<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><channel><title>Social Media Examiner | Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? | Topic Replies</title> <atom:link href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/feed/</link> <description>Have You Used Facebook Contests? 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Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Are you familiar with this app?www.easypromosapp.comIf you look here - <strong><a href="http://www.appdata.com/devs/802051-easypromos" rel="nofollow">http://www.appdata.com/devs/802051-easypromos</a>You will see Easypromos is the winner in market acceptance and usage. <a href="http://www.easypromosapp.com/blog/en/2011/05/10-reasons-to-use-easypromos/" rel="nofollow">10 Reasons to use [&#8230;]</a></strong></p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-37261</guid><title><![CDATA[Patricia Mellin replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-37261</link> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:15:14 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/patriciamellin/" title="Patricia Mellin" rel="nofollow">Patricia Mellin</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Cool. Will take a look.</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-37230</guid><title><![CDATA[Jim Oborny replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-37230</link> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:04:20 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jimoborny/" title="Jim Oborny" rel="nofollow">Jim Oborny</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> We just launched a new Facebook apps suite which includes a Scratch Off Promotion App.&#160; It is fun and viral <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bleapp/app_160116404051502" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/bleapp/app_160116404051502</a></p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-35041</guid><title><![CDATA[Monalisha replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-35041</link> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:48:15 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/mona/" title="Monalisha" rel="nofollow">Monalisha</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Hey guys you can also check out SocialAppsHQ's Sweepstakes App -https://www.socialappshq.com/products/sweepstakes_tab-for-fbpages &#038; it now got internationalize. You can use it at affordable cost &#038; use your own [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-9288</guid><title><![CDATA[Chris McCarty replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-9288</link> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:13:56 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/chrismccarty/" title="Chris McCarty" rel="nofollow">Chris McCarty</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/' rel="nofollow">@aprylparcher</a> btw,,, if you want to choose winners at random, try random.org and provide a link in your contest info so your participants can check it out. This has eliminated some confusion for me in the past.</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-9257</guid><title><![CDATA[Apryl Parcher replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-9257</link> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:53:59 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/" title="Apryl Parcher" rel="nofollow">Apryl Parcher</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Thanks, <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jfouts/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jfouts/' rel="nofollow">@jfouts</a> &#038; <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/chrismccarty/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/chrismccarty/' rel="nofollow">@chrismccarty</a>! Great insights. I'll have to look more closely at Woobox and North Social. We did ok as far as the video contest initial phase with Wildfire, and voting is going ok. Going to [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5176</guid><title><![CDATA[Chris McCarty replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5176</link> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:36:25 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/chrismccarty/" title="Chris McCarty" rel="nofollow">Chris McCarty</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/' rel="nofollow">@aprylparcher</a> I have run contests through <strong>wildfire</strong> and had a fairly poor experience. While there were some&#160;legitimate&#160;entries, there were also a lot of people that bought votes so they could win the sweepsteaks [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5094</guid><title><![CDATA[Janet Fouts replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5094</link> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:04:08 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jfouts/" title="Janet Fouts" rel="nofollow">Janet Fouts</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/' rel="nofollow">@aprylparcher</a>&#160;Yep, I often see the contest really pick up at the end. I've been planning to test to see if it's the length of time, the "enter now before it's over!" messages or what... Hard to say since they [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5085</guid><title><![CDATA[Georgia McCabe replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5085</link> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:16:38 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/georgiamccabe/" title="Georgia McCabe" rel="nofollow">Georgia McCabe</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Apryl,<div></div><div>I have found that the more I am promoting it in creative ways weighs in heavily on the number of entries. &#160;For example if I promote it with a blog post, or a press release the day that they go out tends to [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5070</guid><title><![CDATA[Apryl Parcher replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-5070</link> <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:08:06 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/aprylparcher/" title="Apryl Parcher" rel="nofollow">Apryl Parcher</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/shanekeener/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/shanekeener/' rel="nofollow">@shanekeener</a>, <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/leecg/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/leecg/' rel="nofollow">@leecg</a>, <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/georgiamccabe/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/georgiamccabe/' rel="nofollow">@georgiamccabe</a>, and <a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jfouts/' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jfouts/' rel="nofollow">@jfouts</a>, thanks for your replies! I've been using Wildfire for one of my clients and while their support has been great, I would also definitely recommend starting [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4680</guid><title><![CDATA[Janet Fouts replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4680</link> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:09:09 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/jfouts/" title="Janet Fouts" rel="nofollow">Janet Fouts</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> I like both Offerpop and Northsocial as far as apps go. The most important things to remember about contests:<div>Have a fan base before you run the contest or you don't get a lot of entiresMake it something people [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4636</guid><title><![CDATA[Georgia McCabe replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4636</link> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/georgiamccabe/" title="Georgia McCabe" rel="nofollow">Georgia McCabe</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Apryl, I have run a lot of contests for my clients ranging from Sweepstakes, to Photo, Essays and Video. &#160;Re: applications I have used Wildfire, Shortstack, Offerpop, North Social, and Rafflecopter. &#160;I have found [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4606</guid><title><![CDATA[Lee Genung replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4606</link> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/leecg/" title="Lee Genung" rel="nofollow">Lee Genung</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> I agree with Shane, easy for the customer is best! We have done a few contests through shortstack and they have gone well. We promoted them on the page and through FB ads. In all cases the people who won then [&#8230;]</p> ]]> </description> </item> <item> <guid>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4162</guid><title><![CDATA[Shane Keener replied to the forum topic Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts? in the club Facebook]]></title><link>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/#post-4162</link> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:23:14 +0000</pubDate><description> <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/members/shanekeener/" title="Shane Keener" rel="nofollow">Shane Keener</a> replied to the forum topic <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/have-you-used-facebook-contests-your-thoughts/" rel="nofollow">Have You Used Facebook Contests? Your Thoughts?</a> in the club <a href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> We have experimented with a lot of contests at <a href="http://www.yodogmarketing.com" rel="nofollow">Yo!DogMarketing</a>. Our current platform for administering contests is <a href="http://www.vitrue.com" rel="nofollow">Vitrue</a> and we like it for the cost versus others out there.<div></div><div>In general, you'll get the best [&#8230;]</div> ]]> </description> </item> </channel> </rss>