{"id":14560,"date":"2013-03-20T01:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2013\/03\/20\/3-solutions-to-host-giveaways-in-your-web-site-part-1\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T13:23:10","slug":"3-solutions-to-host-giveaways-in-your-web-site-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2013\/03\/20\/3-solutions-to-host-giveaways-in-your-web-site-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"3 solutions to host giveaways in your web site part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time:<\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Do you own a web site or blog and would like to start a contest for your visitors\/readers?<\/p>\n

I show you 3 services suitable for this purpose that easily allows to create contests, then you can include where you want within code to embed.<\/p>\n

Rafflecopter<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the service that i actually use here in Simo blog. Easy to use and effective for my needs.<\/p>\n

Once registered and logged in you can create the contest by filling the form<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a good idea that you can choose to start from scratch or from an ended contest.<\/p>\n

The fields to fill are few and intuitive:<\/p>\n

– giveaway name
\n– prizes
\n– options to partecipate (see screenshot<\/a>)
\n– set start and end date\/time
\n– termis and conditions<\/p>\n

The options available are various: tweet about the giveaway, like a page on Facebook, follow in account on Twitter, create a poll \/ survey, join a mailing list, pin an image on Pinterest, follow on Pinterest, leave a blog post comment, invent your own option.
\nMoreover for each option you can set a point value and if it’s mandatory or not.
\nThere is also a “viral sharing” checkbox, it allows to get an extra entry if an entrant refers to a friend.<\/p>\n

Once finished just click “get the widget” button and copy the code provided (it uses Javascript)<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also istall the widget in a tab of a Facebook page. Moreover within a simple link provided other people can embed your widget too where they want!<\/p>\n

The widget has this behaviour<\/p>\n

Visitors can enter the contest within Facebook or with their e-mail address.<\/p>\n

Naturally you can edit all the fields elements whenever you want.<\/p>\n

A nice feature is “moderate entries” button. With this button you will get a table with the data of all entries and with another button you can also export to Excel.<\/p>\n

At the end of the contest in the Rafflecopter’s widget page you can pick winners (they will be extracted using Random.org) that will be show automatically in the widget.<\/p>\n

There are also 2 paid plans, “blogger” and “business” that offers more advanced features<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

In the part 2 the second service, PunchTab, will be analyzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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