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Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

by massarog on 2/28/14, 1:46 PM with 33 comments

• by jawns on 2/28/14, 2:59 PM

  Just wanted to say that for a company blog post, this was really great. It's data-rich, it tells a compelling story, the site has a solid visual design, and the multiple calls to action were well placed and didn't detract from the post.

  I don't know this industry niche well, but I'm guessing Rafflecopter is a chief competitor. I think if they see this blog post, it'll rattle their knees a little :)

• by ceejayoz on 2/28/14, 4:13 PM

  The bonus entry functionality shown in http://www.viralsweep.com/series/images/s2-success.jpg is against the Facebook TOS.

  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_...

  "our policies prohibit directly tying incentives to the use of our Social Channels"

• by norova on 2/28/14, 3:18 PM

  And you just won them another customer. This was so well-written, informative and entertaining that it completely hooked me. I love giving my SO random surprises, and this (JewelScent) is perfect for that!

• by brechin on 2/28/14, 4:30 PM

  The Subscribe box near the bottom of the page doesn't work. It tells me that I'm entering an invalid email address (it's a standard gmail.com address, nothing tricky).

  If you're interested in trying a different solution, you could try using LeadBoxes - https://blog.leadpages.net/announcing-leadboxes/

  FD: I work for LeadPages.

• by hippich on 2/28/14, 4:47 PM

  (links below are NSFW)

  I tried this experiment in the summer of last year. Did not work out well in my case, but may be someone will use this idea to execute better.

  It starts with this - http://orgasms.org/promotion where to enter a promotion, you need to enter email address. Once u entered, you get in a queue like this - http://orgasms.org/promotion-status?email=johndoe%40example.... which tells you that you are Nth in the list of applied and current winning entry is 10th. So if you just applied, for you to get closer to 10th position you need to share it with you friends so they get applied too :)

  There were no anti-fraud anything implemented, since it was just an experiment, but in real-world situation comprehensive IP/Cookies/etc detection of same user submission will be required obviously.

• by tbrooks on 2/28/14, 6:28 PM

  They also made a pretty killer guide with Shopify:

  http://www.viralsweep.com/advanced-sweepstakes-guide/

• by gabemart on 2/28/14, 6:52 PM

  I would be interested in seeing how the sweepstakes compared with what the candle company was originally planning for a Valentine's Day promotion. Presumably the opportunity cost of running this kind of promotion is greater than zero.

• by sizzle on 2/28/14, 3:26 PM

  wow, what a visually engaging mobile formatted blog post, thanks for sharing.

• by nitrogen on 2/28/14, 3:36 PM

  For all these positive comments, this title sounds really spammy.

• by ddorian43 on 2/28/14, 2:55 PM

  Soooo is it acceptable/moral to gamify likes/+1/reposts/shares like this ?

• by eterm on 2/28/14, 3:29 PM

  They only gave the winners 3 days to claim their prize, that seems a bit tight!

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