Contests Questions

Our business Greatly simplified: We provide data obtained from localized hardware via sensors (mostly cameras) and make it available on the Internet via an API. Having a good UI for the data is...

Software Contests Outsourcing Business Plan Hardware

asked Oct 1 '13 at 20:53

Feklee
148 points

There are three types of "giveaways": Contest (requires skill) Sweepstakes (random chance of winning) Lottery you pay for a chance. But something like a Facebook "like" is considered...

Contests Legal

asked Oct 8 '13 at 06:00

Clay Nichols
737 points

I have five minutes to present a web app in front of investors (well, actually they are contest judges, but they are still looking for an app that will take off), and then I get five minutes for...

Contests Investors Expanding

asked Jun 21 '12 at 05:18

Tyjkenn
103 points

I run a web design company and we're having a contest for business owners. We're giving away a lot of prizes, with the grand prize winner getting a free website, hosting for a year, and other...

Marketing Contests Business

asked May 10 '11 at 03:26

Virtuosi Media
1,232 points

I've just found out that I will be presenting my startup, mokabla at an Entrepreneur event in ATL in less than a week. There will be about 200 people attending. Since this event doesn't have...

Marketing Contests Swag Promotion

asked Feb 18 '11 at 14:39

Shaymus
176 points

We're giving away a $100 Amazon Gift Card to whomever gives our product a name. We've tried Twitter (though with a new company we have few followers) and an individual with 700 followers, Facebook...

Marketing Contests

asked Jan 14 '11 at 05:44

Migo Fast
8 points

For example offering a gift card, t-shirt, etc... to people who sign up to your blog or website in general... does this work? is it worth it?

Contests Beginning Blog Users Free

asked Oct 23 '10 at 04:53

Ricardo
4,815 points

We're planning to re-build our product identity (which has never been built in the first place, it just came out of nowhere). Obviously, we're somewhat tight on money, so hiring a professional...

Contests Branding Identity

asked Oct 25 '10 at 02:25

Deleted
655 points

I created a twitter crowdsourcing contest to get some tagline help and raise pre-launch awareness (build a great tagline and get an iPhone). http://roadbud.com/iphone-contest/ The problem is, I'm...

Marketing Contests Twitter

asked Feb 11 '10 at 22:01

Mike Schoeffler
100 points

I've just entered the vator.tv splash competition and was wondering what other people have run into as far as problems. I assume: overzealous preoccupation with winning could hurt a team, but that...

Contests

asked Dec 15 '09 at 05:14

Jazzmann91
13 points

I intend to eventually run a contest as a promo. Specifically, I'd like to do a random drawing of a pool of registered users that meet certain criteria. What legal and tax related concerns do I...

Contests Legal Advertising

asked Oct 20 '09 at 08:34

Rob Allen
631 points

At what point should I consider a contest as a strategy to get people to visit my business or website? What are the ways to track the ROI for this type of marketing?

Marketing Contests ROI

asked Oct 10 '09 at 10:08

Blizzard Digital
83 points