Tips for taking submissions
Grow the impact of your initiatives with tips on how to best manage, market and grow your awards, competitions and more!
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Establishing the perks for your competition
The only reason applicants will take the time to submit is that there’s something in it for them. Defining what’s in it for those selected, and understanding what you have available to you, could allow you to run a competition on a very tight budget, and still make a great success of it.
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Streamlining what you ask for from candidates
Asking candidates for the correct information when they submit is a fine art.
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Defining the purpose of your programme
Purpose is powerful. It allows you to inspire people to take part and measure your goals effectively once your program ends. Without a clearly articulated purpose, marketing your offering and getting candidates to submit will be an uphill struggle.
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The Ultimate Guide to taking submissions
Taking submissions for an existing award or crafting a new competition? Where do you start? Here is the ultimate guide in planning and running a call to submissions – compiling a decade of insights supporting organisations that run open calls.
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6 Submissions Platforms for the Creative Industries
Choosing the right process whilst taking entries could save you hundreds of hours of admin. To save you a little time we’ve compiled a list of the best submission platforms serving the creative eco-system at this time.
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Trends for Running Competitions in 2021
Much has changed in 2020. For that reason, we’ve compiled our top tips on things to take into consideration when planning & running a successful competition in 2021.
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Top sites to list your writing competition on
Boost submissions to your writing contests by listing them on these amazing sites.
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