CONTEST: Last night, on #PortalatNight
Hey everyone, it’s Chevee, excited after a great evening of funny tweets. If you don’t follow us on Twitter, now is a great time to start. For the past 6 months or so, I’ve been taking over the Portal Twitter account after Ignacy goes to bed with #PortalatNight. Recently, we’ve decided to structure it a bit more than just random evenings when I remember to be active… so going forward, Tuesday and Thursday evenings (USA Time) I will be driving content through our Twitter. Tuesdays will mostly be for running some sort of contest or giveaway and Thursdays will be for some behind-the-scenes discussion. I’m always open for chatting though, so be sure to stop by and ask questions!
Last night, I ran an impromptu contest. I let the followers decide what product line we’d run and Imperial Settlers won in a landslide victory. The task was simple: take a picture with your favorite Faction Card. I randomly picked 3 winners:
@trzewik Roman Gardens. When is 100 degrees out, we have no problems swimming in a pool with pigs. pic.twitter.com/ghUpVsIFg4
— Brian Mckenzie (@ghostbythesea) August 19, 2015
@trzewik #portalatnight Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. pic.twitter.com/hQ3A34yUhe
— Carl Gannon (@thebuckeyegamer) August 19, 2015
@trzewik #portalatnight the circle of sages…because I want to join their beard club!!! pic.twitter.com/DIG53qNFZa
— Aaron Rohrer (@aaron_rohrer) August 19, 2015
I tried this quick and simple format instead of the usual week-long contest and I htink everyone had a blast. I’m not saying that all future contests will be short like this one, but I will say that I favor it over all the other methods I’ve tried in the past. I had a blast with each new twitter notification and hope everyone enjoyed themselves.
But wait, that’s not all!
When Ignacy woke up, he selected one winner from the group to receive an additional prize, the coveted BOSS’S CHOICE AWARD
@trzewik Which Imperial Settlers characters have WAY MORE image thumbs on BGG? Inside-the-box NINJAS! #PortalatNight pic.twitter.com/muDdEHPuIk
— Chris Schreiber (@knobuddy) August 19, 2015
A huge thank you to everyone that followed along and participated! We really do love connecting with the fans. I look forward to many more Twitter nights together. Be sure to check back in on Thursday and ask some questions! When the boss is asleep, he can’t tell me what I’m not allowed to talk about! 😀
-Chevee
Boss’ Choice! Awesome. Thank you, thank you–now I feel less bad about putting you in tiny boxes with me. At least we were inside-the-box ninjas together. I love those little guys.
Honestly, this quick format was really fun Chevee. Quick, easy. And perhaps more likely to lead to people participating all at once in real time. I got into a couple twitter conversations and had fun. My only concern was for our friends in parts of the world where it was very late at night. But then again, it is #PortalatNight!
I’ve successfully run and participated in similar contests that used haiku about gaming subjects. Haiku can generate a lot of responses so I recommend it if you run short of other ideas. And it could run as short as 3 hours or 24hours if you wanted to include Europe. Makes for good social media content afterwards too.
Cheers,
Chris