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SWEEPSTAKES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO ENTRY METHOD

The entry method can affect the cost as well as your chance to win.

-Online Sweepstakes: This kind of sweepstakes allows you to enter on line. This is the easiest kind of sweepstakes and it is totally free. But just because it is easy and free, there will be many entrants, so the chances of winning will be low.

-Email Sweepstakes: By entering this kind of sweepstakes, you have to send the sponsor your entry information by an email. This is also free but will take you more time.

-Mail-in Sweepstakes: In order to enter this kind of sweepstakes, you will send your entry to the sponsor by postal mail. Thus, you have to pay for postage and so there are fewer people who tend to enter it.

-Call-in Sweepstakes: This kind of sweepstakes is usually run by radio stations or television shows. You have to use the phone number provided by the sponsor to give your entry information to a representative. When entering this kind of sweepstakes, you must be careful of hidden phone charges.

-Drop Boxes: You enter this kind of sweepstakes by filling out an entry form and drop it in a box. They are often found in supermarkets, malls or other local businesses. Oftentimes this kind of sweepstakes is locally so entrants from that area will have higher odds to win.

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At any given time, there are countless prize sweepstakes that are available for people to enter. Usually the sweepstakes can be classified into different categories and categories let you focus on the ones that you are most interested in.

Generally speaking, sweepstakes can be classified according to how you win, enter method, enter frequency, and who can enter.


SWEEPSTAKES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO HOW YOU WIN

This is the most basic way to classify sweepstakes. Thus there are two kinds: regular sweepstakes and instant win sweepstakes.
In regular sweepstakes, you won’t know whether you win or not until the sweepstakes end. Winners are chosen by chance and everyone has the equal chance of being drawn as the winner, while in instant win sweepstakes, the sponsor will set a random moment and anyone who is the first to enter the sweepstakes will be the winner.

ABC About Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes are very popular in many countries. People like entering them because they are free and entrants have the chance to win prizes.

In the United States, sweepstakes are very important ways of marketing promotions. Sponsoring companies usually use the opportunities to generating enthusiasm and providing incentive reactions among customer by supporting the sweepstakes with featured prizes. The prizes people can win in sweepstakes are very different, from less than one dollar to more than one million dollars and also can be cars, homes, etc
The size of sweepstakes are also various, from international, national, state, local, to geographical. However, all the sweepstakes must comply with some certain laws. In many states of the United States, there are laws to rule the sweepstakes.