How... Volunteers???

Posted 5 years, 1 month ago by Skulltopus

A friend and I thinking about holding a contest sometime and I am honestly curious about the fact of how one acquires volunteers to do some of the prizes for the winners? I just wanna know really like, what steps I should take and such!

Thank you if you have some words of advice! ; w;

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idk if it operates differently on th, but i've definitely just seen people straight up offer volunteer prizes for contests in that contest's comments or by sending the host a PM. you could probably also just ask around, esp from other friends. might be good to have dates figured out and the preferred method of contact i.e. so winners and volunteers aren't left frustrated or unanswered after the contest's conclusion.

Aw thank you for the answer gosh!! We were going to put it on DA and probably advertise it on TH. I know we wanted the contest to end around September? So that's what I got for that date wise.

We haven't put up the contest yet cause we're still setting up but I wanted to get all this info beforehand! ; w;

But alrighty, it's interesting that people just offer. I'll have to see what I can do gosh. UM U

A preferred method of contact though! Sounds fair enough gosh, I gotta think that one over, prolly the DA note system since I rarely check my email OOF.

ah dA, okie. yeah i've definitely seen people offer prizes there, though i'm not sure what about a particular contest compels people to offer prizes. can definitely have a note in the journal itself that people are free to offer additional prizes. i wouldn't, like, rely on people doing this ofc, but the possibility is there?

ye, i know i've had instances where i was a bit confused or intimidated about collecting prizes from artists who were offering. i think it's nicer when the person doing the prize reaches out to the winner(s) and asks for details? and if the winner doesn't reply, then, eh, it's on them for not claiming their prize. dA note should be fine for all that imo

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I saw people get volunteers for the prizes in their contests before so I was curious cause I want to offer the winners of a contest something worth their time. What the contest is gonna be about is drawing me and my friends OC's with either our ships or friendships. So, it's as simple as that really.

I know I'll be sure to provide for the contest as well, it's not that I'm relying just on other artists because I'll be making prizes as well, but again, I wanted to make the prizes worth someone's time and providing more art is a good way I think. As well as money of course. U MU

To be honest, this question here is WHY I was asking like, for regular contest holders, do they offer something oooorrrr. Idk. I know people usually like to get something out of it but I just dunno what.

But thank you I'll see about asking the forums.