90 Day Facebook Sweepstakes - time widget?

[Kush_VMI]

We are about to launch an ambitious sweepstakes with considerable cash/gift card prizes.  The application we are using allows us to show "Time Left To Enter" widget.  In your opinion should we use that widget if the sweepstakes period is 90 days?

Personally I'm leaning towards removing the widget to instill some sense of urgency and maybe enable it later on.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Kush

Edit: forgot to mention that we will be giving away over 10 smaller prizes along the way to keep our fans engaged.

[BradBorst]

90 days is too far out to get people to act now.  You can also put that in the smaller print, but I would word it in general terms and use today's date.

If your page has a php extension, you can use this code:

That code will auto change each day with the date and look like this: Wednesday April 27, 2011

[Kush_VMI]

Thanks Brad and I agree.  By the way, we are required to state the term of this sweepstakes (by law) which is in our official rules but I don't think we'll use the counter widget.

We are also offering over 10 prizes along the way whenever a certain milestone is achieved.