Congrats to our Facebook winner!
For a long time we at ShutterBooth Hampton Roads have racked our brains trying to figure out how to drive more traffic to our Facebook fan page. We finally figured out that if we just gave away a ShutterBooth it would get us some new fans. We went from slightly under 200 fans to just over 2400! Our fans did a great job recruiting friends and family to vote for their picture to win the ShutterBooth. The cream rose to the top and in the end, after a long hard fight, Denell and her fiancé Dennis won the ShutterBooth for their June wedding at the Watertable in Virginia Beach.
Denell is very much a go getter and self starter, not just in Facebook contests but in life, as evident from her asking Dennis about their marriage. Good thing for the both of them, she applied the same attitude to go out and win our contest.
Dennis and Denell first saw ShutterBooth at an event at the Suffolk Executive Airport. Denell looked into having us for their wedding, but ShutterBooth just wasn’t in the budget. She was an existing fan to our Facebook page and when we put the call out to our fans, her interest was piqued.
She started collecting votes the typical way, by using the built in sharing button via Facebook. There was also a way to share the story to Facebook and Twitter, which she did. Denell quickly realized that it would take more than this to win her ShutterBooth so she started networking in different ways. She sent personal emails out to friends and family with detailed instructions on what to click and how to vote. Her friends helped spread the word by forwarding her email to their friends and family. She also utilized some Facebook groups she was a part of to enlist votes from as far away as Malta. And last but certainly not least, her cousin created a Facebook event called “Vote for Denell” which anyone could share with all their Facebook friends too. Denell thinks that this group accounted for almost 20% of her votes.
Denell put in the work needed to get the most votes. Some contestants didn’t like that it turned out to be a popularity contest, but that is what it was all along. We’re extremely excited that Denell was voted ‘Most Popular’ and can’t wait for her and her fun loving friends to get into ShutterBooth at their wedding. Congrats guys!