CoinWeek Giveaway Contest Entry Calculations
There are four spreadsheets where we keep entries to the giveaway.
1) The First step is the Giveaway sign-up form needs to be filled out. This week, the link is https://contests.coinweek.com/
This page records only the email address of the person entering. It shows that the person has one entry. Extra entries are not calculated and posted here. That would be a full-time job, as there is no automatic integration between the sign-up form, Facebook, and the separate CoinWeek website, Newsletter selections and SMS signups.
2) The extra entries are not linked to the main Giveaway database but logged separately. These are the extra entries for Facebook Likes and Comments. There is one extra entry for a Like and another entry for a Comment.
As you may or may not know, Facebook lists followers and Fans by a username, and NOT an email address.
People who make Comments on the Facebook post and Likes are all collected at the end of the Giveaway, and their USERNAMEs are added to the Facebook spreadsheet.
Your confirmation is seeing your username and/or comment under the Giveaway Facebook Post on Facebook. The names are listed under the likes and the commented are displayed.
3) Next, there are extra entries for going to the CoinWeek website and reading one or more articles from the home page.
To add a comment requires the user to give is his/her email address, so we make a seperate list of all the emails that commented on CoinWeek Articles during the Giveaway period, match that against the emails on the Giveaway Sign up page mentioned in Step 1, and then replicate that list 4 times to award these people the 4 extra entries for adding comments to CoinWeek.
The confirmation that you received the extra entries is done multiple times a day when we moderate the comments and post them to the articles. If you go back to the Article you read at the bottom of the page, you can see all the comments on that article.
4) Extra entries for subscribing to SMS Text Messages is handled by our Bulk Mail service that sends out the CoinWeek Email Blasts, Text Messages and Newsletters. This is a seperate database.
To facilitate the use of the Text Messages and Newsletter Signups so that entries into the giveaway do not have to input unnescessary information and make the process easier, All subscriptions and signups for Text Messaging and Newsletter subscription require NO Additional Signups.
CoinWeek will automatically provide all Text Message subscribers with 5 Additional Entries to every Giveaway as long as they remain a subscriber to this service. No additional resistration or subscription is necessary.
Likewise, All Newsletter Subscribers recieve one additional entry for EACH newsletter they sign up for, and these entries are also automaticly added to EVER Giveaway as long as the Entrant remains a subscriber for his/her selected newsletters.
The extra entires are maintained and calculated on a seperate database that is updated weekly based on entrants email address
5) At the conclusion of each week’s Giveaway, we combine all the lists into a single Excel CSV file and randomize the entries so a single entry is placed on separate lines of the Spreadsheet. That gives us a total count of all the original entries and all the extra entries from Facebook Comments and Likes, CoinWeek Posts, Newsletter subscriptions and the Text Message 5x signups.
6) The final step. Once we have a final count, we run a random number generator to select one entry between 1 and the total number of entries ( say it is 16,430). Whatever number is randomly selected, we go to that line on the CSV file, and THAT is the winner of the Giveaway for that week. We contact winners by email ( if we have it), or we send them a PM in the case of Facebook.
CoinWeek Retains the right to make changes to any of the above processes, at any time to increase the efficentcy or methodology for the recordsing and calculating of both the inital entry into Giveaways and for any and all extra entries.
All records and accounting of entries and selection of winners is proprietay and covered under the under the Rules of the Giveaway, the Terms and Conditions of Use and all other disclaimers with respect to CoinWeek. CoinWeek decisions and actions are not subject to review and all decisons are final.
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