Contest marketing – A Guide to winning.

If you’ve used contest marketing you know how powerful it can be. We’ve been fortunate enough to help many companies run all kinds of contests, yet we still get the question.

“I run my own contests on social media, so why do anything differently?”

Our contests help you achieve more marketing goals in the form of multiple entry methods.

Demo contest

Contests are easily customized, make them look perfect for your brand.

See a live Rewards Fuel contest demo

Your contest will boost your subscribers, get you new emails for your mailing list, drive traffic and increase engagement.

We keep track of all of your entries, gather statistics on your contestants including demographic and geographic information, we can automate notifications and winner picking.

You have over 30 entry methods to choose from when creating a contest:

• Facebook:  Increase Facebook likes by asking followers to like your page to enter to win.
• Instagram: Boost your following PLUS create
  photo/video #hashtag contests to create user-generated content.
• Twitter: Gain more twitter followers with a contest – we
  keep track of all retweets and replies of your contestants.
• YouTube:  Subscribe to your YouTube channel
  or watch your videos to enter your contest? Yep- you can do that too.
• Newsletter sign-ups: This is one of our most popular entry methods-we make sure all contestants are double-opted in.
• Mailchimp list keeper: Focus on newsletter retention by automatically
  entering everyone on your newsletter into your contest.
• Website traffic: Visit your website and/or comment
  on your blog to enter.
• Video marketing: Ask your followers to watch your
  videos to enter to win or have them submit videos to enter your contest.
• Trade shows: Bring more people to your booth with our quick
  contest creator for trade shows.

Combine as many entry methods into your contest as you’d like, check out our full list of entry methods.

Statistics and analytics:

Running your contests on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? You’re missing a valuable opportunity to gather the names and contact information.

We provide you with stats of your contestants so you can create strategic marketing plans, perfectly targeted towards your audience.

No more manually gathering entries, worrying about rules, or chasing winners to distribute your prizes.

Rewards Fuel contest include:

• Combine entry methods:  Rewards Fuel allows you to add as many entry methods as you
  would like with the option of adding
  points to certain entry methods– prioritizing your marketing goals.
• Embed it anywhere: Place your contest on your website or use our hosted website.
• Location: Target or block locations
• Digital Prizes: Avoid shipping costs!
• Style it: Choose from a variety of different fonts, colors and styles or use CSS.
• Automate: Send a variety of notifications including invites to enter, plus automate
  contest start, end date and winner picking.
• Show your Results: Email or print professional PDF contest statistics.
• Rules: Not sure where to start with this? Use our automatic
  rules generator.

Feeling inspired? Great! Start contest marketing today!

Questions, comments or suggestions? We love to hear from you – send us an email at info@RewardsFuel.com.