12 Entertaining Facebook Contest Ideas To Tickle Your Taste Buds in 2014

Holidays are the best friends of marketers and a Facebook contest can be huge for your business!

Remember December? Before, after, and during the holidays…

There are so many good excuses to entertain your fans, whilst also doing good for your company.

Valentine’s Day is coming, and then we have Mother’s Day, swiftly followed by Back to School and then Halloween.

Are these holidays at the forefront of your thoughts?

Well, there is more, and you can use these to increase engagement with your fans and also to drive sales.

We have seen a lot of good promotion ideas over the last year (I am a co-founder of a Facebook contest builder company) that I want to share with you now to help you with your planning.

Here are the most important stats from the infographic:

– $144 is the average spent per person in the US on Mother’s Day – the 2nd largest gifting holiday in the US behind Christmas.

– $82 is the average spent per person. ‘#1 dad gift’ is one of the biggest searches in the run-up to Father’s Day in the US.

– 30% more people enter promotion campaigns at Halloween compared to a non-festive day!

– 70% of Facebook marketers consider like-gated giveaways to be the most effective marketing tactic.

If you are planning a contest soon check out these case studies that can give you an idea how others have done it and what numbers they achieved.

What do you think? Will you take advantage of holidays in your marketing this year? Tell us in the comments!

You can view it on slideshare too!

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Kim Garst

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