Here are the answers from participants in last weeks Brain Exchange:
Here’s how it works:
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:
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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!
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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
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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.
I think it depends on the giveaway. If it is something I am interested in I don’t mind visiting a site since the manufacturer is probably sponsoring the giveaway. On the other hand I am not a fan the whole linking, Facebooking, Twittering process.
I enter give aways if I’m interested in what the product is and it’s fairly easy to enter. If it’s something I can’t use, I won’t enter. I haven’t had any give aways to date but I also don’t have many readers and I’ve never felt the urge. maybe someday.
I never enter in giveaways. I’m not from the US and can’t participate most of the time. I never had one myself and don’t think I ever will. I’d rather give the blogger friends who comment on almost every one of my posts something but that’s getting to expensive 😆
I’m about like you. I only enter sometimes. I do go through weeks where it seems like there are 5-6 that I enter, and then weeks where I don’t enter any. I host them mostly to get more followers, but I think right now I am too burned out!!
Here’s what I think… http://running42km.blogspot.com/2010/06/monday-brain-exchange.html
i sort of agree…i don’t like when there are a ton of rules for entering a giveaway. that’s why when i do it i just say leave a comment!!
i might still come down to BOMF in the morning. I’ll let you know if i am for sure. i still want to meet you!
I don’t like it when there are a ton of rules in a giveaway. I’m okay if I have to tweet about the giveaway to earn an extra entry… but if I have to follow someone I’m not currently following, or fan something on Facebook or hunt down too many things… I pass!
I guess I should write my own post on this before filling up your comments, huh?
I posted about this one. Looking forward to next week’s too!
http://wwwagegroupsrock.blogspot.com/2010/06/monday-brain-exchange-giveaway.html
i’m with you!! i hate the ones where they want you to visit 10 different websites and write a novel. in fact i mocked it once in a giveaway of my own… not sure if i pissed any other giver-awayers off haha.
i also don’t enter unless it’s something i really want – i don’t need anymore random clutter!
And I totally missed writing my response to this question… DOH! It’s been a week. Sorry!