Does anyone have any feedback on Rafflecopter?

[NoahsDad]

I'm looking for a good way to run contests on my blog. I've seen a lot of blogs use Rafflecopter. Has anyone used it before? Any other suggestions?

[IanTheScot]

We just used it for a giveaway and it was very simple to use and resulted in a bunch of new Twitter followers.

[bradkrussell]

Hi,

We've used Rafflecopter extensively before.

When I say 'we' I mean numerous blogs that we sponsor. We are in the cookware/kitchenware industry and we have a large number of blogging partners that run competitions on their own food/recipes/cooking type blogs. We give them a product to giveaway (or review AND giveaway) and then they send a few links our way.

The great thing about Rafflecopter is you can set whatever entry mechanisms you like. One of our most popular competitions was a competition where entrants could win a KitchenAid mixer for their kitchen. We encouraged people to enter via all the usual social media platforms. I.e. they could get 1 entry for tweeting about it, 1 for following us/the food blog on twitter/facebook/pinterest etc. 1 for leaving a blog comment. But the best part was allocating 5 or 10 (can't remember exactly) entries for entrants that created a custom Pinterest board and pinned items from our site and recipes from the blog. This greatly encouraged this form of entry and pushed entrants towards something that would take a little longer than just a simple tweet or share.

Rafflecopter also encourages sharing so we saw a huge number of entries using this system (over 11,000). You can check it out here: http://www.ledelicieux.com/2012/05/17/win-a-kitchenaid-artisan-stand-mixer-valued-at-749/ (notice the huge number of tweets, likes, pins).

Nowadays when I run competitions on external blogs I encourage the blog owners to use Rafflecopter. It allows you to build up a large number of social media followers and gains traction/goes viral.

I highly recommend it!

Cheers,
Brad

[DavidKonigsberg]

Not as good as wildfire or snapapp but its free so that makes it great

It does the job for a simple contest  but not so great looking

[NoahsDad]

Very cool!  Sounds like you guys are doing some awesome stuff. I'd like to learn more!

[NoahsDad]

Yah, for sure.

Do you use wildfire or snapapp much?