Essay contests that engage fans and followers.
Wishpond’s essay contest tool makes it easy to build and run a essay contest on Facebook, your website and more. Do it yourself or have our team of experts do it for you.
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Why run a essay contest?
Increase followers & engagement
Collect information to help personalize campaigns, like a follower’s name, email, and their personal preferences, with every new photo contest entry.
Grow your email list
Use a essay contest to quickly grow an email list of potential customers. On average contests have been shown to convert over 2x as well as traditional landing page forms.
Drive sales
Follow up with participants with special limited-time offers and promotions. Take advantage of your essay contest to create new opportunities for sales.
Show essay contest entries in a gallery
- Visitors see their captions in a voting gallery containing all entries.
- Each essay contest entry gets its own unique URL to help your contest go viral.
Enable voting on photo captions
- Add voting to your essay contest and collect voter information.
- Require email addresses for votes, enable CAPTCHA voting, and limit voter participation.
Easily moderate entries
- Require email address or Facebook login for entries.
- Auto-approve entries, or moderate submissions before they appear in your gallery.
- Limit the number of entries from each entrant.
Look great on every device
Turn contest entrants into sales with Wishpond’s suite of marketing tools, including:
- Wishpond’s essay contest builder automatically creates contests that look great on desktop, tablet & mobile devices, no coding required.
- With more than half of your website visitors arriving via a mobile device, this is crucial to getting more entrants.
Connect seamlessly with Wishpond
Turn contest entrants into sales with Wishpond’s suite of marketing tools, including:
- Email marketing
- Landing pages
- Marketing automation
- Lead tracking & segmentation
- And more!
All Essay Contest Features
Wishpond’s flexible essay contest tool gives you complete control over every aspect of your campaign.
Publish Anywhere
- Your website
- Mobile
- Your blog
- WordPress
- Wishpond subdomain
Easily Create Your Contest
- WYSIWYG editor
- Beautiful templates
- Mobile-responsive
- HTML text editor
- Custom CSS styling
- Custom JavaScript
- Social media buttons
- Random winner selection
Set Voting Options
- Require email
- Require Facebook login
- Require email verification
- Enable CAPTCHA
- Limit multiple votes
- Block fraudulent domains
Customizable Forms
- Custom form fields
- Unlimited form fields
- Email list opt-in
- File upload
- Hidden fields
- Pre-filled fields
- Multiple field types
Take the Guesswork Out of Marketing With a Team of Professionals
Your marketing executive will work with you to ensure your campaign is a success. Get unparalleled support 24/7 with access to designers, ads specialists, content writers, and more.
Book a DemoWhy Choose Wishpond?
- We do all the heavy lifting
- You get state of the art technology
- It works with what you already have
Spend less time learning how to use complex software platforms and more time growing your business.
Get access to the latest marketing technology that allows you to see what contacts are up to in real time in order to turn more prospects into customers.
Wishpond has over 40 native integrations and connects with 1000+ other apps. Our team will help you get campaigns up on your website, email’s synced, and sales coming through in no time.
Brilliant service, amazing graphics and design and top tier management! A friendly, helpful, engaged team!
Results: +1,800 sales leads
Toni Calliva
Quercus Foundation
Wishpond was a key component to our campaign’s success. It was a one stop shop that was intuitive, very easy to setup and reliable throughout the duration of our campaign.
Results: +15,000 sales leads
Chad Riddersen
Deviate Labs LLC
For a first-time Instagram contest, GoEco was blown away with the results. Wishpond’s platform turned out to be everything we envisioned with several submissions that we could easily manage and monitor. We’re definitely going to use Wishpond for future contests and promotions.
Results: +5,520 sales leads
Cassandra Federbusz
GoEco
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