Likes giveaway Question?????

[Jill]

I'm planning on doing a "# Likes Giveaway" on Facebook with several prizes (Kindle as grand prize, physical books, etc).

Here are my questions...

What is a reasonable # of likes I should ask for?
What kind of items did you give away?
How long did it take to reach the goal?

Thanks for your input.

[Elaina]

A friend of mine did one of these recently and you may be aware already but do note that Facebook will not show you the names of all the people who like your page. If some have privacy settings to prevent others from seeing their likes, you won't see them either, just an increase in the number. Also, Facebook simply doesn't show you all of them. There's no real reason for it other than...it's Facebook. So, if you want to do a giveaway for number of likes, check Facebook's rules as you're probably stuck with a Rafflecopter style giveaway.

As for items? Copies of the ebook, bookmarks, inkpens/pencils, magnets, keychains, pendants, etc are all pretty popular :)

[Jill]

Hi Elaina,

Thanks for the info, I planned on using Rafflecopter. How many likes did she get? How long did it take her to reach the goal?


Elaina wrote: "A friend of mine did one of these recently and you may be aware already but do note that Facebook will not show you the names of all the people who like your page. If some have privacy settings to ..."

[M.]

Jill wrote: "Hi Elaina,

Thanks for the info, I planned on using Rafflecopter. How many likes did she get? How long did it take her to reach the goal?


Elaina wrote: "A friend of mine did one of these recentl..."

Jill, you can simply put your Facebook widget (any of the Facebook widget collection, such as like box, post box etc) right there in your Kindle book page(s). A percentage the visitors will *like* your FB book or fan page(s). I don't have detailed statistics to tell you what percentage of the visitor will give you "likes," but I recently did an experiment with social share buttons in one of my book pages when I had it on KDP Select Free Promo. Roughly one of 10 visitors/downloaders clicked on one of the social share buttons to let the world know what they have discovered (my book!). Details of my experiment is posted here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... (Look for message 25 by M. Eigh.)

The technique used to embed Facebook widget in my book description is meticulously documented in this book:

[Elaina]

Jill wrote: "Hi Elaina,

Thanks for the info, I planned on using Rafflecopter. How many likes did she get? How long did it take her to reach the goal?

So sorry about the late response! This didn't show up in my notifications :( Fixed that.

She wanted to reach 50 (she'd just started her page) and was planning to give away a copy of a short story she had on Smashwords. She reached 100 in a few days! lol Several of us shared her posts and tweets which helped out a lot. Sadly, not everyone who liked her page participated in the rafflecopter giveaway, but that's an extra step that not everyone wants to make. *shrugs* If FB wasn't so idiotic about showing a page admin their likes (and then showing all who like the page all of your posts), it would make things sooo much easier.