Scenario
While creating your event, you would like to use giveaways to incentivise attendees to register and participate.
Quick start
Giveaways can either be provided by some (or all) of your speakers or alternatively on an event-wide basis (i.e. unrelated to the speakers).
- To set up a giveaway for a speaker, head to your event dashboard and click the Content menu.
- Go into the Talk sub-menu (on the left-hand side) and select the Offers and Giveaways action menu.
- Click +Add Offer or Giveaway
- On the form that will open, you can now enter the details for the giveaway. Enter a title for the giveaway and decide how many will be provided. For example, if you select 2 then 2 winners will be selected.
Do note that evergreen summits do not allow for giveaway prize draws as they do not have an end date and hence, winners cannot be generated.
How are attendees added to a giveaway prize-draw?
By sharing the event across one of their social accounts when registering for the event
- When an attendee signs up for your event, they will be given the option to share the event across their social channels. If they do this, we will enter them into the prize draw for you. Please note, that we currently log the attendees 'intent' to share. This means that if they click the button to share socially, we will log that intent. We do not check for the existence of the actual social post. Attendees receive one entry in total, not per social share.
By turning up live to one of your talks
- As an incentive to encourage your attendees to turn up live to your talks, we will enter them into the same prize-draw (if they haven't already been entered) simply by turning up to the talk live. This is all done automatically. If your talk is pre-recorded, then this option will not be activated.
How does HeySummit generate and notify the winner?
Winners are automatically selected by the platform. If the giveaway is being offered by a speaker, a winner will be selected 24 hours after the talk has taken place. If on the other hand, the giveaway is being offered on a summit-wide level, a winner will be chosen at the end of the entire event, not just after one talk. These will appear under Activity & Reporting > Giveaway Winners.
Winners are automatically selected by the platform. If the giveaway is being offered by a speaker, a winner will be selected 24 hours after the talk has taken place. If on the other hand, the giveaway is being offered on a summit-wide level, a winner will be chosen at the end of the entire event, not just after one talk. These will appear under Activity & Reporting > Giveaway Winners.
When a winner is generated, the system will automatically block the host or speaker from being able to win. It is not possible for an attendee to win the same prize twice.
When a winner is selected, they will be sent an email. The speaker providing the giveaway will be CC'd into the email so that they can follow-up with the winner to redeem the prize.
More of a visual learner? Check out our video:
If you would like to set up an event-wide giveaway, read this article.
