{"id":4639,"date":"2014-06-17T05:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T05:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.promosimple.com\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:40:44","slug":"giveaways-101-promotion-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/giveaways-101-promotion-strategies","title":{"rendered":"Giveaways 101: Promotion Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your giveaway is up and running, hooray! Now what? Once your giveaway is live it is vital to get out there and promote it. Like a tree falling in the forest that doesn’t make a sound when no one is around, a giveaway without promotion isn’t going to make an impact on your business.<\/p>\n

Let your entrants promote you with Refer A Friend<\/h3>\n

Your giveaway’s entrants are clearly interested in your prize. The chances are good that they also know a few other people who would also be interested.<\/p>\n

Enable the\u00a0Refer-A-Friend<\/a>\u00a0feature so that your entrants can spread the word about your giveaway in return for increasing their chances of winning. You can set how many entries they receive per referral and the maximum number of friends they can refer. There are built in links to help the entrants share the giveaway on Facebook or Tweet about it.\u00a0Get more details about refer-a-friend entries on our blog.<\/a>
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Social media entries<\/h4>\n

In addition to the refer-a-friend entries, you can enable items such as\u00a0Tweeting<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Pinning images on Pinterest<\/a>\u00a0that can generate interest. Craft your links and messages that are to be shared to ensure that the users viewing the message from their connections know how to find your giveaway.<\/p>\n

Check out these\u00a0eight tips for promoting your giveaway<\/a>\u00a0to your current audience and strategies for attracting new users – all using tools and tactics that are 100% free.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Utilize the giveaways network<\/a><\/h3>\n

PromoSimple has built a number of tools to help you spread the word about your giveaways. This includes a giveaways network that consists of social media followers, a\u00a0giveaways directory<\/a>, newsletters and syndication to external partners to help get the word out about your promotion.<\/p>\n

The giveaways directory is a stand-alone website that contains promotions powered by the PromoSimple platform. Giveaways that are opted into the network are also syndicated to our partners’ websites.<\/p>\n

Facebook & Website widgets<\/a><\/h3>\n

Widgets for Facebook are essentially the same content as you can customize for your website widgets, but with one click, the content can be displayed within a tab on your Facebook page.<\/p>\n

\"FB_Giveaways_Widget\"<\/p>\n

Website widgets<\/a> contain automatically updating feeds from your PromoSimple account and\/or the Giveaways Network. A widget can be customized to contain only your live giveaways and can be placed anywhere on your website. You can also create widgets that contain listings from the network in order to provide your visitors with current, constantly updated listings of giveaways.<\/p>\n

5 tips to make your giveaways irresistible<\/a><\/h4>\n

When promoting your giveaway, it’s crucial to make it appealing to the audience that you are trying to attract. This goes for the headline you’re using to promote it throughout the network as well as within the entry form.\u00a0Check out these five tips on writing incredible headlines.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your giveaway is up and running, hooray! Now what? Once your giveaway is live it is vital to get out there and promote it. Like a tree falling in the forest that doesn’t make a sound when no one is around, a giveaway without promotion isn’t going to make an impact on your business. Let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[35,36,73,58,61,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psdev2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}