I use Rafflecopter for my giveaways which picks a winner randomly and makes it easier for contest entries to be kept together. Many bloggers use it now and I promise once you use it you will love it or at least see how easy it is to enter.
To enter a contest:
- Most of my contests have the main entry be “Leave a Blog Post Comment” – I do this so sponsors can see genuine interest in the contest by the comments left.
- To Leave a Comment – Scroll to the top of the blog post and click where it says “Leave a Comment” or “XX Comments” (where XX is the number of comments, meaning others have already left a comment)
- After you leave a blog post comment answering what the Rafflecopter entry says (usually it says leave a comment on XXX or Visit the sponsors webpage and leave a comment on your favorite product), then come back to the Rafflecopter widget and click “I Commented”
- After you do that, the rest of the entries are optional and earn you extra entries. Such as sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and so forth. Each entry counts as one entry.
Here are some visuals to hopefully explain it better!
Okay so here is an example of a giveaway – its says how long before the contest ends, how many entries total and how many entries you have completed. It also says the prize.
As you can see the main entry says “Leave a Blog Post Comment” which when you click on it, it says “Leave a blog post comment on whether or not you have ever been to Medieval Times!”
So scroll to the top of the blog post and see where it says “Leave a Comment” and click on it! If there are already comments then it will say “100 Comments” (or however many comments there are)
Once you leave a comment, then go back to the Rafflecopter Widget and click “I Commented”
After that it will open up additional entries you can complete for bonus entries to increase your odds:
Note: You DO NOT have to Tweet or Facebook or any of the rest if you don’t want to! Just the very first main entry is required!
If you ever have a question please ask! I know it can be overwhelming entering contests as everyone has different rules and ways to enter and I try to make mine as easy as possible. You can email me at ckachelmuss @ gmail.com (remove the spaces in my email when you do!)
I am so sorry! Facebook rejects my forwarding your URLs on their site! Facebook says it looks like spam 😢
I tried a couple of different ways, but I wasn’t successful. I apologize again!
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Checking out your blog and the new giveaway!
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This is so awesome!! I am from RhodeIsland, it snows there in winter, but I now live in Virginia and there hasn’t been any snow, just flurries. I would love to make a little snow man or woman with my youngest granddaughter, she would love this !! Thank you in advance!!
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I just love all your sweepstakes! you help so many parents by what you do and i just want to say thank you .
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Commenting on the Medievil Catle in Chicago wish i could attend i Live in Baltimore. Seen the show once a long time ago heard is thas a new update I would like to see soon
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I will love to win a contest
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No I have never been
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Thank you for the explanation – very helpful. And thanks for the opportunity to enter!
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Thank you. This was very helpful!
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thanks for the heads up on how to enter
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Thank you for your great advice on how to enter sweepstakes.
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i love you jojo
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Great tips and help for entering contests TY
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I think these games would be a wonderful way, especially children, to learn how to “find” things. I believe the art of “finding” is a lost art. Children immediately say “I cant find my (whatever)”. It appears that this game teaches you to actually LOOK for what you want.
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I never have problems but with this one when I click to make the comment it just gives me the entries and doesn’t direct me to the blog to comment on.
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Thanks
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Thanks!
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my granddaughter watches all the time
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I received my daughter’s old iPhone 5 when she upgraded so I could have a cell phone. I think I have figured out a lot of links on my own, but I still don’t know how to copy a Pinterest URL when I pin something to my boards! I have asked for help on another site, but never received a response. Maybe if I could just see what a copied one looks like, I can figure the rest out myself. Thank you!!
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I’m looking forward to my child learning cursive. she’s already trying.
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I can’t enter ANY of these Rafflecopter giveaways all of a sudden. There is NOTHING wrong with my enail, I am logged in to it and I STILL wind up at a blank white screen if I hit the FB login button. Not a big deal though.
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On the belt giveaway, I shared on facebook but I dont know where to mark that I shared. How do I do that.
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What the Heck is Going on im sell a Disney world TV Set for $9.99 #Giveaway only one Disney world TV set for a Girl or Boy or Both. P.S. call me At 2532828210 bye.
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Have not been on a Chicago boat ride sinces the late 90s would love to win this one
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My son would love to have this!
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The patriot blue would be great for my son’s room!
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This would be so awesome. I subscribe to the Medieval Times newsletter but have never had the chance to go.
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I believe my grand daughter would love the nurse station ,and my grandson ,the elm
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Oh…I would love to win this for my baby girl. She is always trying to use our iPad and this would resolve my near heart attack episodes…where she has almost dropped it on our hard floors before. 🙂
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im trying to get hang of this.
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Hi, I just found the page/site “Mom and More”, thought it looked really neat so started checking it out. I am not very good with computers (my son says PC Illiterate~because otherwise intelligent) so when I clicked on a post to try to win a DVD, I ran into problems. I’m sure I’ll have many, but since this site looks super awesome, I would like to be able to use/do it. My question is, what is a “blog”? It said to do something on the blog but I don’t know how to find!! I’m sorry to bother you with what will probably be a silly question. My son is my normal “go to” person for anything computer related. But right now he is on his way home (actually on the plane right now!!!!) from Afghanistan~Thank God 🙂 and I can’t reach him. Thank you so much for any assistance 🙂
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Did you still need help with this?
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my family would love the bella and Harry books
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I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO MEDIEVAL TIMES
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Cher, I need help with where to put my comments for the giveaway, you have two recent giveaways (itunes and turning leaf) that I couldn’t find the place to put them in.
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Thank you for using Rafflecopter!
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No problem!
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YES FIX YOUR CONTEST WONT TAKE ENTRY AT ALL DEAD PAGE
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