{"id":65504,"date":"2019-11-19T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easypromosapp.com\/blog\/travel-blog-giveaways-success-case\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:22:07","slug":"travel-blog-giveaways-success-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easypromosapp.com\/blog\/en\/travel-blog-giveaways-success-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottsworld celebrated 13 years of travel with giveaways and turned online followers into email subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One sabbatical year from a corporate career turned into (so far) 13 years of traveling throughout the world for Sherry Ott, sharing her adventures and travel advice through her blog \u201cOttsworld Travel blog\u201d and her social media profiles. With a lot of hard work and the luck of being at the right place at the right time just when new media was starting, traveling and blogging soon became her livelihood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019 Sherry celebrated her 13th travel anniversary. She organized a giveaway to raffle travel gear among the followers that signed up to her email list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mW4UHw71XiQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The organizer: a travel blog<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcdn.cstmapp.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sherry-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"Travel blogger Sherry Ott\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21186\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sherry Ott is the founder of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ottsworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ottsworld Travel blog<\/a>. She calls herself \u201ca new nomad, digital wanderer, and career breaker\u201d. She started traveling in 2006 because she wanted to take a break from her corporate life in New York. The plan was to travel for a year and then go back. But she never went back. The time was right to start a travel blog because things were just starting to happen in new media, blogging, and social media, so she worked on professionalizing it and perfecting her photography skills. She markets her blog through Google, SEO, and a lot of social media. Using an online giveaway was a perfect match for her business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcdn.cstmapp.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Instagram_post_announcing_giveaway.webp\" alt=\"Travel blog giveaways on Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29890\" width=\"638\" height=\"605\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The travel giveaway series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Sherry had been traveling for <strong>13 years through 70 countries plus 44 US states and Antarctica<\/strong>. To celebrate that she came up with the idea of running giveaways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easypromosapp.com\/engagement-solutions\/\">engage with her followers<\/a><strong> <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong>expend her <strong>email database<\/strong>. Recently she\u2019s been working more with brands; brands that she knows and that she\u2019s used through her years of travel. So she contacted the brands and ended up with 13 amazing prizes, adding up to 1300 USD worth of gifts, that she wanted to give away during the month the giveaway lasted.&nbsp;<br>The prizes ranged from hats to suitcases, hiking boots and gear, and photography equipment, from brands like Eagle Creek, LensCoat, Krimson Klover, Tinggly Experience, Urban Adventures, Wallaroo hats, Oboz, etc. She wanted the prizes to be travel products that she\u2019s used through her years of traveling and that she knows the quality of, and <strong>use these products to connect with her audience<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before each prize draw, Sherry recorded a video explaining the product that was up for grabs next. This way she created a sense of excitement, making the audience interested in the prize and turning them into potential participants. She drew a new winner every two to three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcdn.cstmapp.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_Blog_with_banner_about_giveaway-1024x585.jpg\" alt=\"Travel blog giveaways embedded on the blog\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21142\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running giveaways is new to Sherry, but it\u2019s something that she wanted to try, also as a way of increasing her email list. And with a whole month of contests and so many prizes, she knew that it was going to be really complicated. So she was looking for a person, or a platform, that could take care of the details and the technical part of the contest for her, which would make it a lot easier for her. That\u2019s where Easypromos came in. She used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easypromosapp.com\/entry-form-giveaway-app\/\">Entry Form Giveaway app<\/a> and created 13 random-draw prizes. All participants that had registered at the time of the draw were entered into it, so the sooner you signed up, the more chances of winning.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The giveaway was embedded on the blog and Sherry used her social media channels actively to encourage her followers to sign up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The results of the travel Blogiversary giveaway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of the <strong>560 participants<\/strong> were from the US but 179 of the entries were from Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Iceland, Thailand, Netherlands, Australia, Indonesia, Czech Republic, Spain, Finland, Marocco, Japan, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcdn.cstmapp.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/World_map_participants.jpg\" alt=\"Ottsworld travel blog Giveaways results\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21143\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the giveaway page, Sherry gathered 169 new followers on her social media, most of them on Instagram. 304 of the participants signed up for the giveaway directly from the embedded widgets on the blog.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Testimonial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>One of the things that really sold me on Easypromos was the level of support. 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