I am a fan of giveaways for generating some interest and leads to grow my audience and there are a few out there that do a good job. BUT They are either focussed on getting entrants to share or interact with socials to boost entries which is very self serving not audience serving, or They cost per competition, and I am wanting to reduce my subscription costs and only pay for something that is bringing me real value. So I made one. It took me all up about 20 hours to draft, reitterate, test and redraft it in ClaudeCode to get it to where i feel it is right. And I am really happy with it!! 𝗦𝗢 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗢? - Full custom entry forms. Collect exactly the details you want. - Personal referral links. Every entrant gets their own shareable link automatically after entry - Milestone bonuses. Extra rewards unlock for everyone once entries hit set targets whether they win a prize or not. This is the secret sauce to generate more referral shares. - Major Prize + unlimited Additional Prizes, each with photos and its own winner count - Live, on-brand entry page for every competition. Publish as a post or use short code to embed in a dedicated page. - Prebuild template for FAQ / Rules of entry that is customaisable in the back end. - Built-in spam protection and one-entry-per-email validation - Spoiler-safe Draw Winner screen with a suspense animation. (I built this in so I can record or live stream the draw and keep entrants personal data safe - it has a dedicated page in the backend of the site) - Automatic milestone emails sent from your own business name and address (pulled from promoter details page and sent via internal wordpress email system if you have it set up) - CSV export with full control over which columns to include (You can add as many fields you wnat and export as many as you want later) - Pre-filled, editable Rules & FAQ that auto-fills with each competition's real details - Your own logo and brand colors, or the built-in gold theme - Connects to Zapier, Make, ottoKit, Pabbly Connect, or GoHighLevel to send new entrants straight into your CRM or ESP - Fully whitelisted. Use your own branding - no 'powered by' or 'made by' branding to remove.

Love this. It was a tweet I saw and think it is a perfect reminder to keep pressing forward.

It's been head down and don't stop over the last few weeks pushing to get my new Pop UP Escape Room finished. Version 1 is complete and heading out tomorrow. Such a relief to have it done. Now to finish the set build for the mainstage :)

This is by no means stellar in the world of Shorts (the top ones get millions of views) but this is an instant outlier for my channel and is great to see the potential it implies. My new channel is @thesmallcrown if you are interested in taking a look. 4 shorts videos in and the research I did before launching this channel is already proving true. The channel has jumped to 74 subscribers in 2 days since launch mostly from the outlier video. Viewership is mostly 24-44 year old women which is the demographic I was wanting to target. I think the cute kids in the video is helping that. The viewership has shifted from predominantly Australia and India to USA, Australia and United Kingdom. This channel is part of my strategy to have a flywheel of content that leads to itself. Online viewership builds brand awareness and evidence of people enjoying the experience. It gives me a catalogue to point people to for live bookings at festivals and events that I can charge for, which builds my digital content for the channel by recording at the event. As viewership grows I get to be my own brand sponsor to promote shows and other products people can purchase or shows I want to point them to online (eg the web series I am writing that will be on another channel). One feeds the other. I was out a another community festival yesterday doing it all again. Got 20-30 usable clips of people playing and had two people yesterday asking me about coming to other live event they are running. At this stage - yes - it is an hours of my time with no direct return - but I call this the capital investment in building the product. I know a few other people in here are doing stuff on YouTube - what are you working on for your channel atm?

It's a comment, and it's positive but I want to correct the grammar 🤣🙃