Category: Social Media

5 Creative Snapchat Promotion Ideas

Quick. Look at this message before it disappears. It’s a coupon for a free…. Psych. Too late. Your Snapchat message already disappeared. The idea behind Snapchat is that you can privately message someone and set the message to delete after 1-10 seconds. And while many marketers may think that this platform does not lend itself to promotions because of things like disappearing coupons, with a little creative strategy you CAN

November 21, 2013

10 Frequently Asked Questions About Facebook Timeline Promotions

Now that Facebook has changed the guidelines for promotions run on their platform, it is fairly simple to run a contest or sweepstakes without a third-party application. This means you can run a few basic sweepstakes or contests (for example, a “Caption This Photo!”Contest or a “Like This Post” Sweepstakes) on your business timeline page, and all you need are official rules and prizes to give away. But we

October 14, 2013

5 Fast Sweepstakes Ideas — That Are Easy and Inexpensive to Deploy

Need to come up with a way to increase traffic or sales during the holidays? But no time left in the year to deploy a big idea or to get approval on a high budget promotion? Here are a few quick promotion ideas you can deploy within a few days that are also easy on the budget. What makes these sweepstakes so easy is that they utilize established social

October 8, 2013

5 Social Media Sweepstakes Best Practices

A social media sweepstakes will reach more people than with traditional media. But please do your homework and follow these simple tips for social media sweepstakes success. 1. One social media platform at a time. We get a lot of emails from clients wanting to have a Sweepstakes run on multiple platforms. Many clients want a sweeps on “all the social media.” While this may seem like a good

September 10, 2013

Using Bloggers for Sweepstakes and Contests with Your Brand

With an estimated 200 million plus blogs out there, there is probably a good fit for your brand to run a sweepstakes or contest with a blogger. So how do you find that good fit and avoid this? Controversy for Chrysler over online contest Or this? Samsung Leaves Indian Bloggers Stranded in Berlin, Issues Apology With both of these promotions, the brand intent was sound, but the execution was lacking.

August 19, 2013