Differences between Sweepstakes advantage and Plus
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Hi cjhcjh,
People usually ask what are the differences, but you are asking what is the best way to explain the differences -
I think the answer is very similar. Although you see the same sweeps, you will have different tools and more control over how you organize your sweeps. This leads to ease of entry, and hopefully you can enter more - more regularly, more efficiently. For example, instead of all daily sweeps going to your daily list, you can create your own categories and divide up the dailies you enter into things like "Must Enter," "Magazines," "3X per Day," etc. or organize your book or DVDs into "Books - daily," or "DVD -daily." Guess you already know this as you are a Plus member.
Also, in Plus, you see Facebook and Twitter as separate categories, so you can skip them if you want.
Most recently, the category Expiring Soon has become a Plus feature.
For many of us, another reason for joining Plus is to show our support to the Admin for all the work he does, at no cost to us, so we choose to join for approximately 8cents per day.
Here is a link to one of several threads on the topic:
http://www.sweepstakesplus.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61387
cjhcjh - everything we do in life is a trade off so I think of it this way; time = $$$.
If you do have the time to devote to what the tools can provide, but you'd rather "spend" your time doing other things, then PLUS is a bargain!
If you don't have the time? As arrtup3 notes, you just can't beat 8 cents a day!
So by joining PLUS, not only does it keep SA's "doors" open, the more people who go PLUS, the better the tools can get! Our admin doesn't buy them, he creates them, so the possibilities are endless!!!
If you do have the time to devote to what the tools can provide, but you'd rather "spend" your time doing other things, then PLUS is a bargain!
If you don't have the time? As arrtup3 notes, you just can't beat 8 cents a day!
So by joining PLUS, not only does it keep SA's "doors" open, the more people who go PLUS, the better the tools can get! Our admin doesn't buy them, he creates them, so the possibilities are endless!!!
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Quick analogy;
It's like canning your own food vs. buying it in the store. While canning can be cheaper {if you grow your own already/have the supplies} it's much less time consuming & convenient to buy pre-canned.
Or, the time/energy involved in creating a meal; shopping for the ingredients, then putting them all together vs. going out to eat which is also much less time consuming & convenient.
People don't think twice about these trade-offs of paying a higher premium because their time is much more important than their money and/or it is a more efficient use of both.
But I guess as sweepers, we have the "free lunch" syndrome, and get annoyed when anything is required from us in return for the shot at free prizes - I hear a lot of complaints when a sponsor asks for anything more than basic info to fulfill.
I keep in mind that when a sponsor chooses to use their advertising money on a promotion {sweepstakes, contest, etc.} that they are looking for new customers and/or trying to keep the ones they have, so anything they ask of me past that info, like sharing, referrals, subscribe to their newsletter, etc. is the "price" for that "free lunch" and I decide my comfort level.
So for SA vs. SP - SP is an inexpensive convenience that allows me to customize my sweeps the way *I* think they should be - priceless, IMHO!
So any sweeps that awards prizes *during* the promo instead of at the end {or draw at the end from daily entries for specific prizes on specific entry dates} are IW's, so I create my own categories & put them in;
DP/WP/MP {Daily Prize/Weekly Prize/Monthly Prize} And I treat them like they are IW's, since most of them award prizes daily!
If this matters to your friend{s}, let them know that the majority of DP/WP/MP types are run thru FB/Twitter, and only PLUS members can even save FB/Twitter sweeps!
It's like canning your own food vs. buying it in the store. While canning can be cheaper {if you grow your own already/have the supplies} it's much less time consuming & convenient to buy pre-canned.
Or, the time/energy involved in creating a meal; shopping for the ingredients, then putting them all together vs. going out to eat which is also much less time consuming & convenient.
People don't think twice about these trade-offs of paying a higher premium because their time is much more important than their money and/or it is a more efficient use of both.
But I guess as sweepers, we have the "free lunch" syndrome, and get annoyed when anything is required from us in return for the shot at free prizes - I hear a lot of complaints when a sponsor asks for anything more than basic info to fulfill.
I keep in mind that when a sponsor chooses to use their advertising money on a promotion {sweepstakes, contest, etc.} that they are looking for new customers and/or trying to keep the ones they have, so anything they ask of me past that info, like sharing, referrals, subscribe to their newsletter, etc. is the "price" for that "free lunch" and I decide my comfort level.
So for SA vs. SP - SP is an inexpensive convenience that allows me to customize my sweeps the way *I* think they should be - priceless, IMHO!
So any sweeps that awards prizes *during* the promo instead of at the end {or draw at the end from daily entries for specific prizes on specific entry dates} are IW's, so I create my own categories & put them in;
DP/WP/MP {Daily Prize/Weekly Prize/Monthly Prize} And I treat them like they are IW's, since most of them award prizes daily!
If this matters to your friend{s}, let them know that the majority of DP/WP/MP types are run thru FB/Twitter, and only PLUS members can even save FB/Twitter sweeps!
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cjhcjh, thanks for all you guys do!
Just want to say again that the being able to customize your sweeps is really great. Forgot to mention one of my most useful categories, which Amy's post reminded me - Daily Prize - for sweeps that award a prize a day. There are many days when I don't have time for all my Daily sweeps so I make sure I enter the ones I pulled out and placed in Daily Prize and other special categories I created...short answer -
Custom list helps you prioritize.
Just want to say again that the being able to customize your sweeps is really great. Forgot to mention one of my most useful categories, which Amy's post reminded me - Daily Prize - for sweeps that award a prize a day. There are many days when I don't have time for all my Daily sweeps so I make sure I enter the ones I pulled out and placed in Daily Prize and other special categories I created...short answer -
Custom list helps you prioritize.
cjhcjh, thanks for all you guys do!
Just want to say again that the being able to customize your sweeps is really great. Forgot to mention one of my most useful categories, which Amy's post reminded me - Daily Prize - for sweeps that award a prize a day. There are many days when I don't have time for all my Daily sweeps so I make sure I enter the ones I pulled out and placed in Daily Prize and other special categories I created...short answer -
Custom list helps you prioritize.
MUCH better!!!
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