It is becoming more and more crucial everyday for businesses to have an established presence online, particular on social media. Whether your business dabbles on just one social media platform or 10– promotional giveaways can help you increase your engagement, gain new connections and build a community of brand advocates.

7 Ways to Increase your Social Media Engagement with

Promotional Products

Are you just a few followers away from 1,000? Or maybe it’s 100,000! Celebrate your next big follower milestone and create hype around your page by giving away prizes to the people who add you to help you get to your mark. Example:

It pays off to reward your fans every once in a while, do so with a larger giveaway that your followers will want to get their hands on! Ask your followers to like, share or comment on your post for a chance to win your big giveaway. This will get you tons of engagement as well as keep your fans interested. They will want to check your page often for more fun giveaways. Try giving away something like a Bluetooth speaker an executive bag or a nice piece of apparel– whatever best suits your business.

Ask a question! Find out a little more about your fans and followers by asking them to answer a question. Your question can be anything– ask them to share their favorite product from your company or how they found out about you or anything else that fits in with the season or current campaigns. Reward everyone who participates with a small prize such as a key chain or a nice stylus pen.

Encourage customers to review their experience with your company by offering a prize. Give a reward such as a coffee mug or a tote bag to anyone who leaves a positive review on a product or service on any social media site that allows reviews such as Facebook and Google+. Reviews are a very powerful way to convert potential customers because consumers trust the opinions of their peers.

Get customers engaging with your social profiles by playing a game! Take advantage of popular hashtags such as #TriviaTuesday or make up your own game. Reward the first person to guess the right answer or to win your game, or reward everyone who participates– whatever works for your game. To the left you can see an example of a game we ran on our Facebook page. This took less than a minute to execute and earned us incredible social engagement.

Many social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Four Square have a way for users to check in to businesses based on their location. Location based check-ins are a fun way for friends to share where they are and meet up with others. They are also great for your business because it gets you more local exposure. Put a sign up at your location encouraging customers to check-in and let them pick out a prize when they do. This will get you social exposure and provide a memorable interaction with your customers in your store.

Create brand advocates out of your followers by rewarding them for sharing your companies news, updates, product launches and more. If something big is happening at your company; maybe you just launched a new website, you’re releasing a new line of products or your partnering with a local charity– whatever it is, get your fans and followers to help you spread the word and thank them with a promotional product.

Let Crestline help you with all of your social media giveaway

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