PunchTab was an amazing giveaways generator which many bloggers and webmasters used to manage giveaways for free but now can not use it for free because they have changed their plans and they only allow their premium customers to for creating giveaways. Means, you'll need to purchase subscription in order to make PunchTab giveaway generator.
Well, There are many other alternatives of this to create giveaway generators but most of them have not such features to make beneficial giveaways but Gleam is one of the best of them which can fulfill our needs. Just like PunchTab, we can easily create giveaway generator in which there will be many useful ways to let participators make entries through different social sharing and other actions. It is easy with Gleam to implement the giveaway generator in blog posts, Facebook page tab or anywhere, you just need to take code and put it anywhere. Yeah! Gleam has also premium packages which have mind blowing features but free is also amazing to make successful giveaways.
Hey! If you don't know about offering giveaways on your blogs, why do we do this, what are its benefits or if you want to find out answers of such questions and I strongly recommend to checkout this article.
How To Make and Run Giveaways With Gleam
Okay, So this is the tutorial part and here we're going to show that how to make your first giveaway with Gleam. The guide is basically for beginners and it completely easy to setup giveaway with Gleam. There will be three stages. First one making an account there, second is making giveaway and third is publishing giveaway on your blog. Lets start with the first stage.
Stage #1: Create an account on Gleam
- Go To Gleam.io
- Click "Start Using Gleam"
- Now, You can create account with two ways. Either make account with your email or with your Facebook account. I prefer to go with email.
- Enter your email and Click "Start"
- Fill out with simple form in which you've to give your name, password, site name and your site URL. At final, click "Create My Account".
- After that you'll reach to Dashboard and a pop up will also appear asking for choosing any plan. Choose Free Plan.
- First Stage Done!
Stage #2: Create a giveaway
- Click " + New Compeition " button at the right corner in competitions tab.
- Here you got to do the competition setup.
- Enter your competition name, setup date from where to start and also the ending date, write terms and conditions if available and its optional, check and uncheck some settings also setup login with options for users.
- Click second tab "How To Enter" to setup entry ways.
- Here the ways are listed that how users can enter and how your promotion will be done. Simply, click the buttons to include that entry method in your giveaway. After clicking button, you also need to setup like if you're adding tweet than you'll need to put tweet content. After adding ways, you can drag to rearrange them.
- After setting up "How to enter" click on third tab "Prize"
- Nothing special, you just need to write the name of the prize and also the quantity of them. You can also put its description and its optional.
- After setting this all, simply click "Save" button at the bottom.
- Second Stage Done!
Stage #3: Installing giveaway in your blog
- If you did all properly, after clicking "Save", you'll see "Competition has been successfully created".
- Now, copy the code and put it in your blog post.
- If you're using Blogger, follow the steps below.
- Go To Blogger >> Create New Post
- Click Edit HTML >> Paste The Code There
- Complete your post and publish it.
- That's it.
Final Touches
I don't think it was much difficult to make and run giveaway on your blog. But with the help of this tutorial, it will be completely easy for newbies to setup their first giveaway. Hope this little tutorial help you all to manage giveaway in a better way while Gleam has amazing entry options and others have limited them for free plan accounts. Share your thoughts in comments and also share this article with your friends. Cheers!
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