Monday Brain Exchange Week 14- Give-A-Ways

Here are the answers from participants in last weeks Brain Exchange:

Here’s how it works: 

Every Monday, at the end of the current weeks M.B.E answer, I will post a question for the following week.  This way you can cue your post for Monday if you wish.  If Monday doesn’t work for you, you can still play along any day of the week that works best. 

If you want to play along, all you have to do is post the question and your answer on your own blog.  Link your post to my blog so that I know you have participated, and in the following weeks post, I will link all the participant blogs from the prior week.

Topic: Give-A-Ways- Love Em or Hate Em

Question:  What are your thoughts on give-a-ways?  Do you enter them often?  What entices you to enter or turns you off from entering?  Have you run your own give-a-ways?

I have a very love/hate relationship with give-a-ways.  I have run my own and I have fun with it, but I only run them now and then and only when I feel like I have something really good to give away. 

Enticements: 

• Easy to enter; the easier it is to enter, the better chance that I will.  The best ones are the ones where all you have to do is leave an email  and say you want to win!  I love those! 
• Something I really want to win.  I won’t enter if it is something I do not want or cannot use.  I wouldn’t want to take the chance away from someone else.

Turn-off

• Difficult to enter.  If I have to visit the website, come back and tell you about it then go to another page that leads me to a page that takes me to a different page and so and and so forth, I probably won’t bother.  The truth is, I don’t have that kind of time.  And if it is a site I want to visit, I don’t need to be bribed with a give-a-way to do so.

Really, I guess it is pretty simple for me…if I see the rules, and they start with numbers, and I know it is going to take me a lot of time, than I probably won’t enter unless it is something that I just cannot pass up.  I would say on average I enter one or two every other week or two.  I really do appreciate the effort and thought that go into running them and I enjoy when someone wins mine and emails me with excitement, so even thought I don’t enter them all (or even many) I will continue to run them and enter them when they are easy and something I really want.

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Next Weeks Topic:  Favorite Athletes

Next Weeks Question: Who are your Top 5 favorite athletes? And why?  They can be famous or infamous, to do with your sport or be in a completely different sport.