Share Your Success Sweepstakes 2024

[Nick_S]

The Sweepstakes is now closed. 

We know how challenging it can be to stay ahead of rising costs and finding the time to market your business. At Constant Contact, we’re always looking for a way to give the small businesses that rely on us an edge.

Tools are one thing, but marketing know-how is another. You might not know where to start, or don’t have the time, or just need a little extra help to get comfortable with using the platform. Our Professional Services team has you covered with personalized marketing services that pairs you with an in-house marketing expert to help take your efforts to the next level!

Our Marketing Managers have helped hundreds of customers just like you pivot successfully and reach their goals. In that spirit, we wanted to create a space where our hard-working community members can reflect on the last year and share their successes.

And for taking the time to share your stories, you’ll be entered to win from a selection of great prizes, offered by our amazing Professional Services team! Scroll down to see what's up for grabs!

Say Yes to Success!

It’s been a year of trying new marketing strategies with our Marketing Manager customers, helping them reach their business goals. Here are some of the results we saw:

Click to download PDFOne client, a car wash on the east coast of the U.S., aimed to boost their SMS contact list to promote daily specials. Their Marketing Manager advised them to display a printed QR code linked to a sign-up landing page to gather SMS phone numbers. They placed signage at checkout counters, which drove an average of 30 new contacts monthly and a 93% yearly increase in new contacts! When they launched a daily special, sending an SMS text message with a coupon link, cars lined up at the car wash within the hour. “I think this is working. We have a line already!”

Another Marketing Manager helped a retail client promote a Labor Day sale, driving one of their most successful holidays ever. By running a Facebook ad and a Google Search ad, they generated over $2,000 in online sales and drew in numerous first-time customers!

A restaurant in a highly competitive market aimed to boost its social media presence. Starting with Facebook ads, the client achieved a staggering 2,800% increase in reach, hitting 236,262 views. This drove over 6,000 visits—a 549% surge—and a 411% jump in page likes. Their Instagram page also saw significant growth: a 54% boost in reach and a 140% increase in new followers. These remarkable results demonstrate the Marketing Manager’s effective approach, strengthening the restaurant's online presence, broadening its audience reach, and fostering high community growth.

Our Marketing Managers are here to help you reach your business goals. And we are excited to see your success! Interested in reading about more success stories from our Marketing Managers? Check out the following case studies:

• Professional Services
• Restaurants & Catering
• Retail & Ecommerce
• Social Media Strategy

Now that you’re feeling all nice and inspired, it’s time to enter!

How to enter:

You can gain one ticket for entry by sharing your success story in a comment on this post. We want to hear about your accomplishments and victories, big or small, in the last year that have helped your business grow!

Some topics, for inspiration:

• A marketing campaign or other activities that contributed strong growth to your business
• A positive customer experience
• Any progress made toward your nonprofit goals
• A new or updated physical store location or office expansion
• Share a positive review you received from a customer

What are the prizes?

• Grand Prize - 3 months of Marketing Manager service ($1605 value)
• First Prize: 2 months of Marketing Specialist service ($500 value)
• Second Prize: 2 hours of Marketing Advisor Phone Consultation ($120 value) 
• Third Prize: 3 Pack of Animated Templates ($99 value)

Winners will be chosen at random for selection. If you are a winner we will notify you by the contact email address listed on your Constant Contact account, so make sure it is up-to-date!

Questions? Let us know in the comments!

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*No Purchase Necessary. Share Your Success Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States (and D.C), 18 years or older. For Official Rules, visit here. Promotion ends on December 20, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET. The Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Khoros.

[notinCA]

Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture had a wonderful 2024, providing free performances and festivals, an active social dance program, 900+ classes and workshops, rich cultural experiences, art exhibitions, history programming, and more! Since we offer such a wide array of programming, Constant Contact is a great tool to reach specific audiences with the content that interests them. In 2024, we were able to increase our targeted messaging using the email segments tool and tagging, sending email marketing campaigns to specific groups of contacts so that we could reach our intended audience with the information they would find most compelling. This deeper level of targeting led to increased open and click rates, and lower unsubscribe rates and was particularly successful in increasing attendance at social dance events and classes.

[KenC393]

Yi-Xin Craft Incense - 5 years of monthly launches - this year 12 successful campaign drops featured over 80 new niche aromatic expressions.  Customers from all over the world showed up the first Sunday of every month at 11am pst to support this small artisan endeavor to create truly unique and nourishing aromatic art.  This monthly pulse has been the success and core of this small business.  

 

[AnnS62]

My win for the year is learning how to use AI to create a marketing plan. Now I put place holders with the theme on the calendar and my interns can create a canva tile and I can use constant contact to post on facebook, instagram and linked in.

[GayleG30]

Hi!  I'm Gayle Gruenberg.  I'm the owner of Let's Get Organized, LLC in northern New Jersey.

My company just celebrated our 21st business anniversary!  As a Certified Professional Organizer in Chronic Disorganization, Certified Virtual Organizing Professional, and Organizer coach, I (with my team) serve clients living with brain-based challenges, such as ADHD, traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, and Executive Function issues. We help them to declutter and to create organizing systems that simplify and streamline their lives.

While most of our services are provided on-site, it's time to expand virtually and globally.  This year, I published my first full book, Get the Big O: ORGANIZED! 7 Steps to Achieving Calm, Clarity, and Control in Your Space, Mind - and ...in hard copy, e-book, and audio book formats.

I created and will launch by Christmas The Let's Get Organized interactive digital workbook, utilizing video instruction, demos, and insightful self-reflective worksheets.  

Constant Contact has helped me get the word out about my services and products, yielding me a 40% open rate, well above industry average.  I'm looking forward to using CC's robust resources in 2025 to grow exponentially!

Come celebrate my success with me!

[CabrilloI]

As a California Community College, we use Constant contact to communicate with our students. Twice each month, we send student eNewsletters (Seahawk Student eNews) to all of our currently enrolled students. Our eNewsletters typically do much better than the 23% open rate (that is the industry standard open rate for higher education emails) but the one we sent at the end of the semester on 12/12/2024 received a 75.6% open rate! Screenshot attached... attached for proof...

[DrJMF]

This is such a fun contest idea! We send Constant Contact emails each month, and our goal for 2025 is to use it 2-3 times a month, working towards sending emails once a month as our ultimate goal. 

I have noticed, especially in 2024, when we market our events through Constant Contact (usually smaller events with 10-20 that can register), we always sell out now! Our events are fully booked. Marketing these events with a direct registration link and reminders on social media really brings success!

We will continue to do that ... combined with using Constant Contact's professional services for creating fresh emails (we got away from that in 2024). 

Thank you for considering Dr. JMF and Metahab for this contest!
Elizabeth Brim

Director of Communication 

Metahab

[MattL]

We recently went to a national conference and designed an email to send to attendees ahead of time.  We had a 65% open rate on it and were very pleased with the results.  https://conta.cc/3B6hp5V

[MartaSH70]

I started my business in 2009 with word of mouth only.  Discovered Constant Contact and now am able to reach thousands of people within minutes.  Thanks. 

[julianae6]

Hi! As I'm looking back over 2024 I see where my email marketing was the magic key to my success. In 2023 I was lakidazical about when I posted, and about my focus. However this year I was lazer focused, emailed regularly. Because of this I increased the number of participants in both of my Positive Mindset programs: up 43% and 57%! I was blown away and pleased with myself. I had read about focus and the importance of emailing consistently but hadn't really been doing it. Now I'm a convert! 

Juliana Ericson

www.JulianaCoaching.com

[Eric_Molho]

Our organization has had mixed success through the years with  Give to the Max Day (a statewide giving day in Minnesota, similar to "Giving Tuesday"). This year, although we still have limited capacity, we decided to put a bit more thought and energy into our campaign and yielded significantly better results than in several recent year! We leveraged an automated campaign on Constant Contact which helped us think more strategically about our messaging and cadence of emails. We also focused our giving request on one, narrow request which was supported on the giving page with testimonial visitors. This has re-energized our desire and confidence in developing more thoughtful, strategic messaging for the year to come!