Mother’s Day Contest Ideas for Your Brand

Sílvia Martí
Sílvia Martí
Mother's Day is yet another event your brand can't afford to miss. It's a great opportunity to improve brand visibility and positioning. Try these ideas to strengthen your online community, get leads and user-generated content with Mother's Day promotions.

In this post, we take a look at Mother’s Day contest ideas that really work!

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Mother’s day competition idea: photo, and video contests to collect user-generated content

Social media has become a key part of how we stay in touch and show our love for our families. So sharing Mother’s Day photos is a natural next step.

One of the most popular Mother’s Day promotions is a photo contest. Set up a theme, create an online gallery to show off the competition entries, and throw in a prize to incentivize your followers. Try to choose something that suits the day – and your brand.

For example, this beauty brand offered a mother-and-daughter treat. To take part, followers just had to share a selfie together with their moms. The winners would receive a luxury spa facial to celebrate Mother’s Day.

Ideas of Mother's Day promotions for brands to celebrate with their online communities

Remember that you can collect photos from moms or their children. In this promotion from Pizza Hut, moms shared their favorite hand-made Mother’s Day gifts.

Banner announcing a Mother's Day photo contest. The photo shows two children hugging, with inset images of children's drawings.

If your followers are especially creative and engaged, then you could challenge them to a video contest. Ask users to record a quick message for their mothers – or their children! – and then share the videos in your online gallery.

Do you want to make your Mother’s Day Photo Contest even more fun? You can use the Easypromos PhotoFun app to personalize pictures with frames and stickers. Add your customized stickers to expose your corporate image.

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Collect stories, memories and messages with your Mother’s Day competition

As we celebrate moms on Mother’s Day, it’s time to reflect on our relationships. The holiday brings up powerful emotions and memories for many people.

So another option for your Mother’s Day promotions is a heartfelt Writing Contest. You can ask followers to write as much or as little as you like.

For example, in this quick contest for Risata wines, followers just had to explain what they had planned for Mother’s Day. Three participants would win a $200 Lush gift card – perfect for Mother’s Day treats.

2 screenshots from a Mother's Day writing contest. 1: banner announcing the contest. The image shows flowers and a bottle of wine, and the text describes the prize. 2: competition entry form. Users are asked for their contact details and Mother's Day plans. They are invited to sign up for the brand newsletter.

But this next contest offered a bigger challenge: participants had to write a short story about their mom. Because this contest required more effort, it had an even bigger prize. The winners would have an entire room of their house painted!

Banner announcing a Mother's Day writing contest. The image shows two young people, one of them writing. The text reads: "A colourful memory of Mom! Paint a picture with words and let everyone know how amazing your Mom is! Win $750 worth of Berger Paints!"

This is a perfect promotion to show you that any company can celebrate Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day competition idea: Gamified campaign

Gamification is the most recent trend in digital marketing, and it can really help you accomplish a wide variety of different marketing objectives. Gamified promotions increase engagement and entertain customers, and that leads to positive customer experiences. Implementing playable promotions into your Mother’s Day campaign can bring about fantastic results.

Take a look at the following Mother’s Day promotion idea. It’s an example of a Hidden Objects game that you can use for this year’s Mother’s Day campaign. Users search for flowers spread around the image for a chance to win a Mother’s Day bouquet!

Mother's Day Hidden Objects game for any brand.

Once the participants complete the challenge, they fill in a registration form to submit their entry. They get a chance to win while the organizer expands their mailing list.

The fact that the Hidden Objects game can be fully customized gives you endless possibilities. Have your customers look for your products or logos for a better brand experience.

Are you considering gamifying your marketing strategy? Do you want to implement games into your Mother’s Day campaign? Try our Mother’s Day Hidden Objects DEMO to see what it is all about! You can also download our pre-configured template to save time creating your Mother’s Day promotion.


Mother’s Day marketing ideas that boost sales: promote products with a Product Recommender

One of the main reasons to start any marketing campaign is driving sales. You must know by now that some promotions work better than others – and we’re about to show you an idea for Mother’s Day promotion that can seriously help you promote your product – and therefore increase sales.

mother's day promotion idea: product recommender

Mother’s Day Product Recommender is a simple quiz app. Users answer a few closed questions and they see personalized messages depending on how they answered the questions. This idea will work for anyone looking to attract new customers right in time for Mother’s Day; it allows you to recommend products that you want to promote. You can even add discount codes to improve conversion.

Would you like to see the Mother’s Day Product Recommender? Try the DEMO and download our ready-made template – it’ll save you up to 70% of production time!


Organize a Mother’s Day giveaway on Instagram Stories

Instagram Stories have become one of the most popular posts on the social network and with Easypromos you can now run a fully automated and reliable giveaway on Instagram Stories. There are two participation dynamics available with Instagram Stories giveaways.

Mother's Day Instagram Giveaway

Post a Mother’s Day Story on your Instagram account and ask your followers to reply to participate. You could ask them to share how they will celebrate Mother’s Day or to say what they like the most of this day to participate. Or you could ask your followers to post their own Story with a mention to your brand showing how they will celebrate Mother’s Day.


Offer exclusive rewards and giveaways for Mother’s Day

So far, we’ve focused on skill-based contests. And they are certainly a fun way to collect leads and user-generated content!

But sometimes, you want something a bit simpler. If you want a contest that’s really easy to join, then the answer is a giveaway with a registration form. People just fill in their contact details to join the prize draw – no effort required.

Then you can use those contact details to follow up on your sales leads. You can customize the form to get specifically useful information for your brand. Just like other Mother’s Day promotions, make sure you offer a suitable incentive to motivate your followers.

Banner announcing a Mother's Day giveaway. The image shows a breakfast tray with tea, candles, cake, a teapot, and luxury toiletries. The text below reads: "Lucky Mums Giveaway. To celebrate Mother's Day, we are giving away 5 amazing prizes to 5 lucky mums!"

We like this prize bundle from an Australian food brand. They gave away five hampers of Mother’s Day gifts among users who signed up. You could share products from your brand, or team up with other brands to share a goody bag with your followers.

Mother's Day entry form giveaway

Here’s another example that we created to help you visualize a Mother’s Day giveaway a bit better. Can you see how followers of a fragrance brand could register their contact details for a chance to win?

Do you want to launch a Mother’s Day Entry Form Giveaway? Use our customizable Mother’s Day giveaway template.


Recruit families to your brand with Mother’s Day campaigns

Finally, let’s take a look at one more contest type: Refer-a-Friend. Also known as a recruiters or recruitment contest, it’s a classic giveaway – with a twist.

First, your followers sign up with their contact details. But then, to increase their chances or qualify for the prize draw, they have to recruit more people to the competition.

This is perfect for Mother’s Day promotions. Share the contest, and ask your followers to recruit their moms to win. Or target your competition at moms, and encourage them to sign up their friends.

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