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My Crowdtap experience has always been a little hit and miss. I set my Facebook posts to "only me" and I double check it before I post any brand challenges so they don't annoy my friends. I don't have a lot of personal friends on my Twitter - I use it mainly for interacting with brands and bloggers who I like but who I don't actually know in real life. That way I can post the challenges to Twitter only and even if I only get half the credit that's fine with me. When I first signed up I got a party within a month - the McCormick Grillmates one. They sent a ton of stuff and we really liked and used all of it. I took tons of pictures and only shared them on Crowdtap if they had folks in them and shared photos of the food on Facebook with McCormick and tagged them in the shots. I try to spend a few minutes a week doing the quick hits and if there are interesting 1000 point challenges that are easy (take a picture of your Sketchers shoes!) I do them and write a blurb. Crowdtap seems to love pictures and honest feedback. I have said I thought things were boring and not worth my time (a television show) and they still gave me an "excellent" score. I only got digital content campaigns (watch tv or download coupons) for a while but lately since they have changed things up and changed the point values and redemption policy I have gotten a lot more things to try (cold medicine, the durex kit, yesterday an invitation and a sample box of a new cereal showing up this week). I have redeemed $105.00 worth of Amazon
gift cards I have gotten through them and also used some points for a t-shirt last summer. I also randomly won a $50 movie theatre
gift card through a link I followed to an instant win game for the Windows phone - it was unrelated but I would've never known about the game if I hadn't seen it in a quick hit so that was cool. I am level 13 and I think I have 78 stars or something like that. You get lots of points if you can get in moderated discussions - they are easy questions and the moderators almost always choose people who try to give opinions rather than one words responses. There was one a few days back that asked if you liked caramel candies - when you got accepted to the panel it asked 29 questions and you can get 100 points for each response and an additional 25 points the first time you respond to a comment someone else has made. If you are a lower level that is 3625 points you can make in about 45 minutes. The more effort you put in the more opportunities you get so you can turn some things down (I don't want to watch 100 Visa videos!) without getting penalized. If you forget to do something they put a flag that says "expired" on it and then it says - "whoops - try hard to get your responses in on time!" but it isn't a big deal. They are about to go through some MAJOR changes though so what I've been doing might not work as well in the new settings. I think it is most important to be honest and offer lots of content - especially pictures. Hope that helps you!
(And I agree House Party is a little weird - I think they really try and share the love and get lots of people involved instead of rewarding the people who throw great parties. I tried several times to get a Soda Stream one to no avail, but I hope that getting the Own party doesn't kill my chances for the Debbie Macomber one because I would Love to do that party!)
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