{"id":88,"date":"2013-08-28T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liqvd.asia\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-08-24T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T05:49:21","slug":"run-fb-contests-again-without-3rd-party-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liqvd.asia\/future\/run-fb-contests-again-without-3rd-party-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Run FB Contests Again Without 3rd Party Apps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced few hours back in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebookforbusiness\/news\/page-promotions-terms\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog post<\/a>&nbsp;that businesses now no longer need to use third-party apps and custom landing pages to run promotions and contests.<\/p>\n<p>This modification or rather reversal of the original Facebook guideline of prohibiting any business page to run contests on their timeline will take us back to a couple of years when brands would freely and spontaneously hold contests without taking the effort of building 3rd&nbsp;party apps. The compulsion of a landing page then, had received a lot of flak especially from small businesses who had limited time and resources to manage FB page and also from larger brands to add an additional layer for promotions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=509870175757148&amp;set=a.231475400263295.55967.154400297970806&amp;type=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dmti.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mj3-190x300.png\" alt=\"fb contests without third-party apps\" width=\"237.5\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you can do now<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collect entries by having users post on the Page or comment\/like a Page post<\/li>\n<li>Collect entries by having users message the Page<\/li>\n<li>Utilize likes as a voting mechanism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However do ensure, it\u2019s still&nbsp;not&nbsp;OK to ask people to tag themselves in pictures of a new product in exchange for a chance to win a prize.<\/p>\n<p>The ease of this Page term will certainly help small business and bring back daily contests by brands.&nbsp;Here are the updated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-dragon-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/851577_158705844322839_2031667568_n.pdf\">Facebook Promotion Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Would like to hear from the Industry and brands their reaction on this much talked about guideline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced few hours back in a&nbsp;blog post&nbsp;that businesses now no longer need to use third-party apps and custom landing pages to run promotions and contests. 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