TabSite Launches 2 Stage Contests – Main and Finalist Stages

2 Stage Contests for Facebook Pages

TabSite is pleased to announce the release of a new TabSite Platinum feature allowing Facebook Page Admins to boost engagement and return visits of fans by running 2 stage contests on their Facebook Pages.

Two stage Facebook Contests have general entry and voting for stage 1, and then the contest is narrowed down to a specified number of finalists set by the contest admin for a stage 2 final voting time period. 

This in demand feature allows the Page Admin to set the number of finalists for the stage 2 voting. Page Admins then set the date when stage 1 voting ends and the contest moves to stage 2 voting.  Finalists for stage 2 are determined by the voting in the general first stage of the contest.  Votes do not carry over, they simply start from zero again in Stage 2.

Example:  A Facebook Page Admin can set their contest to run for 20 days and have a Finalist Stage voting for the last 7 days where fans come back to vote on the top 5 vote getters who makeup the finalist round.

Benefits:

• Draw Fans back again to your Facebook Fan Page for repeat visits for stage 1 and stage 2
• Allows for more social engagement through the 2 stage opportunity
• Narrows entries down from the general entries to a set number of finalists
• Those with the most votes are rewarded and move to the final round

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Boost Facebook Page Engagement!  Ways a TabSite Contest can help include:

• Contests draw users in and allow for multiple times and ways of connecting with fans
• Facebook Contests with TabSite alllow for a simple method to reach the friends of contest entrants and voters by the social sharing tools upon entering and upon voting.  
• All TabSite contest tabs can have a Like Gate, enabling your Facebook Page to capture the Like which is a most important base connection with the user. Use the Like Gate!
• Upon entering the contest a user has ability to share their entry.  Enable all social sharing options to help the user share your entry on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.
• Entrants can vote for their own entry.  When they do so, all votes get the opportunity for social sharing.  This would again be another affinity connection for your Page with that Entrant that links them and increases the score towards them seeing more of your posts in their News Feed.
• As friends of those who have entered or voted click the links that are shared and come to the Facebook page to vote or enter themselves, this then builds further affinity connections as the entrant/voter, and friend of theirs have engaged with your Page, together building a stronger EdgeRank connection triangle (entrant/voter, friend of entrant voter, and Page) thus giving both entrant and friend of entrant a stronger possiblity of your Facebook Page posts being in their News Feed.
• Using the Facebook Comments box plugin per entry encourages posting and when the default “Post to my profile” check remains, this further connects the poster and your Facebook Page.
• 2-stage voting builds another further connection for entrants and voters to return to the page to vote again, and with their next round of voting comes more social sharing and connecting options with your Facebook Page.

So, the circle of connection between a fan and a Facebook Page grows with use of tools like TabSite’s Contest tool.  For Page Admins this is a way to boost the potential of fans seeing your wall posts in their News Feed.

In short, the more a Facebook Page can engage a user such as through a contest where there are the potential for multiple “Likes”, Comments, and Links that relate the fan and Page, the visibility potential is boosted.  Further boosting occurs as these same fans share their entry vote and their friends engage with your Page.

TabSite Contests, available at Gold and Platinum Plans, offer Facebook Page Admins an engagement tool that ultimately can assist in boosting fan reach via the News Feed.  More details on 2 Stage Contests.

 

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