How to Create Good Contests-1 of 2

Nowadays more and more people attend contests, which include writing contests, photo contests, sales contests, etc. Contests are often used to increase brand awareness and attract potential clients. But once you decide to run a certain contest, do you know how to make it effective? Here are some steps you can follow:

First, set your specific goals and establish the rules. Make sure what kind of contest do you want to create and what do you want to achieve. Then accordingly establish your rules. The rules must be clear and visible to every potential participant. State every part of the guideline in detail even if they seem common sense. It is a good idea to let the audience to vote for the winner. This is a way of encouraging audience participation, and will generate buzz for the contests.

Second, set a schedule and a budget. You have to make a time frame about your contest. Keep the contest condensed to a short period of time, and a time frame of 1-2 weeks works best. If you make your time frame too short, your contest idea won’t gain enough traction and won’t attract enough entrants, while if you make it too long, people will tend to forget about it. Then you have to set a reasonable budget accordingly, by doing that, you can try to search for sponsors. This is a win-win method. You can get free prizes from them and they can get free advertising through your contest.

Advantages of Online Sweepstakes

With the development of information technology, computers dominate the world more and more. Things online also develop faster and faster, so do online sweepstakes. Of course, mail-in sweepstakes, which is a traditional way, still exist and continue to occupy a certain share. However, comparing with traditional mail-in sweepstakes, online sweepstakes have many advantages.

First, they are free. Entering into online sweepstakes is free, so you don’t have to pay for postcards as attending mail-in sweepstake. You will also save a lot of time because in mail-in sweepstakes, you have to spend time in looking for appointed size of postcard or paper.

Second, they are safe. In mail-in sweepstakes, maybe you will lose your postcard either by yourself or during the mailing. But in online sweepstake, you don’t have to worry about that, just click the submit button.

Third, they are convenient. In mail-in sweepstakes, you have to write down all the needed information by hand, so you must be very careful to do that. Any slight error will make you unqualified. While in online sweepstakes, most programs can check if you have filled in everything.
Last but not least, they are easy to find. As long as you search in search engines, there are numerous online sweepstakes that you can enter into.

In conclusion, you can choose online sweepstakes for less work and more benefits.

How to Enter Sweepstakes-Part 2

Second, make sure what information you want to provide. There are so many people sign in sweepstakes and want to be winners, so sweepstakes sponsor will be strict, and information you provide must be exactly accurate. Any slight discrepancy can make you disqualified. Thus, you must have a clear idea about your information such as which telephone number you want to provide, etc. Prizewinners may be notified at any time of the day, so make sure you are ready when they want to contact you.

Third, prepare a separate email address for sweepstakes. Once you enter even one sweepstake, you may get a lot of emails from the sponsor promoting their products or services. Take a second to think how many emails you will get if you enter countless sweepstakes. Don’t forget, you will also get many spams every day. So it is a good idea to prepare a separate email address for all your sweepstakes.

Last, do remember to enter every sweepstake with care.
Follow the steps, try and win you prizes!

How to Enter Sweepstakes-Part 1

“Just sign up for free and wait for your prizes.” This is what one needs to do in sweepstakes. Sounds too incredible to believe! So many people will ask if there are real such winners and lots of people will ignore sweepstakes online because there are so many scams. But actually, a large number of people really have won cash and prizes online. Sweepstakes really exist as a marketing strategy to generate buzz about a product or a service. Promoters hope to attract a large amount of people to attend their sweepstakes and then turn the entrants into customers. The prizes can be monetary and practical as well. So a meal, some money, even a new car or a house can be the prize of sweepstakes.

That is to say, as long as you attend the legitimate sweepstakes, you can have fun with them and probably you will also be chosen as a lucky dog and get prizes. Just follow the following steps to enter sweepstakes:
First, identify legitimate sweepstakes. It is the first and most important step. Remember, real sweepstakes never ask you for money. So don’t enter sweepstakes that ask for any fees and those ask for private bank account numbers or credit numbers. Then have a look at the rules. Do not enter sweepstakes that have no clear rules.