Summary: Rafflecopter Contest and Viral Tool This is a tool to help you make contests intended to drive traffic to your site. Here is an example of what a free giveaway looks like (runs through 11/28). You can pick the prize, how many prizes you give away. Most of the cool features (email integration, pictures, etc) are not included in the free package (understandable). You collect entries, and they can win more chances to win the prizes by helping to promote the contest. Once the contest is over, it's super easy to pick a random winner. According to their website: "On your giveaway’s entries tab in your Rafflecopter dashboard, clicking ‘add a random winner’ will randomly select an entry -- similar to randomly picking a name out of a hat. After that button is clicked and the winner chosen appears, you’ll be able to view a winner card of the chosen individual which will show you their name, email address, a link to their Facebook account (if they logged in with Facebook), when they entered, what entry option they completed, their IP address and country associated with the IP (approximate location). <a class="rcptr" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/47495d191/" rel="nofollow" id="rcwidget_tynx5d5z">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a> For more information go to <a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com" target="_blank">www.rafflecopter.com</a> Contest Blitz Wordpress Plugin Price: $20 Reward people for sharing the contest. It's not a flexible as Rofflecopter, but the price seems a bit high With rofflecopter you can export your entrants information (so you can manually add them to your email list) This is integrated with Contest Blitz. Contest Blitz is a one time fee, and Rofflecopter is an ongoing price (the free version is pretty limited). For more information go to <a href="http://www.weeklywebtools.com/contestblitz" target="_blank">www.weeklywebtools.com/contestblitz</a> New Weekly Web Tools Crowd Funding If I had a sponsor, the only you could support the show would be to buy a product that you may or many not need (and a very small amounts goes back to the podcaster). Crowd funding is an inexpensive way for you the listener to chip in $2 a month. If everyone did that, it would be awesome. For more information and to see the rewards, check out <a href="http://www.weeklywebtools.com/support">www.weeklywebtools.com/support</a>
