Giveaway! Let Crayola Help Make Your Holiday Gift Giving Easier!
November 7, 2009 by Jyl Johnson Pattee · 434 Comments
Enter to win one of two amazing gift packs and let Crayola help make your holiday shopping easier this season!
Prize
Two lucky winners will receive gift baskets from Crayola right in time for the holiday season and gift giving.
- Grand Prize Winner will receive a gift pack loaded with 30 amazing starter products to get those first-time Crayola kids started on some colorful fun (retail value: $200).
- Second Place Winner will receive six new products from Crayola: Magic Light Brush, Glow Board, Glow Station, Glow Dome, Color me a Song, Crayon Maker.
Entry Requirements
To enter for a chance to win, you are required to do the following four things. Make sure to leave a comment here linking to each one:
- Check out the #gno Crayola Whrrl story and leave a comment on one of the pictures.
- Follow @Crayola on Twitter.
- Become a fan of the Crayola Facebook Page.
- Retweet and/or post the following two messages on Facebook and Twitter and comment here, linking to your update/post:
Join #gno Tues 11/10 (9-11 pm ET) 2 chat about creative holiday gift giving w/@crayola RSVP: http://bit.ly/1cuZfL PLS RT
GIVEAWAY! Enter 2 win @Crayola gift packs just in time 4 holidays (2 winners/ret. val. $200!) http://bit.ly/QoTq8 #gno PLS RT
The Fine Print
No purchase necessary to enter. Winners will be selected randomly through http://random.org. Crayola and Mom It Forward employees are ineligible to participate. All entries received after Wednesday, November 11 at midnight PT will not be considered. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered. Winners will be notified and will have 24 hours to confirm receipt of the e-mail. If they do not reply within 24 hours, another winner will be selected. Open to participants in the US and Canada 18 years and older. One entry per person.
Giveaway—Enter to Win $200 in Shoes & Ice Cream From Famous Footwear!
August 23, 2009 by Jyl Johnson Pattee · 638 Comments
Did you know that two things most all women share is their love of shoes and ice cream? Famous Footwear blends these two ingredients together on its site Make Today Unexpected, which gives us women the chance to discover our style and flavor in a most unexpected way.
I just went there, took a short quiz, and found out my personal ice cream flavor is “Double Bubble Sorbet,” which means that I have the following ingredients: “tons of fun, a few rays of sunshine, a little bliss, some flirtatiousness, vivacity, brightness, and spunk.” Who knew? LOL!
I can’t wait to hear what your flavor is when you enter this stylish, not to mention FABULOUS, giveaway!
Prize
Grand Prize
Two lucky winners will receive the following. (See entry requirements below.)
- $100 Famous Footwear gift certificate
- $100 Ice cream gift basket, including ice cream, toppings, and sauces
Coupon
Whether or not you win this week’s giveaway, make your back-to-school shoe shopping spree a little more affordable by visiting MakeTodayUnexpected.com where you can enter to receive $10.00 off your next Famous Footwear purchase of $50.00 or more.
Entry Requirements
To enter for a chance to win, you are required to do four things (make sure you leave a separate comment for each of your entries).
Note: Entries that do not follow all of these requirements will not be considered.
- Take the ‘Find Your Flavor’ quiz by clicking here. Leave a comment on this post with your flavor and e-mail address.
- Become a fan of the Famous Footwear’s Make Today Unexpected Facebook Page. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Make-Today-Famous/112646406371?ref=ts)
- Follow @maketodayfamous on Twitter.
- Post these messages on Facebook and/or on Twitter and leave comments here, linking to your messages:
What’s your flavor? Find out by clicking here: http://www.maketodayunexpected.com/#/quiz. PLS RT
GIVEAWAY! Enter 2 win $200 in shoes & ice cream from @maketodayfamous #famousfootwear. http://bit.ly/Vq5Qf PLS RT
Extra Entries
You can earn up to four extra entries for this week’s giveaway. Leave an additional comment for each.
- Become a Famous Footwear REWARDS club member (free).
- On the Make Today Unexpected Facebook wall or on Twitter, post something unexpected that has happened to make your day or week more positive and link to it here.
- Make Today Unexpected in your life by commenting on this post: http://bit.ly/2qVE5X.
- Post the following message on Twitter and/or Facebook and leave a comment here, linking to your message:
Download #FamousFootwear coupon 4 back-to-school/fall savings: http://bit.ly/fogQH PLS RT
The Fine Print
No purchase necessary to enter. Winners will be selected randomly through http://random.org. Famous Footwear and Mom It Forward employees are ineligible to participate. All entries received after Sunday, August 30 at midnight PDT will not be considered. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered.
How Can I Make My Blog Giveaways Better?
March 26, 2009 by jyl johnson pattee · 4 Comments
Jessica is the founder of MomFuse.com a popular site for moms that features product reviews, awesome giveaways and so much more. When she started Mom Fuse she mainly wanted it to be a place where moms could come and get honest reviews on the products moms might use, this soon turned in to companies offering to host giveaways.
Giveaways are becoming very popular, especially with the way the economy is. Now, more than ever, people are getting online to find the best products for the lowest price or even for free.
Why do companies sponsor giveaways?
Companies sponsor contests and giveaways in order to get their products in the hands of consumers. Why? Because if you like a product you’ve tried, you are likely to tell someone you know. Hence, word of mouth marketing. This is also why companies want to get their products reviewed. Companies are seeking out more and more mom and family related blogs to do product reviews and giveaways.
If you’re hunting down companies to sponsor a giveaway or have been approached by a company that is interested in hosting a giveaway on your blog here are some simple tips to help make that giveaway a successful one.
1. Tell your readers why you would want the product.
Your readers trust you, if they didn’t, they wouldn’t read or subscribe to your blog. So, if the product you’re giving away isn’t something you would want, why would they want it?
2. Make it easy to enter the giveaway.
I know when I visit blogs and enter giveaways, if the process of entering to win is too complicated or there is too much stuff to do, I won’t enter. —I am a stay at home mom to infant twins, I run MomFuse.com and the BartingMomsClub.com, and I like to spend time with my family. I don’t have the extra time to do a ton of extra stuff!
3. Promote, Promote, Promote
Promoting a giveaway is the only way people will know you have one. There are tons of free sites out there to list your giveaway (just do a Google search). There are also other blogs, like Mom Fuse, that allow you to list your giveaway. You would be surprised at how much extra traffic and giveaway entries you receive from these.
Twitter, which has become very popular, is also a good way to promote your giveaway or anything else terrific on your blog. Be sure not to come off as spammy. People don’t like spam or those who spam them.
Another great way to promote is to offer additional entries to those who post the contest info on their blogs. This not only helps spread the word about your giveaway but also gets people linking to your website and in turn getting you more visitors and better stats.
The bottom line, write a story, not just a review… companies will appreciate your creativity, and so will your readers!
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