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Kirby Ball
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We've started utilizing our Business Facebook page for some giveaways to Friends and Charities.
The first giveaway was a copy of the Dave Ramsey Book, "The Total Money Makeover" and we just gave a copy of the book to the first person (Karl) who responded.
Next we asked some of our Facebook friends to name a Central IL Non-Profit that they supported. We put 6 of them in a poll and asked people to vote for their favorite and we would award the winning non-profit $100. That ended with the winner being Make-A-Wish of Illinois (Central IL office) and we've already sent them their check for $100.
For the first time out, we thought it went decently and had some fun getting people to get involved in supporting their "favorite."
Couple of observations and changes that we're going to make for the next one as we're committing to at least a 3-6 month trial period.
1.) Make sure that if the non-profit has a Facebook presence we "like" them before putting them in the poll.
2.) This time we're going to select the non-profits.
3.) Only 4 will be in the poll instead of 6.
4.) This month will have completely different non-profits to vote for.
5.) We're probably going to shorten the voting period as we felt it went on too long and didn't have a sense of "urgency."
We're hoping that these little "tweaks" will help this grow. We've seen an increase in traffic on our Facebook page as a result, which someday will translate into better name recognition (or we hope.) Plus we like "giving" as both Coreen and I feel that we're pretty darned blessed in our lives.
Tonight we launched a different giveaway.
A local photographic artist that I went to High School with had a print of iconic buildings (see photo below) that she was selling. I loved the print and asked her if I could buy 2 (1 for our house and 1 as a giveaway) and what we wanted to with it. I assured her that she would get complete credit for her work and that we wanted others to be exposed to her work at http://www.galemyersphotography.com.
We kept the rules simple:
How to win Gale Myers' photo print of iconic Springfield, IL buildings: 1) tag yourself (only once!) in this photo. 2) Deadline is 11/18/11, 7 pm, CST. 3) Winner's name will be drawn at random and posted on our Facebook page. Winner has 48 hours to private message us a valid US mailing address. 4) If we do not hear in 48 hours, we will draw another name.
The first giveaway was a copy of the Dave Ramsey Book, "The Total Money Makeover" and we just gave a copy of the book to the first person (Karl) who responded.
Next we asked some of our Facebook friends to name a Central IL Non-Profit that they supported. We put 6 of them in a poll and asked people to vote for their favorite and we would award the winning non-profit $100. That ended with the winner being Make-A-Wish of Illinois (Central IL office) and we've already sent them their check for $100.
For the first time out, we thought it went decently and had some fun getting people to get involved in supporting their "favorite."
Couple of observations and changes that we're going to make for the next one as we're committing to at least a 3-6 month trial period.
1.) Make sure that if the non-profit has a Facebook presence we "like" them before putting them in the poll.
2.) This time we're going to select the non-profits.
3.) Only 4 will be in the poll instead of 6.
4.) This month will have completely different non-profits to vote for.
5.) We're probably going to shorten the voting period as we felt it went on too long and didn't have a sense of "urgency."
We're hoping that these little "tweaks" will help this grow. We've seen an increase in traffic on our Facebook page as a result, which someday will translate into better name recognition (or we hope.) Plus we like "giving" as both Coreen and I feel that we're pretty darned blessed in our lives.
Tonight we launched a different giveaway.
A local photographic artist that I went to High School with had a print of iconic buildings (see photo below) that she was selling. I loved the print and asked her if I could buy 2 (1 for our house and 1 as a giveaway) and what we wanted to with it. I assured her that she would get complete credit for her work and that we wanted others to be exposed to her work at http://www.galemyersphotography.com.
We kept the rules simple:
How to win Gale Myers' photo print of iconic Springfield, IL buildings: 1) tag yourself (only once!) in this photo. 2) Deadline is 11/18/11, 7 pm, CST. 3) Winner's name will be drawn at random and posted on our Facebook page. Winner has 48 hours to private message us a valid US mailing address. 4) If we do not hear in 48 hours, we will draw another name.
