Autumn is approaching! The change in the weather just around the corner, and I’m expecting the book club invitations to start rolling in! Previous experience has taught me that I’m not a fast reader! I turn up having read only half the book and it can get pretty stressful. Saying that, I do like getting together for an evening chat and a glass of wine.
So, this autumn, I might do something a little different by starting my own small comping club with my friends! There are plenty of interested friends who have dabbled by they don’t stick to it. A few friends, when hearing of my wins, say they need to start – but they rarely do!
I don’t want it to be a boring club where we sit in front of our technology entering competitions or sitting around talking about the technicalities – that can be done, but I want a goal for the club – so I drew up a few theme ideas. I could include them all, or just a few I’ll share with you here, see what you think:
Competition Hunter: In an addition to potentially winning prizes add in a strategy to collect as many Competition Karma Points as we can – if we all collect a £10 Amazon voucher, we could club together and put it towards something that we could share, or donate or have a lot of laughs with.
Local Competitions: One of the goals could be sourcing all the local competitions we can and all entering the same ones to increase our chances of winning.
Persuade local business to run more competitions open to the UK: I think local businesses have quite a narrow focus when it comes to competitions. Local retailers could vastly increase their online sales if they opened themselves up to the entire UK – competitions are the best free advertising route and most companies don’t know where to start. The Cap Code is pretty straight forward, so myth busting would be a must.
Win prizes for the local community: Here, I might be getting a bit over excited (I always do – as you know!) but… appearing in the paper is utterly hilarious even for something small, but it would also be nice to become known locally, and maybe encourage others to join Competition Hunter and form their own clubs!
Make it into a game: If you read the past post about ‘gamification’, you’ll remember that making things a game is a doddle and makes everything FUN! I could do weekly challenges, leaderboard of winners and make badges, and… Oh, Goodness – maybe I’m getting carried away? Haha – what do you think?
Have you run a competition club before? Have you attended one? Have you any advice on what works and what doesn’t? Please share your experience in the comments, it would really help me!