Contest Dream has many types of participation that will solve every single need you might have. Your participants, depending on the contests participation type, see the interaction with the contest differently. Some types require them to upload a picture, while others only need them to click a button.
Existing participation types in Contest Dream:
- Simple – this participation type creates a rule of cool down between each participation. You can change the value of the cool down between each participation, or you can decide that there is only one participation possible.
- Unique Codes – A user is prompted to enter a unique code before continuing to the participation. You can generate these codes inside the Contest Dream application. However, distributing them is up to you as the creator (Examples: Send them by Email, hidden on products from a retail store).
- Multi Image Video – If your requirement is to have the user post an image, video and some other information, this type is perfect.
- Photo – This type will gather a single photo under the participation event. Good for contests that the requirement is you obtaining some visual information (Example: Participate with your best flower decoration).
- Selfie – Same concept as photo, however the goal of this contest is to gather selfie images.
- Art – Same as photo, however, the goal of this contest is to gather art images.
- Graphic – Same as photo, however, the goal of this contest is to gather digital graphic images.
- Text – This type will gather a long text under the participation event. Good for contests which focus is to gather a specific type of text that focuses on a topic (Example: Participate with your best quote of the day).
- Novel – Same as Text, however, the goal of this contest is to gather novel like text.
- Joke – Same as Text, however, the goal of this contest is to gather text which focuses on the subject of jokes.
- Poem – Same as Text, however, the goal of this contest is to gather poems as participants.
- Writing – Same as Text, however, the goal of this contest is to gather user writing from participations (Example: Short stories).
- Video – This type will gather a video file under the participation event. When the user participates he will be required to upload a video in the process of participation (Example: Contest that focuses on collecting funny cat videos).
- Quiz – This type will gather an answered quiz under the participation event. When creating the contest you as the creator of it can define what type of questions and answers you wish the users will fill out (Example: Participate to a contest by filling out a company questionnaire).
- Survey – This type will gather an answered survey under the participation event. When creating the contest you as the creator of it can define what type of survey questions and answers you wish the users will fill out ( Example: Gather opinions about your new product and reward your patrons the same time).
- Twitter – This type of participation will allow users to participate to your contest simply by including a hashtag in a tweet. A contest with this type will focus only on twitter improvement of hashtag posts and increasing its users pool on Enkronos Apps (Example: Hashtag #MyCompany and participate to a contest of winning a free iPhone).
- Facebook – This type of participation will have the users, who wish to participate to your contest, log in through Facebook. Doing this will allow your contest to gain some basic information from Facebook regarding your user pool. This type of participation is one of the simpler ones and the most beneficial to you as the creator of the contest (Reason being, because it gathers the most information about your users).
Participation types are diverse in the method of how a participation works, however, they all have a common goal and that is to gather the following information:
- Users data (added to users pool)
- Participation event data
- Unique participation data depending on the participation type (images, video, Facebook data, etc …)
You can apply a participation type to the contest only when creating a contest. When the contest is running you can no longer adjust the type, therefor, be sure to choose the correct participation type for the contest you are creating.
Read here about the next feature Contest Types.
For more information about Contest Dream please see Use Cases or contact us.