How to Use ShortStack to Create a Facebook Contest

Would you like to increase the engagement activity in your Facebook page? You have a marketing strategy and that you would require names and emails of your target customers. Would you like them to give you their information?

Why not run a contest? Stir up a buzz by doing a sweepstakes. Everybody loves free stuffs and winning it by chance makes it even more exciting.  Raffle off a very nice price that they won’t want to miss out on.  This is a great way to promote your page and increase your fan base. You can also do a photo or video contest. Let your fans participate by submitting their own photos or videos; or voting for the photos or videos they like. I am sure this will build a lot of hype and engagement to your page.

Running a Facebook contest, however, is not that simple and straightforward. There is a right or should I say ‘legal’ way of doing so. According to the Facebook Page Terms and Standards, promotions should be run using a third party app. This includes sweepstakes and contests of any form. Using the like button and other features and functionality within Facebook is not allowed in any promotional activity. If you do this, Facebook can delete or remove your page.

So, what is the right way of doing a contest? Use an app. In this tutorial, I show you how to create your own Facebook contest the right way by using an app template available at ShortStack.

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ShortStack is a design tool which allows you to create your custom Facebook tabs to suite your promotional needs. It also has a variety of widgets and templates which you can use to run your contest right away.  You can use ShortStack for free if you just need to run a simple sweepstakes contest. However, you need to avail of their paid services for several features like database storage for storing your promotional entries and analytics for monitoring your interactions over time.

Go to my Facebook page to see my sample contest. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this tutorial. Have a great day!

Learn and Earn: How to be a Virtual Assistant

Hello World!

Virtual Assistant

No, this is not the default blog post in WordPress but it is my first blog of my site called “Living a Virtual Assistant Life”.

You might ask, “What is a virtual assistant?” I ask myself that question too way back when I googled the phrase “work at home”. This led me to “The UltraLife of Jomar Hilario + Internet Marketing + Philippines” website by Jomar Hilario. “This is great stuff!”, I said. I like the term learn and earn because that is what I love to do.

“Learn and earn, but do it the right way”.

I might as well see what it’s all about. So, I attended the seminar called “How to Work from Home as a Virtual Assistant” last December. The seminar went great and was so informative. Just listening to Jomar’s lesson with his simple powerpoint presentation was a refreshing revelation to my eyes and brain. In the seminar, Jomar talked about the different ways to earn from the internet. You could be a blogger, an online marketer, do affiliate marketing or become a virtual assistant. You can also do two or all these things at the same time. Neat stuff huh? Now how do I explain these big words? Well, all in due time. That is what this blog is for. Right now, let us concentrate on being a virtual assistant.

Virtual assistants are self-employed professionals providing administrative, technical, or creative assistance to clients from a home office. Yes it is literally work at home thing. Good news for me because there be no more commute, no more everyday Manila TRAFFIC! You can take clients, local and abroad, who needs your talent and expertise. There are a lot of opportunities to earn big bucks in US dollars or in any other foreign currencies. You can be the new age Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW). But one good thing about it is that you are not overseas. You are here, in the Philippines, with your love ones, earning dollars and having fun!

I instantly like the idea, so here I am on my way of becoming a virtual assistant. Neat!

Why don’t you give it a try? Just attend a Jomar’s seminars and learn. I am sure you would like it too.