The Anatomy of a Rafflecopter Giveaway [Infographic]

on August 28, 2012

There have been a handful of tutorials posted on the web that describe ‘how to use Rafflecopter‘ or ‘how to enter a Rafflecopter giveaway‘. Several weeks ago, someone reached out and asked “Hey, how about you create a guide that describes to our new readers how to enter a Rafflecopter giveaway?”

*Well – that’s not a bad idea!*

Below is an infographic that dives into the four phases of the Rafflecopter widget from an entrant’s perspective. And hey… this was specifically created for you to share with your readers and those who are becoming familiar with Rafflecopter. Feel free to use the embed code below the graphic to place this on your blog.

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<div style="clear:both"><a href="http://blog.rafflecopter.com/2012/08/anatomy-rafflecopter-giveaway/?utm_source=enterIG&utm_medium=enterIG&utm_campaign=enterIG"><img src="http://blog.rafflecopter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Anatomy-of-a-Rafflecopter-Giveaway-Infographic.jpg" title="The Anatomy of a Rafflecopter Giveaway - Infographic" alt="The Anatomy of a Rafflecopter Giveaway - Infographic" border="0" /></a></div><div>Courtesy of: <a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/?utm_source=enterIG&utm_medium=enterIG&utm_campaign=enterIG">Rafflecopter</a></div>

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Greg Goodson

Greg Goodson is the cofounder of Rafflecopter. 25x ultramarathoner, bluegrass guitarist, & weather enthusiast. Owner of one doge.

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Jackie Paulson

I love it and have used it once, but I love wordpress.com and not on my blogger account much and blogger seems to be popular for rafflecopter, do you agree?
Mimulux Patricia No

thanks for this info :)
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Thijmen Bosman

thank you for your this explanation! It is very helpfull and i will be using your app soon! I do have a question though, since we have a B2B model.. do you have any toughts on how to reach more businesses or business owners. Maybe it is possible to create some sort of condition or make it so that our page has to be liked with a company page?
Cynthia

Thank you for the information. Very helpful
- Rafflecopter
  
  our pleasure – glad it was helpful :)
Christina (Tina) Morley

Hi Greg! I’ve been entering giveaways that use your Rafflecopter and I think it’s the greatest idea for bloggers. One day I’ll use it on my blogs too! Thanks for this infographic! I’ve Tweeted it and +1 it on Google+
Tina – mom of 4 and author of 5 blogs
- Rafflecopter
  
  awesome – thanks Christina! :)
Matthew Boze

I love giveaways! Indy is my favorite!
Sue Coombs

Hi there Greg I would just like to say that we are Australians who
recently visited America. We were there for 4 weeks and decided that the
place we would most like to live was Boulder, Colorado!! Just a
beautiful place with a great feel and atmosphere. No wonder
Rafflecopter is such a good idea :)
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TerryAbshireRiley

Hi Greg, Thank you for this information. It was very helpful and going to pass this along to my daughter which is a distributor of “31” . Great way to build her business as well as making someone very happy. Again, Thank You!
TerryAbshireRiley

Also, Shared this will all the above. Happy Friday!!!
Kevin Woo

If signing-up to our email newsletter is mandatory, how does Rafflecoptor know that this task was completed?
Heather

If one of the mandatory options is to follow the blog, how does rafflecopter know that the blog was in fact followed?
Christine Tolhurst

THANK YOU! This makes it so much easier that trying to explain it to individuals all the time. Now I can just point them to the infographic.
Multi-Testing Mommy

Thank you! Awesome :)
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Vera

That is cute & very informative. I remember when I first encountered Raffelcopter and had to wade through my first entries (as a “contestant”) and later as a user of the system. I just uploaded the infographic to http://chatwithvera.blogspot.com/2013/01/just-what-in-world-is-rafflecopter.html
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Kyra

I completed all the entries and am still unable to sign into the giveaway- help!
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Barbara Platt

http://barbarasbeat.blogspot.com/p/prmediastats.html
I posted your image on my site
Christina Lopez

I’ve had customers click the log in button but my widget and my dashboard is still showing no entries!! what now??
Meena Contractor

It is really complicated and i do not know how to enter but take my comment as entry to win…
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Ann

From the dates I see on other comments, I’m really a newbie here.

I’ve just recently started entering some of the giveaways with Rafflecopter and have yet to find a way to sign out when I’m finished with filling out the options. I’ve checked nearly every word on the contests and several times, have called up your sites looking for directions. The instructions are all fine except you’ve left off HOW to sign out when finished. I think one time a few wks. ago one of the giveaways had a log off to click but I haven’t seen any since. And on one of the Rafflecopter sites I was just reading about privacy, etc. it said to be sure and sign off when finished.

Not only don’t I feel safe leaving my name and info. exposed, but I’m not even sure I’m entered in the giveaway since I didn’t log out. I even asked about this on a couple of the giveaway comment sections but never had a response. It’s been a frustrating experience, and I’m uncertain if I want to continue checking out these blogs, as I don’t have a lot of online time, and this has caused me to spend time I don’t have.

Hopefully, someone here will answer,

Thanks
Cindy Marzullo

I can’t enter any contest.I would love to know how to enter them.
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tina o’driscoll

Please help, i have no idea what i am doing, i dont understand this, im sorry, please contact me at my email, thank you
- Greg @ Rafflecopter
  
  hey Tina – shoot us a message at support at rafflecopter dot com. thanks!
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he blog and data in this, is very good and informative also.
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Inge-Lise Goss

I have set up a rafflecopter, but I have no idea how to get the permalink so I can advertise it.
- Josh @ Rafflecopter
  
  Hey — Simply head over to the installation tab and copy/paste the widget code onto the HTML/text editor of your blog. If you need any further assistance please reach out to us at support(at)rafflecopter(dot)com
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