{"id":190,"date":"2019-05-29T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2019-05-29T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:09:56","slug":"plan-your-next-giveaway-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/plan-your-next-giveaway-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Your Next Giveaway For Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A giveaway is only as good as the plan behind it. In this post I am going to cover the blueprint I created for planning my giveaways so you can use it to run your next successful giveaway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember to submit your giveaway to our site by clicking here <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Submit Giveaway (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/submitgiveaway.php\" target=\"_blank\">Submit Giveaway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#1 &#8211; Pick Your Platform<\/strong><br>I would recommend either RaffleCopter or Gleam.io<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#2 &#8211; Write Down Your Goals<\/strong><br>What do you want to come out of this giveaway ?<br>More followers, Visitors to your blog posts, video views, comments, sharing content, creating content etc. Write down your end goal but don&#8217;t make it to many things you want to remain focused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#3 &#8211; Include Viral Aspects<\/strong><br>Why do it all yourself when you can have 100 people do 1% of the work for you?<br>Include viral aspects to your giveaway such as tagging a friend, retweeting etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#4 &#8211; Create a Budget<\/strong><br>If you build it they will come does not apply to giveaways at all. A little bit of grunt work needs to be done or paying other sites to list your giveaway such as that on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GiveawayMachine.com (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\" target=\"_blank\">GiveawayMachine.com<\/a> are key to getting more exposure to your giveaway and making it go viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#5 &#8211; Selecting Your Winner and Follow Up<\/strong><br>It&#8217;s important to thank everyone who entered and possibly even offer a consolation prize such as a discount to your store.<br>It&#8217;s also just as important to announce the winner to everyone to avoid any confusion. If you can ask that person to submit in a photo of their winnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giveaway is only as good as the plan behind it. In this post I am going to cover the blueprint I created for planning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}