Get the word out
Share the entry, voting, and results links, print QR codes and flyers, and email the people who entered.
Where it lives Where it lives: Sidebar → Contests → your contest → Share & Promotion
Three links, one for each stage
On the contest's page, Share & Promotion has three tabs: Entry Links, Voting Links, and Results Links, and it opens on the one that matches where the contest is. Each has a preview button (Preview Entry Page, Preview Voting Page, Preview Results Page) and the full link to copy. While a contest is in planning, its links work only for organizers, so you can check every page before anyone else sees it.
The Contests list shows all three links for every contest, each with Copy once it's live.
Use the short link, and make it memorable
Each tab leads with a short link made for texts, social posts, and flyers, with Copy beside it. Customize short link lets you replace the random code with your own (letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores, 4 to 32 characters), like "mg-lights", and shows how many clicks it has had. Changing the code changes the link, so do it before you print anything.
The click count is a quick read on which channel worked: post the link in one place at a time and watch it climb.
QR codes, banners, and flyers
Under the links on each tab are Download Entry QR Code, Download Entry Banner, and Entry Flyer (Letter PDF), with the voting equivalents on the Voting Links tab and Download Results QR Code on the Results Links tab. The QR codes point at the short link, so they survive a later title change. Put the entry flyer up when entries open and swap in the voting flyer when voting opens.
Email the people who entered
The Messages tab keeps the messages you've sent, and Send New Message writes a new one. Messages are for contest business only: pick a Message Category (entry confirmation, voting notification, results announcement, or contest update), then a Subject Line and Message Body. They go to entrants (not voters), and Recipient Filters narrow that to certain categories, to winners or non-winners, or to entrants who have or haven't voted. Replies come to your email unless you untick it.
You can send up to five messages a day per contest, and if your community requires approval for mass email, the message waits for that approval before it goes out.
Keep the results link for the finale
The Results Links tab has the link and a preview of the results page, which shows every entry on a map with its photos and, once the contest is closed, the winners. Until then it works only for organizers, so it's safe to put in the newsletter ahead of time and announce once you close the contest.
The winner announcement email links to this page, so most people will arrive there from their inbox.
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