Marketing

Setting up the Contest Manager

Setting Up the Contest Manager

The Contest Manager is a great way to collect names and email addresses from customers and prospects who visit the website. You may promote the contest using your social media websites, flyers, email blasts, bag stuffers, etc. It’s easy to activate and manage!

Navigate to ADMIN/Site Configuration/Drawings-Contests and edit the Enable link.
Enter the name of the prize (Guitar, Keyboard, Drum Set, Gift Certificate, etc.)
If desired, you may enter the unique Shipping Product ID for the item. This enables the tool for awarding the prize to add the item to the Shopping Cart automatically when the winner claims the prize.

Once activated using this procedure, a link will appear in the Information Box on your home page:

Editing the Contest Details Page

You may edit and enhance the page that provides the details for Contest sign ups. Navigate to ADMIN/Site Tools/Add-Edit Pages/Drawing-Contest Details

Using the Rich Text Editor, you may design your Contest Details here using the options and tools provided.

You may also create your Details Page within another utility and copy/paste the HTML code in to the Rich Text Editor. Prior to pasting in your own code, be sure to click the SOURCE button.

Picking a Winner

When it’s time to pick a winner, navigate to: ADMIN/Marketing/Pick a Winner

You may have the system pick a winner at Random and send an email automatically that notifies the person that they have won.

**** TIP: Prior to sending this email, you have the ability to personalize the Automated Email Winner Message within the Email Templates tool located here: ADMIN/Order Information/Email Templates

Once you have picked a winner and sent the notification email, the system automatically moves all of the remaining email address to the View Previous Entrants windows. You are allowed to send all of the previous entrants an email message from your ADMIN using the Contact Previous Entrants tool.

**** TIP: Clicking REMOVE Previous Entrants will clear the list permanently. Make sure you have copied these emails and saved them on your hard drive.