Facebook - Promotions / Competitons / Initiatives

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Permalink Reply by Chris Noble on September 29, 2010 at 6:42am

Yes, it's extremely cheeky of me to start a discussion on competitions, then add one first up. But I'm generally keen to know what else people are doing, what experience they're having with running promotions and associated learning's.

The first real competition we've run on Facebook is called - Terrifying Travel Tales

We're using the Wildfire promotion app which has been an interesting experience, relatively user friendly to set-up, multiple pricing options depending on how much control you want over the CSS (the more you want, the more you pay!). What we liked about it was the ability to manage everything from entry detail capture as well as being able to manage user voting at the end of it.

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Terrifying Travel Tales is an opportunity to submit your tales from the road. Whether you were scammed out of cash, fell out of a tuk-tuk or your culinary adventures landed you in the hospital, we want to know what happened, how you reacted and what advice you would give to other travellers about how to avoid or survive the situation.

We'll vote our favourites each month till it closes on November 30th. The final winner ( as judged by the FB community) will get to pick one of the following 4 adventures ( with airfare provided by Airtreks.com)

Option One - Give Back: Go native in Fiji

Join the Tribe in Vorovoro, Fiji with Tribewanted.com, living on the beach and learning local Fijian customs.

Option - Two Learn a Skill: Tango in Argentina

Study Spanish and Argentinean Tango with GoLearnTo.com in the vibrant city of Buenos Aires.*

Option - Three Immerse Yourself: Discover Turkey

Discover the Turkey Trails with Tucan Travel, an authentic travel experience mixing culture and history.

Option Four - Get Off the Beaten Path: Cycle through Cambodia

Cycle the Mekong in Laos & Cambodia with PEPY Tours

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Obviously this competition is almost custom made for the travel blogging community, so we hope to see some amazing tales shared and would love any support any sharing this opportunity with your wider communities.

Cheers

Chris Noble
@worldnomads

Permalink Reply by easytovisit.com on October 3, 2010 at 3:43am

Nice competition, I will definitely enter.

Her's one we are running on Facebook:

To promote the launch of our platform easytovisit.com We have created a contest in which we are giving as a first prize
6 Round the World plane ticket worth € 2.500,00.

here's the address : http://wintheworld2010.easytovisit.com/

You will be able to play on facebook and as a Web app.
We strongly suggest to play on Facebook because is easier to collect contacts and friends.

In this contest bloggers have an edge because while normal users will have to resort on inviting friend by email or through the Facebook application You bloggers with your personal hash code can link banners or links on your blogs and social messages or updates therefore enhancing your chances of victory.

We have also created a series of Banners and Icons to help you promote your race in the contest. ( http://www.toots.it/icons-banners/ )

The mechanism is very simple:
We have divided the globe in 6 continental areas.
We will calculate the weight of how many players play and interact tough the game for every country compared to their internet population therefore measuring the "social" index of the countries.
We will award a prize to those that will be able to lead their country to win the place as most social country of their area.

We are also giving point for answering polls about travel and tourism and all the datas will be made available at the end of the contest. Interesting isn't it ?

The contest ends the 31st of december 2010 so there's still a lot of time to enter the competition and win.

Good luck!