If you are a watch fan, we hope you are enjoying our series of summer competitions, with a new prize every day. We are offering everything from goodies provided by some of our partner brands to big-ticket items such as watch winders from our friends at Swiss Kubik and watch analysers from the folks at Lepsi.
In addition to those who visit the site regularly and subscribe to our newsletter, many people hear about our competitions through word of mouth. One of the main sources of such communication is the big websites in the UK and France that are dedicated to the community of “compers”. Such sites provide their own newsletters and a daily feed of all the latest competitions, often offering the answers to the competition questions.
And there’s the rub…
We have been delighted with the interest in our summer competitions, which we can see in our traffic statistics. But having developed a simple tool to make the random draw each day and provide statistics such as the proportion of correct answers and from browsing some of the above-mentioned sites, we can see that people all too easily copy answers provided by someone else without knowing whether or not they are right.
The rule of thumb
We have even seen traces of people entering the entire question in a Google search. Not surprisingly, such a search often leads directly back to WorldTempus! So what is the best way to ensure that your answers are correct and that you therefore have a fair chance of being picked out from the correct entrants? It’s simple: all the answers to our questions can be found somewhere on worldtempus.com, so here are my three tips for finding them:
Most answers are specific to a particular brand. Each brand on WorldTempus has its own page (accessible from our list of watch brands) with full details about the brand (history, philosophy and main collections), as well as all the recent news related to that brand and a link to the brand’s entire watch collection on WorldTempus. See the example for TAG Heuer here.
If you’re still stuck, head for the top-right of your screen and click on the “SEARCH” icon, where you can enter a more specific search on the site. You will also find a handy definition of the day and a lexicon.
Google is, of course, still your friend. You can still search the WorldTempus site using the search engine’s main index by typing “site:worldtempus.com” before your search query.
Bear in mind that we do not announce the competitions in advance but there is one every day and we still have a number of watch winders and other valuable prizes to give away, so keep coming back often to check our competitions page.
Good luck with our competitions and remember to think twice before copying an answer!
