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Forum Contest Ideas & Results

I was reading through some online marketing websites yesterday and one thing I found is that contests work really well in getting people on forums engaged and active.

Do you run contests on your forum?

What type of contests do you run?

Do you think they are effective?

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Permalink Reply by OICUAM2 on February 10, 2009 at 12:23am: Before you run a contest, make sure you have a written set of rules posted somewhere.

Also, there will be a temptation to award the prize to a friend instead of the actual winner, but don't fall to that temptation. It almost always backfires.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by OICUAM2 on February 10, 2009 at 12:25am: Also, try to make the contest based on something quantifiable. If you make the contest reliant on you or your moderators judging "quality" or "style" things will be more difficult.; ▶ Reply to This

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