Aloha, I have a community site where a bunch of registered users regulary write, share pictures, etc. How many registered users do I need to have before I can ask companies to sponsor prizes for a contest or two? The prizes could for example be books about the subject of my community site. I would love to add contests where I for example: - Give away a prize every month to a random active user. - Give away a prize to the user that have referred most new users. Thanks, Mads
I have 810 forum members so far and I run a monthly competition, where people can win tools etc. There are 5 prizes each month. http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/forum1/index.php At first I found a local firm to sponsor one of the forum prizes then I was contacted by another firm that wanted to advertise, so instead I got them to donate prizes to the competition, for a minimum of 6 months! Now I have no sponsors but the competition is still running. I have contacted a few firms that sell large amounts of tools, but they don't even answer my e-mails! Either they are not interested or the e-mail does not get through to the correct person? Hopefully I will find a new sponsor soon. Good luck with yours, it is not easy!
You don't need any members. Just offer the sponser lot of advertising and inform them that your site is going to be big. Somone will help