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The best things in life are free.
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Go to
https://www.rafflecopter.com
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Sign up for a Rafflecopter Account -
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and join the ranks of fortune 500 companies
trail-blazing startups
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who gives back and nurture their communities.
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Click here:
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You will get this screen
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Scroll down to get to the subscription plans:
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We’ll be signing up for the free account:
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Click on Sign Up
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It’ll take you to the sign-up page
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Scroll down to see the rest of the page
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Type your details
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Once you’re done, click on Open Sesame
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Welcome to Rafflecopter!
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Where do you start?
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They have this sample giveaway
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that you can use as a template
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Click to Open
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You should get this little drop-down menu:
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Click on Setup
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This is how a working model looks like:
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Scroll down to see the rest
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It doesn’t look so complicated, does it?
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This tutorial’s going to take a while,
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But everything’s easy peasy afterwards
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Scroll back up to start.
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First off, What are you going to give away?
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That giveaway item goes to this drop-down menu
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Click to Edit
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(It should turn blue when you click)
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Now, you can type your giveaway item
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(you can add an image, but you’ll need to upgrade)
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Click Save This Prize
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You can add another item for giveaway by
clicking here:
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You’ll get the same window:
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Click to here to cancel.
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Once you’re back on this page, scroll a little bit
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to get to the next section, which is about-
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How to qualify for the giveaway?
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Here, you lay out the conditions,
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and a point system
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Whichever option they choose
adds to their chances of winning
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You can include all of them if you want.
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Lets check out each option
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and see how they were done.
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Click on the First option--
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We have a Title,
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Description, Point Value
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3 tick boxes.
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Your Title goes to the Title Box here
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Description goes here, type it in, very easy
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You can do a little formatting (Bold, Italics)
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Or link to a website, page
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There’s no undo button though.
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The standard Control/Apple Z undo command
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only works when you undo a typo.
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When you want to undo something while using Formatting
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Use Cancel (click on it) to cancel the changes
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About the tick boxes, I suggest you leave them there
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Because 1) You need at least one mandatory option
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to make this giveaway work
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and make it as quick and easy as possible
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And 2), The “Collect info from visitors” tick box here
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enables answers to your question
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So yes, you definitely have to leave it there
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Or no box for people to later type their answers on
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The third tick box, we’ll tackle later (page 171)
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Now, this is your Point Value meter.
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You can assign value from 1 to 5
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for the qualifying options you create for the giveaway
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(screencap from rafflecopter’s sample giveaway
we’re working on)
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Anyone can easily guess that their choices are weighed
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and act accordingly. It goes without saying that options
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with highest assigned values get chosen more
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over the least value ones.
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Or at least, that’s the idea.
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If you absolutely need an answer to a question,
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Or you would like social media exposure,
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Your best bet is to give more points for it.
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Once you’re happy with your tweaks
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Click on Save This Option
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That’s one qualifying option down, and onto
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the second one. This lets ppl follow you on twitter.
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Click on it to edit
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You should get this screen:
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Type in your twitter handle
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Give it two points (or more) for value
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Leave this tick box alone
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Click on Save This Option
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On to the third option – tweeting a message
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Click on to Edit
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Type in this box the message you want
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Assign Point Value
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Tick box is checked. Which means more entries for you
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Click on Save This Option. Which brings us to –
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How to create an option from scratch?
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Click to Add an Entry Option
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You should get this drop-down menu:
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This is how each option looks like:
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Visit a Fan Page (Facebook)
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Inventing your Own (qualifying option)
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Leaving a Blog Post Comment
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The rest are paid features
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Anyway, going back to our Giveaway Demo
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We’re going to set a schedule for your giveaway:
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Click here to set Start Date
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You should get this:
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Click on the Month/Year you need through this tiny buttons
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Click on this area for the Day
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Make sure your selected day is highlighted to yellow
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Same trick applies to setting End Date
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The Start and End Times is preset at 12AM
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And yes, if you want to change the start/end times,
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you need to upgrade.
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Times are preset to Eastern Time
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You can click here to change timezones
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You should get this screen:
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Click to get the Drop-down menu
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You should see this:
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Click on what you need,
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Scroll down,
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Click on Save Your Info
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And we’re done with our first Rafflecopter giveaway!
Hooray!
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Now, you can post it on Websites.
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Click on your finished Giveaway
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Click on Installation
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Copy the link by clicking on that Copy Icon
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You can “Paste it anywhere that accepts HTML”
(blog, website)
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Off to my ScribeGuide.com site to try and post:
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Success!
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Just make sure that you post the link under ‘Text”
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Want to see it in action? Click here:
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You’ll get this:
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You can log in with your Facebook Account
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Or your Email
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I chose the Email route and clicked here:
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Type in your details
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Click Log in
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Click on Answer A Question
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Window pops up, type your answer
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Click on Enter
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You should be back on the Entry List
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This also shows you completed the first entry
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Submit entries by whatever order you want
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Try it, click on Tweet About the Giveaway
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Here, you are required to tweet to join
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Click on the Tweet icon
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And you get this window:
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Click to tweet the message
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You have to include your tweet’s URL:
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Click on I Tweeted
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Make sure your window looks like this
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It means your entries are going in!
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On to the third qualifying option:
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Click on Follow @rafflecopter
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Click here to follow the twitter account
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It will ask for your twitter handle
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Click on I Follow.
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There you have it, you’ve submitted entries
through all options.
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Where to check the entries?
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Go back to Rafflecopter homepage,
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Mouse over your finished giveaway
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Click on Entries
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You should get this window:
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It’s a really useful tool, Rafflecopter.
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You get their IP addresses. With basic whois inquiry,
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you can tell if they qualify (IP gives out location)
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You can weed out all kinds of fishy
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with this little piece of information.
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About the multi-entry option:
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The ‘Entrants can do this option once a day’ encourages
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Free social media exposure for your product - BUT
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it also has the potential to turn off clients.
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Ever followed someone on twitter
who won’t stop tweeting
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and retweeting the same thing?
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Did you start tuning out their tweets afterwards,
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Or, are you even still following them.
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You better know who your target market is
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Or you’ll get seen as spammy and untrustworthy.
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Inject as much personality as you can
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in your contests to make it fun! 
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“The thing is to become a
master and in your old age to
acquire the courage to do
what children did when they
knew nothing. ”
- Ernest Hemingway
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