Blue Six Creative Facebook Fan Page – Weekly Contests All Winter Long

Weekly winners are listed in this blog post in the comments.

We launched a Blue Six Fan Page on Facebook and you can check it out here:  http://www.facebook.com/Blue.Six.Creative.Photographers

Starting in the beginning of November, we will be running a weekly contest that will award random Blue Six Creative Facebook Fans.   You could win: Free Engagement Photo shoots, Family Shoots, Day After or Trash The Dress Shoots and some other neat stuff that we are thinking about.  If you “Become A Fan” then you are automatically entered.

Full details are at the bottom of this blog post.

The First Draw will be this Saturday November 7th, 2009 and the first prize will your choice of a Free Engagement Session or “Day After” Photo Shoot.

Here is a quick question and answer about the Facebook Fan Page Contest:

Question: You say it’s random on who wins, how do we know you are not picking someone that you know to win the weekly prizes.  How do you really make it random?

Answer: Great question.  When we click on the Fans link inside the page, we see (in order) the people who became a fan of ours and which order they became a fan.  We can see that I (Jason Miles) is #1 and Kristin Peres is #2 and Broderick Forehand is #3 and Jessica De La Rosa is #4 and up.  Since the number of fans is under 1000 people, we will use OLG’s Pick 3 Lotto that is held daily.  We will use  every Saturday’s Pick 3 numbers that are available online.  So if the winning number is 763 (and we have under 100 Fans, the winner will be person #63 that became a fan.  If we have 280 Fans, then #63, #163 and #263 will qualify and the winner of the 3 people will be the person who has the closest birthday to the draw date.

Question: What happens if a wedding professional is the winner?  Are they eligible?

Answer: The only person who can’t win is me (Jason Miles) and any other Blue Six Creative photographers or assistants.  Everyone else is eligible.  So anyone can transfer this prize to someone else if they don’t want to use it.  So the wedding professional could use it or even give it to a past/present client to use.

Question: If I win a free “Trash The Dress” photo shoot, when can I book you to shoot it?  Can I pick where we can shoot the session?

Answer: We are going to announce a schedule of days for the entire year that all eligible winners can select book the session on that predetermined day, time and location.  We are going to pick some cool locations that have a certain theme or backdrop.  Dates and locations will be posted in the blog-post comments.  All the locations will be in or near Toronto and in the GTA.  You have to use your certificate within a year of winning it.  It can’t be substituted for cash.  There is no cash value of this certificate.  It can be transferred to someone else and they should contact us right away to book a session.

Question: If I win a photo shoot, what am I really getting?

Answer: You are getting a 1 hour photo shoot with a Blue Six Creative Photographer at a predetermined location.  You wll get a disk of a selected amount of images from the shoot that are edited and presented to you in high resolution and unmarked digital files that you can share, print and use at your leisure.

Question: What happen if I win and I’m a Fan of yours but I live in a different province or country than Ontario, Canada.  What happens?

Answer: You can transfer it to another member of the Fan Page or you can simply decline it if you won’t be traveling to Ontario within the year.  It can’t be redeemed for any cash value.

Question:  Can I use the “Suggest To Friends” Tab and recommend to my friends to become Fans so they also have a chance to win some photo shoots?  (people in general that need some awesome pictures of them as a family or couple.  Even if they are already married?

Answer: Hell yes!  That would be awesome that you would do that!

You could also cut and paste this link:  http://www.facebook.com/Blue.Six.Creative.Photographers into a facebook email if you want to personally address it to certain people and tell them about us and how there is a contest each week for the entire winter and they could win some photo shoots if their Pick3 numbers come up.

Last question: When does the contest close?

Answer: April 30th, 2010 it will close… unless we extend it a bit.

Do you have any questions for us? Go to the blog post directly and post a question in the comments field.  We will answer them in the comments field directly.

Well there you have it.  We are excited to do this.  Yes, it’s work on our part, but we think it will create a strong community on Facebook with people who find out work interesting.

Why should you be a Blue Six Creative Facebook Fan?

- It will enable you to keep track of the cool stuff we are doing.

- We are planning some creative photo shoots for next year and it will allow you to view our work that we post to the Fan Page.

- We will be posting some of our Guest Bloggers articles on the Fan Page that will give you advice and tips when planning your wedding or event.

- You will be alerted when we are having a special promo that is available to everyone.

- We will feature things we like (other wedding professionals, music we like to listen and think you might enjoy it as well, inspiring videos, pictures and websites that are not from us).

- We won’t send you 100 facebook emails on anything we are thinking at the moment.  We have not sent one yet to anyone.

I can honestly say that we are truly excited to what next year will bring to us at Blue Six Creative.

Regards,

Jason Miles, Marketing Manager

Blue Six Creative

Toronto Wedding & Engagement Photographers, Blue Six Creative is a collection of Toronto Photographers that work together to capture weddings from a different point of view. You can follow Blue Six Creative on Twitter and you can watch our video’s on Vimeo. Best of all, you can also sign up to the Blue Six Creative Facebook Fan Page. All Fan Page members are eligible to win prizes every two weeks, so please “be a Fan of us” and you can be kept in the loop about promotion, prize giveaways and see the stuff that we are turning out for our clients.