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Contests are one of the best ways to build your brand, while simultaneously helping to boost social media engagement and build a targeted list of customers.

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This article will give you 50 fun contest ideas for 10 major industries - 5 specific ideas for each industry. I'll also include a few real-world contest examples for each, so you can see these contest ideas in action.

Simply select your industry below (or scroll down to see them all!).

Enjoy!

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Contest Ideas for the Women's Ecommerce Industry

When it comes to social media, women are the biggest sharers - responsible for 62% of total shares on Facebook.

Women are also more talkative with their friends (rather than men, who tend to just put things on social media and leave them there, expecting acknowledgement).

How is this relevant to your industry and contests, though?

It means that you should be running referral and bonus entry contests - a competition idea which rewards your entrants with more chances to win whenever they share your contest with their friends.

Women are more likely to share than men, and their friends are more likely to get involved in your contest (enter themselves, support their friends, vote, etc). In the process, your contest will increase in visibility and you'll get the contact information for more new prospective customers.

Women's Fashion Contest Ideas & Examples:

These women's ecommerce contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Contest Ideas for the Women's Ecommerce Industry:

  1. Shopping Spree: Give away a gift card for your ecommerce site, but pitch it as a 'Shopping spree.' In your contest page, be sure to show exactly what people can buy with the gift card (rather than the gift card itself).
  2. Holiday/Seasonal sweepstakes: Give away a gift card or product based around the primary 'buying' holidays and seasons (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, Pre-Summer, Pre-Fall, etc). For an example of marketing on a holiday, check out some St. Patrick's Day Contest Ideas.

Contest Ideas for the Ecommerce Industry

Ecommerce is the #1 industry for running online contests, hands down.

Your products make excellent prizes and your target market is tech-savvv and active on social media. Better yet, if someone makes one purchase from you, you're the industry most likely to make two.

The mass majority of the contests we run are for ecommerce brands. And I highly encourage you to give them a shot. There's no better way to generate buzz about a new product, boost sales in the slow season, or get the details of new prospective customers (and all their friends).

General Ecommerce Contest Ideas & Examples:

These ecommerce contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Contest Ideas for the Ecommerce Industry:

  1. Run a pre-winter contest giving away a gift card. Pitch your products as a 'winter necessity.' It doesn't matter what your products actually are, but how you portray them as relevant to what your entrants are already thinking about.
  2. Run a Valentine's Day contest giving away a 'his and hers' package for Valentine's Day. Alternatively, give away a 'Just for Her' prize on Mother's Day (or a 'Just for Him' prize on Father's Day). Remember, with these contests, that your market is your usual target market's partner, family or friends (so target accordingly).
  3. Run a contest which gives away a prize pack of your products. This improves the chance of someone being interested in at least one of the things you're giving away.
  4. Give away free shipping for a year. This is a great contest to give to 10 winners with the message 'Get a chance to win every day for 10 days!' And it's particularly valuable because all you're doing is cutting into your profit margins, rather than giving away something completely free.
  5. Reach out to another brand with a similar target market as your own. Create a co-contest Send this campaign to your existing list so they'll send to theirs. This enables you to to trade contacts. See example below:

Contest Ideas for the Men's Ecommerce Industry

Despite the fact that women control around 80% of household spending, it's men who are more enthusiastic about buying from their couch

40% of men ages 18-to-34 'would ideally buy everything online' while only 33% of women say the same.

It's even more prominent among teens. 86% of male teens say they shop online whereas only 76% of teen girls say they do.

What does this mean for your next contest?

It means that, when it comes to driving online sales, men are upsetting the stereotype.

Men's Ecommerce Contest Ideas & Examples:

These men's ecommerce contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Contest Ideas for the Men's Fashion Industry:

  1. Run a Father's Day contest to your normal target market's partners. Consider giving away one of your more expensive products, particularly if you're not going to give away a gift card.
  2. Partner with a barbershop in your area. Give a 'manly makeover' with product prize package.
  3. Run a summer BBQ-themed contest, where you give away a (humorous or not) BBQ/summer party outfit. Also consider teaming up with another brand to give away a BBQ, fireworks, meat, etc.
  4. Give away a Groomsman gift package. Give away three or four product prize packages - items could include a watch, a tie, a flask, a satchel/messenger bag, a smoking jacket, etc.
  5. Run a themed contest. This could be anything from the Super Bowl to Christmas to National Hotdog Day. Get creative with your contest theme to drive sales in your slow season.

Contest Ideas for the Hospitality/Spa Industry

The hospitality and spa industry has a strength which none of the other industries have: a super valuable product.

A two-night stay or spa day are contest prizes which result in huge numbers of contest entrants.

They're also a really exciting thing to win because they're such luxuries. Sure, it's great to win a new vacuum or outfit, but a romantic getaway for two - away from the kids and in a location they wouldn't normally see? That's a prize you really want to win.

Top Tip: Whenever you run a contest, you need to be considering how you're going to convert those entrants who didn't win. We recently had a client who gave all their entrants a secondary offer via email - 30% off their first booking - which resulted in a huge return on their contest investment.

Hospitality/Spa Contest Ideas & Examples:

These hospitality/spa contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Contest ideas for the Hospitality/Spa Industry:

  1. A two-night stay. Be sure to give a reason: Valentine's Day, Father's/Mother's Day, etc.
  2. A free upgrade to your President's Suite (or equivalent). Pair with 'You deserve it!' messaging.
  3. Partner with a restaurant, spa or theater in your area. Give a romantic weekend getaway for two.
  4. Give away a 'Girls Weekend' spa day. When you're creating Facebook Ads for this contest, try creating an ad set targeting the boyfriends/husbands of your target market.
  5. Give away 7 deep tissue/Swedish massages. To increase the perceived possibility of any given entrant winning, give away a massage every day for a week.

Contest Ideas for the Fitness Industry

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There's no beating around the bush here: we run more fitness contests than any other industry except ecommerce. Your industry is absolutely perfect for contests (which I, unfortunately, can't say for B2B).

You have clearly valuable prizes: 6-month membership, free personal training, whatever. You have the benefit of a lot of great visuals, and price is one of the main pain-points in your industry. When you tell someone they can get fit and healthy for free? The perceived value is priceless.

Any contest you run needs to have what we call a value proposition - the reason that people see your as valuable. But it can't just be 'get 50% off' or 'get your first month free'.

Instead, you should consider the emotional value of your offer. For instance, 'Get ready for summer,' 'Burn those Christmas calories,' 'We'll help you stick to your resolution' etc.

Fitness Contest Contest Ideas & Examples:

These fitness contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Fitness Competition Ideas:

  1. Free membership for brides. Facebook advertising will enable you to only show your contest to women who are engaged. You can also target female friends of engaged people.
  2. Free workout and healthy-eating plan. This is also a great option to add to our website as a 'lead magnet' - a free giveaway which you deliver to people when they submit their contact information. Create a series of emails (also called an email drip campaign) which are designed to turn your new contacts into paying customers.
  3. Free personal training. Personal training, unlike a general gym membership, feels like a luxury (with higher perceived value). Be sure to add the dollar value of personal training into your value proposition/contest headline.
  4. 'Spin with the girls!' Consider giving away a pack of spin class passes (10), enabling girls to bring their friends to multiple sessions. This is an especially valuable contest for you as, when your winner's friends enjoy spin class, they're likely to pay full price down the line.
  5. Free 12-month membership. Only consider a full free membership if you're running a bonus entry contest as you'll need to generate a lot of prospective customers to make the giveaway worth it. The last thing you want is to give away a $1,200 prize and only have two entrants.

Top Tip: Want to target friends of engaged people on Facebook? Simply type 'Friends of' into the Detailed Targeting box within the Facebook Ad manager to see all your options:

Contest ideas for B2B

The honest answer here is that we don't run that many B2B contests. And that's because, in general, there's usually a better way for your business to find the results you want.

However, there is a single type of contest which I can confidently recommend, and it's one we've used to great success many times over the years.

Here's an example:


This is a partnered contest. And (again, to be totally honest) it's a super valuable campaign not because you're going to go viral on social media, but because when you notify your existing lists about the contest, you'll be legitimately trading contacts with a business similar to your own.

To learn more about partnered campaigns (and how we've used them), check out 'A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Generated 1,263 New Leads (With a Little Help from Our Friends).'

This B2B contest example was built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

B2B Competition Ideas:

  1. Partner with another business. Give a year's subscription to both your service/platform and theirs. Be sure to find a business which not only has the same target market as you, but also compatible products.
  2. Run an internal contest (within your office/branches) giving away a gift basket or swag. Internal contests can be a great way to boost company morale.
  3. Black Friday/Cyber Monday discount plan. If you're going to run a discount plan promotion, consider giving it to '10 lucky winners' - because you're going to be competing with other SaaS/B2B companies who simply run sales. Honestly my recommendation would be to just run a sale, rather than a contest, here.
  4. If you're an office supplier, give away free shipping for a year. Consider running this as a month-long promotion and it's exclusively available to first-time buyers.
  5. Sports team sponsorship. A contest where you give away sponsorship of a local youth team gets your name out there. Just don't expect it to drive final sales.

Contest Ideas for Photography

If you're like most photography businesses, you get most of your clients through word of mouth. They ask a friend if they know any good photographers, you're mentioned, and the rest is history.

Contests, however, are like word-of-mouth marketing on speed.

Online contests are, by definition, online. And that means that information, recommendations and references can be shared and disseminated at lightning speed and shared with huge numbers of people.

Your target customer has 100 friends who are also your target customer. Contests, especially bonus entry and referral contests, are a fantastic way to reach all of them.

Photography Contest Examples from Wishpond:

These photography contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Photography Competition Ideas:

  1. Give away a wedding package in the Fall. Be sure to time your contests correctly to engage with the maximum number of people who might be interested in your prize. Most people who are having late Spring/Summer weddings are planning their photographer in late Fall.
  2. Give away a new baby photoshoot. Similarly to the above, you should know that most babies (in North America) are born around September.
  3. Give away free photo framing. Do this for the first 10 booked photo shoots, then offer 50% off to everyone who books after the first ten.
  4. Run a contest which gives away a 'Friend's Day' photoshoot with costumes. Run a photo contest where one entrant can submit a photo and get their friends and family to vote on it (they'll need to submit their contact information to vote).
  5. Partner with a hairdresser or makeup artist. Give away a photoshoot with makeover package. If you photograph weddings, it should be easy to connect with makeup/hairdressers before the wedding.

Contest ideas for the Restaurant Industry

Most restaurants don't think about online marketing too much. Much of your business comes from word of mouth and (if anything) review sites and Google search.

Nonetheless, a good contest is one of the best ways for a new restaurant (or one looking to increase declining patronage) to get people in the door.

Note: A contest is also a powerful way to get people to review your restaurant online. With a bit of help from our fully-managed team, you can use Wishpond's bonus entry contest builder to give extra chances to win to those contest entrants who review your restaurant on the platform of your choice.

Just be sure you only target people within your area. Online marketing is powerful in its ability to give businesses huge reach, but it can also be dangerous. Be sure you're not spending money or resources to reach people who are nowhere near your restaurant.

Restaurant Contest Examples from Wishpond:

These restaurant contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Restaurant Competition Ideas:

  1. Reach out to a hotel in your area. Give away a romantic weekend away, with your restaurant giving a three-course dinner and bottle of wine.
  2. Is there a popular movie coming out? Buy tickets and give away a date night.
  3. 'Get Away from the Kids.' While this is, ostensibly, just free dinner, the most successful contests are always those which tie into a well-recognized idea or theme. Consider running this contest in the middle of the summer, targeting parents with children who are on Summer break.
  4. Give away a Thanksgiving dinner. Cater a family's Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings. A cool idea for this (if you want to take it a step beyond, would be to give away a free dinner for the contest winner as well as a needy family in your area.
  5. Create and give away a Superbowl party pack. My recommendation for this would be to make a big deal out of the winner. Have your chef, restaurant owner and waiters/waitresses pull up in a van and deliver the Superbowl food in person. Take some photos with the winners (and their friends) and post them on social media.

Contest Ideas for the Dental/Cosmetic Medical Industry

Contests can actually be a very valuable marketing strategy for the dental/cosmetic medical industry.

And there are three reasons for that:

1. Your services are expensive, so a prize has a high dollar value. This increases the number of entrants you'll likely get.

2. People who enter your contest will think of your business the next time they need your services (even if they don't win).

3. The people who do win will return to your business (if their experience is good) for any follow-up care or with a family member. It's far easier to keep going to a dentist or cosmetic surgeon you like than find a new one you don't know anything about.

Top Tip: My recommendation is to have multiple winners for your dental/cosmetic medical contest. It increases your entrant's belief that they'll win (which increases entry rates) and you'll get more people through the door who will become loyal clients.

Dental/Cosmetic Medical Contest Examples from Wishpond:

These dental/cosmetic medical contest examples were built with Wishpond.

Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Cosmetic & Dental Competition ideas:

  1. Give away dental care or cosmetic medical treatment before Valentine's Day. My recommendation would be to create two contest pages - one which targets men ('Surprise her on Valentine's Day!)' and one which targets her ('Give him a surprise on Valentine's Day!').
  2. Target engaged women on Facebook. Give a pre-wedding treatment (teeth whitening, wrinkle removal, etc) up to your selected dollar value.
  3. Run a 'back-to-school' or 'before University' contest giving free dental treatment. Target parents of 8-18 year olds around August. Consider two different contest pages: one with a young child smiling and one with an older teenager.
  4. Give away a 'Golden Years' cosmetic treatment. Target men and women on Facebook who are 55+ to be sure you don't waste your money.
  5. Run a contest teeth whitening treatment. Consider running a standard contest like this a few times a year. Just be sure to exclude your previous contest entrants from your target audience on Facebook.

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Contest Ideas for the Auto industry

The auto industry is one of those industries which hasn't fully embraced online marketing as a viable way for them to succeed.

For you, then (someone within that industry who recognizes how powerful online marketing can be) the opportunities are massive.

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Did you know that Facebook enables you to target, specifically, people who own a certain type of vehicle in your area? Can you imagine how powerful that would be if you owned a Subaru, Mitsubishi or Volkswagen auto shop?

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We're talking online contests here.

Before the winter comes around, many of us consider winterizing our vehicles. We're perusing Facebook as we normally do and 'Bam!' an auto shop near me is giving away free vehicle winterizing.

Or I'm looking to go on a family road trip for an upcoming long weekend. 'Bam!' my friend shares with me an auto shop giving away a complete vehicle checkup for free.

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Auto Industry Contest Examples from Wishpond:

These auto industry contest examples were built with Wishpond.

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Our ready-made contest templates make building your next contest a matter of minutes. Click here to create an account and try out the builder today (no credit card required).

Auto Industry Competition Ideas:

  1. Give away a free tire rotation or a new set of tires. This is the standard 'product prize' for the auto industry (rather than some of the more complicated campaigns or prizes). This kind of giveaway/sweepstakes can be run as many times per year as you like. Just remember to exclude your previous campaign's entrants from your targeting and email mailout.
  2. Give away a vehicle checkup before roadtrip season. My recommendation would be to run a summer-oriented online contest around May to tap into what people are already thinking about.
  3. Give away a free vehicle rental. Again, run this campaign before a major long weekend to increase the chance of your prospective customers needing your prize.
  4. At the end of the roadtrip/travel season, give away windshield repair. My recommendation would be to give this to 10 lucky winners over the course of 10 days. This increases the perceived chance to win and gets more people to enter.
  5. Run a contest giving away free vehicle winterizing. Run this contest in early-mid Fall (and of course you should only run it in places where snow and ice is a thing...)

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Conclusion

There you have it, 50 contest & competition ideas to try out for your business.

See anything that intrigues you? Or do you have some creative contest ideas that you've already put to use?

Let me know in the comment section!

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How to Make Homemade Casino Games

Playing casino games are a favourite pastime of many people and having a casino party can be a great way to combine the fun of playing casino games and enjoying an evening with friends. Homemade casino games are a great way to enjoy an evening with friends while creating a casino experience.

Players can gain helpful insights to these homemade casino games by playing online slots in Canada and recreate these for an authentic casino experience, or they can opt for these simpler games:

Craps

Craps is one of those casino games that is based purely on luck and is a favourite among casino players. To make a craps game players will need to have dice and this is easily done by painting cubes of wood, eight red and eight white and then using a permanent marker to make the dots. The craps table template can be found online and this can be printed out and recreated. If players have a pool table the template can be placed on the inside, which will make to look like a real craps table. To make it look even more real players can buy a wooden stick for the crap sticks.

Card Games

Card games are always a favourite at parties and include games such as Blackjack or Poker. To play card games players will need one or more decks of playing cards. The cards can either be bought or can be made using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Each card should be 2.5 by 3.5 inches, which is the exact size. The same template is used to make the back of the cards. Players can make their own brand of playing cards by personalising the back using a photo for example.

Roulette

Creating a Roulette table may take a bit more time, but is definitely worth it as a casino would not be complete without a game of Roulette. Players can source an image of a Roulette wheel online and print it out and then place it on a circle of board. A hole is cut in the centre and to create the pockets players can weave pieces of wire together. For the centre of the wheel a salt shaker is a great idea, preferably a silver one to give it an authentic feel and placing it on a Lazy Susan will ensure the wheel can spin. For the Roulette ball a marble can be used. Pictures of the Roulette table and the chips can be found online and printed out.

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Chuck-a-luck is another great casino game and players may know it as Birdcage. This game is mostly played at carnivals and is a variant of Sic Bo and is also played using dice. For this game three dice are needed and these can be made in the same way as the Craps dice. An image of the Chuck-a-luck table can be found online and printed. For the tumbler two circles 6 inches in diameter must be cut using green felt and stuck to circles of cardboard of the same size. To make the shape wire can be used and bent. For these, 20 pieces of wire of 2 feet long is needed. The edges are bent around the circles on each end. Three 14 inch pieces of wire are then wrapped together to make a single 14 inch piece. The piece is then wrapped around the tumbler to make an hourglass shape.

There are many sites online that can be helpful when making homemade casino games, and if you’re feeling adventurous you might even try your hand at home made slots!

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