{"id":281,"date":"2019-12-03T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:46:54","slug":"5-easy-steps-to-building-your-next-successful-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/5-easy-steps-to-building-your-next-successful-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Easy Steps To Building Your Next Successful Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;ve created a giveaway before and it just didn&#8217;t go as well as you expected right ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are 5 easy steps to building your next successful giveaway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#1 &#8211; Use a giveaway app such as <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Rafflecopter (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rafflecopter<\/strong><\/a><strong> or <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Gleam.io (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/gleam.io\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gleam.io<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a dedicated widget to run your giveaway is a great way to make the selection process easier but also setup and ease of use for the people entering.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#2 &#8211; Clearly define what is to be given away<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Sure you want to make it good but adding to many products to a giveaway can cause confusion. Also setting to many runner up prizes can cause confusion as well. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#3 &#8211; Write an engaging giveaway post<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing a enticing sponsored giveaway post is a great way to gain more traction to your giveaway. Be sure to test all entry methods and the follow up sequence\/ goals behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#4 &#8211; Promote your giveaway on socials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because you built it doesn&#8217;t mean people are going to come enter it. You need to put some promotion into it. We here at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"GiveawayMachine.com (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/submitgiveaway.php\" target=\"_blank\">GiveawayMachine.com<\/a> offer marketing services for a low cost to help bolster your giveaway to go viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#5 &#8211; Choose A Winner Carefully<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When picking your winner be sure to double check who it is. Check the socials and verifiy it is not some bot account or fake account. The above apps do a good job at removing invalid entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve created a giveaway before and it just didn&#8217;t go as well as you expected right ? Here are 5 easy steps to building your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282,"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\/281"}],"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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveawaymachine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}