I’m a one that actively seeks out low entry giveaways. Almost daily. It seems that there a many different perceptions of what is considered “low entry”.
I seek out low entry giveaways for several reasons:
1. Good chance of winning
2. Helps out fellow bloggers to get more entries into their giveaway
3. A lot of them are grocery or beauty type items I would normally buy anyway. This has helped take a bite out of our grocery bill which is fantastic.
So my question to you is, What do you consider “low entry”?
My personal definition is a giveaway with less than 100 entries and ending within a week. There are exceptions if there are several winners. I usually multiply that by the number of winners for the giveaway. So if there are 2 winners, less than 200 entrants still fit in my definition and so on. One exception to my rule would be if it’s a really big prize with less than 200. For example, something like a Dyson vacuum with only 200 entries and a week left would be low for that prize, in my opinion.
I don’t like it when I see 200+ entries with 1 winner and it’s being promoted as low entry. I also hate to see when there is still 2 weeks left on the giveaway and it’s being promoted as low entry. That’s just my opinion though. I know there are many views out there.
That being said, I found a giveaway with low entries today I thought I’d share as an example:
Barefoot in Portland has a giveaway for a GLEE make your own candy kit. With my entries included there are only 13 entries so far and end 2/4 (less than a week away). So stop over and enter.
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I’m with you on the under 100 entries and ending within a week thing in general, although as always there are exceptions:
For example, some contests have 100+ entries, but have 10+ ways enter, including a daily entry (ie. through tweeting)… so even if they’ve hit 200 entries, when the math is done, your chances are still quite good. I’d rather take time to enter those ones, vs. other “low entry” ones which have maybe 50 entries, but require multiple things done to even get that one entry.
I have thought about this exactly. I think under 100 and close to end date is low entry.. i have a few of those right now. I am surprised because I have JUMBiES and any other blog would have well over 100 – it makes me wonder what draws people into one giveaway over the other. Thanks for the follow on both my pages.. I am a new follower of yours too 🙂 http://onemoreflewoverthecuckoo.blogspot.com/
Thanks so much for psoting about my giveaways! Karen
Pegs raises a good point as well. She says if there area lot of entry methods (like 10 for example) and say 150 entries, it can still give you a good chance if you take advantage of the majority or all of them. Assuming that most people did that, the number of entrants would still be pretty low.
We’ve talked about this on twitter. I agree with you: under 100, unless there are multiple winners. And it should be ending soon.
I totally agree with you. I’ve checked out links to low entry giveaways before and they’ve had several hundred entries already.
Completely agree. I’m following you back from the blog hop. Hope you have a wonderful week. Off to check out the rest of your blog.
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i agree! my blog always has low entry giveaways
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