Secrets Of Contest Winners Revealed: An Ebook On How To Maximize Your Chances Of Winning Competitions

By Lydia Teh

This book is the definitive guide to winning competitions and contests. With tips ranging from devising a winning strategy to writing spiffy slogans, it offers practical advice on how to win those free holidays, air tickets, hampers, cash and other goodies promised to contest winners. The author's common sense approach demonstrates that entering contests can be a hobby that pays in more ways than one, offering varied opportunities for families to bond and friends to socialize.

Testimonials

Dear Lydia,

I just want to thank you and because of your book I’ve won many prizes ever since. Even though they are just small but I think it’s worth it. So far I have won CD’s, ticket to Ronan Keating’s Concert etc but the most recently I’ve won the ASTRO Mother’s Day Contest which gave me prizes worth RM2000 plus (third place). I guess that’s the biggest so far.

My husband even told me to write to you to thank you “for sharing the pie” hahahaaa... you know why, because every time I received the prizes he is the happiest person on earth.

Regards,
Liana

Lydia,

If you read newspaper on Monday 28 April, you will find out winners of MSAM-Minggu Saham Amanah Malaysia. The grand prize winner was En Hashim Bidin. He is my father. I am one of the die-hard compers but I won nothing for many years. If you still rememeber me, Mohd Jusni Hashim, you will realize that I am one of the purchasers of your book, who bought directly from you. I concentrate reading the book for the whole week and it really helped me. It also help me to contribute my ideas to my family on writing the slogan and finally it helped me to boost my father’s name as the grand prize winner.

Jusni

Dear Lydia,

I read your article about winning competitions in the Star some time back. It featured your book “Congratulations You Have Won” which I got my husband to hunt down and buy. He said he couldn’t locate it. As it turns out to be, he had in fact found it and was keeping as a Christmas present for me. Needless to say, it is indeed one of the BEST Christmas present I’ve ever had.

Once I read it, I was so relieved to discover that what I was doing (entering competitions at that time) was a pastime that many fervently indulged in. It introduced me to the words comping and compers. It motivated me to know that what I was doing in fact could contribute to the income of my family. Never in my wildest dream did I expect so many delightful surprises to come through my mailbag. Needless to say I was inspired to go full steam into comping since that day.

Thanks to you I have won countless contests since then. Amongst them are three grand prizes. All these wouldn’t be made possible if I stuck to my nine to five job waiting for my measly salary. My family wouldn’t be able to enjoy such luxurious treats every now and then. Life would simply be a sheer struggle.... also boring,monotonous and meaningless.

You said in your parting note that “if you have never won anything at all, to secure at least a consolation prize in any contest”. Well in my case, you have certainly helped me get more than that! For that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Bye for now and hope to hear from you soon!
Miranda
In another email, Miranda wrote...

“Without the insight on those big time winners principles and yours in winning

competitions, I simply wouldn’t be where I am today.

Lydia I attribute my success to you! Your book is always near, where

I can reach out at any time and any hour and be touched by all its words.

And so I put to practice what I had learnt from your book and won the following grand prizes....

(a) RM25,000 cash

(b) A trp for 2 to Europe

(c) A cruise onboard the Superstar Virgo to Phuket

(d) A life size E.T.replica doll

(e) A return airticket to London

Miranda

(This ebook was formerly titled Congratulations! You have won)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lydia Teh
• Release date: Oct 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301860791

Lydia Teh

Lydia Teh is a Malaysian author based in Klang, Malaysia. She has written seven books including the bestselling Honk! If You’re Malaysian which occupied permanent residence status on the best sellers’ lists for almost a year and the latest, a comic titled The Wordy Tales of Eh Poh Nim #1 Big Bertha Meets Eh Poh Nim.She is also a columnist at theSun newspaper. Family Teh Time with Lydia Teh appears every Tuesday. She now runs an English language centre.

Book preview

SECRETS OF CONTEST WINNERS REVEALED

An Ebook On How To Maximize Your Chances of Winning Competitions

By

Lydia Teh

SMASHWORDS EDITION

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PUBLISHED BY:

Lydia Teh on Smashwords

Secrets of Contest Winners Revealed

Copyright © 2013 by Teh Chong Foo

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the author

Chapter 1: Of Compers and comping

Chapter 2 : Competitions galore!

Chapter 3: Don’t sabotage your chances

Chapter 4: All in the family

Chapter 5: Do your homework

Chapter 6: Procuring POPs

Chapter 7: Writing winning slogans

Chapter 8: From the organizer’s perspective

Chapter 9 : Congratulations!

FROM THE AUTHOR

In the course of writing this book, I was asked by a consistent competition winner, Why do you want to share your secrets with others? You will have less chances of winning. It's better to be selfish.

To him, I would like to quote another winner's words. The pie is always big enough and no one person can win them all. It is my sincere hope that this book will help readers haul in a bigger catch of prizes. And don't forget to have fun along the way.

Lydia Teh

CHAPTER 1

OF COMPERS AND COMPING

Congratulations! You have won... Don't these words sound exciting? How would you like to fill in the blanks with :

- an all-expenses paid trip to an exotic island,

- cold hard cash,

- a gleaming car or

- a brand new computer?

I am sure you would. If you are one of the thousands who have entered countless competitions without winning anything, or at best won only a cap or an umbrella, this book might just put you on the right track to big winnings.

Am I qualified to write a guidebook offering tips to compers?

Judge for yourself. Among some of the prizes I have won :

- RM55,000 cash

- Trip to Crete island as a torch bearer for the 2004 Olympics

- Overseas vacations, cruises and hotel stays

- Meal vouchers

- Household products including a RM3,000 teak cabinet, camera and other electrical appliances

- Cosmetics

- Food hampers

Besides sharing with you my secrets, I have also gathered input from other successful compers (people who enter competitions) who were kind enough to share their tried and tested techniques. If you follow the comping scene in Malaysia, you would have noticed that a few names keep on appearing as grand prize winners. There was a comper who won a van, a four-wheel drive and all-expenses paid trip for two to Switzerland, all within a few months. Another guy's winnings averaged about RM150,000 a year.

Who are they and how do they do it? These are the serious compers who are masters in the art of comping. Sure, there may be dry periods when even big-time compers do not win anything for a long period of time, but when they do, they could have one windfall after another.

HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP YOU

In this book, consistent winning compers share their secrets of success. You will learn loads of tips on how to maximize your chances of winning. You will also discover how contest organizers operate their contests. The input came from compers from all walks of life. There is a doctor, a lawyer, a homemaker, a retiree and office professionals among others.

I have also contacted large multinationals, medium sized companies and advertising agencies to gather the inside story of organising competitions. However, I am not at liberty to reveal who they are as most compers and organizers prefer to remain anonymous. In instances where anonymity was not an issue, real names