The following blog post is a guest post by @KieraPedley. Kiera is the CCO (Chief Caring Officer) at Binkd home of the Binkd Promotion Platform. Not to mention a great friend! Enjoy! Running a social media contest or competition can generate you some quick fans, and build your email list up, and drive quality, qualified, interested traffic to your site. Without a good strategy in place, your hard-earned effort might well be going to waste. Here are 5 strategies to turn your contest into a valuable, long term, marketing machine. Begin With A Social Media Plan Competitions should only represent one part of your social media marketing plan. If you don't already have a strategy in place, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. … [Read more...] about How To Run A Successful Social Media Competition