My advice would be to offer up either sample packs or 10ml bottles to each of many winners. You will get your product out to more people and some will do reviews (good or bad).
After a few multi-winner contests, then maybe go for a Big Prize Give Away!
Welcome to ecf!!!
I love easy contests. Heck, I love any contest I win!
I am looking forward to trying your tobacco pack. Raspberry Tobacco sounds really good.
Thank you very much!!!
congrats thehangdude......and your advice is very good...
Multiple does seem to be more fun. Lets more people get in on the action as it were. But I do know that ECF tends to like to have contest and discussion threads kept kind of separate. Or they have in the past. Some of the contests I've participated in, the vendor will open a thread for the run of the contest, then after it's over and a few rounds of congrats go out, they'll close that thread. Keeping the main thread a little less cluttered.
Beyond that, there are numerous contest styles. There's the grid where people pick numbers on a Google Docs excel spreadsheet. Those are okay, but can be a little tedious for all involved. The contest runner has to keep an eye on it and Like a post with good numbers etc etc. My favorite that always gets people going are the chit chat contests. Open a thread, people chat, set an end date, no double posts, and then at the end, use random.org to pick a random winner from the posts. Then there's the whole make one post and that's it type contests. Those aren't as fun because there's no chatter. You'll find during a contest that most ECF contest entry types will get very conversational if you let them.
Space Coast eh? B&M or just e-store?
I second hangdude! The more winners the better, at least until you get your name and product out there a little.
Some of my favorite contests are ones where there is one "Grand Prize", but there are many random little prizes like a bottle of juice or sampler given as well throughout the contest. If there are constantly random prizes given out, you will have lots of people in the thread...
Just my 2 cents...
Your 2 cents are noted and much appreciated Mare1077, as we are new to the Suppliers Forum area we could use as many 2 cents as people will give us. Do you think a daily e liquid contest would be enough, or would we need to have some sort of Grand Prize? Since we currently don't sell any high end equipment I would not be sure what we could offer in that area.
Hmmm, if it's a daily winner from chit chat ... might want to ask the ECF mods if you can do that from your main thread. Just say all posts from 3pm until 3pm the next day count as entries, then look at the starting and ending post numbers, then use Random.org to pick. A big contest every now and then in it's own thread.
Doesn't have to be hardware to be a big prize. If your estore software supports digital gift certificates, that works. Juice is a big deal on here. Granted, everyone has their own taste buds of course, but yeah I know I'm just as happy winning juice as I am winning something hardware related.
I have to date settled on about 5 main goto liquids, but I'm always up for trying new stuff.