PHone PHriendly™ SMS Sweepstakes

      You must visit this page from your mobile phone to enter these sweepstakes via SMS (Short Message Service) known as Text Messaging. Be sure to make Templates of your e-mail address, and Internet date of Birth. E-mail me if you have questions.
      TIP: Be sure you have completed all Replies to a sweepstakes before sending the next Keyword to an SMS Short Code to enter the next sweepstakes.

1 Van Heusen ‘Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement’ Sweepstakes (2011-02-03)
You can also send "HOF" to SMS short-code 76060. Message and/or data rates apply. + +

2 Celebrate the Holidays with Coca?Cola and PlayStation® at 7?Eleven® Stores Sweepstakes (2010-12-31 pdf)
You can also send "COKEHOLIDAY" to SMS short-code 76060. Message and/or data rates apply.

3 Carhart's Built to Outperform Sweepstakes (2010-12-31 pdf)
You can also send "TWILL" to SMS short-code 76060. Message and/or data rates apply.

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SMS Entries

    If you want to enter swepstakes via SMS (Short Message Service, known as Text Messaging), be aware that your carrier may charge you for text messages to and from your mobile phone. Once you send the "Key Word" to the service, you'll probably need to Reply with an e-mail address for contacting you if you win, and usually a DOB (Date Of Birth).
    Sometimes a Reply will include a URL (Uniform Resource locator, known as a web address). If you select the URL in the message, your carrier may charge you data rates for Internet access. While entering the contest/sweepstakes is free, you are responsible for these extra charges, just as you are responsble for postage when mailing in entries.

At PHonePHriendly.Com, we like to enter Sweepstakes. We never use our real birthdate, but our internet birthday when asked for our Date Of Birth on a contest or sweepstakes. When I've won a prize, and was asked for age verification, they accepted my explaination about avoiding Identity Theft over the unprotected Internet, and accepted the photocopy of my Photo ID with my corrected DOB.

But when we're in a fast food restaurant where they put sweepstakes web address on our drink cup, or table tent, we like to whip out the 'ol mobile phone and fill out the Entry Form while eating. What we hate are sweepstakes that you bring up that tell you "Get Flash®, or Get Lost".

Macromedia Flash is a free download. All the sites that say "Get Flash or Get Lost" say so. And give you a link to where you can download it. Our position is, if they can tell you that, then they can put up a sweepstakes entry form that you can enter on an internet browser that can't download Flash. Like your mobile phone.

The big advertisers think everyone has at least a cable modem or DSL from the phone company, no one has Dialup any more, and everyone has a high resolution monitor. They'd be surprized how many of their customers are still on dial-up, have a simple VGA monitor, and don't want to (or can't afford to) upgrade. When web sites are "PHone PHriendly", they are friendly to all web browsers and computer platforms.

Now, advertisers are getting smart, and letting you enter sweepstakes via SMS, the Short Message Service on mobile phones. The world is coming around!

Become an "ePrize Insider" (it's its own sweepstakes and gets you "in" on other sweepstkes that they run).

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