Promoting your competition

While it is essential to structure a win a house competition or sweepstake in a way that satisfies the requirements of the Gambling Commission in the UK; its success will largely depend on the competition organisers' ability to promote it to a targeted audience in a cost-effective manner. To achieve this within the desired timeframe, one must focus on a range of different platforms and techniques simultaneously. This section features all blog posts relating to promoting and marketing a house competition, both online and offline.

Win other prizes for your home!

The Competitions Directory was recently expanded to feature all types of free prizes for your home. While most of you are...

Free to enter house competitions taking off

Winning a house free ranks at the top of pretty much everyone’s wish list. For years, companies and newspapers have used free house competitions as a powerful tool for marketing and promotions. However, this is u...

Win a house competitions and raffles what next?

In recent months, one can't help but notice that while some property competitions have been very successful, others have struggled to take off, despite the apparent success of the

Announcing new fees for competition organisers

We've done a lot of work on the site over the last few months, adding new tools to help organisers promote their house competitions and raffles more effectively. While some of you are already familiar with some of these changes, over...

Competitions Directory - launch offer extended by one week

If you're running your own house raffle or property competition, our house raffle and competitions directory can...

5 Free Tickets to Win a House!

We're very excited to announce the very first Win a House free ticket draw! To do so we've teamed up with a lovely British couple, Paul and Elizabeth Elson who are running their own win a house competition; the

Cumbria House Raffle fails to sell enough tickets

Sue Wickwar, the owner of a £95,000 home in Kiln Brow, will close her Cumbria House Raffle at midnight on Saturday 28 March. According to the statement on her website, so far she has sold 704 tickets at £12.50 each....

Introducing the Win a House Competitions Directory

We are pleased to finally introduce our new Property Competitions Directory. Given the difficulties encountered by a number of house competition organisers over the last few months, we have built this great tool to help them promote...

Half-million pound Dream Home Competition

A local property developer is running a Dream Home Competition to give one lucky winner the keys to a new five bedroom detached house worth half a million pounds. The brand new property has been built by Sammon Building...

Win a House Competitions Directory: coming soon

We often get inquiries asking us to provide advice on promoting property competitions more effectively online. While this is only one aspect of the marketing of a house competition, it is often critical to achieve...