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Wanted: Giveaway Tips!
Hello ladies! How are you doing? Taking inspiration from Lori A., who posted a question about giveaways, I'm here to ask:
What are the best practices you have done with your successful giveaways that you can share to your fellow bloggers?
Do you have any advice to those who have low entries in their giveaways for them to increase entries? Is there any practice that they should avoid? How did you work on your most successful giveaway and how did it turn out?
Feel free to post your advice and experience/s here. What's a greater way to be a community other than helping each other? I'll be waiting for your exciting tips! ❤
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Permalink Reply by Allison Bonar on -
Find low entry linkys-Oh So Savy Mom runs one http://ohsosavvymom.com
I find that the easier it is for people to enter, the more likely they are to enter. I used to make following me in some fashion a mandatory entry. Now I make all entries an option. You would think that it would be less sucessful, but the opposite is true.
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Permalink Reply by Cor (Giveaway Blogs Admin) on -
Hi Allison! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. This is pretty helpful. :-)
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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Kavarnos on -
I think once you are a popular blog and keep having quality giveaways, then they are always successful. I mean when I first started blogging way back when, I had some great giveaways but hardly anyone entered, I mean in the very beginning it was crazy how easy it was to win. As I gained readers and word got out that I have awesome giveaways, I really don't need to do much except I tweet the giveaway when I post and I post it on our Facebook Fan Page and if the sponsor has a Facebook Fan Page I post it there. I mean right now we have a giveaway for a Stokke Tripp Trapp, and an Incredibeds, and I add at least one new giveaway a day. Everyday my blog grows. It is so funny when I think back to the early days.
Carolyn
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Permalink Reply by Cor (Giveaway Blogs Admin) on
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Hi Carolyn! It's really hard when your starting but when the blog grows, it's really worth all the time! Just the way you said it. Thank you so much for your tips! :-)
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Permalink Reply by Marie DeWolfe on -
Mine seem to run in cycles, last week I had a ton of entries in my giveaways, this week, even tho there are $150 in gift cards, I'm not getting much traffic. So i'm curious to see the tips everyone posts! :)
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Permalink Reply by Cor (Giveaway Blogs Admin) on
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Hi Marie! Yes I'm also curious about the tips that everyone will post. For sure it will help all of us here. :-)
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Permalink Reply by Minta Boggs on -
I'm like Allison I don't make things mandatory. and I don't make people jump through hoops. the only mandatory I do is to follow me on my fan Facebook page because I'm trying to get more people on that one. I really love the giveaways that only have about 3 things to do. It's so hard to follow everyone on twitter especially now that I'm at my twitter follower capacity. Again I think easier is better.
Minta
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Permalink Reply by Cor (Giveaway Blogs Admin) on
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Hello Minta! :-) Thanks for sharing a useful tip for everybody. And I agree with you, the easier, the better ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Kayla Potega on -
I agree with many of you-I noticed that if you require a lot of people to 'jump through hoops,' they are a lot more likely to just pass you up. The only mandatory thing I make people do is something relatively easy that everyone can do like answer a certain question or check out a sponsor's website.
Also, a handful of extra entries is a good thing, but having TOO many entries just turns people off. Keeping it easy and simple is the way to go!
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Permalink Reply by Cor (Giveaway Blogs Admin) on
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Hi Kayla! Thank you for dropping by to share your giveaway tips! These will be pretty handy for anyone who reads this forum. ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Theresa Jones on -
I think using a giveaway platform management tool, like Rafflecopter is a must. It makes things so much simpler for those entering the giveaway and those administering the giveaway.
If you are going to have a mandatory entry, make it an easy one. I have a standard one that just requires them to leave their email address.
Another strategy that has worked well with my giveaways, is to have an extra entry option on my rafflecopter form, asking them to enter a different giveaway on my blog. Making this one little change in my entry options seems to have increased the number of entries on my giveaways.
Something to consider also is the prize. I have found that when I offer cash or gift card giveaways, even ones as low as $5 or $10, I seem to get a lot of more entries than when I offer a book or low-value prize items. Another thing to consider is the amount of time your giveaway is live. I have found that 7 days is just too short a period of time for me to promote it properly and have found that 10 days works better for me and my blog readers.
Last, be sure you are promoting your giveaways to high traffic producing sites. I have found that a handful of sites I promote my giveaways on, send the most traffic (basically, you need to know where your traffic is coming from, and once you know, you should not waste time promoting on sites that don't send any traffic your way). Don't forget to set up buffer or hootsuite or tweetdeck to send out reminders to your twitter and facebook followers on a daily basis while your giveaway is live. Also, be sure to enter your giveaway links into giveaway linky's, facebook groups that allow you to promote, and on networking sites like this one.
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Permalink Reply by Cor (Giveaway Blogs Admin) on
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Hello Theresa! This is a very loaded information! :-) . For sure this will be of help to everyone who does giveaways on their blogs. Thank you very much.
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