Applications

16JUN2017

Make the most of summer with Instagram photo contests

If there is one time of the year when people are at their happiest and most active, it’s probably the summer, with its vacations, walks on the beach, open-air dinners and concerts, get-togethers with friends and family members we haven’t seen for months… Summer is a time to take pictures and share them online. So, it’s the perfect opportunity to pose a challenge to your community, encouraging them to put the finishing touches to a wonderful summer. You might be thinking “What can my brand add to all the appetizing options already available? How can we capture the attention of our target audience?”

30MAY2017

6 Ideas to How to Announce the Winners of an Instagram Sweepstakes

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Posted in: Applications for Instagram

Have you organized an Instagram sweepstakes and is it time to contact the winners? Once you have the list of the winners of the prize draw, time has come to contact the lucky ones so that they can receive their prize as soon as possible. But, how do you announce the result of the Instagram Sweepstakes and even more important, how do you get in touch with the winners? Here we give you 6 ideas to how to announce the winners of the sweepstakes on Instagram.

10MAY2017

Changing the Thumbnail of Your Facebook Live is Easy if You Know How

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Posted in: Applications for facebook

Broadcasting live videos and polls with Facebook Live will increase the reach of your posts given that Facebook gives more reach value to this type of content and your videos will be shown before posts from other users and will have more views in the users’ newsfeed. If in addition to that the thumbnail image is interesting and striking, your video is sure to be seen even after the live streaming. You can change the thumbnail image of your Facebook Live videos to help achieve that. Keep reading and we’ll explain how.

10MAY2017

Definitive Guide to Give Visibility to Facebook Sweepstakes

Posted in: Applications for facebook

A Facebook Sweepstakes is one of the actions that can help you most to spread your brand and increase engagement with your online community. A study based on 24.000 Facebook Sweepstakes shows that this action increases the engagement on a post with up to 1000%. On Facebook pages with many fans, a sweepstakes post easily goes viral but for other pages, it can be difficult to generate traffic to the post in the beginning. If this is your case, follow these steps to achieve an optimal dissemination of the sweepstakes and that way get more participants. Don’t be satisfied with reaching only half of your followers. Check out these options to expand the reach and increase participation!

08MAY2017

How to write a post for an Instagram Sweepstakes

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Posted in: Applications for Instagram

The constant growth in the use of Instagram has done that its utility has become much more diverse and that it’s a social network the brands and businesses should be very aware of when it comes to online campaigns. A good practice that will get more followers to your account and will strengthen your brand image is to run sweepstakes on Instagram. In this post we will give you all the good practices that you should have in mind when writing a post on Instagram to run a prize giveaway where the users have to comment to participate. You will learn the tricks to make a post efficient, make it viral and that will make you win followers and interactions on your profile.

05MAY2017

How to Pick the Winners of an Instagram Sweepstakes

Posted in: Applications for Instagram,Business news

Are you tired of gathering the comments of your Instagram Sweepstakes manually? Had you never thought a sweepstakes could be so much work? Don’t you know how to select the winner of your sweepstakes on Instagram randomly and transparently? Use the application Instagram Sweepstakes and find the random winners easily, transparently and quickly. The app allows monitoring of the comments on a post from it’s published so you don’t miss any comment and you can apply exclusions depending on the users’ mentions and the used hashtags, among other features.

20APR2017

How to Run a Contest on Several Social Networks

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Posted in: Applications for facebook,Applications for Instagram,Applications for Twitter

If you’re thinking about running a contest on several social networks, here you can read about the available options and how to configure them with Easypromos. In many cases the success of the promotion depends to a large degree on how easy it is for the users to participate and that is something you are in charge of. The less barriers of participation you put, the more users will decide on participating and the better the spreading of the contest will be.

28MAR2017

New changes in the Facebook Page Plugin – Pay attention!

Posted in: Applications for facebook

Just like the administrators of Facebook pages are used to the constant updates and changes in the social network, developers of applications that interact with Facebook are also subject to these changes. The latest news that was detected is that Facebook has changed the conditions for using the Facebook Page Plugin which allows to insert and promote all Facebook pages in a web site very easily. This plugin no longer works in some pages: We explain why and give you some solutions.

24FEB2017

12 Very Frequently Asked Questions about Facebook Timeline Contests

Posted in: Applications for facebook

Do you want to organize a Facebook Timeline contest to energize your fanpage but you get stuck with a lot of questions? Check these 12 Frequently Asked Questions about this type of promotion, then try this type of sweepstakes for yourself… You’ll see that it increases the interaction on your posts on average by 1000% compared to the posts you have now. It’s an ideal tool to awaken your community and increase the reach of your fanpage.

16FEB2017

How to run a YouTube sweepstakes to promote your product or brand

Posted in: Applications,Ideas for your website

If you work in marketing, you already know that visual content is king, thanks to how it engages with the public. And you’ll almost certainly be aware of the phenomenal growth of YouTube, which now has over a billion users. You also might know that during an average month, eight out of 10 people between the ages of 18 and 49 watch YouTube. For this reason, you should think about making the most of this platform to promote your products. We outline the key methods for doing this below.