We all make our own luck. No-one is any luckier than anyone else. Those two statements is what winning is all about.

But the reality is that frequent contest and sweepstakes winners do more things differently to win than other players.

The good news is that you can easily duplicate their strategy by following these tips.

Now, a lot of players are confused between a Sweepstake and a Contest. You should always play Sweepstakes.

CONTESTS

A contest is often a game of skill, requiring players to take photos, draw something, create a slogan. You may even be asked to buy products in order to enter. The entries are judged rather than drawn, and the prize awarded to the best or the most. There is often a lengthy period before the final draw is made.

SWEEPSTAKES

A Sweepstake is simply a game of luck with random drawings determining the winners. It must be free to enter. The Lotto Life Sweepstake is not a contest because we don't charge an entry fee. That's the main difference and the best reason to play as you'll read here.

Now let's get down to finding out the successful things you need to do to win more:

1. More entries give you more win chances.

Winning is really is as simple as finding multiple ways to increase the number of your entries in your sweepstakes. You can follow the success steps here for our Rewards Program and apply them to other games too:

a. Click more articles, games, ads, videos and quizzes. Each click in our Rewards Program gives you 10 Points, and you can get a 1,000 Rewards Points Bonus Entry very quickly - often in a matter of minutes.

b. Play faster games. Reading and clicking on some of our short articles will get you Points much faster than completing a Quiz, for example.

2. Avoid wasted effort.

Avoid sweepstakes with complicated Rules and Conditions. Avoid games where you need to take multiple steps to make an entry. The simpler the better!

3. Don't pay to enter… sweepstakes have free entry.

As we’ve seen, a Sweepstake is free to enter, otherwise it’s a Contest. A Contest will require you to buy or use items in order to enter, so it's obvious which is the better deal. And it's also much easier to enter multiple Sweepstakes because you don't have to construct an entry form or buy products to qualify.

4. Monitor your personal details.

Many Sweepstakes sell your contact information to offset the cost of running the promotion and giving away prizes. That’s the trade-off for getting free prizes.

If you want to keep track of where your email address is going, you can make it easy to track which sweepstakes you are entering by using your Gmail email address and putting the name of the sweepstakes in it. You do this using a + sign in the username section like this: yourname+sweepname@gmail.com.

5. Calculate your odds.

The lower odds the better your chances of winning. The odds of winning some prizes in the Publisher's Clearing House (PCH) sweepstakes games are said to be as high as 1.7 billion to 1. However, those are the odds for one entry only, and PCH give many ways to increase the number of entries into their draws so you can increase your chances.

Luckily many USA-based sweepstakes are required to list their odds in their rules, so you’re able to view them. It's then easier to choose the games with better odds.

6. Play frequent games. 

Sweepstakes that give out multiple daily prizes are the best games to enter. Any game that has expiry dates over a month or longer means you will be competing with far more players over a longer time. For best results you need to play the games that you can enter often - which will usually have the fewest number of players.

Unfortunately there's no list of any such games, but our Free Daily Draw is one of the best. With odds of around 1 in 10,000 per entry, the chance of winning can be very high.

7. Play games with unlimited entries.

Sweepstakes that offer unlimited daily or game entries are ideal, since the more entries you can make the better your odds. Stay away from games which don't allow you to increase your entries or like some that will limit you to one entry a day or a draw.

The Lotto Life Sweepstakes offers a Rewards Program that can easily give you unlimited Points for Bonus Entries, and this is ideal. You won't be locked out by other players in an unlimited game who may spend most of their day earning Points. It is a fair system that rewards players equally.

8. Set your playing schedules.

If you only enter sweepstakes occasionally your chances of winning any prizes will drop like a stone. So to keep up a constant stream of entries you need to set a goal for yourself. Maybe your goal is a set number of entries each day, so set time aside to do that.

For example, in the Lotto Life Sweepstakes let's say you want to add 5 Bonus Entries each day. A Bonus Entry requires 1 Rewards eVoucher, which is 1,000 Points to earn. That's 5,000 Points you'll need each day, but fortunately it's easy to do.  Every time you click an article, webpage, quiz, game or ad, you get 10 Points. So only 100 clicks will get you the 1,000 Points you need.

Set a time aside when you have a few spare minutes and spend 5-10 minutes gaining those Points. It will add up very quickly. Several of our top players have gotten over 4-5,000 Points a day.

9. Choose your games wisely.

There are more Sweepstakes around than you'll ever have time to enter, so you need to choose them selectively. Luckily there are many directories too, so to start, google "sweepstakes directory" to find them.

Of course, you should have already entered our Lotto Life Sweepstakes by signing up for our newsletter. Then your daily Sweepstakes entry is fully automatic. You should also sign up for our Rewards Program to start earning Points that will give you more Entries into the Draws.

10. Stay motivated.

Along with Persistence, keeping motivated is the biggest factor in winning sweepstakes. Like the lottery, sweepstakes are a game of luck where you can swing the odds in your favor.

You do that by increasing the number of entries into each game where it is allowed. But you must keep up the effort because the player with the most entries is more likely to win. You want it to be YOU! Keep looking at the Prizes each day to keep up your enthusiasm.

11. Use a valid email.

Now is not the time to use a fake email, or one that disappears into a folder that you only check on occasionally. You need to be on top of your entries so you don't miss any qualifying deadlines or special notices.

Some sweepstakes, including our Lotto Life Sweepstakes, will ask you to reply using the email you signed up with so they can qualify you. If your email is a dud, or you have a spam filter for it, you may lose out!

FINAL WORD

Remember, winning Sweepstakes is a marathon, not a sprint. Pace yourself so that it is still fun to do, otherwise your motivation will drop - along with your winning chances.

Sweepstakes are the easiest way on the planet to win. They cost nothing to enter, and some have massive Prizes.

There is no downside to entering and they can be a lot of fun too!