Anybody use Contest Burner Wordpress Plugin?

Hey there

Never used the plug buddy but I was speaking to Mike Stewart and he was telling me that he can find over 120 reasons per year to have a sale.... 120 ! I guess that works out at one every 3 days which is mad....

Increased his sales HUGELY though !

Good luck with the sale :-)

Just be careful you are not violating any laws.

This tends to be one of the bigger killers (laws) of people wanting to run contests.

I have used contest burner and I can say that it was probably the best plugin that I ever bought. It creates a contest using API's from facebook, youtube and twitter.

I have used contest burner and I can say that it was probably the best plugin that I ever bought. It creates a contest using API's from facebook, youtube and twitter.

Yes, Contest Burner still works after all the Facebook changes.
Also someone asked if there were training videos to look at before a purchase... here they are here:support.businessinnercircleDOTcom/vids/cbsetupnew/

I have used this plugin on my site:tweetandwinDOTnet a few times. Not only did I make some money from having clients pay for a contest, but the people that came to my site during a live contest visited my sponsors and the ad revenue generated was great.

I highly recommend this plugin. It was worth every penny.

I just checked out this plugin. Looks amazing.

I just purchased another plugin (EzWPCloner Plugin). Uploaded it to server, activated it then ran the plugin and got multiple errors on what was supposed to be a 5 step simple operation. I submitted 2 support tickets with no response.

He is also promoting this plugin and another...

My advice is to stay away...

It looked good to me until I saw the $77 price was only for one domain.
A real deal killer for me. Good luck with it.
When does the contest end? I couldn't find out from the salesletter how long was the optimal time to run these contests.

Does anyone know what the price is to use on multiple domains?

The bsic 1 domain plugin supposed to be $77. For $147 did you get the multiple domains one?

Great discussion - my hubby had asked me about this one just a few minutes ago, any my first response was 'well, contests are tricky due to being highly regulated...'.

I love the concept and the plugin but have not gotten it yet because I really wanted to see how things shake down legally.

Would love to hear Kinsdvater's take on this one?

Melody

Im looking at the page right now but I dont see the multi domain option. Is it an upsell?

I also have a lot of plug ins on my wordpress site and have run my 1st contest burner contest without any glitches at all, thankfully.

It's so simple but very effective.

All I can say is, Contest Burner is doing exactly what it says it can do. Very refreshing for a change.

I don't have this plug-in but would seriously consider it if the product owner provided a pdf or training video's on how it can be used for free.

He lists a lot of ideas for using Content Burner, but no place does he give an example of how it could be useful in these situations. For example he lists things like using it for promoting affiliate products, CPA offers and offline local businesses, yet he doesn't give a single example of CB being used in any of these instances.

There are tons of text on the sales page dedicated to the "lots of traffic and tons of exposure to your offers" yet nothing on the payoff portion. I mean that's great I can get lots of traffic ad potential sales, but the large elephant in the room (ie. the rewards I have to pay out) is completely ignored.

I could pay someone in the WF service area to build me lots of links and web 2.0 sites for $67 or something like that, but I'm afraid this plug-in is going to put me on the hook for owing a bunch of people $100k worth of iPads or something.

Perhaps this is not the case, but the sales page unfortunately doesn't cover the payment side of things nor does it cover the practical use of the plug-in with the examples it says it could be used for. I for one might be interested in this to use for local offline businesses as a service. However am I going to spend a $147 for a plug-in that gives me no info on how this might be used with local business while also providing no guarantees so if I go through the training and find it really isn't practical for this use I'm now out $147? No way.

They should give away at least some training for free so you know if the plug-in will be of use for what you want to use it for. Maybe one training example per type of business use.

Anyway I'm not knocking the plug-in itself, it may be great. The sale page however was 100% hype and unfortunately no real life examples of how the plug-in could be used in the real world. Cut the hype from the sales page which would make it about 1/8th it's current length and provide some useful material on it's practical use in the real world and they might have something here.

-Stephen

I was on the other end of Contest Burner, as a site visitor, contest participant. This was for Mike Johnson's launch of Autoblog Blueprint 3.0. It seemed to do a killer job of tracking and keeping score. Unfortunately, even though I managed to get myself into 6th place and was qualified for all levels of prizes, I didn't win anything. Mike gave me a free membership for my efforts though, which was nice. The system, tracked all users, kept score and at the end of it selected all the winners. From the contest participant end, it seemed to be extensive and appeared to do a great job.
Cheers!
JeromyS

Hi, to get people in not and not giving prizes would be illegal anywhere in the world im sure.

As far as the plugin goes, I bought the ultimate edition and have used it on 1 of my sites so far.

The plugin is very easy to install and use... The training is also very detailed.
On this particular site, I had a very small current base from which to take the contest viral but it still brought in about 7-8 times the usual traffic the first few days and then it started going down. you need to be able to push every few days to keep your contest motivated and actively promoting which again is explained in the training.

I highly recommend this product.

We've had a lot of people asking us about Contest Burner and from the feedback we've got from other users and customers of our we decided to add it as a additional plug in option for our List Machine Pro theme.

We highly recommend Contest Burner.

Anyone find any definitive answer for the legality of the online contest? I'm interested but as always I don't want to break any state or federal laws.

Has anyone used this plugin recently? Is is still working with all the recent Facebook changes?

anyone got a response to the status of contest burner? would be interested to know

I've seen a lot of questions on this thread about the legal issues around contests and raffles. I've done many contest and raffle and several with major corporations like McDonald's and Anheuser Busch.

I'm not a lawyer but here's the scoop from having done this numerous times.

If you giveaway ANYTHING of value (cash, goods or even services) via a contest you are running the risk of getting into legal trouble.

One of the big challenges is that each state has different laws regarding contests and since it's online, if anyone in that state enters your contest they can come after you. In fact, some of the corporate contests I've done specifically excluded certain states just for this reason. For example, "If you live in the state of Wisconsin you cannot enter this contest."

The other challenge with contests are taxes. You're supposed to get executed W9 forms (for US based contests) to let Uncle Sam know the value of the prices given away.

You're also supposed to list the odds of winning, dates of the contest, how winners are chosen, etc. in your Contest Terms.

Hosting a contest is a real pain in the a** and all the companies I've worked with outsourced the legal and management aspects of the deal just for that reason.

Having said all the above, I've also done many contests without any legal protections. Why? Because it was a smaller locally/regionally based contest with little chance of getting noticed by the powers that be.

My advice...if you're doing a big contest and your business is on the line, seek legal assistance. If you're doing a smaller contest to drive additional subscribers or FB fans, you'll probably be able to get away without the legal protection. Just note that you are opening yourself to potential problems.

I can't seem to get the technical support that was offered as a VIP upsell, asking for refund, staff aren't even available during the advertised Livechat periods. Not hopeful of hearing back re refund based on experience over last few days (also had problems with standalone notifier errors - so product is pretty much unless without help as can't even get my demo site unlocked to use on customer (I don't like to sell things unless I've tried them myself).

Hello!

I think many have used contest burner and I can say that it was one of the best plugin ever created. It creates contests using facebook API's, youtube and twitter. It still does work after all the changes made on FB. It's useful and very handy. It's easy to use and is hustle free.

Best of Luck!

This "software" is currently offline. I paid $147 for it when it first launched, only come to find out now that there is not a download link available anywhere.

Download | Contest Burner says that they are "updating" it, by taking the product offline? I've never heard of a software company that would pull the rug on a product for "updates".

I've submitted a ticket to support, asking for either a working download or a refund in full.

Bad business practices, IMHO.

I recently created a solution for contests I think you should check out at WP Contest Creator | Wordpress Contest Plugin.

In a nutshell you can run as many contests as you want and its built to share virally on facebook, twitter, and youtube.

We covered just about everything from contest rules, to editing, and more.

Check it out!

I purchased the Contest Burner, but am finding their posted 9am-5pm pacific time support hours to be non-existent. I've called three times and emailed each time from early in the day.

Anyone used Contest Dominator? Or other plugins for contests?

After much searching there does not seem to be a clear answer as to wether or not Contest Burner actually delivers what it claims to - The idea obviously has massive potential - can anyone enlighten me on either this product or a similar alternative?

has anyone used CB for building list??

Do NOT waste your money on Contest Burner. It doesn't work, and their support is AWFUL. I made the mistake of believing they would help when they requested my WP log in...and 5 days later still nothing. In the meantime my client is really upset with me.
Check out Contest Domination--Travis follows through and it's worth the extra money.

I've owned Contestburner for a couple of months. I just tried to install it on a client's WP site and it doesn't work -- the installed dashboard pages are broken. I've just requested support 9-15-2013 11:30am Eastern time. We'll see how long it takes to respond.

I have used CB. We did have some technical issues but support did resolve them. While tech support is not exactly fast, they did take care of the problems.

CB does work. However FB recently changed their requirements for mandatory 3rd party contest apps. At this point I am not sure if we will continue to use CB or another solution.

iv just bought contestburner standard edition, clicked through the link to download then suprise suprise, links to wanting me to buy the ultimate edition, clicked no, then in the members area says i havent even got the standard edition, no download link nothing, just sent an email to support, see how long that takes, generally not happy for the price, might ask for full refund if not sorted soon.