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massarog

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Co-Founder of ViralSweep.com, a platform that allows businesses to build, run, and manage social sweepstakes on their website.

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www.viralsweep.com 12y ago

Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

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www.clientflow.io 12y ago

Clientflow - Say goodbye to client delays

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viralsweep.com 12y ago

Facebook Changes Promotion Guidelines to Benefit Businesses

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Developer wanted to debug Facebook Share issue

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viralsweep.com 13y ago

Is your startup trying to get more Facebook likes? Here's a better way to do it.

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viralsweep.com 13y ago

Facebook Login is hurting your business

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Conducting a survey on Facebook Login, can you take it?

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medium.com 13y ago

“Flat design” and the new age of design accessibility

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

CPM advertising emails: What kind of scam is this?

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viralsweep.com 13y ago

Show HN: Capture leads like never before

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code.google.com 13y ago

Embedded Youtube Videos are down

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socialmediatoday.com 13y ago

Stop running giveaways on social media. Start running them on your website.

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steev.org 13y ago

Holy Freaking Cow - Shark Tank contestants year recap

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Techcrunch infected with malware - chrome warning

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy

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www.getapitchdeck.com 13y ago

Show HN: Create your own pitch deck with these HTML templates

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Paypal making a change? An automated e-mail I just received from them.

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www.reuters.com 14y ago

CPSC bans sale of BuckyBalls

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dl.dropbox.com 14y ago

If you run a contest as a startup, don't be dishonest. JPEGmini scammed me.

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pumpups.com 14y ago

Show HN: Pump Ups, Birchbox for the supplement industry

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Show HN: PumpUps.com, Birchbox for the supplement industry

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anyluckyday.com 14y ago

How to get the most out of an online giveaway

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startupsavior.com 14y ago

Show HN: Startup Savior: Email-only deals for startups and entrepreneurs

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www.web2expo.com 14y ago

Web 2.0 Expo Startup Showcase Companies Announced

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Is there any software/apps for managing closed/private beta?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: What companies make explanation videos with actors?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Looking for beta testers

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: How much did you sell your startup for?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Why don't you respond to emails?

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blog.soverinn.com 14y ago

Soverinn wants to change the way you book a hotel room

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Hey there, co-founder of ViralSweep here.

Liking a Facebook page was not a requirement to enter the giveaway. If you look at the section that shows the giveaway design, the only requirement was to enter your email address. The page they see after they enter contains the social options which are optional to complete.

Instead of saying on the page 'pre-orders are coming tomorrow' you should have an email collection form there. You're likely getting a large amount of traffic and could be losing out on a lot of potential pre-orders because people will forget to go back to your page tomorrow. Just toss in an email collection form saying you'll notify people when pre-ordering opens. Otherwise, neat product.

My question is, why did you add authorship sitewide? Authorship should be established only on jitbit.com/news/ where your blog is, NOT on your entire website. For example, if I search jitbit in google, your authorship photo is appearing for your domain, not good.

Sweepstakes/contest marketing does actually create tons of leads, depending on how well you target it. For example, a company giving away their service (i.e. 6 months free) would be able to capture hundreds of people interested in that service, then have the opportunity to re-market to those that were not chosen as the winner.

Hey, co-founder here. This is deliberate because many companies who run giveaways online are consumer brands and need a very visual medium, so we show the title by default, and then slide it out of the way to let the visuals do the talking.

Super awesome and very well done, just played with this for a couple minutes..love how you can choose the different platforms on the left and side and when you click on an element you can edit everything on the right hand side. How do you plan on monetizing this?

I'll look deeper into this, but we are not an app on Facebook, and users would be incentivized with an additional entry by simply 'liking' a page via the 'like' button. Many other companies do this so I don't believe its against their policies, but again, I'll look deeper into it.

I've played roulette for the past 2 years at several casinos in the US and you can still place bets after the ball is released. Once the wheel starts to slow down and before the ball drops onto the wheel, the dealer will signal no more bets.

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This is essentially the MVP. We'll have a bunch more templates in the future :).

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Please ignore pricing for now, just looking to have others test the system.