If planning and carrying out an online game or competition seems intimidating, you are able to come back to basics and appeal to a general human reality: individuals love free junk.
There is another success story with an online photo processing service who wanted to establish a fan base and tug at user engagement via Facebook.
What they did was use a monthly e-zine to promote an easy game related to an old classic photo game.
In the e-zine, 2 subtly dissimilar pictures were featured, and the 1st groups of users who named and posted the deviations on Facebook got a $25 gift card.
The photo processing company got more Facebook fans than ever - or since.
In a like promotion, an alcoholic beverage company discovered a creative way to capitalize on extra canvas carryalls sitting around their office.
Instead of stuffing the bags in a storage closet, they utilized the bags as prizes in a competition designed to drive user participation on Facebook.
To acquire a carryall, users were asked to place pictures of themselves drinking the beverage on the brand's Facebook page, a comparatively effortless request looking at the number of drinking photos on Facebook.
Needless to say, the canvas carryalls went like hotcakes, and brand cognizance expanded exponentially.
The price? An uncluttered office.
If you're just beginning and not making any income yet on, then you'll have to decide whether or not you prefer to spend money on a giveaway or not.
What should you give away? Gift cards are forever popular.
But a different great idea is to target it to your chief audience.
Give something away that will associate with your product or service.
Don't prefer to spend your own income on a giveaway? You still have alternatives.
Attempt asking business owners that you know if they'd like to sponsor a giveaway.
You'll have to pitch your site, so make certain you tell them how many visitors you get or expect.
Tell them who you readers are and what kind of products that they'd be interested in.
And tell them how you'll market your giveaway.
Do make certain to tell them that they'll be responsible for sending the prize to the winner however.
It is so much simpler than having them ship it to you and then you sending it to the winner.
Another way to discover sponsors for your giveaways is to ask your contacts on Twitter and Facebook.
Another good way to discover sponsors is in the Etsy forums.
Etsy is a site that craftsmen sell their handmade goods on.
Just post that you're seeking sponsors for a giveaway on your site, what type of site you have and your contact info.
Likely the easiest way to pull in sponsors is to begin praising them on your site.
Do you love a housecleaning product? A gizmo? Playthings? When you give good reviews, individuals will take notice, particularly businesses.
If a business contacts you to sponsor a giveaway, they'll more than likely offer you a gratis product to review.
Then they'll provide one or more of that same product for you to have a giveaway with.
All right, now you have your giveaway prize.
Begin dropping hints that you'll be featuring a giveaway soon.
This peaks interest and keeps people coming back.
When you're ready to submit your giveaway, make certain to make it an amusing post.
Ask people to leave a comment about the product, what they admire about it, something like that.
Then provide extra giveaway entries.
For example if they discuss your giveaway on their blog, they receive an extra entry.
If they tweet about it on twitter, a different entry.
Utilize your resourcefulness, but make certain it all leads back to more views for your site.
Besides promoting on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, e-mail it to your friends and family and post it on Online-Sweepstakes(dot)com (OLS).
OLS is the largest and best site listing for online giveaways and you'll get a lot of traffic.
Contact your winner and get their mailing address.
Ship their prize without delay, and include a courteous card thanking them for entering your giveaway.
There is another success story with an online photo processing service who wanted to establish a fan base and tug at user engagement via Facebook.
What they did was use a monthly e-zine to promote an easy game related to an old classic photo game.
In the e-zine, 2 subtly dissimilar pictures were featured, and the 1st groups of users who named and posted the deviations on Facebook got a $25 gift card.
The photo processing company got more Facebook fans than ever - or since.
In a like promotion, an alcoholic beverage company discovered a creative way to capitalize on extra canvas carryalls sitting around their office.
Instead of stuffing the bags in a storage closet, they utilized the bags as prizes in a competition designed to drive user participation on Facebook.
To acquire a carryall, users were asked to place pictures of themselves drinking the beverage on the brand's Facebook page, a comparatively effortless request looking at the number of drinking photos on Facebook.
Needless to say, the canvas carryalls went like hotcakes, and brand cognizance expanded exponentially.
The price? An uncluttered office.
If you're just beginning and not making any income yet on, then you'll have to decide whether or not you prefer to spend money on a giveaway or not.
What should you give away? Gift cards are forever popular.
But a different great idea is to target it to your chief audience.
Give something away that will associate with your product or service.
Don't prefer to spend your own income on a giveaway? You still have alternatives.
Attempt asking business owners that you know if they'd like to sponsor a giveaway.
You'll have to pitch your site, so make certain you tell them how many visitors you get or expect.
Tell them who you readers are and what kind of products that they'd be interested in.
And tell them how you'll market your giveaway.
Do make certain to tell them that they'll be responsible for sending the prize to the winner however.
It is so much simpler than having them ship it to you and then you sending it to the winner.
Another way to discover sponsors for your giveaways is to ask your contacts on Twitter and Facebook.
Another good way to discover sponsors is in the Etsy forums.
Etsy is a site that craftsmen sell their handmade goods on.
Just post that you're seeking sponsors for a giveaway on your site, what type of site you have and your contact info.
Likely the easiest way to pull in sponsors is to begin praising them on your site.
Do you love a housecleaning product? A gizmo? Playthings? When you give good reviews, individuals will take notice, particularly businesses.
If a business contacts you to sponsor a giveaway, they'll more than likely offer you a gratis product to review.
Then they'll provide one or more of that same product for you to have a giveaway with.
All right, now you have your giveaway prize.
Begin dropping hints that you'll be featuring a giveaway soon.
This peaks interest and keeps people coming back.
When you're ready to submit your giveaway, make certain to make it an amusing post.
Ask people to leave a comment about the product, what they admire about it, something like that.
Then provide extra giveaway entries.
For example if they discuss your giveaway on their blog, they receive an extra entry.
If they tweet about it on twitter, a different entry.
Utilize your resourcefulness, but make certain it all leads back to more views for your site.
Besides promoting on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, e-mail it to your friends and family and post it on Online-Sweepstakes(dot)com (OLS).
OLS is the largest and best site listing for online giveaways and you'll get a lot of traffic.
Contact your winner and get their mailing address.
Ship their prize without delay, and include a courteous card thanking them for entering your giveaway.