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- ddorian43 13y agoSoooo is it acceptable/moral to gamify likes/+1/reposts/shares like this ?
- sizzle 13y agoThey are presenting their data to us in that fashion, so what specifically is morally questionable about it in your opinion?
- ddorian43 13y agoLike our facebook page to enter this contest? And after say look how many likes we have (cuz many people only gave a shit because of the ~free stuff)
- massarog 13y agoHey there, co-founder of ViralSweep here. Liking a Facebook page was not a requirement to enter the giveaway. If you look at the section that shows the giveaway design, the only requirement was to enter your email address. The page they see after they enter contains the social options which are optional to complete.
- giarc 13y agoAs you can read in the post, if your customers interact with your Facebook group page ("like", comment, share etc) the more your info shows up in their newsfeed. Why wouldn't you give away product to increase their exposure to your company?
- jawns 13y agoJust wanted to say that for a company blog post, this was really great. It's data-rich, it tells a compelling story, the site has a solid visual design, and the multiple calls to action were well placed and didn't detract from the post. I don't know this industry niche well, but I'm guessing Rafflecopter is a chief competitor. I think if they see this blog post, it'll rattle their knees a little :)
- giarc 13y agoI agree. It was one of the few posts that I read in its entirety. Small blocks of texts with plenty of graphics kept me interested. If I see a large wall of text, I usually read 20% and move on.
- line-zero 13y agoI agree. At the end of the day, it breaks through the clutter to bring to the table clear goals of disruptive innovation to empower diversity and grow the brand. It takes a holistic approach to leverage organic growth, helping us think outside the box and shift major paradigms. They're clearly taking a proactive approach to push the envelope -- and I'm going to reach out to them today, because there's a sea change in the business, and we need best-in-class professionals like this to streamline our survival strategy. With that kind of sustainability and synergy, it's a win-win for everyone!
- 80 13y agoDefinitely felt my blood pressure rise as I read this. Good job!
- psycr 13y agoGrey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
- jawns 13y agoMea culpa, I used too many buzzwords. Thanks for the reminder. I don't want to become that guy.
- w4 13y agoI couldn't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gQJMMlt_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gQJMMlt_E
- mst 13y agoI was a little bit annoyed by them calculating the ROI without including the internal costs of writing copy etc. - any ROI calculation that regards staff salaries as a sunk cost is going to be basically useless.
- norova 13y agoAnd you just won them another customer. This was so well-written, informative and entertaining that it completely hooked me. I love giving my SO random surprises, and this (JewelScent) is perfect for that!
- sizzle 13y agowow, what a visually engaging mobile formatted blog post, thanks for sharing.
- eterm 13y agoThey only gave the winners 3 days to claim their prize, that seems a bit tight!
- ceejayoz 13y agoThat's not unusual. You don't want winner notification dragging on for weeks/months (you'd usually move onto an alternate winner after the deadline).
- nitrogen 13y agoFor all these positive comments, this title sounds really spammy.
- line-zero 13y agoAdvertise on HackerNews! It's FREE and always will be!!
- ceejayoz 13y agoThe bonus entry functionality shown in http://www.viralsweep.com/series/images/s2-success.jpg http://www.viralsweep.com/series/images/s2-success.jpg is against the Facebook TOS. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_and_explanations/Rewarding_Users/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_... "our policies prohibit directly tying incentives to the use of our Social Channels"
- thatthatis 13y agoHas this ever been enforced against giveaway contests?
- ceejayoz 13y agoYes.
- thatthatis 13y agoCitation?
- ceejayoz 13y agoPersonal experience. The company I work for puts together online sweeps/contests including Facebook ones, and we've had a couple clients come to us after getting their promotions shut down for violating guidelines. Enforcement seems to be random to the point where I'm pretty sure it only happens if someone reports a page or someone from Facebook stumbles upon it, but it can happen.
- massarog 13y ago"We also allow for specific rewarding around the Like button, provided the incentive is open to all new and existing users who Like your Page." We are compliant with this.
- ceejayoz 13y ago
- brechin 13y agoThe Subscribe box near the bottom of the page doesn't work. It tells me that I'm entering an invalid email address (it's a standard gmail.com address, nothing tricky). If you're interested in trying a different solution, you could try using LeadBoxes - https://blog.leadpages.net/announcing-leadboxes/ https://blog.leadpages.net/announcing-leadboxes/ FD: I work for LeadPages.
- massarog 13y agoThanks for spotting this. It is done in-house, just had an error in our code. Should be fixed now.
- hippich 13y ago(links below are NSFW) I tried this experiment in the summer of last year. Did not work out well in my case, but may be someone will use this idea to execute better. It starts with this - http://orgasms.org/promotion http://orgasms.org/promotion where to enter a promotion, you need to enter email address. Once u entered, you get in a queue like this - http://orgasms.org/promotion-status?email=johndoe%40example.com http://orgasms.org/promotion-status?email=johndoe%40example.... which tells you that you are Nth in the list of applied and current winning entry is 10th. So if you just applied, for you to get closer to 10th position you need to share it with you friends so they get applied too :) There were no anti-fraud anything implemented, since it was just an experiment, but in real-world situation comprehensive IP/Cookies/etc detection of same user submission will be required obviously.
- tbrooks 13y agoThey also made a pretty killer guide with Shopify: http://www.viralsweep.com/advanced-sweepstakes-guide/ http://www.viralsweep.com/advanced-sweepstakes-guide/
- gabemart 13y agoI would be interested in seeing how the sweepstakes compared with what the candle company was originally planning for a Valentine's Day promotion. Presumably the opportunity cost of running this kind of promotion is greater than zero.