{"id":4935,"date":"2017-01-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.promosimple.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2017-01-11T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:53:02","slug":"giveaway-confirmation-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/giveaway-confirmation-messages","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Entrants Excited, Even After They Enter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You create a giveaway to get <a href=\"http:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/setting-goals-evaluating-giveaways\/\">emails subscribers and drive engagement<\/a>, but there\u2019s one key giveaway step that most people miss\u2014and it\u2019s one that could exponentially increase your engagement and your brand loyalty. What is it? Your giveaway confirmation messages. Here&#8217;s how to make them compelling:<\/p>\n<h2>Don\u2019t Lose the Giveaway Entrance Euphoria<\/h2>\n<p>When people enter a giveaway, they\u2019re in a high emotional state\u2014they can\u2019t help but imagine themselves winning the prize! And the moment when they click your \u201cEnter Now\u201d button is the moment when they\u2019re most excited.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens next? For most people, all they get is a big letdown: Boring, \u201cThanks for entering!\u201d giveaway confirmation messages. And what happens to all of that excitement? It disappears\u2014and they forget your company or blog even exists.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Use Giveaway Confirmation Messages<\/h2>\n<p>Most marketers are missing a huge opportunity by sticking with boring, dead end giveaway confirmation messages like \u201cThanks for entering.\u201d Instead, they should be taking this opportunity to capitalize on the excitement the entrant feels and giving them a next step to take.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than show your entrants a big brick wall after they enter, give them more opportunity to interact with your brand. Sure, thank them for entering, but then also invite them to take a next step.<\/p>\n<p>That next step might be something as simple as giving them the URL and encouraging them to visit your website. It might be a coupon code for a discount on your products. Or you might start to get creative and direct them to a quiz on your site, content or products that have been popular with your visitors, or even a link to download a free ebook or other type of freebie.<\/p>\n<h2>Create Legions of Raving Fans, One Entry at a Time<\/h2>\n<p>Once you have people interacting with your brand, you never want to be the one to stop them\u2014you always have to give them a next step to take.<\/p>\n<p>Crafting a compelling giveaway confirmation messages with an exciting next step for entrants to take will get them further involved with your brand, and help ensure that you\u2019re not building a list of giveaway entrants who\u2019ll forget about you. Instead, you\u2019ll be building a list of entrants who love you and can\u2019t wait to see what you have in store for them next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You create a giveaway to get emails subscribers and drive engagement, but there\u2019s one key giveaway step that most people miss\u2014and it\u2019s one that could exponentially increase your engagement and your brand loyalty. What is it? Your giveaway confirmation messages. Here&#8217;s how to make them compelling: Don\u2019t Lose the Giveaway Entrance Euphoria When people enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}