9 Years Ago

Contest Question - Would Like Feedback.....

Have only run a few contests, and set them up about the same way most did, which required at least 30 days in FAA to Vote.

Now, today had an idea and want to know what you think. Many or even most set voting so people have to be on FAA 30 days to vote.
Just had a feeling this may be counter productive. If set so anyone can vote, at any time, and we ALL promoted it in social media, that might get a lot of NEW members on FAA who will be more apt to be buyers.

Personally could care less who wins or if I ever did, but someone might get hundreds of new members/voters and that can mean SALES. If we used the contests to attract attention some of the members might make a sale when they never have.

We have 57,000 followers in Twitter in three accounts. Promoting Contests in Social Media even if it brought only 1% as voters and potential buyers, seems like a good idea.
Am always telling my members we promote them, cause someone who is not interested in our artwork, could be interested in our members.
When everyone promotes everyone, it could mean more sales, for everyone.

What do you think?

Bob

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Peter Hogg

9 Years Ago

Being somewhat new to FAA I've been feeling my way around as to how to best promote my work and I see there are a lot of contests which are to help promote. My opinion is these contests are a good idea but I've stopped even trying to vote in them in that most of the contests have over a 1000 submissions and doubt most voters will go through that many pieces of work to find the one they like the best. This is the reason most contests are juried to take out those that don't meet the criteria of the contest esthetically or technically which then leaves a reasonalble number to be judged. I think this could be possible here if FAA would allow the creator or the contest to give access to two or more other qualifided members of their choice to access the submitted images thus creating a jury to cull out those images not meeting all criteria and thinning down the number making voting more valid do to the voters. If this were to happen it would make the contests truely a contest.

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

i think its a more fair contest if there aren't cheaters. even if people come to get their friends to cheat - that doesn't mean we will get buyers at the same time. its not much different then getting voting spam in facebook for some other event. when you go to that site to vote on them - do you look at the rest of the site? i know i don't. i think it makes the site look bad to show first place - and its a blurry snap shot. all because they cheated.

to cheat you bother your friends on facebook. people don't really look at twitter, mostly bots look at that. and when i get a "friend" in face book, and they then tell me to cheat in the contest, i unfriend them pretty fast.

i think everyone should promote only themselves. because me helping you - helps you, it doesn't help me. and it associates my name with yours, which causes cross contamination and confusion over product type. if someone types in mike savad, and ends up in your page, i don't get anything from that.

i enter contests for general exposure, but i never vote. i stopped doing that it took too long.

---Mike Savad

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