If you have a website you no doubt want to get visitors to it, but what is your aim for these visitors once they get to your site? Do you have a product to sell? Maybe you want to build your mailing list?
This is where a competition can help your website, blog and your business.
Holding a standard competition your site probably won’t bring you any new visitors, competitions can bring visitors especially if you have a facebook like competition. This kind of facebook competition is where people like your page to be entered.
Benefits of a Facebook Competition
The benifits of having a Facebook competition are numerous but here are the Two main ones I can think of at the moment:
1. Social Proof – If you have just started a facebook page you probably won’t have any likes or much user engagement and without any likes or user engagement it’s going to be very hard to get likes and user engagement. People are like sheep if no one else is doing something they won’t do it, they also won’t want to stand out by being the first. So you can use a competition to bribe them, if there is something in it for them some people will sign up.
2. More Viral – Everytime someone likes your facebook page it’s going to show on their wall, their facebook friends will see it and this will bring them to your page. Hopefully their friends will have similar interests and like you competition too, the might even buy your product.
You will still need to get your competition going though, if you are having a competitions on your site visit http://onlinecompetitions.org and let us know about it. We like letting our subscribers know about new competitions and will always list competitions if you link back to us.
Let me tell you about the benefit of having a competition, having a competition on your site will create more interaction with your visitors and make them return to your site at least once more (if you do it right) because they will want to know if the won your competition. A competition is also a great way to build your mailing list.