Name: ContestFactory
Author: ContestFactory

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Contract Management

Enterprise Legal Management

Policy Management

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

HR Service Delivery

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)

Data Catalog

Data Center Networking

Data Integration

Database Load Balancing

Density-Optimized Servers

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed DNS

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Managed Hosting

Mobile Application Performance Monitoring  (APM)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

NoSQL Databases

Observability

Server Management

Time Series Databases

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audio Editing

Content Management

Contest Management

Customer Journey Analytics

Digital Asset Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Analytics

Marketing Automation

Mobile Advertising

Mobile Analytics

Press Release Management

Product Information Management (PIM)

Social Media Analytics

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Wireframing

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Presales

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Construction Workforce Management

Dental

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ContestFactory is a gamification solution offered by Contest Factory that aims to engage customers, employees, and partners through interactive promotions and training. According to the vendor, ContestFactory is suitable for businesses of various sizes, from small enterprises to large corporations. This versatile product caters to a range of professions and industries, including marketing professionals, human resources professionals, event planners, sales teams, retailers, brand managers, digital agencies, and social media managers.

## Key Features

**Trivia Contests**: ContestFactory offers Trivia Contests that allow users to customize their engagement with customers. Users can upload their own questions or choose from a library of stock questions in various categories. According to the vendor, the difficulty level and question type (multiple choice or true/false) can be customized. Trivia Contests can be integrated with Sweepstakes, UGC Contests, and Instant Win Games. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**SpinZone Trivia**: ContestFactory combines the skill of Trivia with the Instant Win Game platform in SpinZone Trivia. Users earn spins by answering questions and can switch between Trivia and SpinZone pages. According to the vendor, the settings for earning spins can be customized, and SpinZone Trivia offers a variety of Instant Win Games like SpinZone, Plinko, Roshambo, and more. The interface, game images, and sound effects are customizable. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**Surveys**: ContestFactory's Surveys feature allows businesses to gather valuable feedback from customers. Users can create multiple choice, true/false, or text field response survey questions. According to the vendor, the platform supports conditional survey questions and offers various response display options. Surveys can be integrated with Sweepstakes. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**Tournament/Bracket Contests**: ContestFactory offers Tournament Style Contests to add excitement and suspense to UGC Contests. These multi-phase, bracketed competitions can have knockout or elimination rounds, 1-on-1 matches, or customizable brackets. According to the vendor, various contest formats are supported, and integration with Sweepstakes is possible. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**Contest Engine**: ContestFactory's Contest Engine allows businesses to create and manage an unlimited number of UGC contests on a standalone website. Each contest can have independent control over its parameters. According to the vendor, multiple contest formats are supported, such as photo, hashtag, video, audio, essay, and text contests. Contest Engine can be integrated with Sweepstakes. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**Corporate Training Platform**: ContestFactory's Corporate Training Platform aims to make employee and retailer staff training interactive and engaging. The platform centralizes training materials, such as videos, PDF files, and Powerpoints, in one secure website accessible from the cloud. According to the vendor, gamification tactics like quizzes and instant win games can be used to enhance training effectiveness. Real-time tracking of employee activity and performance is available. Integration with Trivia, Instant Win Games, or Sweepstakes is possible. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**Native Mobile Apps**: ContestFactory offers native mobile apps for iPhone and Android devices, allowing businesses to reach users directly on their phones. These apps support various contest formats, like photo and video contests, quizzes, and trivia. According to the vendor, features include on-the-go voting, mobile video recording with instant uploading, hashtag submissions via Twitter/Instagram, and real-time analytics. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

**Ad Hoc Email System**: ContestFactory's Ad Hoc Email System provides a comprehensive email marketing platform. According to the vendor, users can send high-volume email marketing campaigns with custom HTML designs and text versions. The platform offers real-time analytics to track click-throughs, open rates, bounces, and more. Email leads can be validated prior to sending, and data can be exported for further analysis. ContestFactory also offers a White Label option.

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ContestFactory

An online survey is a questionnaire that the target audience can complete over the Internet. Online surveys are usually created as Web forms with a database to store the answers and statistical software to provide analytics.

Survey Format & Appearance

Features related to the type, look & feel of surveys.

Online surveys

Paper surveys

Supports the creation of paper surveys. This might be a “print” option, and should include some mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.

Phone surveys

Supports the creation and/or deployment of phone surveys, including a mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.

Survey templates

Includes a selection of pre-made survey templates for different types of surveys.

Survey library

Includes an organization tool, such as a library, that allows the user to save, store and re-use or update past surveys.

Themes

Includes options for the look & feel of a survey, including different colors, fonts, layouts, etc.

Custom logo/branding

Allows the user to include their company logo (rather than the survey vendor’s logo) and/or create a company template so that branding is consistent across multiple surveys.

Single page survey

Survey appears on a single continuous page, rather than requiring respondents to click through to multiple pages.

Progression bar

Survey displays a progression bar so that respondents know where they are in the survey (how much completed vs. how much left).

Responsive design

Survey is optimized for a variety of screens and devices, including mobile.

Survey Content

Features related to the content (media, question types, answer types, etc) of surveys.

Multimedia content

Users can include audio, images and videos within surveys.

Drag-and-drop editor

Users can easily rearrange survey elements, such as question blocks, by dragging them into new positions.

Changes to live survey

Users can make changes to live surveys after they are published.

Question bank

Includes a set of pre-made sample questions or question templates.

Question design help

Includes educational material about question design for research, such as tips, recommendations, and information about best practices.

Multiple question types

Supports a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, select all that apply, ratings, text responses, etc.

Matrix questions

Supports matrix or grid questions, such as “How often did you: eat breakfast? …exercise?...get 8 hrs of sleep?” where each subquestion has the same set of possible answers (e.g. Always / Often / Sometimes / Never).

Translation/multi-lingual

Survey Logic

Features related to survey flow, or the logic that directs survey question order.

Survey logic flexibility

Survey question flow can be customized with skip logic, conditional questions, question branching logic, piping logic, and/or randomization.

Response requirement/validation

Users can require that a respondent answer before moving on or submitting, and can specify the type of response (e.g. a phone number) that will be accepted.

Skip logic

Users can include rules that cause certain questions to be skipped based on a respondent’s demographic information, answer to a previous question, or response time, for example.

Conditional questions

Users can create rules for questions that are only asked to certain respondents, or only asked if particular behavioral or demographic criteria are met.

Question branching

Users can create branching question pathways, where a respondent’s answer at a given stage determines the next set of questions they will be asked.

Piping logic

Answers provided by respondents earlier in the survey can be piped into survey questions later on. For example, if Q1 asks for the respondent’s name, Q2 can ask “What did you have for breakfast, [Name]?”

Randomization

Question order and/or question set can be randomized across the respondent pool.

Survey Reporting & Analytics

Features related to reporting & analytics for survey results.

Response tracking

Individual responses are coordinated with demographic information about the respondent. This information is stored and can be used for reporting and analysis.

Data export

Data collected within the tool can be exported to another program for additional reporting/analysis.

Real-time results

Users can view results on dashboards in real-time as they come in, rather than needing to wait to run a report or take counts after the survey is closed.

Standard reports

Includes canned reports that allow users to generate and share accurate survey results.

Custom reports

Allows users to report on custom metrics, choose which metrics to include in a report, run reports with advanced segmentation and/or customize the look and feel of a report.

Visualizations

Includes reporting or dashboard tools for visualizing survey data.

Analytics

Allows users to run different types of analysis, such as statistical analysis, cross tabs, sentiment analysis, etc. within the tool.

Survey Integrations

Features that allow users to integrate a survey tool with another system or tool.

CRM Integration

Survey respondent pools or segmentations can be drawn from contacts already in the company’s CRM and/or respondents’ contact information can be pulled into the CRM.

Social media integration

Supports social sharing, posting, registration via social profile credentials, and/or embedded social content.

E-commerce integration

Integrates with e-commerce or billing/payment tools.

Testimonials widget

Allows users to excerpt and embed text or data from surveys on their website.

Survey Automation

Features related to automating/triggering survey processes such as publishing and reporting.

Notifications and alerts

Respondent behavior (including survey completion, particular responses, or opt-outs) triggers notifications.

Calendar/scheduling

Allows users to schedule start and/or end dates for surveys.

Follow-up emails

Users can set up automatic follow-up emails to survey respondents, for example a "Thank you" email or an email to share survey results.

ContestFactory

Overview

What is ContestFactory?