Why Sponsor A Contest?
By Tim Somers on Aug 26, 2008 in General
If you have considered sponsoring an online contest or sweepstakes and have not, here are few very positive benefits to consider that may help sway you into sponsoring.
As s sponsor your involvement in the process is pretty minimal, provide a prize and help spread the word and that usually it. Sure you could make a blog post about it and email a few people in your database but your main task is to provide one of the prizes.
If the contest is done right, you will benefit in several ways.
Website Traffic and Backlinks that help your search engine rankings are two of the main benefits. Not to mention the exposure your company will get to everyone that enters the contest. When you consider the buzz your company gets verses the cost of the prize, you just can’t pay for that kind of advertising.
It’s been a little over a month since the MichiganBusinessHub.com Online Contest launched when doing a Google search you can see in the image below that 9 sites have linked to the contest and have been indexed in Google. The chances are very good that these links will remain for eternity and provide link popularity to MichiganBusinessHub.com as well as all the sponsors of the contest.
You will notice that super popular sites like Digg, Facebook and Technorati all picked up the contest – that is just hugh!
So consider sponsoring the next contest that comes along or better yet, be a real go getting and launch your own online contest.
Tim Somers
MichiganBusinessHub.com
