Getting Started

What is a Bonus Entry Giveaway Campaign?

A Bonus Entry Giveaway Campaign is where leads earn additional entries and increase their odds of winning by following your brand or referring friends. This is a great campaign for all stages from pre-post launch! Bonus Entry Giveaway campaign is available on all KickoffLabs set-ups including KickoffLabs landing pages, Contest Box, and Anyform. Learn more about the campaign mode options here before getting started. 

Bonus Entry Giveaway Campaign Intro

1. When you first sign-up to KickoffLabs, or create a new campaign, we’ll walk you through a step by step onboarding flow. Our onboarding process will pre-set the scoring/actions/rewards based on the campaign type that you select, making it easier to launch your campaign faster! To get started with a Bonus Entry Giveaway campaign, select the campaign type for Bonus Entry Sweepstakes.

   

   We automatically preset the scoring for a Bonus Entry Giveaway campaign, but if you want to instead only award points for referrals you can change the option.

   

   Next, select where leads should sign-up. For this example, we’ll be using the KickoffLabs landing pages, but we also offer options to integrate externally. Learn more about Contest Box and Anyform.

   

   Then, select the experience the lead shoud have post sign-up. For this example, we’ll be using the separate landing page + status page flow.

   

   Now, the fun part..choosing a template! We’ve curated a variety of templates to go with the Bonus Entry Giveaway campaign type. There’s no right or wrong template to go with, simply choose the layout that you like best.

   

    

   Campaign Dashboard Welcome Tour

   After you’ve finished the onboarding flow, you will be taken to your campaign dashboard. The Campaign dashboard is where all of your campaign settings/leads/integrations/pages are housed. You can learn more about the dashboard here, but to go over a few:

   

   Campaigns: This will take you out to the main list of campaigns that you’ve created at KickoffLabs.

   Leads: The Lead section is where all leads who have signed up in a campaign are housed.

   Reports: Access in-depth reporting for you campaign’s pages/anyform/contest box.

   Setup: This is where all of the campaign wide settings are housed such as any tracking scripts, default social share text, and advanced fraud detection.

   Campaign Wide Contest Set-up

   The campaign wide settings are housed below the landing pages along with additional optional campaign modes, Anyform and Contest Box.

   

   Set Scoring – This section allows you to customize the overall scoring of the campaign, set actions, and also houses optional Shopify Rewards Purchase Tracking and Lead Tags.

   

   Messaging – This section houses all of the messaging options at KickoffLabs such as: SMS, braodcast mails, auto-reply, reward level, and verification emails. You can also customize an email template or your from settings.

   

   Milestone Rewards

   This area will display specific settings for the campaign type that you selected. For the Bonus Entry Giveaway, we start with blank rewards to optionally add them to your campaign. This is a great option if you’d like to mix and match campaign types. 

   

   KickoffLabs Page Editor

   Back at the top of your dashboard, you can choose to edit the page or view the live page to test things out. By default, we publish the pages to a .kickoffpages.com subdomain to make it easy for testing. In this example, we chose a KickoffLabs landing page + status page Bonus Entry Giveaway set-up.

   

   While we have an in-depth editor tutorial here, we’ve provided a brief overview of some of the options available with a multi-level reward campaign below

    Launching the KickoffLabs Editor When You Chose an Anyform, Pop-up, Embed Flow

   If you instead chose the Anyform/Embed/Contest Box during the initial set-up, you still have access to create and edit KickoffLabs pages. They will just be moved to the end of the dashboard where you can select to add templates.

   

    

    

   Pre-Set Widgets

   This will vary depending on what campaign type you chose initially during the onboarding flow. In our Bonus Entry Giveaway campaign example, we add a few widgets by default.

   Actions

   These are additional actions that leads can take outside of KickoffLabs for additional (optional) points. For example, tweeting about the contest, or sharing via SMS. KickoffLabs currently offers over 50 platform actions to choose from. Learn more about configuring actions here. 

   

   Countdown Timer

   A countdown timer is used to show leads when your promotion is coming to an end in order to provide incentive for them to take action ASAP.

   

   Entries

   KickoffLabs automatically tracks how many people each of your leads has referred into your campaign using their unique sharing links on Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks. By default, we display the amount of entries the lead has collected.

   

   Page Level Customization

   Replacing a Logo

   The majority(if not all) of our templates have a logo placeholder. This can easily be swapped out by hovering over the logo and editing to replace the image with your own.

   Editing a Form

   

   By default, our templates include a first name + email field on the form. You can hover over to edit and add any additional custom fields to your form. View all of the form options available here. Keep in mind, best practice is to keep the forms short with the main focus being getting the lead’s email/phone number. If you’d like to ask lead’s additional questions, we also have a post-sign-up option. 

    

   Changing the Default Confirmation

   In the form editor, you can also change whether to redirect the lead after the signed-up or even display a confirmation message. Learn more about the different confirmation options here. 

   

   Adding a Section

   

   Publishing Your KickoffLabs Page

   Once you’re ready for the changes to go live, simply select the green “Publish” button in the right corner of the KickoffLabs editor. Next, you’ll be redirected to the page level settings.

   

   Basic Settings – In this section, you can customize the URL the page is published to, along with the browser title/description, and page type. By default, pages are published to a .kickoffpages subdomain, however, you can connect your own custom domain. 

   Head & Footer Codes – in this area you can set page level scripts. This is rarely used, and most users opt to set the scripts at the campaign level

   Embed Page – This option allows you to embed a KickoffLabs page onto an external website, so that the landing/status page lives on your website instead of being hosted on KickoffLabs.

   Choosing a Winner

   A. Choose a lead with the most points to pick a winner

   1. Access the leads card and sort the leads by highest score and pick a winner.
      

   B. Choose a winner at random with the pick a winner feature

   More Campaign Common Settings 

   Let’s review a couple of other common settings you may want to enable.

   1. Privacy Policy/Terms
      We do our best to provide boilerplate guidance here, but we are not lawyers and it’s always best to consult with one for your own legal advice. This text will be showing when people click contest rules or privacy links on your pages and contest boxes.
   2. Setup default Social Share text and images for your campaign
      This information will be used in your campaign when people share. Keep in mind that if you are sharing non-KickoffLabs hosted pages you may need to setup the Facebook settings there too.
   3. When your campaign is underway you’ll use the Leads tab to view leads as they come in
      You can create saved search audiences, sort by contest score, and check out any leads that may have been flagged for fraud by clicking in to view the lead card and lead activity.
   4. The Reports tab
      It gives you a high level view of the ROI for your campaign, the conversion rate, and the viral boost you are getting from that sharing we setup earlier.Once you’ve upgraded to a paid plan I suggest you check out these additional options… 
   5. Advanced Fraud Detection and rules (available for customers with Business Plans and above)
      By default we restrict Entries to one per IP address and also offer a lot more options such as flagging people from sweepstakes sites or captcha required registration.
   6. Under messaging, setup an Automatic reply
      The open rates on these messages are over 40% and it’s a great chance to remind people why they should keep taking actions and engaging with your contest. .
   7. Under your account level menu
      You’ll see options for adding your custom domains if you are using landing pages, custom email domains to improve deliverability, and sub accounts to add team members who manage the campaign(s) or clients to view their data. This is also where you can add any custom website domains to your account.
   8. Integrations
      Easily connect KickoffLabs to external platforms like MailChimp, Klaviyo, Drip, Convertkit, or other services  Zapier or Webhooks.

   For best practices check out the resources on our website. You can subscribe to our podcast, blog, and check out the “best of” advice under Marketing Resources for guidance on copywriting, design, and generating traffic.

   We also offer custom “Done for you packages” if all of this still feels a little daunting.

   We’ve been doing this for over 10 years. We know we can help you get your contest off to a great start.

   If you need additional help don’t hesitate to start at support.kickofflabs.com, email support@kickofflabs.com or check out our community.