How to run a photo contest without app

It is always essential for a brand owner to make an interaction with the followers, fans and potential customers. Arranging a photo contest online is a good idea to meet your target. Many entrepreneurs and marketers try to download special apps, designed for photo competition. However, there are other ways of running the contest with no app. You may take the advantage of social media for starting these contests. We have given you the ideas of running an effective photo contest for promoting your brand.

Let’s look the major steps:

• Write down the detailed information on the photo contest. For instances, it includes the contest themes and subcategories. You also need to decide on whether you should charge fee for entering the contest. It is important to choose the prizes to be offered. Deal with the paperwork or official procedures for the approval of the contest.
• Appoint the most distinguished judges, who know the way of making fair and decent judgment.
• Allocate the flyers or send information online to target audience. Try to reach large number of potential contesters.
• Collect entries and then organize them
• Mention the last date for entering your photo contest
• After making the judgment, you have to expose the winning photo.
• Communicate with the winners to offer the prizes

Note: You have to do some more things for running photo contest with no app

What prize should you offer to the winner?

It is one of the important decisions to you. In most cases, the brand owners choose to give gift card as the prize. We have found two major reasons behind preferring these cards. These cards are highly fascinating to the target customers. Moreover, the gift cards attract only those participants, who have interest on your brand. While it is a photo contest, you have to look for the best entrants, who may add values to your business.

Developing a page for Facebook photo contest

You have to create a very simple page for the entrants of photo contest. There are various elements that you should add to make this page.

Choose an eye-grabbing title

A short title with actionable words is the best component of your page. It is a way of maximizing the number of entries. However, this title should also be informative and reveal the importance of getting access to the competition. Inform all the things that the contestants must do at this page.

Post the photos of prizes

This is another way of motivating the potential contestants. When it is a gift card, you can upload the photos of attractive products.

Prize details

Write a very brief paragraph that reveals details on the photo contest’s prize. You must also mention the restrictions and rules for entering the contest. However, it is better to make the page messy with full of information. You may add just the links on which the visitors can click and read the information. Present the details in PDF format or at your own website.

By clearly stating all the rules, you will stay legally safe. Moreover, the interested participants will also realize whether they are eligible for the contest. Rules, intended for promotion, must be in comprehensible language. You should also say how you like to distribute the prize.

Integrate a form for submission

This is the entry form, where the visitors can submit their personal details and upload their photos. It is only you, who have to decide on how much details you need to get from the visitors or contestants.  This form also acts as the CTA button of your page.

 Share and comment buttons

This is the best advantage that you will get through social media. While you have posted everything at your site, you have to add a button for sharing the contest news on Facebook, Pinterest or Google +.

It’s time to look the way of spreading the information on the photo contest.

Email- It’s the best mode of conveying your words

Sending the emails to the customers and interested people is the best approach to start the competition. Your present customers have a high chance of entering the photo contest. Make sure that you have directed all those customers to your Facebook page, where you have arranged the contest. By directing them to this page, you will also be able to increase the number of fans of your brand.

Social network

You may have used Facebook page for arranging the contest. However, still, you have to promote it to other platforms, including Google+, Twitter and Pinterest. The photo contest shows you a path for introducing lots of fans, who are not presently the member of Facebook page.

Marketing your business website

It is better to try to get more visitors to your website than to your Facebook page. You have to post banner ads on the homepage, linking to your Facebook photo contest.

Rely on Facebook ads

These advertisements offer you the best way for driving more fans to your competition.

Follow-up after competition

You may have successfully run the contest. However, your task does not end at this step. You have lots of important activities to be accomplished.

• You have to create the photo contest winners’ profile, and then post that on Facebook or your own blog.
• It is also better to develop videos that show your choice of winners. Track the reaction of the winners and display it through those videos. It enhances the opportunity to gain more entrants in the future contest.
• Send emails or messages to all the entrants to establish relationship
• You may also give some hints or notification on the future photo contests. Lots of brands have got success by arranging photo contests on every month.

So, you have now realized what you should do to set up everything for online photo contest. There is no need of relying on any third-party application. We have guided you to follow the simple ways for running this contest.