How to run winning social media competitions and Instagram giveaways

userby Amy Rountree

Running social media competitions and Instagram giveaways are an easy way to build your audience and your engagement. But there are a few tips and tricks you need to master, as well as those all-important terms and conditions, to get the most from your comps. We've enlisted the support of Di Coke AKA Super Lucky Di.

Di is the Social Media Competition Queen. There is very little that she does not know about social media competitions, and she's put all that knowledge into these videos, checklists, and a workbook that guides you through how to run your own competitions.

Why run social media competitions?

Social media competitions and Instagram giveaways help create brand awareness and a desire for your product or business. Running contests will build a captive audience of customers who have an interest in your brand or business. Giveaways are naturally viral because people love winning prizes, and like to share giveaways with their friends by tagging or sharing in stories.

You'll find all the know-how you need to get up and running with a social media competition in our free workbook that you can collect at the bottom of this page.

How to run a social media competition

For social media competitions and Instagram giveaway inspiration, we sat down with Super Lucky Di to host two tutorials you can watch in your own time. Split into two parts, you can see all her steps in action, as well as real-life examples of social media competitions you'll want to copycat.

'How to run an Instagram competition: Part 1' with Super Lucky Di

Following the rules

There are clear rules for running Instagram giveaways and any competitions in the UK are governed by the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). When running your social media comp, you'll also need to make sure you've got clear and legal terms and conditions.

Giveaway checklist

There are ten steps to running a killer social media comp or Instagram giveaway. Di's broken each one out for you in her workbook.

Decide on a goal for your competition. Are you looking to grow followers or engagement?

Choose a relevant prize. You could choose one item, or several smaller value items to optimise entries.

Set entry criteria. What do you want people to do to enter?

Determine the format of your giveaway. Will you ask people to follow you, tag a friend or sign up to receive emails? There are multiple options to choose from but you want to keep it simple.

Write clear instructions so people know exactly what to do.

Add terms and conditions. The all important legal bit keeps things fair and keeps you out of trouble.

Create graphic. A show stopping, scroll stopping image will help promote your social media competition.

Promote giveaway. Take to your social media channels to let everyone know your competition is live.

Select and contact winner. Once the comp is closed, you'll need to select and contact your winner.

Get the prize to the winner. It's not over until the prize is in the hands of your lucky winner, so make sure you fulfil the prize in a timely fashion.

Still need a bit more? Di's workbook at the bottom of this page gets into all the details so you can learn how to master each step of your social media competition.

'How to run an Instagram competition: Part 2' with Super Lucky Di

Download your free social media competition workbook

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