Use our giveaway service to import offline contest entries

Easily import offline contestants into your online sweepstakes and contests, combining the best of both worlds.

That means you’ll be building momentum for your online sweepstakes and contests while reaching a new audience with street-level marketing.

Make real-life connections with your future clients will only strengthen any further digital communication boosting your online engagement.

Feature Options and Benefits:

• Automatic Notifications: Once you’ve uploaded your contestants into your contest, you have the option of sending them a confirmation email plus an invite to visit your contest site. This will improve their odds of winning by entering again via various online entry methods.
• Automatic winner picking:  Let us do the work for you and avoid any possibility of bias by having our software choose and notify your winner at your specified time and date.
• Add Viral-share Entry:  We create a custom tracking link that’s easily shared via email or social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google+). The link your customers share is used to track any new contestants who enter the contest.
• Easy Prize Distribution: Avoid the cost and hassle of shipping with our new digital prize tool. That means you can give away tickets, software, videos, audio links, photos, gift cards and anything else that is uploadable.

When should you add your offline entries?
You can add your new contestants after you have created your contest and your contest is either live or ready to go live. If the contest is already live we will send out the notifications almost immediately.  If the contest is ready but not yet live, we will send out the notifications when the contest starts.

How to Add Offline Entries to Your Online Contest:

To add your contestants simply click on the import contestants button on the settings page of your contest.  Next, choose to import your contestants one by one or by uploading a CSV of several customers at once.

Choose to one contestant at a time or choose to import multiple entries.

Import many contestants into your giveaway.

When importing multiple contestants you can use our CSV template file and add them in Excel.

Contest TIPS:

• Combine Entry Methods: You have over 30 different entry methods to choose from.
• Viral Share Entry: Be sure to add this powerful entry method into your contest.
• Collaborate: Benefit from the extra exposure you’ll receive through your partners. Check out this great case study
• Promote it: 19 contest websites who will promote your contest.