Introducing the Win a House Competitions Directory

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Mar
25
2009

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 their competitions more easily. We hope you like it and welcome and ideas you may have to help us improve it.

How does it work?

The Directory is set out in a clear and simple way to allow users to quickly find and review house competitions in different countries. Each competition is listed according to the country where the property prize is located. Once you have picked a country, you can select a competition to view more details.

From here, you can find out how and where to enter, more information about the property prize and details about the number and price of tickets for sale.

As a registered user, you can review and comment on each competition in the directory. Competition organisers are notified of new reviews and can respond to you directly. If you have entered a competition already, your opinion could be particularly valuable to others.

Organising your own property competition?

If you are running your own property competition, the Directory can help you promote it more visibly online. Each competition is easily accessible to users and featured on its own dedicated page linking directly to your site.

Once you have registered on the site, you can submit your competition to the Directory yourself. You can then log back into your account at any time to edit or renew the details of your competition or respond to queries from players on your competition page.

As long as your competition is listed in the Directory, you can also write your very own blog directly from your account. You can communicate with other users as often as you want, allowing you to disseminate competition updates, promotions and interesting news directly via the community blog.

You can upgrade your competition to a Featured listing anytime for periods of one, three or six months. Featured listings enjoy greater visibility within the Directory and across the Win a House site, including our homepage. They also offer more links towards your competition site and are given priority for review and listing within 48 hours.

Combined with the other community features that are available to all registered users, including the ability to upload photos, create and manage groups, run RSS feeds and connect with other users, this is a great way of managing your own PR for your competition directly from within the Win a House community.

How much does it cost?

The Directory is a free resource for charities to promote their property raffles and sweepstakes more effectively online. Competition organisers can also submit their site to the Directory to advertise their house competition on our site.

The standard review fee for inclusion in the Directory for six months is £125 (incl. 15% VAT). As a special launch offer, we have decided to reduce this fee to £85 (incl. 15% VAT) until 25 April - representing a saving of nearly 33%!

You can upgrade your competition to a Featured listing for one, three or six months for an extra £35, £55 or £75 respectively (incl. 15% VAT).

If you have any other suggestions to help us promote or improve the Directory, please let us know! Likewise, if you have any questions about how it works, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below. We hope you enjoy using the Directory and watch this space for new features coming soon to Win a House!

Click here for more details about advertising on the Directory. Alternatively, click here to take a look at our Competitions Directory!

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Re: Introducing the Win a House Competitions Directory
What are the legalities of running a lottery/competition in selling ones home?
Thanks
Michael
michael kerstein , 16 Jun 2009
Win a House
Re: Introducing the Win a House Competitions Directory
@ Michael,

A good question, that would require a more in-depth discussion to understand where your property is located and where you intend to market your competition (particularly in terms of countries).

In essence, the laws in each country/state differ somewhat with regards to the treatment of raffles (or games of chance/lotteries) vs. prize competitions (which are based on players exercising skill and judgement).

The precise definition of what constitutes skill and who is legally allowed to run house raffles for profit (typically only charities and often only up to a certain prize value) needs to be examined in your local context.
Team Win House , 16 Jun 2009

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