Running a contest on your blog is a lot of fun! There is also a lot of benefits in doing so. More traffic, more followers, more email subscribers. If done correctly you can successful expand the reach of your brand.
When you run a contest on on your blog you have a lot of options and a chance to be really creative!
Brenda Barron at Elegant Themes said “You’re not limited to just writing a blog post that says, “Hey, enter my contest!” either. You can utilize a variety of companion tools to set up a contest, run it for its duration, promote it, and select a winner from within the WordPress dashboard for the most part.” in her post How To Run A Contest On WordPress.
If you are really interested in running a contest on your blog check out Brenda’s article. It has a lot of excellent tips!
Have you ran a contest lately? How did it go for you?
What a great resources – I had no idea there were so many cool plugins for running little competitions on your site!
I didn’t know about half of them either! It was fun to check them all out. Thanks for commenting Kelly.
Susanne and I are planning on running a contest in the next couple weeks so this is a timely share. Thanks.
Thanks Tracy! Glad it helped.