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vBSetup Owner | |  | Join Date: Dec 2006 | Posts: 27 | Re: giving away 3 free styles I would suggest you do a referrals contest, I'm currently doing that over at my site and it seems to be working out fairly well  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 219 | Location: NE Ohio | Re: giving away 3 free styles I'd go with referral contest. With the other two, you're just inviting spam. vBSetup Team
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vBSetup Owner | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 | Posts: 141 | Location: Detroit, Michigan | Re: giving away 3 free styles Quote:
Originally Posted by ohiosweetheart  I'd go with referral contest. With the other two, you're just inviting spam. | whats going to stop someone from having his or her whole forum signing up just to win it for there forums?
Contests are hard to do without having cheats.. 
goodluck all the same Brandon | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 | Posts: 25 | Re: giving away 3 free styles why dont you add "more "member created" releases" vBSetup Team
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vBSetup Owner    | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 10,502 | Location: Topeka, KS | Re: giving away 3 free styles Quote:
Originally Posted by semann why dont you add "more "member created" releases" | I would love to
I can't force the designers and coders to post 
btw, I read this post by ryan at af.. Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan Don't hold a referral contest alone...I don't think I've ever heard good experiences with referral contests.
I am, however, a strong supporter of a points contest...similar to the one we held here at AF a couple months ago, if you are familiar with that. We offered points for various things here at AF such as posts, referrals, articles, blog posts elsewhere, etc. The member(s) with the most points at the end wins. The good thing about this is that anybody may join and everybody has an equal chance of winning. It also creates more than justs posts or members in your forums...it can ultimately create whatever you want to give points for.
Another thing that I strongly recommend is to make proper preparations before the contest. Get in touch with people who can spread the word for you...Advertise the contest in other places, etc...create a buzz. Preparation for the contest, in my opinion, can be more important than the contest itself. | so...
I'm going to think about this some more..
one a side not, I can say one of the styles with be a vBulletin style from our good friends at vBSkinworks - Custom vBulletin Skins, Styles and more so you can start picking out which one would be your favorite | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 219 | Location: NE Ohio | Re: giving away 3 free styles Quote:
Originally Posted by Crow whats going to stop someone from having his or her whole forum signing up just to win it for there forums? | yeah but see, the thing about a referral contest is this:
The referred member must make a minimum of 10 quality posts, or their referral count will be removed at the end of the contest ;)
The referral hack that I used at EE tracks the referrals as well as how many posts they have. It's very easy to follow.
It's available at the org Brandon, I'll see if I can find the one we used.
Last edited by ohiosweetheart; 12-22-2006 at 10:58 AM.
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vBSetup Owner | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 10,502 | Location: Topeka, KS | Re: giving away 3 free styles Quote:
Originally Posted by ohiosweetheart It's available at the org Brandon, I'll see if I can find the one we used. | That would be great
here are a few more thought about gifts..
I'd like to have a 1st 2nd and 3rd place.
I could pitch in for 6 months free hosting.
and maybe a paid vbulletin mod ( like 30-40$ vaule )
maybe a gift certificate for something
dono,, just some thoughts
Last edited by Brandon; 12-22-2006 at 11:44 PM.
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| | | Join Date: Jul 2006 | Posts: 219 | Location: NE Ohio | Re: giving away 3 free styles I don't like 1st, 2nd and 3rd place contests. From experience, I've found that people don't try as hard to get 1st place. If you do that, make the other two prizes not as good, you know?
Alot of people would rather have a mod than a skin... so you might want to make the mod a 1st place prize. I know that I would try REALLY hard to win 1st place if the vBWeather hack from CM was a first place prize. Oh yeah I would! |
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