How to win contest?

Facebook has established itself as the largest social site. Many companies and organizations have explored ways of marketing their products and services through the site. The trick is to accumulate as many likes and comments on their pages as possible. To achieve this objective, the companies use different strategies. One of these is to create Facebook contests. Participants in the contests are required to like a certain photo or fan page. Obviously, the winner is the person who gets the most likes for their fan page or photo. Most participants fail to get the prize because they do not know how to win facebook contest. Here are a few simple tricks that they should try out.

Make sure you and your friends know the rules:

Different facebook contests may have different rules. Breaking the rules may invalidate some votes or even total disqualification from the contest. Understanding the rules will help you to give clear instructions to your friends. This will ensure that none of their votes are invalidated due to mistakes committed while voting. Help your voters to understand the rules by breaking down the voting steps into simple steps that are easy to follow. Most voters would shy from complicated or hard to comprehend instructions. You do not want to lose their votes as every vote counts.

Request votes from friends and family:

Having many facebook friends can be an invaluable asset that can help you win a Facebook contest. All you have to do is send requests asking for their support. It is also a great idea to ask them to request their friends and their friend’s friends to vote for you. If you are a member of a facebook group, you can request group members to vote. Some of them may even offer you advice on how to win Facebook contest if they or their friends have ever participated and won.

Exchange votes with other contestants:

Exchanging votes with contestants from other contests can bring you so many votes. You can do this by voting for the contestants and then leaving them a message requesting them to return the favor. You can also request some of your friends to vote for them and request that they do the same with their friends. Before trying this method, it is advisable to revisit the contest rules. This is because some contests do not allow vote exchange.

Buy Facebook contest votes:

Most winners make good strategies on how to win Facebook contest. One of the best strategies of winning a contest is by buying votes online. The tactic works best if you surprise the other contestants by buying votes that increase your vote count when the contest is almost coming to an end. This will enable you to have a good estimate of the number of votes you will need to buy to beat the other contestants to the prize. Again, it is advisable to confirm if it is within the rules of the contest. You should also ensure that you buy real contest votes from trusted sites.

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Facebook and Instagram each captured the hearts of 23% of survey respondents. Clearly, Instagram’s rising popularity among teens took a toll on both Twitter and Facebook’s popularity; Facebook saw a 10% decrease in the survey since six months ago and Twitter saw a 4% decrease.

“The data point is likely unsurprising as the trend in our survey has been moving toward Twitter over the past couple of years,” said analysts Gene Munster and Douglas Clinton in a note to clients.

Statista’s chart, which uses data from Piper Jaffray, shows the changes in teens’ favorite social networks for shopping among fall 2012, spring 2013 and fall 2013.

Image: Image: Sean MacEntee

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But, beyond anecdotal evidence, it can be hard to parse just how many fans use which networks and where the greatest opportunities for marketers are. Catalyst PR, recently acquired by sports marketing titan IMG, is the latest to take a stab at quantifying where sports fans hangout online and how they can be reached.

The results of Catalyst’s survey provide some interesting food for thought.

Released this week, Catalyst’s fourth annual fan engagement study surveyed 2,100 sports fans between the ages of 16 and 64. That group encompasses fans of the NFL, MLB, NBA, college football, college basketball and soccer.

A couple of thousand fans don’t speak for everyone who follows sports, of course. But it’s an interesting starting point for considering trends in the industry. Here are a few of Catalyst’s most interesting findings:

• Nearly twice as many respondents use Facebook compared to Twitter, at 73% to 37%. But on game day, they check Twitter about 1.5 times as often as they do Facebook.

• Google+ and YouTube are on the rise among fans. When fans responded to a question about which platforms they use to “disseminate and acquire sports information,” those two platforms showed the most year-over-year growth, at 94% and 35%, respectively.

• Seven out of 10 sports fans who Like or follow a brand online say they’re open to sharing brand content, buying goods or engaging with social posts.

For more findings, check out the infographic below. Then let us know what you think in the comments.

Image: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

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The latest update for the Android Facebook app adds the ability to “edit your posts and comments and tap to see all your changes.” However, the editing has not been enabled on any of the Android devices we experimented with.

The editing feature will roll out to Facebook users on the web and Android devices over the next day, Facebook confirmed to Mashable. The editing feature is not included in the latest iOS app, but will likely get pushed out in the next update. Users will see the option to “Edit Post” when they click on the drop-down arrow in the top-right corner of a post.

Editing posts was potentially dicey territory for Facebook, since the it brings the danger of a bait-and-switch with followers. A user could conceivably write, “Who likes ice cream?” and get hundreds of Likes and affirming comments, then edit the post to read, “Who wants to beat up some cats?”

Facebook addresses this issue by marking the post as edited and letting users access the history of any edited post with a click. Google+, which has let users edit posts for some time, works in a similar fashion.

Facebook has been slowly granting users more editing capabilities over their content. Users can edit photo captions (that is, status updates with a photo attached) and the ability to edit comments arrived a few months ago.

It’s likely Facebook examined all the potential abuses and concluded the risk in letting users alter posts was minimal. It makes sense: Any user who would mislead followers or friends with a post they intend to maliciously edit would likely soon find themselves with few followers or friends of any value.

For journalists on Facebook, the value of editing posts is even greater. As Mashable’s Emily Banks has argued, being able to edit a post in a transparent fashion makes Facebook posts more like articles on a website, and now reporters will be able to make corrections without deleting entire updates and losing conversation threads.

What’s your take on editing posts: Yea or nay? Have your say in the comments.

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Mobile Technologies, founded in 2001, built Jibbigo, an app for iPhone and Android that the company describes as “the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone that runs online and even off-line.” The company will join Facebook at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

“Voice technology has become an increasingly important way for people to navigate mobile devices and the web, and this technology will help us evolve our products to match that evolution,” Tom Stocky, Facebook’s director of product management, wrote in a post. “We believe this acquisition is an investment in our long-term product roadmap as we continue towards our company’s mission.

Image: Mashable composite, Facebook and Jibbigo

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