{"id":2135,"date":"2012-09-30T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2015-09-08T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T23:31:24","slug":"facebook-pet-costume-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/2135","title":{"rendered":"Facebook pet costume photo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the idea to set up a facebook promotion for <a href=\"http:\/\/chapmansdoggrooming.com\/\">Chapman\u2019s Dog Grooming<\/a>. The idea is that people could enter a photo of their pet all dressed up for Halloween for a chance to win a $20 off coupon for grooming. Trouble is this is not allowed according to facebook policy so you have to use a third party app. Facebook does not want their tools to be associated with any kind of promotion. \u00a0You will however see other businesses violating those rules and they don&#8217;t seem to have a problem. If facebook finds out however your account could be suspended so it\u2019s better safe than sorry!<\/p>\n<p>I did some googling and there are a number of 3rd party apps out there that offer photo contests. I went with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/easypromos\">easy promos<\/a>\u00a0because they allow the first promotion free to people with less than 5,000 fans and it will run for as long as you like.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo of Opal I used to for the facebook photo contest promo page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/easypromos\/promotions\/51336?fb_page_id=169625573052610\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2136\" title=\"opal\" src=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/opal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/opal.jpg 410w, https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/opal-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in the Antioch, Oakley or Brentwood area of California enter your photo and don&#8217;t forget to vote on the entries! The contest runs through October 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the idea to set up a facebook promotion for Chapman\u2019s Dog Grooming. The idea is that people could enter a photo of their pet all dressed up for Halloween for a chance to win a $20 off coupon for grooming. Trouble is this is not allowed according to facebook policy so you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,84,5,8],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galpage","category-photo","category-photography","category-web-design","tag-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}