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Thanks for signing up for Votigo! Votigo makes social simple by giving you the tools to grow and engage your social media audience. Creating a campaign is fast and easy and it’s free to set-up and preview. To get started:

• Log-in to your account at http://www.votigo.com/login

• Select a Contest or Sweepstakes (Need help deciding? Learn more here)

• Follow the simple steps to create your campaign and publish it for free.

Start engaging your fans now!

Promotions help generate buzz and excitement around your brand, encouraging more interaction with your fans and allowing you to acquire new ones. Votigo makes it easy for you to build a promotion in minutes so you can start reaping the benefits of social promotions. With Votigo promotions you get:

• Viral Sweepstakes and Photo/Video contest options

• A Facebook application with like-gate option

• A Microsite with a mobile-aware app

• Custom entry forms

• Your choice of 1 of 10 languages

• Design templates

• Data export

Create a Promotion. It’s free to design and publish.

There are various formats and options for a promotion, so spend some time thinking about what will resonate with your audience and help you achieve your goals. Here are 5 of the most common types of promotions to help inspire you. For more inspiration and examples follow @votigo on Twitter.

1) Photo contest featuring product– engage fans by asking them to share a photo that features your product or a photo of the entrant using the product.

2) Holiday photo contest– certain holidays lend themselves to photo contests – Halloween costume contests, Christmas celebration photos or photos of a father for Father’s Day.

3) Trivia Sweepstakes – you can test your fans knowledge or learn more about them by incorporating custom questions in to a sweepstakes.

4) Daily giveaway- hosting a sweepstakes that awards multiple entrants with your product or a gift certificate is a great way to generate buzz keep your fans engaged throughout the duration of your promotion.

5) Video contest- unleash your fan's creativity by asking them to share a video that showcases your product or brand.

Create a Promotion. It's free to design and publish.

Running a promotion is a great way to grow and engage your social audience, but is a sweepstakes or contest better for your brand?

Sweepstakes reward a winner randomly, and are easy to enter because they typically only require basic info such as an email address. The lower barrier to entry makes sweepstakes a popular choice for growing an audience because they usually receive a large volume of entries.

Contests on the other hand reward a winner based on merit or skill, such as the best photo or funniest video. Because they require more effort to enter, they may receive fewer entries but they also create more engagement – especially when you incorporate audience voting, since that motivates entrants to share their submission (and your promotion) to their friends.

So, decide what is most important for your promotion: level of engagement, or number of entries.

Ready to get star ted? Build your promotion now. It's free to design and publish.

Do you want to grow you audience on Facebook? A thriving social media audience can help you increase brand affinity and sales. While there is no "quick fix" to build a huge Facebook audience, this list of 10 best practices will help ensure a steady growth of engaged fans.

Ready to start growing you Facebook audience?

Download 10 Tips to Get More Facebook Likes

Social media is a powerful way to reach a large audience. With millions of people actively engaging with social networks on a daily basis, how do you ensure that your content or brand is reaching them? Here are our tips for increasing your social reach:

1) Create Great Content – If you create content that your audience finds compelling, they’ll share it to their networks, increasing the number of people who view it.

2) Make Sharing Easy – Always make sure your content is sharable by including a social sharing feature with your content. Bonus tip: make tweets short and sweet so they can be retweeted without getting cutoff.

3) Run a Promotion – Running a promotion ensures that you have something timely and compelling to talk about, giving you more opportunities to engage with your audience. Engage your fans and their friends will take notice of you.

Ready t o grow your social reach today? Create a promotion now. It's free to design and preview – you'll only be billed once you decide to publish it.

Creating a great Facebook contest or sweepstakes doesn't need to be complicated. In fact, by following best practices and tips from Votigo’s Guide to Facebook Contests and Sweepstakes, you're certain to have a winning promotion.

Click here to access your Guide to Facebook Contests and Sweepstakes so you can start growing and engaging your audience.

Ready to get started? Log-in now to build a contest or sweepstakes. It’s free to design and preview – you’ll only be billed once you decide to publish it.

Getting your fans involved with your brand is a great way to build a relationship with your audience and get them excited about your brand. User-generated content (content that your fans create) is a great opportunity to showcase your fans creativity and help them tell your brand story. As marketers, we sometimes forget that our fans’ stories and experiences are often more powerful than our own. Here are 5 reasons why user-generated content works for building a brand:

1) Fans Matter – Your fans are what make your brand great, without fans you’d have no brand.

2) Fans Have a Unique Perspective- You get a different perspective of your company when you are an employee or owner. Your fan sees things different and that can be a good thing.

3) They're Trusted – Word of mouth is powerful. Let’s face it : people are more likely to trust a person than a company and an unsoli cited endorsement is stronger than any ad copy you write.

4) They Share – People love to share their creations. Let your fans create content for your brand and they will likely want to share it with their friends and family.

5) Community Matters – A strong community of loyal fans can help your brand get more reach on social networks, generate buzz, and ultimately increase sales are awareness of your brand.

So, what are you waiting for? Start engaging your fans with a UGC photo or video contest or gallery. Log-in now to get started.

There are many opportunities to run promotions throughout the year. In order to maximize your marketing efforts, create a promotion calendar that ties in with your marketing goals and objectives. Here are 5 times when running a contest or sweepstakes are most effective:

1) Product launches- Generate buzz for product launches with a sweepstakes that helps build awareness.

2) Holidays- Holidays are a great time to run contest and sweepstakes. Halloween photo contests. Black Friday sweepstakes. There are lots of opportunities to engage fans during the holidays and generate buzz throughout the year.

3) Events- Having an in-store event or annual promotion you want to make the most of? A contest or sweepstakes can extend the life of your event and help build excitement around it.

4) Seasonal Kickoffs- Many products have seasonality, and kicking off your pe ak season with a promotion is a great way to remind customers “it’s that time of year!”

5) Milestones- Celebrate milestones – whether they be social milestones (1,000 fans!) or company milestones such as a 10 year Anniversary, they are a great time to get fans to join in the excitement by hosting a contest or sweepstakes.

Ready to get started? Log-in now to build a contest or sweepstakes. It's free to design and preview – you'll only be billed once you decide to publish it.

We hope that by now you’ve had a chance to explore Votigo and all of the tools we have for growing and engaging your social audience. We want to hear about your experience, and by answering a few questions you’ll be entered into a drawing for a free month of Votigo Unlimited Promotions (valued at $250)!.

Click here for your chance to win!

Thanks for signing up for Votigo! Votigo makes social simple by giving you the tools to grow and engage your social media audience. Creating a campaign is fast and easy and it's free to set-up and preview. To get started:

. Log-in to your account at http://www.votigo.com/login

. Select a Contest or Sweepstakes (Need help deciding? Learn more here)

. Follow the simple steps to create your campaign and publish it for free.

Start engaging your fans now!

Do you want to grow you audience on Facebook? A thriving social media audience can help you increase brand affinity and sales. While there is no "quick fix" to build a huge Facebook audience, this list of 10 best practices will help ensure a steady growth of engaged fans.

Ready to start growing you Facebook audience?

Download 10 Tips to Get More Facebook Likes

Running a promotion is a great way to grow and engage your social audience, but is a sweepstakes or contest better for your brand?

Sweepstakes reward a winner randomly, and are easy to enter because they typically only require basic info such as an email address. The lower barrier to entry makes sweepstakes a popular choice for growing an audience because they usually receive a large volume of entries.

Contests on the other hand reward a winner based on merit or skill, such as the best photo or funniest video. Because they require more effort to enter, they may receive fewer entries but they also create more engagement - especially when you incorporate audience voting, since that motivates entrants to share their submission (and your promotion) to their friends.

So, decide what is most important for your promotion: level of engagement, or number of entries.

Ready to get star ted? Build your promotion now. It''s free to design and publish.

Promotions help generate buzz and excitement around your brand, encouraging more interaction with your fans and allowing you to acquire new ones. Votigo makes it easy for you to build a promotion in minutes so you can start reaping the benefits of social promotions. With Votigo promotions you get:

. Viral Sweepstakes and Photo/Video contest options

. A Facebook application with like-gate option

. A Microsite with a mobile-aware app

. Custom entry forms

. Your choice of 1 of 10 languages

. Design templates

. Data export

Create a Promotion. It's free to design and publish.

Creating a great Facebook contest or sweepstakes doesn''t need to be complicated. In fact, by following best practices and tips from Votigo's Guide to Facebook Contests and Sweepstakes, you''re certain to have a winning promotion.

Click here to access your Guide to Facebook Contests and Sweepstakes so you can start growing and engaging your audience.

Ready to get started? Log-in now to build a contest or sweepstakes. It's free to design and preview - you'll only be billed once you decide to publish it.

Social media is a powerful way to reach a large audience. With millions of people actively engaging with social networks on a daily basis, how do you ensure that your content or brand is reaching them? Here are our tips for increasing your social reach:

1) Create Great Content - If you create content that your audience finds compelling, they'll share it to their networks, increasing the number of people who view it.

2) Make Sharing Easy - Always make sure your content is sharable by including a social sharing feature with your content. Bonus tip: make tweets short and sweet so they can be retweeted without getting cutoff.

3) Run a Promotion - Running a promotion ensures that you have something timely and compelling to talk about, giving you more opportunities to engage with your audience. Engage your fans and their friends will take notice of you.

Ready t o grow your social reach today? Create a promotion now. It''s free to design and preview - you''ll only be billed once you decide to publish it.

We hope that by now you've had a chance to explore Votigo and all of the tools we have for growing and engaging your social audience. We want to hear about your experience, and by answering a few questions you'll be entered into a drawing for a free month of Votigo Unlimited Promotions (valued at $250)!.

Click here for your chance to win!

Getting your fans involved with your brand is a great way to build a relationship with your audience and get them excited about your brand. User-generated content (content that your fans create) is a great opportunity to showcase your fans creativity and help them tell your brand story. As marketers, we sometimes forget that our fans' stories and experiences are often more powerful than our own. Here are 5 reasons why user-generated content works for building a brand:

1) Fans Matter - Your fans are what make your brand great, without fans you'd have no brand.

2) Fans Have a Unique Perspective- You get a different perspective of your company when you are an employee or owner. Your fan sees things different and that can be a good thing.

3) They''re Trusted - Word of mouth is powerful. Let's face it : people are more likely to trust a person than a company and an unsoli cited endorsement is stronger than any ad copy you write.

4) They Share - People love to share their creations. Let your fans create content for your brand and they will likely want to share it with their friends and family.

5) Community Matters - A strong community of loyal fans can help your brand get more reach on social networks, generate buzz, and ultimately increase sales are awareness of your brand.

So, what are you waiting for? Start engaging your fans with a UGC photo or video contest or gallery. Log-in now to get started.

There are many opportunities to run promotions throughout the year. In order to maximize your marketing efforts, create a promotion calendar that ties in with your marketing goals and objectives. Here are 5 times when running a contest or sweepstakes are most effective:

1) Product launches- Generate buzz for product launches with a sweepstakes that helps build awareness.

2) Holidays- Holidays are a great time to run contest and sweepstakes. Halloween photo contests. Black Friday sweepstakes. There are lots of opportunities to engage fans during the holidays and generate buzz throughout the year.

3) Events- Having an in-store event or annual promotion you want to make the most of? A contest or sweepstakes can extend the life of your event and help build excitement around it.

4) Seasonal Kickoffs- Many products have seasonality, and kicking off your pe ak season with a promotion is a great way to remind customers "it's that time of year!"

5) Milestones- Celebrate milestones - whether they be social milestones (1,000 fans!) or company milestones such as a 10 year Anniversary, they are a great time to get fans to join in the excitement by hosting a contest or sweepstakes.

Ready to get started? Log-in now to build a contest or sweepstakes. It''s free to design and preview - you''ll only be billed once you decide to publish it.