Improving Your Odds of Winning Sweepstakes

 

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Since 2015, the Colorado-based entertainment magazine publishing company Mountain View Publishers has provided high-quality content about third-party sweepstakes opportunities through a line of monthly periodicals, which include Up4Grab$ and Jackpot Journal. Mountain View Publishers’ publications have proved popular among readers.

People who frequently win sweepstakes believe that it’s due to a combination of perseverance and strategy. Sweepstakes with few to no barriers to entry and easy application processes tend to attract millions of entrants, which lowers the overall odds of winning. Savvy participants can boost their odds of winning by entering contests with smaller entry pools.

For example, you may have better odds of winning a contest restricted by state residency because only a limited number of people are eligible to enter. In addition, sweepstakes that provide multiple prizes also offer better odds. In addition, short entry periods limit the total number of entries, which boost the odds of winning.

Criteria for USPS Periodical Privileges

Appealing to a broad demographic of subscribers, Broomfield, Colorado-based Mountain View Publishers produces top-rated entertainment and sweepstakes-focused publications and lists prize and contest information worth more than a quarter of million dollars every month. In early 2019, Mountain View Publishers’ popular entertainment magazine Jackpot Journal was granted periodical privileges by the U.S. Postal Service. This status is only awarded to publications that meet very stringent criteria.

Magazine publishers who obtain periodical privileges can save on their postage costs. However, maintaining this status depends on consistently meeting the standards set by the USPS. For example, advertisements cannot compose more than 75 percent of a single issue. 

Publications should also be printed at least four times a year, and at least 50 percent of issues circulated must be delivered to paid subscribers. Publishers are also required to submit an annual form to the USPS and keep a record of all documentation that demonstrates the magazine has adhered to all requirements.