The Multi-Network Giveaway app allows you to add participants from social profiles that you're not an admin of, to a giveaway that you've created. The system will let you send an invitation to the admin of the profile that you want to import participants from so that the admin can select the post and add it to the giveaway.

This feature is ideal in the following situations: 

1. Co-branded giveaways: 2 or more brands that organize a joint giveaway, and each brand post about the giveaway on their social networks.
2. Giveaway with influencers: Brands that use an influencer to promote their products through a giveaway.
3. Giveaways with sponsored posts: In some cases, the dissemination of the giveaway is made through sponsored posts and it's the advertising agency that administers the ads account and they don't want to give access to the client.

What you should know before beginning:

• The system to send invitations to external collaborators is only available in the Multi-Network app which is available with the Basic PRO plan ($49/49€) or superior.
• This application can be used to import participants from the following:
  • Facebook comments
  • Instagram comments
• In case of Instagram posts: the Instagram profile must be a business profile, and the collaborator must have the role of admin of the Facebook page associated with the Instagram profile.
• You can add unlimited collaborators to your giveaway, and the giveaway can accumulate a maximum of 25 publications in total.

Note: We recommend that you take the step of importing the comments from a laptop computer instead of a mobile device, and make sure that you don't lose connection and you don't close the browser.

This tutorial describes the process of inviting an external collaborator in order to import participants from a social media profile that you're not an admin of.

Contents of this tutorial

• Step 1. Access the Control Panel

• Step 2. Create the Multi-Network Giveaway

• Step 3. Import posts from profiles you manage

• Step 4. Import posts from profiles that you do not administrate

• Step 5. Finalization of the giveaway and the next steps

• Practical case: How to carry out a giveaway only with a post from a social media profile that you're not an admin of

• How to help your external collaborators to accept the invitation and add their post to the giveaway

• Practical cases in video

Step 1. Access the control panel

Access the Easypromos Control Panel from this link. If you're not an Easypromos user, create an account and sign in to the control panel to create and manage your promotions.

Step 2. Create the Multi-Network Giveaway

Next, click on the "Create new promotion" button to start setting up your giveaway:

Now select "Multi-Network Giveaway":

Next, enter the organizer and the title of the giveaway and continue to step 3.

Step 3. Import posts from profiles you manage

The first step is to import the post from the social media profile that you are an admin of and that you want to include in the giveaway. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Select the social network where the post is published.

2. Next, you can select the giveaway post to import the participants.

3. On the right, you will see the posts that have been included in the giveaway. 

4. When you have selected all the posts from the profiles you're an admin of, click 'Continue':

A pop-up will open that will warn you that if you continue you will not be able to add more posts from the profiles that you manage, since you will access the end of the draw screen, which is where you will find the option of creating an invitation link that you can send to collaborators of the draw.

Click "Continue"and the comments from the selected posts will be imported.

5. When the participants have been imported, we get to the next step where we can send the invitation to the collaborator that we want to add to the giveaway.

Step 4. Import posts from profiles that you do not administrate

To be able to add posts from social media profiles that you're not an admin of, you need to send an invitation to the admin of the profile to give him collaborator permission. This will allow him to connect to his account and select the giveaway post so that the system can import the participants. It's not necessary for the collaborator to have an Easypromos account.

Note: In case of Instagram posts, the Instagram profile must be a business profile, and the collaborator must have the role of admin of the Facebook page associated with the Instagram profile.

Here we'll explain the steps you should follow to send the invitation:

1. From the configuration page of the giveaway, click on the button "Create an invitation" that you will find in the bottom right corner of the page:

2. A pop-up window will open to create the invitation link where you should select the social network where the collaborator's giveaway post is published and the name of the collaborator:

3. Click on "Continue" and automatically, the invitation link will be generated to share with the person who's the admin of the profile that you want to add the post from. Copy the link and send it to the collaborator:

Next, we show you a video with all the steps to create the invitation link to send it to the collaborator: 

4. Once the collaborator has given you access and selected the post, the post will appear in the list of posts of the giveaway and its participants will be added to the giveaway.

5. Additionally, you can click on "View" to see the final list of participants where you will be able to see the origin of each imported user:

Note: You can add unlimited collaborators to your giveaway, and the giveaway can accumulate a maximum of 25 publications in total.

Do you need the same collaborator to add posts from different profiles?

In case you have to add posts from different profiles or social networks managed by the same collaborator, you must create a different invitation link for each profile.

Example: If the same collaborator must add three posts from three different accounts, you will have to create three different invitation links. For each link, the collaborator will be able to log in with each profile and select the posts that he needs to add to the giveaway. 

Step 5. Finalization of the giveaway and the next steps

When all the participants of the giveaway have been imported, you can continue to select the winners. To do that, you can follow the Multi-Network Giveaway tutorial from step 3.

Practical case: How to carry out a giveaway only with a post from a social media profile that you're not an admin of

By default, to be able to import participants from a post on a profile you're not an admin of, the system asks you to first select at least one post from a profile that you are an admin of. But if the giveaway is run only from a post on a profile that you're not an admin of (it could be the case of a brand that runs a giveaway with an influencer to promote their product), you also have the option to skip this step and directly generate an invitation link for your collaborator:

1. Create the giveaway and without selecting any of your account(s), directly select the following option to "select winners from posts published on profiles you're not an admin of": 

2. Once confirmed, you will be able to generate invitation links that you will share with the influencer or collaborators, so that they can import their comments to your giveaway.

3. Once the collaborators have granted you access to their post content, you will receive a notification via email, and entering the giveaway, you will be able to click "View" to review the list of comments and eventually leave out some users from the final draw.

How to help your external collaborators to accept the invitation and add their post to the giveaway

The external collaborators in your giveaway don’t need to have an Easypromos account, they only need to open the invitation link that you will send to them and follow the steps shown on the screen. Even so, it might be a good idea that you help the collaborator so that the process is done correctly.

The steps that the collaborators need to follow are:

1. Open the invitation link that you’ll send to them. This link will open in a browser window.

2. Now, the first thing to do is to connect with the social network profile (Facebook or Instagram) where the giveaway post that should be added to the giveaway is published.

   Note: If it’s an Instagram post, the collaborator should connect with a Facebook profile that is an admin of the Facebook page that is linked to the Instagram business profile where the post is published.

3. Once connected to the profile, the system will show a list of the posts on the profile. The collaborators only need to click to select the post they want to add to the giveaway. The post will be marked as selected in the top corner of the screen when it’s been added correctly.
4. If the collaborators need to add a promoted post, they should click on the option “Add a promoted post or an Ad (dark posts)” which will allow them to connect with their ads account to select the post.
5. Finally, when the post has been added to the giveaway, the last thing the collaborator needs to do is to click on the “Continue” button in the top right corner to begin to import the comments. A message will let the collaborator know when the import process has finished, which means that the comments from the post have been added to the giveaway and the administrator will be able to see them.

Note: We recommend that you take the step of importing the comments from a laptop computer instead of a mobile device, and make sure that you don't lose connection and you don't close the browser.

What to do if the Instagram profile of your collaborator is not a business profile

If the Instagram profile of your collaborator is a personal or creator profile, they will not be able to connect their Instagram account to import their publication to the giveaway.

In order to fix this case, we must ask the collaborator to switch their Instagram profile - either personal or creator - to a business profile so he can link it with a Facebook page. This will allow them to add their publication to the giveaway.

In order to do this, in the process of switching the profile to a business profile, Instagram will ask them to connect a Facebook page. They can connect an already created page, or if they don't own one, they can create a new page. Once the Facebook page has been linked to the Instagram profile, the Facebook page can be unpublished if they don't need it to be active.

In this tutorial we explain all the steps to switch a personal or creator profile to a business Instagram account.

Practical cases in video

1. How the collaborator will be able to import an organic post to the giveaway: 

2. How the collaborator will be able to import a promoted post to the giveaway: