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How to Create a Daily Giveaway With Multiple Entries

How to Create a Daily Giveaway With Multiple Entries

Written By: author image Stacey Corrin
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Stacey has been writing about WordPress and digital marketing for over 10 years and on other topics for much longer. Alongside this, she's fascinated with web design, user experience, and SEO.
     Reviewed By: John Turner
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John Turner is the co-founder of RafflePress. He has over 20+ years of business and development experience and his plugins have been downloaded over 25 million times.

Looking for an easy way to run a daily giveaway? Hosting a giveaway each day is difficult to manage without a daily giveaway app keeping everything organized and streamlined.

In this article, we’ll show you how to create a daily giveaway with the best app. All so you can enjoy watching your business grow with viral contests.

Why Run Daily Giveaways for Your Business?

Daily giveaways are contests that give users multiple ways to enter every day. That means users can return each day and enter again to boost their chances of winning.

This is great news for your business because every time people return to take action, it increases the visibility of your contest and the potential to secure new leads.

For example, let’s say one of the daily entries for your giveaway is to share the contest on Twitter. Each time users return, they’ll tweet your contest to their followers, securing bonus entries and broadcasting the fact to their audience.

With more eyes on your giveaway, it’ll increase visits to your landing page and generate more leads for your business.

How to Run a Daily Giveaway in WordPress

Now that you know why creating a daily giveaway is an excellent way to drive brand awareness, chances are you want to get started right away. Before you start, there are a few things to take care of; you’ll need to plan your giveaway to ensure you get the best results.

Follow the steps below to get started.

Step 1. Choose Your Giveaway Goals

Before creating an online contest, you’ll need to decide your overall goals. Without a goal, it’s harder to learn if your giveaway was successful.

Your giveaway goal can be anything from getting more social media followers to increasing your website traffic, as long as it aligns with your broader business objectives.

Step 2. Pick a Relevant Prize

With your goals in place, it’s time to choose a prize for your giveaway. Your prize is the bait for attracting the audience who’ll help you achieve your goals. To ensure your prize draws the right type of audience, it needs to be relevant to their interests and your brand.

If you choose an irrelevant prize, people won’t engage with your brand after the contest, wasting all your hard work.

So pick a highly desirable prize relevant to your industry that you know your target audience craves.

Here are a few examples for inspiration:

  • Sports brands can offer the chance to win a bundle of sports merchandise
  • Food brands could choose a cooking masterclass prize
  • Travel companies can give away a holiday to a top destination
  • Gaming brands can offer the latest “must-have” games console as the prize

If you’re looking for more ideas, check out our proven contest prize ideas here.

Step 3. Choose a Daily Giveaway App

With your goals aligned with your business and a prize to entice entries, you’re ready to choose a daily giveaway app to create your giveaway.

There are several daily giveaway apps to choose from, offering tons of features. Yet RafflePres, the best daily giveaway plugin for WordPress, has all the essential features you need to run a successful contest. Without unnecessary bells and whistles to distract you, it helps you craft daily contests that align perfectly with goals to grow your business.

To help meet those goals, RafflePress comes with ready-made giveaway templates for objectives like growing your email list, growing your YouTube subscribers, and more.

Plus, with tons of 1-click daily entry options, you can keep your audience returning every day to increase their chances of winning while raising contest awareness.

RafflePress is, without a doubt, the best daily giveaway app for your needs.

If you’re not convinced, here’s how OptinMonster generated 3,500+ new users from one giveaway.

Step 4. Create a Daily Contest With RafflePress

To create a daily giveaway with multiple entries in WordPress, follow the steps below. We’ll be using RafflePress for this tutorial to make things as easy as possible.

Create a New Giveaway

Click here to get started with RafflePress and download the plugin to your computer. After that, upload the RafflePress plugin to your WordPress website.

If you need a little help, follow these instructions for installing a WordPress plugin.

After installing and activating the WordPress plugin from your WordPress dashboard, hover your mouse over the RafflePress icon and click Add New to create your new contest.

click Add New to create an online contest

Choose a Giveaway Template

On the next screen you see, you can choose from several giveaway templates designed to meet your business goals.

First, give your contest a name to help you recognize it later, then choose a giveaway template. Pick a template that aligns as close to your contest goals as possible.

Choose a template to create an online contest based on your goal

For instance, if you want to increase signups for your newsletter, choose the Grow Your Email List template. If your goal is to increase your Instagram followers, click the Grow Your Instagram Following template.

In this guide, we’ll use the Classic giveaway template, which lets you create any type of contest with the easy RafflePress builder.

Choose the Classic Giveaway Template to get started building your contest

Choose your giveaway template by hovering over it with your mouse. Then click the Use This Template button.

Enter Your Prize Details

After choosing your template, you’re taken to the RafflePress giveaway builder. This is where you can enter your giveaway prize details, entry methods, and so on.

To add your prize details, click the pencil icon under the Giveaway Prize Details heading.

Click the pencil to enter the contest prize details

In that section, you can enter a name for your prize and write a short description of what you’re offering.

It’s also possible to upload an image of your prize by clicking the Select Image button under the description box. You’re then asked to choose an image from your WordPress media library or upload one from your computer.

Upload an image for your daily giveaway prize


When you’ve finished perfecting your prize details, click the Done Editing button.

You can also add multiple prizes in RafflePress, by clicking the +Add Another Prize button. Then follow the instructions above for entering the prize details.

You must choose an end date for your giveaway so users know how long they have to participate. You can set the start and end date and time in the Start and End Time section. This is where you can choose your timezone too.

Choose a start and end date and time for your daily giveaway

When you’re happy with the settings, click Save to preserve your changes. You can find the Save button in the top left corner.

Select Multiple Daily Entry Methods

Adding daily entries to your contest is easy with the RafflePress daily giveaway app. Simply click the Actions tab to view all the available options.

Choose daily entry actions for your giveaway

The entry actions are grouped by goal, such as:

  • Get More Subscribers
  • Get More Social Engagement
  • Get More Traffic

This makes it easier to align your contest with the goals you defined earlier.

First, choose an action that’s mandatory for entering your contest. For example, choose the Join an Email Newsletter option to make joining your email list a requirement for entering. You can use mandatory actions for users to unlock daily bonus entries.

Allow daily entries for your giveaway

Now add bonus actions to the giveaway widget, which users can complete every day. The following RafflePress actions all allow daily entries:

  • Tweet a message
  • Visit a page
  • Visit us on Facebook
  • Visit us on Instagram
  • Visit YouTube Channel
  • View Facebook post/video
  • View Instagram post/video
  • Watch a video
  • Answer question
  • Polls and surveys
  • Submit an image
  • Invent your own

If you’re adding lots of actions, make sure the most important ones are worth the most entries. For Instance, if you want to grow your Twitter followers more than your YouTube Channel, make the value of this bonus action worth more entries.

Now click the Save button.

Design Your Giveaway

The next step is to design your giveaway widget and landing page. Click the Design tab to choose from 2 different giveaway layouts and several fonts and button colors.

Design your daily giveaway

If you want to create a stand-alone landing page for your giveaway, you can give the page a background color or upload a background image to make it stand out.

Choose a background image for giveaway landing page

When your contest looks exactly how you want, click the Save button to preserve your changes.

Configure Your Settings

Now move on to configuring your contests’ settings. To do that, click the Settings tab, where you’ll see 8 different sections:

Configure your daily giveaway settings
  • General – Change your giveaway’s name, choose a permalink for your landing page, show winners on your contest widget, etc.
  • Giveaway Rules – Create a simple set of giveaway rules with the built-in rules generator
  • Email Verification – Choose to require users to verify their email to enter your contest
  • Success Tracking – Enter your Google Analytics tracking code or retargeting pixels
  • Success Redirect – Send participants to a specific page after entering your giveaway
  • Social Logins – Allow users to log in to your contest with Facebook
  • GDPR – Add a checkbox to your giveaway registration user must agree to before entering
  • Recaptcha – Add a Recaptcha or invisible Recaptcha to your contest to avoid spam entries

One of the most important settings on this list is the Giveaway Rules. RafflePress makes it easy to create a simple set of rules with the giveaway Rules Generator template.

giveaway rules

Click the +Generate Rules button to show a window where you can add your sponsors’ names, contact details, eligible locations, and more.

giveaway rules generator

Then click the Generate Rules button to add your guidelines to the giveaway widget.

youtube giveaway rules template

You can read our documentation for details on all the RafflePress settings.

When your settings are configured, click Save and move on to launching your contest.

Launch Your Giveaway

Now that you’re ready to publish your daily giveaway click the Publish button at the top of your screen.

Click publish to launch your Daily giveaway

Doing so reveals 3 different ways to publish your contest with RafflePress:

  • RafflePress WordPress Block – Add your giveaway widget to a new post or page in the WordPress block editor.
  • WordPress Shortcode – Add your contest widget to posts and pages in the classic WordPress editor, your sidebar, or your WordPress theme with a shortcode.
  • Giveaway Landing Page – Publish your contest on a distraction-free, standalone giveaway landing page on your website.

Choosing a dedicated landing page for your giveaway is an excellent option because it removes unnecessary distractions. Instead, it offers a clean, targeted page with nothing to distract users from entering. This makes them more likely to take part.

Publish as a giveaway landing page

Let’s click the Giveaway Landing Page option. You’ll then see a section underneath asking you to “click here” to set up your page’s permalink.

Clicking the link takes you to the General Settings page.

Scroll down to the Page Permalink section and give your landing page a sensible permalink, which RafflePress will add to the end of your main website URL.

Enter a permalink for your daily giveaway app landing page

Once you’ve done that, click the View button to see a preview of your contest live on your website.

Daily giveaway landing page

You now have a fantastic landing page for your giveaway!

With your giveaway live, you’ll need to promote it to encourage as many entries as possible. Take a look at these proven contest promotion ideas for help getting started.

Step 5. Pick a Daily Giveaway Winner

When it comes to choosing a winner, it can seem overwhelming. With so many people entering every day through your daily giveaway app, you’ll have tons of entries to track and verify.

RafflePress makes picking a giveaway winner super-easy. With the built-in random winner picker, it automatically sorts through verified entries and picks a winner randomly.

When your contest ends, navigate to RafflePress » Giveaways and find the appropriate contest. Then click the Needs Winners link on the right-hand side.

contest needs winners

You can then see a list of people who entered your contest and how many actions each entry has. To pick a winner randomly, click the Pick Winner button, choose your options, and click Choose Winners Now.

pick a giveaway winner

The winner is then highlighted instantly at the top of the list. Now you’re able to click and email them with the good news.

email the winner

Step 6. Follow Up With Contest Participants

Once you’ve chosen the winner of your daily giveaway, it’s important you follow up with everyone who entered. This allows you to thank everyone for taking part and lets you invite them to watch for future giveaways.

By reaching out in this way, you demonstrate that you value your new audience, helping develop better relationships. Plus, it’ll send one last rush of traffic to your giveaway landing page for those who missed out.

You can follow up after your contest by:

  • Posting an announcement on your social media networks and tagging the winner
  • Sending an announcement email with a discount or voucher as a consolation prize
  • Displaying the winner inside the RafflePress daily giveaway app

Congratulations! You now have a ton of new fans ready to engage with your business.

Step 7. Measure Your Results

If you want to improve the success of future giveaways, it’s smart to track your contest and analyze the results.

The easiest way to collect the data you need for improving your contest is to use MonsterInsights, the best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress

MonsterInsights overview report

With MonsterInsights, you can track visits to your giveaway landing page, website traffic, referral traffic, eCommerce promotions, and a lot more. You can see all that information inside the MonsterInsights analytics dashboard right within WordPress.

By analyzing your giveaway data, you can see which promotion strategies drove the most traffic and conversions to your landing page. You can then use that information to make better decisions in the future.

There you have it!

We hope this article helped you learn how to create a daily giveaway with multiple entries. With the RafflePress daily giveaway app, it’s easy to track and manage the extra data that allowing daily entries brings.

Not only does RafflePress save you time, but it also helps you skyrocket your business leads with easy viral contests.

Click here to get started with RafflePress today!

And don’t forget to follow us on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook for more great tips to grow your business.

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Stacey Corrin Writer
Stacey has been writing about WordPress and digital marketing for over 10 years and on other topics for much longer. Alongside this, she's fascinated with web design, user experience, and SEO.

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