. You can purchase online at still join this contest.

How about at Lazada? Can you get the products cheaper? Maybe you can get cashback? If yes, you could have sent more entries by paying the same amount of atleast paid less for the same products.

Is there any other contest you can enter if you pay Lazada using your credit card? You should check the credit card(s) that you use for contests. Maybank for example have regular contests if you do not mind browsing through Maybank2u’s front page.

After spending a few extra minutes, we found out that you can:

So just by thinking like a winner, you could have saved some extra money, get to enter more contests, and increased your chances of winning.

So here is a recap of what you can do:

  1. Join Shopback program
  2. Buy Nivea Men products worth RM20 at Lazada (make sure to shop via Shopback site to get cashback) – Click here to buy Nivea Men products from Lazada
  3. Join Nivea Men 2017 CNY contest – Click here for contest entry form | Go here for the contest terms and conditions
  4. Join the Shopback contest – Click here to learn about Shopback contest

I just saved you 12% of the purchase price. You also saved some petrol because you do not need to go out into the crowd to get the products. Interesting right?

p.s: Why is the title at the top says Contest Tips #8?
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