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MT Week - How to enter competitions and actually win

MT Week - How to enter competitions and actually win

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Qin Xie
Feb 27, 2022
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Are you one of those people who never wins anything? Me too. 

I’m not talking about awards though; I’m talking about competitions, with prizes like cars, holidays or even cold hard cash.

Actually, I did once get lucky on that front - at the Virgin Atlantic Christmas party in 2019, I won a pair of tickets to anywhere on their network.

Incredible right? 

But just as I was deciding where to cash it out, the pandemic hit. It’s still sitting on my shelf, next to the other souvenirs, having long expired.

So last year, when I met Di Coke just before Christmas, I was fascinated to learn that she had basically made entering competitions - or comping as it’s known - into a full time job.

She had so many stories and tips about entering competitions that I thought I’d share a snippet as a Q&A.

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