Hi there and welcome to my new Blog! I have decided to start this one up to cover my Campaigns, Contests, Brand Badges, and Vox Boxes that I receive on Influenster. Currently I am working on the eBay Brand Badge and waiting for my Sally Hansen Nail Gel Vox Box! For those of you who are unfamiliar with Influenster here is a little info and background for you right from the Influenster site:
"Influenster is a community of trendsetters, social media hotshots, and educated consumers who live to give opinions of products and experiences.
Influensters meet here to learn about new products from our favorite brands as well as review the products they already use in their day-to-day lives!
We invite our most active and social media savvy members to participate in exclusive rewards campaigns, such as:
- - Vox Box campaigns where members receive complimentary full-size products to test and review!
- - Interactive Twitter chats with celebrities and in-the-know experts
- - Fun contests where members can earn sweet giveaways
- - Special discounts on featured brands, services, and more!
In return, all we ask of our members is to do what they already love to do: share their opinions with their friends & followers on social media!"
In short, Influenster is a site where you can sign up to get full size products for free for testing purposes and all they ask in return is that you complete a few tasks. Pretty simple right? I thought so, so I signed up. I have only been a member since June 2014 and I am already receiving my first Vox Box and I qualified to achieve the eBay Brand Badge!
When I signed up I browsed around the site and chose Expert Badges that appealed to me most and did the short surveys and tasks that came along with it. I then checked out the Lifestyle Badges and did the tasks to unlock those as well. After I selected my badges I then linked all my social accounts to my Influenster account. My score didn't increase right away but after a day or two it sky rocketed. My current social reach is 1056 and growing everyday.
Influenster just recently did a site update and I am still getting used to how things work. Now you can have as many Expert Badges as you like, whereas before it was limited. I also find it much easier to navigate the site the way it is now. If you decide to look around the site you will also notice that they will be adding a mobile app very soon, which is great because the website doesn't always cooperate with my Galaxy Note 2.
So on to the Campaigns that I have qualified for!! I am currently waiting for my Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Vox Box!
The other Brand Badge that I am working on right now is the eBay Brand Badge. All I had to do was choose from a list of topics supplied to me by Influenster and write Selling Guides. If I wrote two of them and they were approved I would earn the Brand Badge and a $25 eBay Gift Card. If I wrote three and posted one on Social Media and they are approved I will earn the Badge, Gift Card and automatically entered in for a future Vox Box!
There were plenty of topics to choose from so I had no problem choosing three to write selling guides for. I wrote all three, posted them, submitted them and listed one on social media in around three hours. I fell that 3 hours of my time is worth putting in to earn a gift card and a box of full size products to test and keep.
The above pictures are of the Badge Page. The top picture outlines the details of the badge and below that are the tasks that I had to complete. As you can see they already recognize that I posted one of my Selling Guides to social media and the other three are in review. I am just waiting to see if my guides, which I submitted two days ago get approved and if I have earned my gift card and entry for a future Vox Box.
I also must add that when I was submitting my guides on the Influenster site I did experience a few issues. I couldn't post my guide for a little over 24 hours. It was in fact making me crazy. I decided to contact customer support on Influenster. I figured that I would have to wait a few days to get the issue resolved, but in less then 24 hours Influenster had contacted me, instructed me on a few things I could try on my end and also had their techs working on the issue. I did as they instructed and still couldn't post, so I waited for their techs to work their magic. No more then 5 hours after I received that email I tried to submit my guides again... It worked on the first shot! I couldn't believe that I had contacted a websites customer service and they had actually fixed it in a timely manner! Now I am sure I wasn't the only one having problems with this and that they had received other feedback about the issue, I guess I just didn't think they would care so much about all these member just trying to get free stuff!!
Below are pictures of the Badges I currently have, Expert and Lifestyle Badges.
** UPDATE: I received an update email from Influenster today!! My first Vox Box has shipped and is on its way! More updates to come soon! They notified me on 7/25 that I qualified and they shipped my Vox Box out yesterday! From start, when I got the survey email to see if I qualified, to finish, when they shipped out the Vox Box, it has only been about a month!! Definitely a time and customer focused company.
