Amit.DesaiQ: Hey guys!
I'm really interested in stacking a few codes of Sociamonials but I would like to know if I can use Socialmonials for my unique use case with regards to contests.
Questions:
1. I already have an email list on ConvertKit. Therefore, I would not really like the people on my email list to opt-in again just for participating in a giveaway. Basically, I just want them to be shown a bunch of e-mail and social share options that they can use to share a specific landing page URL. Once they share the link on at least 3 networks (of their choice), they will instantly get access to a discount coupon that they can redeem for buying a product on my site. Can I achieve this using SociaMonials??
2. Expanding on the above use case, can I reward people just for sharing a specific landing page link? I can see that most rewards are only available when someone else signs up using the tracked link and not for just sharing a specific landing page link. I observed that people can copy and share their tracked link but in my case, I would instead want to share a link to a specific landing page via email and social media. Once they share it on at least 3 platforms, their discount coupon gets unlocked. Is this possible?
3. Another use-case I'm looking for is a points-based leaderboard or giveaway where the user gets points for certain actions such as following / liking / subscribing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. Once they reach a certain milestone, the reward gets unlocked.
Hope to hear soon on the above. Thanks a ton in advance :)
Craig_Sociamonials
May 15, 2024A: Hi Amit!
1. You can do all of those things, but they will have to enter the campaign again. However, we can make it easy for them. Just use parameters in the links you email them that pre-populate their email address into our form, so they just need to agree to your sweepstakes or competition rules and they're in. Here's a video on how to set up the parameters: https://youtu.be/IvmSdq4AcWQ
2. You can do this for all networks that allow that. Facebook doesn't allow giving any rewards or bonus entries for sharing something. It works for Twitter and LinkedIn currently. For all other networks, the best way to do it is to award based on a certain number of visits to your landing page, or conversions on your landing page. Then they will be provided with a large number of share buttons, including Facebook, and it won't violate the terms of use.
3. We have a leaderboard. As for unlocking a reward, that is coming soon to our leaderboard campaigns. Currently you can have them earn bonus entries towards winning the sweepstakes or earn points towards being at the top of the list for winning the competition. We will soon have 'Instant Rewards' that unlock rewards when their bonus entries or points reaches various thresholds. We will even allow multiple thresholds so 50 points gets you a t-shirt, 100 points gets them a gift card, etc. We already have a nice Prize List integrated with the leaderboard. The prize list will show the thresholds to unlock each gift.
Wow! That was really quick and extremely helpful...thanks a ton Craig :)
Forgot to ask you about unlocking a reward which is coming soon to the leaderboard campaigns...any ETA on that?
As far as an ETA, I have to hedge on this one and say it could be up to 2 months because we just got approved today for direct Instagram publishing! Tomorrow morning we'll push the files from our dev server. Following this we are adding Instagram actions to the Viral Sweepstakes and Viral Competition, making it so when people submit photos or videos to your contests or galleries you have the option to automatically push them to your Instagram account when you approve them, and more. After this we have to get Pinterest publishing live ASAP via an IFTTT integration plus a few other publisher updates. There's a chance one of our developers will sneak off and work on that campaign feature, but we're keeping them all swimming in the same direction for now to get those other features done ASAP.