Promoting contest

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by templates, Mar 4, 2007.

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    Im thinking of having a contest on my forum where i give away an xbox 360 game to the poster with 200 plus post over a 2 week period.My forum is kinda slow,so whats the best way to promote this to get other members to participate?I know that not everyone has an xbox,nor cares for games,but i have some playing around that have only been played 1 or 2 times and thought it would be a good tool to giveaway.Any thoughts?
     
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    What type of forum is it (as in its niche), or better yet, can you provide a link?
     
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    If your forum is about affiliate marketing, why are you going to be giving away xbox games? What is the demographic of your posters? Why not something like: free advertising on your site, gift certificates to godaddy / amazon / etc, affiliate marketing books, free affiliate software, etc

    Get some other websites and companies to sponsor your promotion too in exchange for advertising.
     
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    that makes more sense do soemthing like that.I guess i was thinking a product would perk up some ppl..I think a godaddy gift certificate would be better since everyone that has a site needs domain registration
     
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    Yeah don't give away xbox games, because there's a 9/10 chance that most members won't even have an xbox.

    I ran a webmaster forum contest for Profit Geek and gave away things like links to paid directories, GoDaddy gift cards, PPC vouchers, and a $1000 cash grand prize.
     
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    You might be better off with a PS2 game because so many more people have that system rather than the 360.
     
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    i think im going to do this like a "store" where ppl can "purchase " these items with a certain number of post..when they get to the post level,they can contact me and tell what they want..for instance
    when 200 total post is achieved
    $10 gift certificate to godaddy
    400 post
    $20 gift certificate to amazon or something
    700 post free xbox or ps2 game
    and so on..hows does that sound?I think a little better
     
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    Sounds ok I guess, but make sure you advertise your promotion. Best of luck.
     
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