Thought I might as well stick up a few posts on the various things I do for “work” Thought I start with what I consider to be the more “fun” side of the business but quickly became a lot more work and a lot less fun. UK Competitions as you may have guessed is a competitions website that lists, well competitions.

UK Competitions started September 1999 as an off shoot from Free UK Stuff, but only really got its own database driven site in 2001, up until then it was all manual updates, fun times

So some of you will be thinking “how can this make money”, a few of you will have partly guessed that the banner adverts on the site makes some revenue. However the real money making comes from people taking part in competitions, some sites will pay anything from 20p per person taking part in a competition to upwards of around £1.20 depending on the quality of the people taking part and how much information they are willing to give to take part in the competition. The companies then use this information to market to the people who took part be it offers, news or even free samples and of course 1 lucky (or several) person will win the main prize.

I have won the odd competition myself back in the early days of the site, I used to take part in everyone that I listed, however as I no longer list the competitions I hardly ever take part, mostly just Industry based ones but tend not to be so lucky with them, have had the odd prize but some people are just way more lucky at these things