How To Get Votes On Facebook
4 Easy Ways to Get Contest Votes on Facebook – LiveAbout
Use Vote Exchanges and Other Facebook Strategies to Win More Contests
Many contests ask the public to participate by voting for their favorite entry to win. When you enter a voting contest, you need to rally people to vote for your entry to win. But how can you gather votes effectively to help you become a big winner?
Social media is an important tool you can use to reach out to people and ask them for votes. Here are some ideas for getting votes on Facebook to secure an edge over your competition.
For some more ideas about how to improve your odds of winning outside of Facebook, check out How to Get Votes for Contests.
Use Your Facebook Wall
Leverage Your Facebook Wall to Get More Votes.
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The simplest way to get votes on Facebook is to simply ask.
Just post a link to your contest entry on your Facebook wall, and ask your friends and family members to help you. If not all of your Facebook friends are interested in giveaways, you can use Friend Lists to show your vote requests only to the friends you want to ask to vote for you.
Becoming Facebook friends with other people who enter contests makes this strategy even more effective. Friends who know how much meaning wins to you are more likely to vote enthusiastically and regularly. Visit sweepstakes groups and online forums to find people who share your passion for winning.
If people are allowed to vote more than once, you want to be sure to remind them to enter regularly. But how can you do this without either asking too often or forgetting to make a post?
A social media scheduler like Buffer is a good solution. Buffer lets you schedule posts to appear whenever you want. If you write one post per day or per week for the length of the entry, you can keep your friends coming back and voting without much effort.
Join Facebook Vote Exchange Groups
Facebook voting groups are a valuable way to help each other win.
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Vote Exchange Groups on Facebook groups exist to allow people to ask for votes for their contest entries. Usually, you’re expected to “return” votes by helping to vote for the people who voted for you. Be sure to read the group rules before participating.
Before you start asking for votes through exchanges, be sure that the rules of your contest don’t prohibit them. Sometimes you are only allowed to ask for votes from people you know personally. Breaking this rule can result in disqualification!
Vote exchange groups spring up and disappear regularly. Use Google search and Facebook search to find current groups.
Create Your Own Facebook Voting Group
Starting your own Facebook group can help you draw together people who can help you win votes.
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Creating a group on Facebook is free and easy, and you can leverage a group to drive votes to your contest.
You have several options if you don’t want to set up and maintain a vote exchange group. For example, you can set up a Facebook group for one specific contest, or gather your sweepstakes friends together to form a mutual support group to share winning tips and encouragement as well as votes.
If you don’t know how to get started, see How Do I Create a Group? from Facebook’s support pages.
Ask Your Friends to Spread the Word
When you promote your contest, don’t just ask your friends to vote, ask them to spread the word as well. If their friends and the friends of those friends start voting, your votes can rise exponentially.
You have higher chances of getting people you don’t know to vote when your post catches their interest. For example, you might give some background to why you’re entering the contest or tell the story behind your entry. Your post could be funny or tug on heartstrings or just have a really cute picture that goes with it.
With some luck, your vote request could go viral and help you win.
10 tips to win more prizes on Facebook – SuperLucky
There are thousands of competitions launched every day on Facebook, most of them with thousands of entries too! So how can you increase your chances of winning? Here are my top tips for comping on Facebook…
1. Read the instructions
It’s an obvious one, but you wouldn’t believe how many people fall at the first hurdle! Read the instructions – and also the text on the accompanying photo. If there’s hardly any instructions or details, are you certain it’s genuine? (see my post How to identify a scam Facebook promotion). Always click see more if you can’t read all the post – sometimes the final sentence will be ‘Enter on our website’, and all those people who left just a Facebook comment won’t even be included in the draw! Follow the instructions exactly – if it says to comment ‘WIN’ then don’t leave your life story. Check what the closing date is, and who can enter – I see a lot of my friends commenting on Australian and US contests they’re not even eligible for.
2. Check your Pages Feed
Your main News Feed shows you a mix of posts and updates from friends, groups and pages – but some of those posts from friends can be distracting if you’re only hunting for comps. Instead, bookmark and visit your Pages Feed, which only shows posts from pages you follow – that’s where you’re more likely to spot the best comps. Find a link on your left menu – or go to 3. Search for low entry competitions
Local comps are always low entry. Join a local Facebook Comping group to share and find local comps, and Like your local magazines, shops, entertainment venues and restaurants on Facebook (you’ll often find links at the bottom of their websites). When you click to like a Facebook page, you’ll see More Pages You May Like pop up underneath – you can find lots more local pages this way. Visit these pages too, and search for giveaways by finding the Search for posts on this Page box underneath the profile photo (unfortunately not on mobile! ) and typing win.
Use Facebook search and view Latest results to find local and low entry comps, especially on special days that have their own hashtag (#WorldGinDay, #WorldBookDay etc) – I find the search results easier to scroll through on mobile. Strangely enough, Twitter can be a great source of Facebook comps too – search using keywords like Facebook, page, like, comment, photo, win, competition, tickets, meal, etc in a search and click to view ‘All’ results – you can often find low entry comps like this! You can also adapt a Google search – use the text in your search box to restrict your results to Facebook.
4. Never miss a post from your favourite pages
You can select to see posts from certain pages at the top of your Facebook news feed – to do this, click Liked then See First. You can also choose to receive notifications of every post from a Facebook page, which can be handy if there’s a certain type of prize you’re after (eg. toy shops), for pages that run regular short-lived comps or for local Facebook pages that have low entry comps you might miss. To do this, click Liked, then the pencil icon next to Notifications to see a pop up window – tick the boxes to receive post notifications.
5. Don’t share!
When you share a post, it appears on the news feeds of your friends, as well as on your own profile page. That’s brilliant for a referral comp (eg. Gleam or Woobox), where any extra clicks will get you bonus draw entries, but in most cases, you’re reducing your chances in the comp as dozens of your mates click through to enter. If a promoter doesn’t even mention sharing is required, then don’t do it. If the promoter does ask you to share a post in order to enter, they’re breaking Facebook rules – and in many cases, a promoter won’t even check if their winner shared or not because it’s too difficult to do! Lots of compers don’t share at all, and still win prizes. What I tend to do is to share on the Only Me setting – and then if I’m lucky enough to win, I scroll through my timeline to find the competition and change the privacy setting of that post from Only Me to Public – just in case anyone points out they can’t see my share! I also sometimes share to a public ‘Giveaways’ group which I’ve created solely for competition shares, so I can keep them off my profile page.
6. Make comments funny and relevant
A bored promoter will smile at a comment that stands out amongst a hundred ‘Ooh lovely giveaway! ’ posts featuring 40 emojis. If they’ve not been specific about what you need to comment, then post something that will make them chuckle, or something relevant to their brand. Do your research – pop to their website, read their menu, show an interest in what they have to offer rather than leaving an OTT copy & paste paragraph. Epic sob stories rarely win anything – they just make people miserable!
7. Enter as late as you can
Found a low entry comp? Don’t enter right away! Your comping friends will see your entry on their feed and come over to join you, reducing your chances of a win! Save a link to the post on a ‘to do’ list or in a bookmarks folder and return near the closing date – this is handy for creative comps, where you can check out all the other entries before submitting your own. Not sure how to get the link? Right-click on the ‘timestamp’ of the post then ‘copy link address’. After entering, move your link to an ‘Entered’ list instead of ‘To Do’ so you can check back to see who won!
8. Get some Facebook comping friends
Having a few comping friends to tag in Facebook comments when required is helpful – if your friend responds or likes your comment, it might get pushed to the top of the responses and be more likely to get noticed by a promoter (not too many tags though – again, it’s against Facebook terms of use and spammy…). Adding more comping friends will give you more content in your feed – but watch out, as there will be more friends to copy what you’re doing too! If you’re looking for Facebook friends, check the pinned post in the Lucky Learners group
9. Search for your wins
You wouldn’t believe how many people forget this bit! They busily enter hundreds of competitions, and then presume if they win, they’ll get a message in their inbox. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work like that – promoters can be slack at contacting their winners if they get no response from their first attempt! Make sure you check your Filtered Messages folder and search for your name in the public Competition Winners group. Search for your name (in quotes) plus Congratulations or Winner in the regular Facebook search bar too. If it’s a low entry or effort competition, I save the link and keep checking to see if a winner has been announced. Having said that, I did miss my own Specky Wren win in August and only found out I’d won a pair of £250 sunglasses when I popped into the shop a fortnight later!
10. Enter photo and video competitions
Most compers will skip effort competitions completely, so it’s worth taking the time to have a go. Store folders on your phone with competition photos in, so you can find them and upload quickly – great for Halloween, Mothers Day, Christmas, or just your favourite photos of the kids! You can upload a photo to your comment even for a ‘random’ draw – after all, not all promoters do pick their winners fairly, so why not make an attempt to stand out? This works well where you’re asked to comment with a unique answer (eg. what’s your favourite barbecue food, what’s your favourite Autumn activity? ). On the other hand, if the promoter simply asks you to comment WIN, then adding a photo will probably make you less likely to win – use your own judgment!
Finally, upload a friendly Facebook profile photo and cover photo – and make sure your profile page is more than just spammy competition shares, because some promoters will take a look! Remember that despite what they say, lots of promoters won’t be choosing a random winner at all – so do what you can to make your entry stand out!
Found this useful? Check out these two posts with my winning Twitter and Instagram tips:
10 tips to win more prizes on Twitter
10 tips to win more prizes on Instagram
And of course, there are lots more tips in my SuperLucky Secrets book!
What are your winning tips for Facebook? Leave a comment and let me know!
How to Create a Poll on Facebook: All the Possible Options and Apps
This technique has become one of the best engagement strategies on social media. That is because polls are an excellent method to find out friends’ opinions, likes, and dislikes. The user asks a question, and friends or followers can give their answers on the post. Users can post polls only on their stories on personal pages.
Below is a complete guide on how to create a poll on Facebook in 2021 and how to use it for business growth.
Table of Contents
What Is a FB Poll?
How Are Businesses Using Them on Social Media?
How to Post a Poll on FB?
Tools for Highly Engaging Polls
Benefits of FB Polls
Some Ideas for Your Own Survey
Best Practices
Frequently Asked Questions
The Final Word
What Is a Facebook Poll?
Facebook added this feature back in 2017. At first, people could ask questions with two alternative answers for their friends to choose from. But now, users can only put polls on their stories and groups. Now Instagram also has this feature.
It is a powerful tool because anyone can know their friends or the audience’s opinions on different things. For example, if a company wants to know if their audience prefers its product pink or yellow, they only have to ask.
Facebook polls also give statistics that can serve as powerful insight.
Surveys on stories can only be questions with two possible answers.
Polls on groups can have many answers, and the members can add other alternatives when they interact with it.
They aren’t anonymous, so the creator of the survey and anyone else who participates will see the answers.
The statistics include the percentage of each answer and even the people who saw the survey and didn’t participate.
The questions can be about any topic. There is no limit as long as the user sticks to Facebook Guidelines.
How Can Polls Be Useful for Businesses on Social Media?
Surveys have become a common feature between most social media platforms like Instagram or Twitter. Facebook is only one of them, but Instagram, Twitter, and even YouTube already have them too. They have become quite popular because people love to use it to engage with their friends and acquaintances.
Polls are also a potent marketing tool. Businesses use them to engage their audience and make them feel like their favorite brands care about their opinion. Ikea did on Instagram by sharing photos of the kitchens they sell and asking their audience which one was their favorite.
The main reason why they work is that people love them. Social media platforms make it simple to participate with just one click. And people feel compelled to answer and to know what the results are too.
How to Make a Poll on Facebook
Facebook offers different alternatives to doing a survey. It depends on where on the platform it will be, like on stories or groups. Instagram has a very similar approach to polls, so if you’re familiar with it, then it would be easier to design one. Here is a step by step guide on how to make a poll on Facebook in each instance.
Guide for a Facebook Group Poll
Creating a group survey is a straightforward process. People can do it from the Facebook page and mobile app as long as they have an account. Here is a step by step guide on group polls from any device in 2020.
How to Make a Facebook Poll from a Computer?
People usually post these surveys through their mobile. Still, if they’re more of a computer person and would like to know how to make a Facebook poll on a desktop, it’s as easy as accessing an account and interacting with the audience.
Facebook’s page interface doesn’t change through different operating systems like macOS or Windows. This is a pro that this platform has in comparison to Instagram.
Follow these steps:
Sign-in to an account and go to the news feed section.
On the left, under the Explore section, select “Groups. ”
The list of groups the account follows will appear. Choose the group where the survey will be.
Select the square where it says, “Write something…” A highlighted bigger square with different alternatives will appear.
Find “Poll” in the different alternatives that dropdown.
Select “Ask something…” and write the question or content.
Add an option set that will be the possible answers to the question.
On “Poll Options, ” modify the configuration of the survey. Like if it will allow users to add other options set or choose multiple answers.
Choose “Post, ” and it’s ready.
Creating Polls From the Mobile App
The Facebook mobile app is a more compact version of their online page. But it has all it’s features and an intuitive interface so anyone can use it easily. Here are the steps to create a group survey from the app.
Open the app on a smartphone or tablet.
Sign in to an account if none is there already.
On the top, look for the icon with three little people, click on it, and select “Your Groups. ”
Or choose on the three parallel lines on the top right of the screen. Tap “Groups. ”
Choose the group where the survey will be and tap “Write something…”
Click on “Poll, ” write the question, set up the options, and post.
How to Create a Poll on Facebook From Personal Accounts
It’s somewhat limited to make a poll from a personal account in 2021. People can’t do it from their newsfeed or timeline. They can only do it in a story or in a group, as explained in the section above. Here are the steps for creating a poll on FB’s stories.
Open the Facebook app and click on “Create a Story” at the top.
Choose between the options that will pull up “Poll. ”
Find “Ask a question…” and write what the survey will be about.
Modify the options by clicking on each one if the question isn’t for “yes or no” answers.
Click “Done” and “Share to Story. ”
Facebook allows users to use pictures or just choose between different colorful backgrounds.
The polls in stories always have only two options. But it is an entertaining way to interact with friends.
How to Create a Facebook Poll From Pages?
Facebook offers its user the option of creating pages. They are for content related to businesses or services, and anyone can set up one. Here are steps on how to create a Facebook poll in 2021 from any page.
First, the account should be a manager of the page to be able to make a poll.
Go to the page and choose “Write a post. ”
Between the post types, select “Poll. ”
Customize the questions and answers.
Set how long the survey will be live.
Share it.
How to Do a Facebook Poll on Events?
Facebook events are a feature that users can use to interact with their friends or audience. Events are calendar-based, and anyone can start a public or private one. This is a feature that other platforms like Instagram or Twitter don’t have.
The creator can invite friends, groups, or people from a page.
Here are the steps on how to do a Facebook poll on events in 2021.
On the event page below the event description, click on “Create Poll. ”
Customize what the survey will be about by adding the question.
The answers can be text or pictures and GIFs. Images and GIFs are best to engage the audience.
Add as many answers as needed. There are no limited options for surveys on Facebook events.
By default, users can choose multiple answers. Modify these on the configuration.
Post the survey or schedule it for later.
Tools to Make a Poll on Facebook That Engages Your Audience
Polls are a powerful digital marketing strategy if done right. But businesses don’t have to break their brains open to build compelling questionnaires. These are three tools for making a poll on FB highly engaging.
Facebook Business Manager
Facebook Business Manager is a resource available for business accounts. It provides different features that help manage pages. Managers can create different pages, see statistics about their pages, and more.
Business Manager helps admins in creating a poll, managing it, and engaging with their audience. They can make a poll and post it right away or schedule it for later. The survey will appear on the news feed of all the people subscribed to the page.
Facebook Audience Insights
Questionnaires won’t be beneficial unless they can see the results. That’s what Facebook Audience Insights resource is for. It gives insights not only on people who follow the page or interact with the page’s content but also on all Facebook users.
It can be a powerful tool because admins can see which posts were more engaging or brought more new users. Facebook Audience Insights is key to improving the content to be highly engaging.
SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey is another tool to create surveys. It has more options because the user designs the survey on the website. One can use its Facebook Collector for personal accounts or Web Link Collector for pages.
Using this tool, people can share polls even on their news feed, which is not possible using Facebook alone. Anyone can use SurveyMonkey by creating a free account.
Advantages of Using Polls on Facebook
Anything that allows companies to engage their audience is a must-have to any marketing strategy. Polls are one of the social media resources to do this. Here are some of the advantages of using them on Facebook compared to other platforms like Instagram.
Content Creation
One of the benefits of social media polls is more content generation to drive more engagement. The polls itself are content, and their results will serve to understand what type of content the audience wants to see.
For example, a website that shares technology articles can ask their audience what content they’ll prefer to see next. They can choose between the new iPhone 12 or how edge computing is changing industries. Polls results will indicate which content will drive more engagement.
Community Growth
Polls also encourage the creation of communities, as users can comment and see what other people are discussing. It can spur debates, and more users will get interested in the post.
They give a chance to the company to interact with its audience, so it’s important these days to know the complete process of poll creation in 2021. The community will know the brand is listening and want to know what they have to say.
Showing the results of the poll later will also show the community that the company is trustworthy. And do it even when the results are negative for its products.
Feedback on Products and Services
Businesses can create Facebook polls to know what their community thinks about its products or services. They can ask for opinions or choose between many options.
Either way, they give an idea of what the community thinks about the brand. For example, companies can use them to know what their audience will prefer to see in the future. It is a cheap and straightforward way to get insight.
Customer’s Opinion in Real-time
Because the questions are made in real-time, companies can know what their customers think in a matter of hours. Most polls don’t last more than a few days. So, the results of them reflect what the customer thinks and wants right now.
What is a better way to know what the customer wants than asking them? That’s why polls have so much power. Companies can get insights even for users that aren’t in their audience, and it doesn’t require any extra effort.
Increased Traffic
It isn’t a secret that social media platform’s algorithms reward the users that post content often. In other words, the more content a business publishes, the more followers or subscribers will interact with it. And from more interaction comes more possibility of them seeing the company’s posts between thousands of others.
Polls are better than other types of posts because they are created for interaction. And the results are even better if it encourages people to share it. That’s why it’s so important to know how to start a poll on Facebook in 2021.
Divide Your Audience
When a business uses social media polls, it can later use the results to segment its audience. It can single out different groups for each answer, depending on what each user answered.
For example, businesses that sell smartphones make a poll asking if users prefer iPhone or Samsung. Then, for users who prefer iPhones, they can send them promotions on these devices. And for users who prefer Samsung, they can send promotions on Samsung or other Android smartphones.
Send Users Into a Sales Funnel
A sales funnel is a path a customer follows before becoming a conversion. Polls can serve as sales funnels by being the first interaction a user has with the brand.
They can also guide the user into buying a product after asking about their opinion. A business can give the user different links depending on what they answer on the poll. They can also redirect them to different pages based on the user’s answer.
Inventive Ideas to Create a Poll on Facebook
Creating a poll is easy enough that anyone can do it. But the ones that drive engagement is the challenging part. Here are some inventive ideas to create a poll that will catch your audience’s attention.
Curiosity Is Your Friend
When it comes to increasing interaction, expectations are marketing’s best friend. Give the audience a peek of what is coming next and ask their opinion by daring to create a poll on FB. Curiosity is a strong feeling, and most users will answer just to know the results.
Use Your Creativity When You Do Polls
When thinking about what to ask viewers, it is important to be creative. Creative questions will engage more users by making them laugh or really think about their answers. And mix creativity with the type of polls that are more successful.
Ask Controversial Questions
Edgy questions can be humoristic or controversial. Users will more likely respond to either option. It is even more true if the questions are controversial. It will encourage debate, and users will probably share it with their followers and friends.
Give Power to Your Audience
Something that customers love is to feel that their favorite brand cares about their opinion. Using polls is a great way to give the community power and decide on things like colors or features. They will feel like they influence the end result of the product.
Use Current Events
Include current events to increase engagement. For example, Vanity Fair used polls to drive engagement to their coverage of Megan and Harry’s wedding. The surveys consisted of quizzes about the Royal Family. It can be anything that is happening and on everyone’s minds.
Ask About Hot Topics on Your Sector
It is the same principle as using current events. If a business asks about hot topics from its industry, its audience will be interested. For example, a tech company can ask about what their followers think about the NeuraLink chip.
Best Practice for Creating a Facebook Poll
The process of creating a poll is pretty simple, but for some people, it may be hard to understand. Here are some tips anyone can follow to design a good questionnaire.
Keep It Simple
Ask short and simple questions that anyone can understand. Users only spend a few seconds seeing a post. Make it easier for them by creating a poll that they won’t need to look at twice to answer.
Ask Direct Questions
Most social media platforms allow polls with simple answers with just two options. And Facebook isn’t much different. It allows for more options, but it is better to ask questions with yes/no questions.
Make Poll Answers Clear
Try to write answers that don’t overlap. For example, if it is asking the user’s opinion, give two options that are complete opposites. That way, the user won’t think both answers are similar, and they could both be true.
Add Visual Resources
Most platforms let users attach pictures and GIFs. But Facebook allows customizing the answers to be pictures or GIFs too. Visual resources make polls more appealing, and users will be more likely to interact.
Repeat Participation
A business can allow repeat participation or not, depending on what it wants. If it wants to know its audience’s opinion, it is better to block it, so the results are accurate. But if the goal is to increase engagement, the more a user participates, the better.
Share Results
An important part is to show results when the survey is over. Many users participate out of curiosity alone and showing results no matter the outcome shows users that the company is transparent and takes their audience seriously.
FAQ Section
Did Facebook Get Rid of Polls?
Facebook did not do it; they modified the feature. It eliminated polls from the main page for individuals. It means users with personal accounts can’t put polls on their news feed. But they can still do them in stories and on the news feed of groups, or on pages or events.
Can You Make a Facebook Poll With Pictures?
Facebook allows users to put polls on stories with a picture as a background. For pages and events, users can add pictures from their computers or phones to customize the answers to the poll. And they can also attach GIFs from Facebook integrated Giphy library instead of images.
How Do I Put More Than Two Options on a Facebook Poll?
Polls on Facebook are customizable, but they are limited depending on the type of account they are created from. On personal accounts, users can only make polls on their stories and only with two options. But Facebook pages and events can have more than two options.
Here is how:
After clicking on creating a poll, as explained in the sections above, customize the question that will be asked.
Select “Add option” if more options are needed.
Would You Try Polls?
Polls are an excellent feature to drive engagement with a business audience. They can be a powerful digital marketing resource if used correctly. It can be used to get the customer’s feedback on the existing products and get a deep understanding of what they want.
Also, anyone can post a poll and get insights from its results. It doesn’t bring any extra costs, just the effort and time to design one, but engages the audience and brings new customers to the community.
What do you think of polls on Facebook? Leave comments below if you have used them or participate in one before!
Published: June 14, 2021Updated: June 13, 2021
Megan Green
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Frequently Asked Questions about how to get votes on facebook
How do you ask to vote on Facebook?
Ask your friends to vote by sending them a poll in Messenger. Here’s how: in a group conversation, just the + icon and then select Polls. From there, you can add the question and specific answers for your friends to vote on, and press submit.
How do you win a Facebook competition?
10 tips to win more prizes on FacebookRead the instructions. … Check your Pages Feed. … Search for low entry competitions. … Never miss a post from your favourite pages. … Don’t share! … Make comments funny and relevant. … Enter as late as you can. … Get some Facebook comping friends.More items…•Oct 21, 2016
Did Facebook Get Rid of polls?
Did Facebook Get Rid of Polls? Facebook did not do it; they modified the feature. It eliminated polls from the main page for individuals. It means users with personal accounts can’t put polls on their news feed.Jun 13, 2021
