About 360 Photo Contest

At $1 per vote (or any value you specify), entrants use email and social media to spread the word about donating to your organization and helping their entry win the contest

In the process of generating funds for your organization, our software collects the email addresses of voters and entrants You can export this data at any time to build your list of constituents

Our software is designed to do all the work for you, so you can step back and enjoy viewing and sharing entries At the end of the contest, you'll have your much-needed donations

"We raised over $25,000 thanks to 360 Photo Contest!"

Allison Sanders, Director of Development (Western PA Humane Society)

A Step-By-Step Proven System That Works

Our online photo contest system gives you the ability to administer the contest and monitor the results You don't even need a website to use 360PhotoContest Here is how it works: We set up your organization's contest on our platform, hosted on our servers, on our domain

You come up with prizes to award the winning entrant(s)

You advertise through local and social media (i e radio, TV, newspapers, website, Facebook, Twitter, etc) People submit their photos through our online photo system Images are cropped automatically Images can be approved by you before they go live

Users can use the tools within their account to send an email link for their entry to their friends and family, asking them to GO VOTE! Anyone can then go to the website and vote on their friend's entry or others (usually set as $1 per vote)

There's no need to worry about tabulating donations or ending the contest; we do all of that for you on the date you specify The contest also allows you to build a list of contacts to use in your future online fundraising/marketing efforts It works great for non-profits, charities and commercial businesses Best of all, it's affordable! Is this system just for pets or animals? Absolutely not! While many of our clients are involved with animals in one way or another, it is by no means exclusive to this arena We are working with park foundations, social-issue non-profits, blindness-prevention groups, arboretums and other groups If you can take a picture of it, shoot a video of it, record its sound, or write about it; our system, either as a standard package or a customization, can help you reach your fundraising goals

Can you handle currencies other than US Dollars? If you are in the US, you will be able to accept international credit cards If you are outside of the US, we will set up your contest to use PayPal

Can we offer a calendar as a prize? Yes You'll have access to all of the photos once the photo contest is over In the Manage Entries section of your panel, select the Download Images button to receive a zip file of the images However, our software will only keep the original uploaded photos for a few months Keep in mind that there is no guarantee that an entrant will upload a photo large enough to be professionally printed We recommend having an area in your rules stating the need for quality images with minimum requirements for the winning photos Winners may be asked to re-submit their photos once the contest has ended, and that if an original photo is not large enough for calendar printing you may have to be disqualified Also keep in mind that you can always use the downsized images as thumbnails in the actual calendar, either as a border on each month or on a collage page (Our software downsizes all photos to 450 pixel width ) We've found that the inclusion of all photos entered into a contest tends to encourage more participation! What will you need from us after we sign up? We will contact you with all of the details once you have submitted a the contract for your 360 Photo Contest Some things you will need: Banking information for your WePay account setup You will receive an email from them with instructions on creating a WePay account A banner (ideally 1024 px by 220 px) Your contest rules The start date and end date of your contest Your 360 Photo Contest can be simple, or you can take advantage of some of our other features, such as: Customized homepage content Sponsor logos in the footer Customized email sent to all contest entrants Separate entry and voting end dates What does it require on our end? Once we have your contest set up, we will send you a unique URL All you have to do is set up a link on your website to that URL Then people can go directly from your site to the contest

As far as design, what would I need to get to you? We can work with just about any size or type of graphic file you would have The banner for each 360 Photo Contest is a maximum 1024 pixels wide Their is no constraint on the height