Surveys. A useful way to get feedback from customers – definitely. A way to grow your small business – really?
But it’s true, surveys have the potential to be so much more than a simple feedback form. At SocialSprinters, we understand that with the right tools and strategy, surveys can help you grow your business in a multitude of ways. Our Survey Form App makes it so easy to launch your own survey and see results in your business’s growth.
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Grow Email Database
A larger email database will allow you to get in touch with customers in the future to send promotions, share products and update them on your business news. When customers take part in your survey, they will enter their email address which you can use to keep them engaged in the future.
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To Improve Customer Experience
Sometimes it’s difficult to know what your customers really think about you. Even if you have an active customer service department, the customers who often get in touch are either very happy or very disappointed with your business. Therefore you may not know what the average customer thinks. Surveys encourage these customers, who otherwise may not have considered getting in touch, to provide feedback on your products and services.
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For Market Research and Product Development
One of the most useful things surveys can do is give you information about what your market prefers or what it considers is most important. Asking questions indirectly related to your competitors’ activities can help you understand where your business is weak in relation to theirs. Surveys can also help you plan future products and services by asking questions about what improvements customers would like to see.
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Crowdsourcing
Take your market research one step further and ask your customers to help you make decisions for your business. Whether it’s choosing a new logo or deciding which popular discontinued product should be brought back, customers love to feel involved and listened to.
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Employee Feedback
To run a successful business, you need people to be happy inside as well as outside. Consulting your employees and giving them an opportunity to provide feedback creates a healthy atmosphere of accountability. It is also more likely that any issues will be addressed earlier, ensuring that your employees remain happy at work and help you grow your business.
Now that you know how useful surveys can be, it’s time to build your own with the SocialSprinters Survey Form App. The App is fully customizable. You can arrange any number of questions and allow for a variety of different answers. Plus, the background can be changed to suit your brand. All you need to get started is admin access to your Facebook page and your chosen background.
Create a survey and grow your email database, improve customer experience, and understand your market better. Set-up takes barely any time and you can leave the survey active on your Facebook page for months. The results could really impact the future of your business and it’s so easy to get started- so why not give the Survey Form App a go today?
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You’ve got an amazing product and you think lots of people would like to get their hands on it, but they just don’t know it exists yet! Perhaps you want to increase your followers, boost engagement, drive followers to a new channel, or grow your email list. Facebook competitions are a great way to achieve these goals, but you’ll need a strategy. That’s why we’re here to help!
Consider Your Aims
Consider what you are hoping to achieve from running this Facebook competition, whether it be increased followers, email addresses or engagement. Your aims will decide what competition criteria you set. By choosing entry criteria strategically, you will ensure you get maximum results from the time and money invested in the competition.
You Want to… Boost Your Social Media Following
Example Competition
To boost your following, a simple competition advertising your prize with a flyer can be very effective. Users like and tag friends in the post to enter. The SocialSprinters Facebook Flyer App allows you to create eye-catching, professional competition visuals yourself. They’re fully customizable and will fit seamlessly into your page, whilst also standing out on your followers’ newsfeeds.
Aim: Increase Facebook following:
To enter the competition, users…
- like the post.
- tag 2 friends in the comment section.
- Bonus: if those 2 friends follow the page then the original user will be entered into the competition twice more.
You can alter and customise these criteria to suit your competition and followers. Be creative with your phrasing will encourage users to participate e.g. “Tag the friends you would share this prize with.”
Aim: Drive Facebook followers to a new social media channel
For example, you already have a strong Facebook following and have created a new Instagram page. Your aim is to drive your existing followers to your new channel
To enter the competition, users…
- must follow new channel. Share a link to your new channel in the caption.
- like the original post.
- comment on the post saying “Love your new Instagram page!” plus their Instagram handle. This helps you connect which of your Instagram followers have come through the competition.
You Want to… Increase Engagement
Example Competition
Providing a fun, interactive competition is a great way to re-engage existing followers and recruit new ones as well.
The SocialSprinters Wheel of Fortune App is an excellent tool because it allows you to run the competition over a number of days. If a user regularly likes and engages with posts from your page, Facebook’s algorithm will detect this and put your content to the top of their newsfeed. They are then more likely to continue engaging organically in the future. Consider doing a week of giveaways with a different prize every day.
The Wheel of Fortune also allows followers to earn extra spins by sharing with friends, therefore driving more users to your page.
Aim: Increase existing follower engagement with Facebook page
To enter the competition, users…
- like the post.
- spin the wheel.
- share with friends for additional spins.
You Want to… Grow Your Email List
If you’ve got lots of Facebook followers, but you want to build you email database, then a Facebook competition can help. To enter your competition, followers must submit their email addresses.
Example Competition
The SocialSprinters Email Capture App is perfect for this. All you need to get started is Admin Access to a Facebook Page.
The app is fully customisable, from background to button, so the widget fits with your branding. It’s easy for you to create and even easier for followers to use!
Bonus: the app can send files to your users, for example an eBook,
How does it work?
The Email Capture App creates an eye-catching widget which can be shared to your page to promote the competition.
The competition is simple for users to enter, they just input their email without even leaving Facebook.
Once users enter their email, they will receive an email from you, which you can fully customise to suit your competition.
That’s it!
Aim: Convert Facebook followers to email list
To enter the competition, users…
- enter their email into a secure form.
Choosing A Prize
- If this prize is exclusive (i.e. 1 available) then it should be a high-value prize.
- If this prize is limited (i.e. 5-10 available) then it should be generous but mid-value prize.
- If there are many prizes (i.e. above 100) then it can be low-value.
Research shows that multiple inexpensive prizes perform better than a single, high-value grand prize, since people believe they have a better chance of winning. What you decide to give away will depend on your business and what you can afford and what you want to promote. However, it is worth bearing this research in mind when deciding a prize.
Tip: Consider asking companies you have collaborated with for prizes to boost your offering. You should be prepared to return the favour in the future. Linking to another company may have the added bonus of reaching an untapped audience who could be interested in your product.
How to Promote Your Competition
Use Photos and Video
Facebook’s algorithm prioritises photos and videos when it comes to what shows in your followers’ newsfeeds. Include a photo or video which is relevant to the competition. Consider a flat lay of the prizes or video if the prize is an experience. To stand out you must have a professional quality image or video. Check out the SocialSprinters Facebook Flyer App to create your own competition visuals.
Sense of Urgency
If you are asking followers to like an image, make sure you put a time limit for the competition. Facebook will highlight if a certain number of someone’s friends have liked a post within a few days and this will spread your competition to a new audience. Moreover, a sense of urgency encourages followers to enter immediately, rather than waiting until later.
Promoted Post
On average, only 16% of your Facebook followers will see your wall posts. Whilst other users sharing and engaging with your competition may increase this, there is no guarantee.
Facebook now gives you the option to promote a specific post which means it will reach a higher audience. Unfortunately, you will need to pay for this, but luckily it’s only a small fee of $5-$10 depending on the targeted reach. This makes promoted posts a great way for SMBs to reach fans who might have missed your competition otherwise.
Summary
As you can see, Facebook competitions are a great way to achieve a range of goals, from growing your email list, to boosting engagement and increasing your followers. The most important thing to do is plan your competition so that you gain the maximum results from your investment.
Key considerations:
- What are your aims?
- How will you promote your competition?
- What is your prize?
Once you have answered these questions, you should have a well-considered Facebook competition that will help you grow your business. Good luck!
P.S. If you’re running more than one competition at a time and need help tracking them, keep an eye out for the SocialSprinters Premium
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Question time! What is the first thing a customer grabs when they enter a restaurant? Yep, you’re right: It’s the Menu! They want to know what kind of food the establishment offers, their specialties, the drinks they serve, the “Menu of the Day”, the range of prices,… So whether you have a dining restaurant, a coffee shop, a bar, a fast food chain, or any other type of restaurant, you already did put great effort into coming up with the perfect menu, and you deserve to show it to the world! And what better way to do, than on your Business Facebook Page?
In this article, we show you 5 different styles of menus you can incorporate in your Facebook page, and how you too can showcase your cream of the crop menu to millions of user instantly. 1. Straight and categorized
Island Creek Oyster Bar chose to include the strict minimum. It’s concise and you can browse it all in the blink of an eye.
2. Two-column menu with prices
Hill Country Chicken chose to go for a look that a lot of restaurants adopt : simple and spacious, it also allows the display of prices in bold.
3. Only a click away
Taco Punk chose the same two-column setting as Hill Country Chicken, however, they do not display the price right away, but allow the user to click on the item first, and then pop up a small window with the details inside. Practical or nah?
4. Image upload for an effortless result
The Mermaid Inn just went full on their original menu! They simply uploaded the image file of their menu on the menu tab and called it a day. How convenient is that!
5. Interactive Menu using SocialSprinters
Last but not the least, an interactive menu that offers you great flexibility in creating your menu and that you can change and modify on your own, even if you’re not a tech-savvy person!
Ideal for the busy as a popcorn on skillet people, this menu can easily be set up using Social Sprinters’ Menu App service, and has:
- Customizable background picture (either from a set of available pictures or from your own computer)
- Integrated pictures for every one of your meals
- Category prices shown very clearly
- Possibility to change the fonts, colors, and police of the title, and include more than one
- You can choose to enable it and disable it any time you want
Also, this video tutorial explains it all in under 5 minutes! (Added bonus : you can ask in the comments any question you may have, and we’ll answer right away 
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Like we said, a piece of cake !
]]>Are you looking for something where you don’t have to be an IT expert and where you could create something useful for your business fast and easy? That’s why SocialSprinters are here! SocialSprinters are very intuitive platform for your business where you don’t have any limits. You can create Facebook apps completely on your own. The only things you will need are …. a Facebook account and a few minutes of your time.
SocialSprinters offer more than 13 types of Facebook Apps that you can completely adjust exactly how you imagine. Let’s look at every app more closely.
Wheel of Fortune
Your fans and friends will love this! Turning the wheel of fortune and trying to hit the right wedge will keep your fans entertained and attached for a long time. Let’s learn how to create one.
Photo Contest
Gain thousands of new followers. Engage your fans and their friends with an original photo contest. This app will allow them to upload their favorite photos and compete for votes! Learn how to prepare photo contest from the video below.
Share to Win
Reward your fans with points for sharing your posts. Whoever gets the most points wins. You can also set a reward threshold and grant prizes to anyone who collects a certain number of points. Make your fans love to share your content! Learn how to easily create your own share to win app from the video training below.
Survey Form
Are your customers happy with your services? Let them tell you. This questionnaire form allows your clients to leave you a message and also helps you collect leads. Let’s create one together.
Video Contest
Throw a movie party on your Facebook page. Attract your fans to upload a video and let them compete for votes in your original video contest. Let’s learn how to create the app.
Getting more Instagram followers can’t get any easier. Just share an Instagram feed on your Facebook page through our simple app. Effortlessly, you will expose all of your Instagram videos, pictures and hashtag searches to all of your visitors and page followers. Thanks to the follow button, all of the visitors may turn into Instagram followers. Let’s add Insta app to your page.
Lead Capturing
Get all the data you want from your customers and build a contact database. Offer valuable content in exchange for names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Let us show you how to create the app like that.
Price List
You can simply show what’s in your store or shop thanks to the price list app. Let’s look how to prepare a list like that for your page.
News Tab
Spread the word! Enhance your Facebook page with this special tab and keep your fans informed about your latest news and events. Let’s create News Tab!
Restaurant Menu
Make your Facebook page delicious! Boost your page with tasty menu. Let your customers know what’s on your daily menu. Create your special menu.
Quizz Maker
Tease the brains and grow your lead list. Test your fans! Launch a guessing contest and get useful feedback through a quiz. Let’s create one together!
Facebook Flyer
Promote your products, services or events with awesome flyers. Upload any graphics or images and boost your page. Let us show you how to add a poster on your page.
Contact Form
Collect more leads! Use the contact form and collect leads fast and effortlessly. Let’s create the contact form together.
It was really easy, wasn’t it?
13 great apps that everyone is able to prepare fast and easy thanks to the training videos! We’re sure you’re excited!
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Because our clients have achieved fantastic results, we made for you this blog post to share these ideas.
These Facebook competition ideas will instantly attract the attention of your followers. Whether in getting thousands of contacts from potential customers or an increase of activity on your page.
Competitions are a great way of promoting your business.
- You can build your email database
- Expand your portfolio of clients
- Motivate customers to make purchases in your shop
Here are the promised 26 Facebook competition ideas!
We’re almost to 40,000 fans. Click like the celebrate! The 100th like will get a free [INCENTIVE]
Comment “Coupon” below to get 20% off your next purchase at [FAN PAGE NAME]. Enter before 5pm EST tomorrow!
We’d love getting to know you as well as your best friend knows you! Leave a comment below and attach a picture of you and your best friend for your chance to win [INCENTIVE]. We’ll pick a winner at noon PST tomorrow.
Comment below for your chance to win a free T-Shirt: The best kind of [INSERT] is _____________. Get the most likes on your comment by 2pm EST tomorrow to win!
Comment below, what year was [FAN PAGE NAME] founded in? The first person to guess it right gets [INCENTIVE]
We’re launching a new menu item and want your feedback. Comment below and tell us what ingredient you think we should add to the menu item pictured below. The winner will get a free year of the menu item! We’ll announce the winner on our fan page at 2pm EST tomorrow.
Click “Like” if you can’t wait for the weekend. At 2pm EST tomorrow we’re picking a winner who’ll get a weekend trip for two to Myrtle Beach!
Guess how many Jelly Beans are in the jar pictured below. The person who comments closest to the actual amount will win a free year of Jelly Beans! Winner picked at 5pm EST tomorrow
Last comment wins! We can stop the contest anytime.
Create an app! Wheel of Fortune is an amazing way how to catch your fans and new customers! One of the easiest way is to use ready-to-use Facebook app like SocialSprinters
What will the score of tonight’s game be between the Eagles & Redskins? The closest guess will win [INCENTIVE]. Winner will be announced at 8am tomorrow morning on our fan page.
When you were a kid what you want to be when you grew up? Share your dream in the comments to win [INCENTIVE]. We’ll pick a winner at noon EST on Friday.
What did you do this past weekend? Share a photo that you took in the comments – picture with the most ‘likes’ will be our featured cover photo for the rest of the week! Contest ends on Monday at 11am PST
Offer an exclusive discount just for your Facebook fans. This is a great incentive to like your page
What should we do next?: “Tell us what (product/feature/service) you’d like to see next from (your brand) and we’ll randomly pick X winners from the comments”
Like + tell us why you should win: It’s GIVEAWAY time! Click “LIKE” for your chance to win (your prize) and tell us why we should pick you in the comments!
Share a photo of yourself at our location. If you have a store, ask your visitors to take a photo of themselves while visiting. Then, ask them to tag themselves (they just have to appear on it!).
Share a photo of yourself with our product.
Show us how you use our product.
Prepare a Photo Contest! If you devise an inspiring theme that stirs interest among your followers, the attention will snowball. Winners are determined by the total number of votes. An easy way how to create and easily add Photo Contest to your Facebook Page is to use SocialSprinters
Fill-in-the-Blank Contest. This contest is super simple! You just write an incomplete sentence and ask your fans to complete it.
Ask your fans to help pick the name of your mascot!
Logo redesign – Fans that fancy themselves designers can submit their designs for a chance to win and have their logo used as an official design.
Use a competition building app. Don’t bother messing with custom codes to build your own Facebook competition. The best way to run a Facebook competition is with a competition application
Create a unique competition hashtag and let your fans upload their selfies.
Essay Contest – tell us in 25 words or less what make you happiest!
All of these ideas are very effective to entertain your fans and customers. The very best way is to create an app such as Photo Competition, Share to Win, Wheel of Fortune etc., you can create and add these apps very fast and easy, it will take you just few minutes. Visit SocialSprinters now and claim your 14 days trial just for $1!
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While using Facebook for the purpose of achieving business goals, one cannot ignore the countless benefits of applications. The foremost objective behind using Facebook applications being is to provide a special value to the consumer, thereby increasing the business’ social momentum.
Your business is exceptionally unique and you look forward to expressing how it can offer a service or product that none of your direct competitors can. An excellent way to carry that out is with a custom designed Facebook fan page application. You can willingly highlight the vision and services of your company in the best light possible, helping your customers to see the value of your business.
One of the major benefits of Facebook applications is that they facilitate a business to ‘engage’ consumers. Whether a firm wishes to endorse its business, announce the launch of a new product, share relevant news or invite users to a contest, applications on Facebook are formulated to accomplish all these necessities.
Facebook advertising, is undoubtedly is a great approach for generating business leads. Business owners ought to appreciate the fact that Facebook is not meant for only engaging consumers. As a matter of fact, it can be used as one of the best lead generation tool for enhancing a business. Therefore, one should not limit the utilization of Facebook apps to just represent their brand. They should be used to spawn online leads as well.
If you’re thinking about how to improve your Facebook strategy and aren’t sure where to start, these apps for your Facebook Page can help.
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Heyo allows you to easily create contests and campaigns for Facebook with customizable templates. Use Heyo to easily create sweepstakes, contests, and campaigns that publish to mobile, Facebook, and anywhere on the web. Heyo costs $25/month and offers you 3 campaigns.
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SocialSprinters provides Facebook apps to its users that will be of great benefit to them not just only in the short term but also the long run. Their pricing starts at $25 monthly and they offer 13+ apps such as: Photo Contest, Video Contest, Wheel of Fortune, Email Capture, Share to Win, News Tab, Survey Form, Price List, Quizz Maker and more!
SocialSprinters has one of the best customer support on the market. And the best part – apps can be directly connected to real website conversions, so you can measure every new customer and ROI that they bring you.
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Tabfoundry offers an easy way to build contests and custom tabs on your Page. Instead of pre-determined tabs, Tabfoundry gives you a blank canvas with handy drag-and-drop widgets. The Tabfoundry Campaigns app is free with a Hootsuite account.
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TabSite allows you to build promotional tabs for Facebook, which includes things like contests, sweepstakes, lead capture, and video. You can create tabs in a matter of minutes.
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Pagemodo will help you create custom tabs for your Facebook Page. If you’re looking to add a welcome page, show maps, offer coupons, and feature your products, you can quickly and easily create professional Facebook tabs for your business.
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Woobox allows you to create sweepstakes, coupons, and contests for your Facebook Pages. You can easily install a campaign as an app for your Page and Woobox has ready-made campaigns to get you started.
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With Shortstack you can build engaging campaigns, contests, and promotions for Facebook. You can set up voting and entry restrictions within the app.
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Wishpond offers 10 apps that make it easy to create social promotions for your business on Facebook. You can run sweepstakes campaigns, photo contests, video contests, and referral promotions.
Conclusion
Of course, there are a lot of factors that will determine how successful you are. You can’t just haphazardly slap up some random apps and expect to crush it. If you are looking for fastest, easiest and most effective solution… We found SocialSprinters one of the most exciting platform at the moment.
Here are some logical reasons:
- 13+ ready-to-use campaigns
- friendly drag and drop editor (you can do everything by yourself)
- best pricing plan (+ 14 days trial for $1)
- measurable ROI
- strong know-how from industry experts
- non-stop support
- free education
Join community of thousands businesses that already fall in love with SocialSprinters.
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Probably now you ask questions like “What is the form?” Or “Why should I have on my Facebook page?”. I promise you that in this article you will find answers to all your questions.
What is the form?
With this application you create in minutes a form that can be used for example for online bookings in your restaurant. With this application you can also give your customers the opportunity to sign up for a newsletter. In the form, you can dial any number of questions and possible answers. It’s up to you whether you choose an open or closed questions.
Why should I have it on my Facebook page?
Use this form to save your customers a lot of time. Imagine the situation that his own restaurant. Every day on my site publish daily menu. Your customer will see the daily menu and decide that for sure reserves space in your restaurant. They have to find a phone number for you to call to the restaurant. This will take several minutes. It may also happen that the unsuccessful, because the line is busy. Do you think this customer to come to you at lunch?
Nevertheless, this situation may never occur. If your site will have a “Form” with which your customer can simply book their place. Then, when you share your daily menu, simply for this post to add a link to this form and you will see that you will love your customers. Maybe you do not have a restaurant, but something else entirely. Surely you will now think of what could be a form to use within your business.
Is creating the “Form” difficult??
No way! After activating your membership simply go to your profile on Socialsprinters and start building the application. If you do not like neither of graphic templates, simply upload your own. Then you just need to choose the right questions and upload the app on Facebook. Finally, do not forget your customers aware of the existence of this form. How do I leave it entirely up to you. Send them an email? Creates a post that will refer to this form?
Let’s sum it up!
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Use this form to simplify the communication between you and your customers.
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You will get an email for your customer and that open another channel through which you can inform your customers about news, discounts or new products.
I believe I answered all the questions that pop up in your head. I think that now is the best time to go to work and create for your customers this form! Get in on the action now and as a bonus you get from me the opportunity to try these applications for 14 days for just 1$!
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