Comments on: Are You Getting Real Visitors From Your Competitions http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/ Build! Promote! Profit! Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:52:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Promotional Products http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/comment-page-1/#comment-10288 Promotional Products Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:59:54 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/?p=159#comment-10288 Good information, I've never looked at competitions that way. Good information, I’ve never looked at competitions that way.

]]> By: Danielle http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/comment-page-1/#comment-10074 Danielle Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:47:27 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/?p=159#comment-10074 Nice site!!! I really enjoyed the post and I will be back for sure!!! Danielle (<a href="http://youngblackandfab.blogspot.com">YBA</a>) <abbr><em>Danielles last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/icwR/~3/378641097/concept-cars-of-future.html">Concept Cars of the Future</a></em></abbr> Nice site!!! I really enjoyed the post and I will be back for sure!!!

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]]> By: Russ Greeno http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/comment-page-1/#comment-10064 Russ Greeno Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:44:26 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/?p=159#comment-10064 Interesting point - having been a habitual competition entrant (when I had time) on sites like Jason's Loquax and The Prizefinder I was always looking at ways to speed up entries, though I would never have paid for something to do it for me. Interesting point – having been a habitual competition entrant (when I had time) on sites like Jason’s Loquax and The Prizefinder I was always looking at ways to speed up entries, though I would never have paid for something to do it for me.

]]> By: Jason Dale http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/comment-page-1/#comment-10059 Jason Dale Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:46:34 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/?p=159#comment-10059 Otooo - so let's say you offer up a £1000 prize for a competition to (1) get visitors to your site (2) have that visitor interact with a sponsor and (3) join your newsletter. Would you be happy if the person who then won that £500 had (1) never ever visited your website (2) hadn't even seen your sponsor and (3) had joined your newsletter with an email account that isn't used - other than to see if some prizes have been awarded? Yes a competition is a competition - but it's also a marketing tool and a promoter should make sure they're getting value for that promotion. The entrant should do the basics to qualify their entry - i.e. go and visit the website, enter the competition themselves and follow the mechanic laid out by the promoter. If you allow people to pay a company to do entries for them, so that those people never visit anyones website or interact with your sponsors/advertisers or even join your newsletter, you may as well scrap any competitions you have and give any prize you were offering to a passerby in the street because in the end it has the same marketing value. <abbr><em>Jason Dales last blog post..<a href="http://www.onelittleduck.co.uk/2008/08/do-lead-programs-suffer-from-automated-affiliates.html">Do Lead Programs Suffer From Automated Affiliates?</a></em></abbr> Otooo – so let’s say you offer up a £1000 prize for a competition to (1) get visitors to your site (2) have that visitor interact with a sponsor and (3) join your newsletter.

Would you be happy if the person who then won that £500 had (1) never ever visited your website (2) hadn’t even seen your sponsor and (3) had joined your newsletter with an email account that isn’t used – other than to see if some prizes have been awarded?

Yes a competition is a competition – but it’s also a marketing tool and a promoter should make sure they’re getting value for that promotion.

The entrant should do the basics to qualify their entry – i.e. go and visit the website, enter the competition themselves and follow the mechanic laid out by the promoter.

If you allow people to pay a company to do entries for them, so that those people never visit anyones website or interact with your sponsors/advertisers or even join your newsletter, you may as well scrap any competitions you have and give any prize you were offering to a passerby in the street because in the end it has the same marketing value.

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]]> By: Steve Kinsey http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/comment-page-1/#comment-10058 Steve Kinsey Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:27:38 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/?p=159#comment-10058 But if someone is getting dozens of entries a day with different variations of they're emal address that is hardly fair on all the others entering the competition legitimately. But if someone is getting dozens of entries a day with different variations of they’re emal address that is hardly fair on all the others entering the competition legitimately.

]]> By: Otooo http://www.stevekinsey.com/2008/08/15/are-you-getting-real-visitors-from-your-competitions/comment-page-1/#comment-10057 Otooo Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:54:16 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/?p=159#comment-10057 I agree with what u are saying, but still, a competition is a competition - it is free to enter and anyone should be able to win. <abbr><em>Otooos last blog post..<a href="http://otooo.com/my-daily-advertising-schedule-challenge-for-success">My Daily Advertising Schedule: Challenge For Success</a></em></abbr> I agree with what u are saying, but still, a competition is a competition – it is free to enter and anyone should be able to win.

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