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When you're hosting an event, you obviously want to get as much participation as possible. This means you have to promote the contest or activity but the question comes in with how much should you promote before it becomes too much for your audience? There are number of times that I have seen a contest or activity promoted to the point I want to unfollow the owner. I know from running contest and activities, while attempting to promote them, it can be a difficult balance to figure out just how much to promote to your audience.
Some keys to remember with promoting your contest or activity without being overwhelming:
 Only post it on your newsfeed every couple of days, at most. This will keep people from being annoyed at seeing it.
 Don't post it in the Scrolling Messages or Chat areas consistently. Once or twice a day is enough.
 When posting, make sure that you include the relevant information for the contest/activity so you don't have to post about it more than once with the information updates.
 Get other community members to share your contest/activity if you can so that it's more than just you posting about it.
 If you're sharing an activity that comes from a newsfeed note, you can use the {note:###} tag to link directly to it.
 If you end up posting too much, you could lose followers which defeats the point of getting participation.
So remember that you don't want to annoy your audience or spam them with a ton of posts. By keeping the promotions to a reasonable number, you're more likely to get participation in your contest or activity and engage other members with the promotions.
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My question for you this time: How much promotion can you stand before seeing so much annoys you? How much do you think is too much?
Question from before ("Contests & Activities Newsletter (April 8, 2015)" ): Do you incorporate LGBT+ in your contests or activities? Why or why not?
Smee  replied: Interesting newsletter. Tying this with last week's question, it was actually from someone using their newsfeed to highlight the lack of entries in the March LGBT writing contest that led me to it a week or so ago. Noticing it I managed to sneak in a last minute entry to the competition, and I agree with all you said. It was definitely a writing challenge, but one I believe was helpful. Boiled down, it's really no different than writing as the opposite gender, or as a different age demographic. Just takes a little imagination.
benjwriter14 replied: No. I don't think its as big an issue as some people like to make it. LGBT really defines the character's life not necessarily the plot of the story. Sure a character's background or lifestyle will dictate their choices, its nothing that needs to be spelled out in my contest rules and guidelines. Sometimes I think these 'concerns' are forced. Let them happen naturally and they will blossom on their own. There are more LGBT activities on here than there are for the most widely read genre in the world... Mysteries and Thrillers. Sure we have a Action/Adventure newsletter but try to find related contests. LGBT has its own merit badge, Thrillers don't. That's why I had to start my own contest because there was nothing. In short, I think just because we say its overlooked or underappreciated doesn't mean it really is.
Loreli  replied: If I did have one of the above, I wouldn't understand the need to put that I accept these pieces specifically. I would state that I strongly dislike erotica, but if the pieces had main characters of the same sex...if he was a good story, why is their sexual preference important? I have read some LGBT fiction, in fact I read one such fantasy piece that had female partners and I suggested she put the LGBT tag in her description, it might get her more reviews. The piece was good and I hope it helped.
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