I have a giveaway on my blog… now what?
I pretty much think that’s what I said when I ran my first giveaway last December, I didn’t have a clue. While we have some great tips on how to give stylish giveways, like announcing/twitter/facebook trifecta for your giveaway, finding threads to announce in forums (IFB has a giveaway thread… don’t just show up on a forum you never posted and announce it there, it may not have a nice effect… but we’ll always love you).
Lovely IFB member, Grechen (of grechen’s closet among other grechen sites) launched free!grechen last year in response to the growing trend of blog giveaways. Like many sweepstakes and contest blogs, free!grechen takes submissions, however free!grechen specializes in fashion related giveaways, and works with many members of our community, therefore increasing the chance that you’ll attract more new traffic that’s more likely to stay than from a more general aggregated contest site that doesn’t specialize in fashion. I’ve used free!grechen for all of my giveaways and they have brought new traffic, though I’d like to see it grow, and the site has a lot of potential as a resource for the fashion blog community.
In addition to free!grechen there are several other contest sites that also bring in traffic, here’s a few:
- Contest Girl (recommended by Grechen herself, brings in great traffic)
- CashNet Sweeps (also recommended by Grechen)
- Sweeties Sweeps (has nice tips like how to WIN sweepstakes)
- Tip Junkie
What sites do you submit your giveaway contests to?
great advice. i have been weary of doing a contest, but i am going to check out these websites.
Very helpful! I’m doing my first giveaway on my blog and wasn’t sure how to attract traffic, I hope these do the trick
Yes really helpful article to promote giveaways.
This is very handy and I will certainly use Grechen soon for my 1920s teacup and saucer giveaway. I like that it serves fashion bloggers and readers specifically. What a great idea, thanks to both of you!
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Ah perfect info! I just started getting into doing giveaways and this article was just what I needed!
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Terrific! Thanks for this. I’ve got a give away contest on right now.
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Awe man, I can’t express how helpful this is!! It’s like IFB read my mind– thank you!!!
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What a great idea and a fantastic resource! I’ll have to keep it in mind if I have a giveaway in the future.
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Great information! I didn’t know there were sites like this. It would have been helpful when I was running a day-long Cyber Monday event.
Thanks!!!
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Do you think if you have money off offers like 10% etc then you can advertise that on these types of sites?
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Great! I’ve been looking for other ways to promote. As always IFB gives me exactly what I need!
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Perfect timing, as I JUST posted a new contest on my blog today and decided to visit IFB to see if I could promote it somehow. Thanks for the fantastic info!!
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thanks jennine for posting this!!! and thanks to those of you who submitted your giveaway – i’d love some feedback on the traffic when you get a chance. free!grechen definitely needs to grow, but your submissions will do a lot to help (running 4 sites doesn’t leave me much time to search for giveaways..) if anyone has any ideas on ways i can promote free!grechen, i’d love to hear them, and i appreciate your passing the link on to your other blogger friends!!
i truly want this to be a resource for independent fashion bloggers to promote their giveaways – so it’s your site too, i’m always happy for feedback/comments
oh, and i’m probably going to re-deisgn it in the next day or so…it’s a sickness i have, but i’m not thrilled with the look, so i’m going to try something new LOL
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i would love to know how people got hooked up with chickdowntown for a give away how can i make thathappen?
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Oh this is fantastic, I have a great denim give-away going on now and will definitely submit it. Thank so much for the info and thank you to Gretchen for doing this. Running four sites and helping out fellow bloggers is huge, so thank you for all your hard work.
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interesting. i will check out.
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this is the BEST idea ever! It’s so difficult to promote contests & people love their freebies!
thank you for the informative article!
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such a great feature especially since I’m currently hosting an amazing giveaway myself! check it out…www.lapetiteblog.com
Great post! I’ve been thinking about doing a contest, and I’m definitely going to check out these sites to see how others run their contests!
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This was insanely useful, thanks so much!
I know have a hot competition up and running for a Vintage-Inspired Peacock Feather Fascinator!
Please check it out girrrrrls, mwah.
***now! I meant now!
Here’s a question for those of you who have giveaways on your blogs: are you supplying the giveaway items yourself? If not, did others come to you wanting to give something away, or did you reach out to them?
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This is a great list of tips! We’re currently having a giveaway ….
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Hello,
Nice idea, i dont have many giveaways yet but if i do in the future, which is probably i will keep this in mind. =)
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Love this post. It’s so informative!
We are also running a giveaway for a fab flutter sleeve top from Aryn K – check it out – The White Dress Shop Aryn K giveaway!
gr8 !! yep i have to check out these websites .. thanks buddy
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Thanks so much for these recommendations!
I just posted a giveaway last night, and I’m about to go on those websites right now.
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This is a great article, I was just searching for how to promote my first giveaway and I was excited to find out about free!grechen and just submitted a giveaway. Great way to support hardworking makers and fashion-related bloggers!
Thank you for posting such helpful links!
I’ve got one day left on my giveaway too!
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A chance to win a mini shopping spree!
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Thanks for the article – very interesting! i would definitely like to host a giveaway some time!
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Thanks IFB this was very informative i am getting ready to post a giveaway on my blog right now i am new to fashion blogging and need readers subscribers and followers so im doing a give away just for that thank you!
OMG! This will definitely help! I tried to research for sites that support or help with giveaways! This could also be a great opportunity to get more traffic to my blog! GREAT FIND!
This is awesome, I’m planning on doing my first giveaway for my blogging planner, THE EDITOR, and was wondering how to go about it. Great info! thanks much
Great article, I’ve got my own giveaway going on now!!
thanks for the tips
I use this list to get over 1,000 entries per giveaway. It takes hours to get your site listed on all the places, but sooo worth it: http://www.cuckooforcoupondeals.com/giveaways/giveaway-linkys-list/
You forgot online-sweepstakes.com That brings in a lot of traffic.
Come and have a look at my giveaway
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Hey thanks for the heads up I’m for sure gonna try it out.
Nice! I just posted a new contest and was looking for ways to promote it. I will check out these links and see how they work for this and hopefully future giveaways.
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I have a giveaway listing site called Giveaway Promote.
We’ll promote your giveaways for free – no reciprocal links and no registrations required. We even promote your giveaway on Twitter and Facebook.
Hi. These are great sites to promote your giveaway. Also you can promote your giveaway on my site, http://www.sweepstakesmania.com. There is a section called Add A sweep in which you can suggest a sweep to be put on the site and also I just put a linky on the site
I’m going to have to try doing a giveaway – thank you for the tips
Nice list! I too use Contest Girl. I also have a nice list going at my blog: http://raffledog.com/blog/5-top-sites-to-promote-your-giveaway/.