Not that I'm complaining. Well maybe I am. But when approaching a company to donate something to your online auction, giveaway or any other promotional type things you are doing... be sure that you either:
A. Have a good cause that your working to promote or raise money for.
B. Have close to or more friends/ fans than I do on your business page.
I suppose it never hurts to ask. But, if you do ask, don't use your 300 fans as the only incentive for me to donate something that includes a product, postage, maybe a picture, and my time.
The whole cross promotion thing on facebook fans pages with giveaways and product reviews and photo page auctions is very interesting. It's like a world in itself. Some business fan pages do these types of things often.
Giveaways have helped out my "My Accessory Business" page a lot. I like using this one called "Sweepstakes" by Hooplasoft.com There are other ones out there but some charge a lot and this one is free. I found another giveaway program and I was impressed by what they had said about how their giveaways had gotten businesses a lot of fans so I went and started to design a giveaway on their page. They wanted to change for every day it was posted, and a flat fee of $25 just to do the giveaway. I emailed them asking if they somehow were able to get my giveaway in front a large network of people that they had online, and they wrote me back saying "no, you have to market to your own friends and fans online" Uh... so I have to pay to do the giveaway, give something away out of my pocket, pay for shipping, do all my own marketing online for the giveaway to the fans I already have, then every one of my fans see what software I'm using to do the the giveaway so their giveaway software gets promoted for free. Yeah, you lost me. Then they sent me an email to give their software a review, needless to say, I was very blunt about explaining how and why they lost me, but hey, I'm just nice enough to do that favor for them by filling out their survey.
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