Viralsweep Review
I gave away a MacBook Air.
The winner has been chosen by a random drawing on February 1st. The prize was valued at $899.
Overall, the competition was fun and provided some interesting results I thought I would share.
The catalyst behind the star of this post and the contest is a tool named Viralsweep. Get prepared to realize what a competition can do to help your own site and Viralsweep works.
Viralsweep Review This Widget Helped Run a Contest on My Blog
Running a competition is.
A competition can bring your blog results that are favorable. Matters like publicity. Brand consciousness. Word-of-Mouth advertising. Signups to your own sanity. Those are the standard results.
Within our modern online age, a competition more specifically brings in email readers, social media traffic and followers, participation, and positive vibes (that are hard to measure, but real nonetheless.)
Businesses are holding competitions since forever, and those motives are they continue to be popular.
You might be thinking,"Matt, I can't afford to give away a prize like this." No issue. You will discover a $30 gift card generates some buzz and contributes to more results than you predicted.
Oh, you have to know that I spent $156. So my cost included 4 weeks of Viralsweep at $39 per month that puts my complete.
Viralsweep comes with a free version you may use, it simply doesn't have as many features or monitoring data as the Guru plan (I chose.) There is also a Business program which's the best, but a lot of you won't need to devote this much.
So be sure to pick out and offer a prize that is suitable for your budget.
Besides cost, another objection that might be holding you back is"time and energy " Maintaining a contest sounds like more work? Something which will require invested time and focus...What if I told you Viralsweep simplifies the procedure, effectively monitors the participants and makes it possible to achieve results?
Curious now? Let's take a look at Viralsweep.
Opening up a new account with Viralsweep is easy. No credit card is needed to get started.
As soon as you are in the dashboard, you can start a competition, track a current one, or examine the results of a finished competition.
You can see that I have one competition that is finished.
Before I get into those outcomes, let me take you back to the way I began the contest. (I should have taken some screenshots of this setup, but I did not.) I can tell you that Viralsweep gave me an option to set up.
This is great because you are brought more outcomes by giving individuals ways of inputting.
Less than six entries if you want, but that I thought, why don't you get the most out of the chance can be chosen by you? So to help individuals increase their likelihood of winning (equal to purchasing 6 raffle tickets rather than just 1) and make the most of this event, I put up 6 methods to enter, that's the maximum.
How does this offer YOU more outcomes?
Well in my case, one way people could get into the drawing for a brand new MacBook Air was to subscribe to my email newsletter.
If they needed, they may also input five times by...
-Subscribing into the BYOB YouTube channel
-Follow @buildurownblog on Twitter
-Follow buildyourownblog on Pinterest
-Comment on BuildYourOwnBlog.net
-Follow matthewkaboomisloomis around Instagram
I began the competition After I set this in place.
Viralsweep enables you to embed the competition widget in your blog post (or web page. But you need to utilize it.)
This article was published on Dec. 12. Since you may see, it created a great deal of excitement from the comments.
I would have liked to of seen more social shares...maybe some people thought sharing the news would reduce their opportunity to win???
Needless to say, this post was promoted by me through all of my social channels along with an email blast.
One thing I did not do is spend money on advertisements with this particular contest. Instead, I simply let my free channels do the work.
1 reason I didn't spend money on advertising this competition is since there's a fantastic possibility that it could draw a few (or many) people who are below the average target market of BYOB. In other words, a contest in this way could entice people not actually interested in your product, your specialty or solutions. Once it's over, they may only need to put in the contest and won't stick around.
I believe that happens on some level with any company contest. Not sure you can stop that. However, I thought possibly avoiding things such as"sponsored articles" on Facebook will cut back on the below average traffic.
Plus I thought I'd wait to find out what the outcomes were before making money on promotions about the first competition of this scale.
I promoted this post through the BYOB SM channels during the next 6 months.
Viralsweep let's you change the deadline. Initially planning to end at midnight New Year's Day, I decided to allow it to go until the end of January.
Was made sure not over promote this contest on some of the channels. Twitter is the one where you are able to post exactly the very same things multiple times rather than embarrass people, provided that you space them out. This did result in a fantastic tweet and retweet counts.
(This also gives you a good idea of the possible Twitter shares a competition can attract. These aren't all them.)
Alright, so today let us look at the benefits this competition provided...
Viralsweep Review: The Contest Outcomes At-a-Glance
All these are the levels of each contest entry point.
I'll break down each class and give a standard to them:
Email Clients
The sign ups for my newsletter were nice but in comparison from the contest I had, the 395 gained more than 6 weeks wasn't a significant increase. My subscription prices were strong also continue to be steady today.
YouTube Subscribers
This class was the best of all. The total subscriber count doubled, by incorporating 319 subscribers to my YouTube channel.
You can see on this chart, I picked on up 164 subscribers in 1 day.
Despite the inclination of a contest contributor to become engaged than the"natural" consumers, the uplift in YouTube contributors generated direct and maybe indirect increase in channel views and video watch time.
Twitter Followers
Another yield. I picked up more than a third more Twitter followers. Grade: B
Pinterest Followers
My channel is still a kid, so it was good to pick up 277 followers. That's almost half of the current followers. I am still studying Pinterest, so it's difficult to say how lots of these folks are repining my things visiting my site.
Comments on BYOB
This entry into the drawing supplied a lot of involvement. Aside from the competition post, I don't think the Viralsweep contest generated a lot of comments. Long term, the competition itself did not produce a great deal of constant, regular commenters, although I understand there were a little amount, which can be fine. Not surprising, actually. Although a smaller percent are less likely to remark on another topic, they would be eager to comment on the MacBook Air contest article. Grade: C
Followers on Instagram
I am grateful for being able to double my followers. The sole reason why this result does not get a high tier is because I do not use IG greatly to drive visitors to BYOB. Perhaps once I share BYOB related posts on IG, those opinions will continue to engage and visit the site, and I got plenty to learn, and a few will convert there or here. Time will tell. Grade: B
Viralsweep Review: Competition Conclusions
In my opinion , the MacBook Air drawing proved to be a great effort that helped its consumer base increases in Twitter Pinterest and YouTube's smaller social networking platforms, with the maximum being benefited by YT.
The email list growth has been unspectacular (relative to Regular BYOB results)
Ads that are future will be helped with by the spike in subscribers I decide to run over there, resulting in a YT channel.
Not sure I will perform a competition similar to this anytime soon, but I really do think Viralsweep can be rather valuable for promoting jobs like an eBook or Course.
Viralsweep Review Wrap Up: What Are You Considering Doing with This Tool?
Got plans or some thoughts on using Viralsweep? Have you already used it? What did you believe? Let us talk about it in the comments.
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