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Giveaways can be a valuable and effective way to grow your audience and help them to feel like a part of your ministry.
You can use giveaways to both make your social account known and gain exposure to others who don’t follow your account.
The truth is, everyone loves free stuff. But teenagers and college students are a good audience to aim for when doing a giveaway.
Why?
Because when they’ve formed a relationship with a club on campus, an organization or a church, teenagers and college students love to represent that group by sporting swag with the group’s logo on it.
Here is an example of what we did with our followers:
Caption: It’s spring cleaning time and we have swag to give away! We want to know how your friends have impacted your relationship with God.
Here are a few steps you can take to create your own effective and meaningful swag giveaway.
1. What is the reason for the giveaway?
First things first. You need to have a clear understanding of the purpose for your giveaway. Meaning, don’t just do a giveaway for a giveaway’s sake.
Are you trying to:
What is the purpose behind the giveaway?
2. Ordering the gifts
To state the obvious: What you’re giving away is of vital importance to the effectiveness of your giveaway.
Try to stay up to date with your choice of giveaway items and make sure they are relevant to the age you want to target.
Young adults love getting t-shirts and water bottles. Those two items are timeless and could be used for almost any giveaway.
Every year there is a new trend in what people enjoy. So make sure you’re paying attention to what your target audience currently values.
3. Come up with a plan for how to do the giveaway
Want more exposure to people who don’t “follow” or “like” you? Require them to tag a friend in the comments.
A good example of this would be saying something like: “Tag a friend in the comments and tell them how much they’ve helped you grow in your relationship with God.”
This is a good way to gain exposure to their friend, and it makes their friend feel good too. It isn’t a guaranteed “follow” or “like,” but it’s a great way to introduce your account to them.
Be sure to set a hard deadline of when the giveaway ends. This will present urgency to your “followers” or people who “like” your page.
4. Be creative with your giveaway announcement post
Use your imagination and the different features in Instagram to present the posts in a variety of ways.
One idea is to get the attention of your audience with a fun caption full of emojis.
Now, go giveaway things!
Next steps:
As a college student you’re likely to spend hours every day on social media, so how do you use time to share your faith with friends.
It’s no longer about the coolest looking fliers you can print up or even the innovative prize you offer to get the word out about what’s going on in your ministry. It’s about how you’re using social to get your audience’s attention, and a big part of that is the hashtag.
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