Linux Business Week & Coupons

It’s hard to resist a sweet prize or a free gift. Whenever a contest is announced, starts rushing to try their luck. If it doesn’t cost anything to enter besides a minute of your time, what do you have to lose? It feels good to emerge a winner, especially when the prize involved is lucrative. By that same measure, a lot of people will take a free gift even if it’s something that they might not have otherwise wanted. It’s free, so why not? Do you know that running contests on social media can boost your web traffic? Apart from multiplying your traffic, contests have the power of boosting the engagement rate. We are going to look at the surest ways of getting the best out of social media challenges.

Do a Coupon Giveaway: Try these ones from Enterprise

This is probably one of the simplest methods, simply find some working coupons and collect them on a page on your website. For example we found promo codes on CouponJournal.org. Then you can post the link on various social media channels advertising ‘free coupons’. A lot of people will check it out from curiosity if nothing else, and then they might see what else you have on your website.

Gaining Traffic from social media contests

A message about a planned or ongoing contest on social media will attract different kinds of people. Even those who are not necessarily interested in your products (yet!) will come with the hopes of emerging winners.… Read the rest