Dear promoter… Your Facebook ‘Like and Share’ promotions are driving people crazy. They are SPAM and UNFAIR and let’s be honest here, you really should know better! Do you realise that: asking entrants to share is against Facebook rules?...
Have you considered setting up – or have you already set up – a second Facebook account for comping? You might be concerned about annoying friends and family with competitions, so a second account seems the...
If you enter competitions on Facebook then you’re probably aware of the big problem – how on earth do you know if you’ve won? Prize draws and comps hosted on Facebook apps are great because they either allow...
Facebook is often rather low key about changes to the platform and policies – last week on their developers blog they announced that Like gating is no longer allowed, and for the first time...
Today Facebook have made a huge announcement for compers and everyone who runs competitions, prize draws, sweepstakes or contests. Promotions on Facebook NO LONGER have to be hosted on an app. Well, I can’t...
Today I’m ranting about ‘LIKE and SHARE’ competitions and contests on Facebook. You know the drill: Click LIKE on the photo, then click SHARE on the Public setting. Similar to online voting competitions, ‘Like...
Despite there being strict guidelines on how you should run your promotion on Facebook, the majority of companies still ignore these, and persist with running competitions on their Facebook walls rather than using an...
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a flurry of requests from Facebook friends to add their ‘new comping account’ as a friend. As a comper, it’s easy to annoy your ‘normal’ friends with...
I used to love Seabrook Crisps. They bring back happy memories of my student days in Bradford, and the hilarious time JoJoEbi and I made a short film for her final year project about...
I returned home from a lovely afternoon stroll with Ryland to find my Mac asking me to log in to Facebook. Funny I thought, as I never usually log out… I tried to log...
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