Wishpond: Boost Engagement with These Smart Sweepstakes and Social Media Contest Tools
Creating momentum with your marketing can be a challenge—especially when your audience is distracted, your ads are expensive, and your email list has stalled. What if one campaign could spark excitement, attract new followers, and turn them into leads automatically? Sweepstakes are one of the most efficient and affordable ways to grow your audience, and when built correctly, they’re also fun and viral.
Wishpond Sweepstakes and Social Media Contests
Wishpond offers a sweepstakes builder and social media contests designed to help businesses of all sizes launch and manage high-converting contests across websites, blogs, social platforms, and mobile devices.
Wishpond’s Sweepstakes tool lets you build beautiful, branded campaigns that capture leads and maximize engagement. You can launch on any channel and integrate the sweepstakes directly with your existing email platform, CRM, or automation tools. Whether you’re looking to generate thousands of new leads or just re-engage your audience, Wishpond provides the flexibility and scale to make it happen.
Wishpond empowers marketers to run fully customized sweepstakes with minimal technical setup. You’ll benefit from advanced features like random winner selection, mobile optimization, conversion testing, and deep integrations—without needing a developer. With built-in email tools, follow-up automation, and social sharing options, you can turn a one-time contest into an ongoing marketing engine.
Here’s a detailed look at what’s included:
- A/B Testing: Test different versions of your sweepstakes pages to optimize conversion rates in real-time.
- CAPTCHA Support: Reduce spam by requiring human verification for entries.
- Custom CSS Styling: Tweak every visual element of your campaign to match your brand.
- Custom Form Fields: Add unlimited fields to your entry form, including pre-filled or hidden ones.
- Countdown Timers: Create urgency with a visible timer to boost participation before the deadline.
- Email List Opt-In: Seamlessly grow your email list with built-in permission-based lead capture.
- File Upload Field: Let entrants upload photos, documents, or other files as part of their entry.
- Facebook Integration: Require login, display share popups, and embed directly on Facebook Pages.
- Google Analytics & Facebook Pixel: Track campaign performance and retarget your audience.
- HTML Editor & JavaScript: For developers or marketers needing full control of layout and functionality.
- Marketing Automation: Use Wishpond’s native tools to send follow-ups and segment leads.
- Mobile Responsiveness: Every sweepstakes is optimized for phones and tablets—critical with over 50% of traffic being mobile.
- Publish Anywhere: Host on your website, blog, WordPress, Facebook, X, or even a custom Wishpond domain.
- Random Winner Selection: Automatically and fairly choose a winner from the entrants.
- Social Sharing Buttons: Boost visibility with one-click sharing for users across social media platforms.
- Templates & WYSIWYG Editor: Use professionally designed layouts and drag-and-drop tools to build your campaign.
- Third-Party Integrations: Connect with over 300 apps including CRMs, email services, analytics, and collaboration tools.
You can launch a sweepstakes on virtually any platform—your website, a blog, Facebook, Twitter, or even via a dedicated landing page on Wishpond’s own subdomain. This gives you full control over where and how your contest is seen, so you can meet your audience where they already are. And with mobile responsiveness baked in, every visitor will get a flawless experience regardless of device.
Once your contest is live, Wishpond’s tools allow you to go far beyond just capturing names. You can segment and score leads, send automated follow-ups, or feed data directly into your CRM or sales pipeline.
Wishpond was a key component to our campaign’s success. It was a one-stop shop that was intuitive, very easy to set up and reliable throughout the duration of our campaign.
Chad Riddersen, Deviate Labs LLC (15,000 new leads)
Getting started with Wishpond’s sweepstakes builder is simple. You choose a template, customize the design and form, set your entry options, and publish. From there, you can monitor entries, run A/B tests, and automate follow-ups—no technical skills required. And if you’re looking for hands-on help, their professional services and onboarding support are always available.
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