Promote Your Business with The Historic Dozen Contest
Easily Promote Your Business!
Easily promote your business through our social media contest. Your prize donation makes the contest work and you reap the benefits. For the cost of a prize donation build your customer base and online presence. Promote your facebook fan page (Don't have one? Why not? They're free.)
Below are the prizes that have been donated so far.
Historic Dozen Overview
The Historic Dozen Contest is a social media contest sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH) in conjunction with www.valleyspringsca.us and The Site Mechanics.
The contest is a huge opportunity for local businesses, local groups, and web based businesses to expand there social media presence and drive targeted traffic to their sites and facebook pages. This can be at zero to minimal cost.
The foundation of the contest is the announcement of the twelve most important Historical locations in West Calaveras County or the historic Dozen. These places have been chosen by the President of the SPWCH, Sal Manna, for their historical significance. The exact order has not yet been revealed.
The contest will consist of three main divisions. Each a contest in itself.
Contest One
The Like Us on Facebook contest is the most general interest contest. It will have a variety of prizes donated from businesses like yours. It is a basic funnel.
- Users Opt In (Prize notifications will be sent through this opt in list so users must be opted in)
- Users Are Directed to First Page of Prizes where they fan the pages of the prizes they want to win
- Users then us "Send to friend" feature to get to next page of prizes. Emails are sent to users friends notifying them of contest.
- Users land on "Second page of Prizes" and fan the pages of the prizes they want to win
- Users then use tweet function to tweet about contest.
- Users are directed to "Third Page of Prizes"
- Users fan the pages of the prizes they want to win
- Users are asked to post contest to their facebook walls
The Fan us on facebook contest is expected to have a high volume of traffic from:
- $20,000 advertising grant to be spent on google adwords during the course of the contest (This is already active)
- Traffic is fed from all other contests to this contest
- Actions within the contest are posted to the walls of contestants
- contestants email friends
- Businesses and groups posting to their fans and subscribers
Being a part of this contest could potentially drive a large amount of traffic to your facebook fan page.
Contest Two
My Favorite historical location contest. This contest is comprised of two divisions.
- Grades 4-6
- Grades 7-8
Students in these grades in the Western part of Calaveras county are eligible. Students must choose their favorite historical location from the list and write a short essay (Less than 100 words) as to why they think this location is historically significant. Essays are submitted online.
Once the submission period is over there will be a popular vote contest where submissions are voted on. The most popular submission wins. The submission process and voting process will occur on this website through an automated process.
This contest will be promoted through
- Press releases
- Social Media Assetts
- Valley Springs Newsletter
- Ideally we'll also be able to promote through the school system as we are a non-profit with the mission of promoting the importance of local history. This should be a significant learning experience for our local children. At this time we do not yet have permission to deliver our message to the school system but we will be looking into this.
Contest Three
Guess the historical significance order
This contest also has two divisions
- Ages 14 - 21
- Age 21 and up
In this contest users select the order of historical significance of the Historic Dozen. An online form will automate the process. Users who select the correct order(as determined by our expert) are entered into a drwing for the prizes.
This contest will be promoted through
- Press Releases
- Social Media Assets
- Newsletter subscribers.
Businesses Are encouraged to donate prizes to any or all of the contests. Your business will be featured and promoted in any contest you donate prizes for
The SPWCH is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit. Donations to the SPWCH are tax deductible to the extent allowed by the IRS
Cash donations for this contest will be used to purchase prizes for the "My Favorite Historical Location" contest to help encourage the younger children to participate. We like to put up a prize such as an ipod touch which they will be very interested in an put out effort to win.
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Historic Dozen Contest Mind Map
You can find the Mind Map for the historic dozen contest here
All nodes which have corresponding pages are clickable by hovering your mouse over the right side of the node
Unfortunately the online display is not as easy to follow as the offline. there's an error in presentation. The top row should be to the right and everything else to the left. Hopefully it is helpful.
Click fullscreen once the map is loaded for easier viewing.
Use the Links below
Use the link below titled Group Post to post questions or suggestions to this group
You can also reach me at
Google Voice 209-565-1760
Skype shun_shifu_weaver
my contact form http://www.valleyspringsca.us/user/1/contact
email phil at thesitemechanics.com
Notes About Donating Prizes
You may donate prizes to as many contests as you wish.
For prizes donated to the "My Favorite Historical Location" contest and the "Choose the Historical Importance Order" your business will be promoted on the pages of those contests
For prizes donated to the "Like Us on Facebook" contest your prize will be assigned to 1st ,2nd, or 3rd page based upon the following criteria.
3rd page - Prize Donation
2nd Page - Prize donation plus $50 donation to SPWCH. The donation will be used for purchase of additional prizes for kids contest.
or
Prize donation plus promotion to your subscriber list or facebook page of at least 1000 subscribers/fans
1st page - Prize donation plus $100 donation to SPWCH. The donation will be used for purchase of additional prizes for kids contest
or
Prize Donation plus $50 donation to SPWCH plus promotion to your subscriber list or facebook fan page of at least 1000 subscribers/fans
Those who donate $100 to the SPWCH will have their keyword related to their prize donation promoted through the $20,000 adsense grant. This grant is already active so getting your donation in earlier will have a bigger benefit.
Anyone who donates something the kids will really love (Like an Ipod Touch) will be heavily promoted throughout the contest)
To donate your prize please use this form
