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We ran a contest a few years back and were surprised to learn about the complexity. Online contests, done to the letter of the law, are a complete nightmare. There are state laws (yours and theirs) plus a litany of federal laws with the FTC, the Postal Service, and probably other agencies. And then there are privacy laws. And so on. Our solution? Find a ...

Prize drawing are always popular, but you need to target your prizes based on your budget and your audience. In addition, you will get better results if you do some sort of screening on prize contestants. Ipods, from nano on up through iTouch are always popular. Head phones, ear buds, etc. You should work on a way to qualify your leads. Don't let them just ...

Twitter doesn't automatically get your message in front of eyeballs. Only people following you see your messages, and only if they re-tweet does it start to spread. There's at least two parts of going viral: Getting a critical mass of people to see your message upon "launch" Getting people to repeat your message to people they know, then those people do ...

Twitter is all about who follows you and the retweet. Judging from your twitter account, you don't have many people following you. That's probably why it did not go viral. It does not sound like a boring contest at all. It's kind of witty actually but the problem will be no one knows about it. So, it looks like you need to build a following or reach out to ...

Laws governing contests vary by state. In general, the regulations require certain disclosures regarding odds of winning, and bar purchase-to-enter style contests (hence the ubiquitous "No Purchase Necessary"). Incorporation will have more to do with your specific tax needs than with your contests. Doing a random drawing from a pool of registered users ...

I participated in several competitions, and ran several competition via the entrepreneurship club at my university. I almost won $100K (which wasn't fun, because I was very close, but ended up with nothing) and I have won several thousands of dollars worth of services. I have also made some great friends in the process. I am a firm believer in these ...

If you're looking for a graphic designer to help design your brand identity (logo, colors, font, etc...) 99designs.com is good as mentioned above but there are a couple others for this - 99desk.com or crowdspring.com as well. $100-$300 cost + they'll deliver to you in a format from which you can have business cards / stationery done. If you're looking for ...

did you try more hashtags? #contest #iphone #runners Best tagline for our #roadbud app wins iphone + app. Details @ http://bit.ly/rb-contest Hits people who have iphones, runners and like contests. Adding the runners hashtag can get some interest. could try #cycling and #jogging as well.

I can't speak to platforms for promotion of the offer. I can speak quickly to the layout of your entry form. UI on the Entry The "Quote" button got in the way of the "entry" with the comments. I would replace the "comment" field requirement (see below) and I would make a clear "Submit" button -- I would either have the "free quote" be a second step, or ...

I think your promotion idea sounds good. Here's what I would do.: Get 25 t-shirts made and have a drawing for who wins them. People love t-shirts and if you do them right, they will actually wear them. There are three reasons why people will actually wear your t-shirt in public: The shirt is funny and a good talking point The shirt is comfortable (and ...

There are various ways you might want to go about doing this. I have marketed in the past and have found that 700 twitter followers on an account is nothing. I have well over a thousand following me and few of my followers would be likely to respond to a contest or anything like that. If you have a budget, you may want to consider advertising your contest ...

There could be a few things happening here: People don't understand what your product is. The prize is not tempting enough You are not getting the word out to enough people You are not getting the word out to people who care. I'll elaborate! Looking at your website, your product is not that obscure, a bit more description on what the product is and ...

The two problems are: 1) Legal. Depending on your audience you may have to worry about multi-region/country legal differences. 2) Who you attract. You want to attract people who will use your site and stay and make you money. If you site is all about, for the sake of an example, selling fairtraded CO2 neutral bags, and you have a competition that gives ...

The problem with prizes and sweepstakes is the legal disclaimers and rules required for them. Make sure you spend time doing research on sweepstakes rules for your county, state and country. In the USA it is very strict to ensure that family members, employees or principals dont rig the sweepstakes. Sometimes, in the event of a raffel or lottery the ...

It can be very effective. While I have never ran one of these contests myself, I have participated in a lot of them, and I have seen a lot of them succeed. The problem you will have (which is your current problem) is getting the word out. You need to get other bloggers to spread the word for you. Do this by making one of the ways to enter the contest ...

Before spending money on this (or other forms of paid marketing), you should have a reasonably accurate idea of what your sales and marketing funnel look like. Basically, figure out the economics of your business. What's the conversion rate from website visitors to leads? Leads to customers? What's the revenue per customer? Instead of a contest, you ...