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Get Your Kid Noticed in Photo Contests
Whether it's the cash prize or the pride, every parent wants his or her kid to win one of Parents' photo contests! Use these tips to help your child's photo win the most votes. Remember: Word of mouth is key to getting more votes. Tell your friends to tell their friends -- and so on.
1. E-mail your family and friends and tell them to vote for your kid.
2. Share the link with your online network. We have a great share button that makes this easy!
- On Facebook: Share the voting link; make an event to invite your friends to vote and send them reminders in messages; and make your profile picture a reminder for people to vote.
- On Twitter: Tweet reminders to your followers and ask them to re-tweet.
- On Pinterest: Pin your kid's picture from the voting page to one of your Pinterest boards. In the caption, ask your followers to click the photo and vote.
- On your blog: Post about the contest, create a voting button for your page, and sneak in reminder voting links on your posts.
- In online communities: Put a voting link in your signature and start posts asking other members to vote.
3. Spread the word locally.
- Share your excitement in conversation with friends, co-workers, and family members. Send them a follow-up e-mail, Facebook post, or Tweet with a voting link.
- Put a flyer up on an office bulletin board.
- Call up a local radio station and ask to give an on-air shout-out.
- Contact your local newspaper for coverage.
Remind people to vote after you've done your initial contact. This may seem annoying, but many people need reminders.
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this contest is really stupid, they should have their own people choosing the best picture and not our friends and family. this is fake, they should stop getting peoples hopes up thinking that this is actually real.
5/19/2012 03:30:26 AM Report AbuseWow, with all of these negative comments, I wonder if Parents will get a clue. Hello, editors? Are you there? Parents are speaking!
5/18/2012 11:52:07 PM Report Abusehow do i go about uploading pictures of my child for the cover contest! I was in parents magazine when i was five!
5/18/2012 10:57:18 AM Report AbuseHorrible that it has to be how many people you know and not that the photo is worth it. I think its a shame on them.
5/18/2012 09:44:43 AM Report AbuseVotes for my child aren't even counting as I sit here and instruct and watch my friends vote... the total for FB isn't even going up in number. System isn't functioning properly!
5/10/2012 09:00:22 AM Report AbuseI hate these contests. All they are, are popularity contests. What really happened to the true "cutest child" contests? If you are going to have a contest actually have a group of people vote and not friends.
5/4/2012 07:36:36 AM Report AbuseAccording to their tips, they are telling people to spread the word by contacting local newspapers and radio stations to get people to vote. Who would actually go through all that trouble to have people vote for their kid. And I'm sure you would have to pay these venues for advertising space. Its ridiculous, and just a way for them to get free publicity on other people's dime.
5/1/2012 11:02:22 PM Report AbuseYou'd think after last years troubles they'd try to fix the problem. Guess they don't really care about the Moms who buy their magazine and visit their websites. What a TRASH corporation.
4/30/2012 02:01:05 PM Report AbuseI can't even get to the vote page??????? I click on the link on facebook and it just takes me straight back to entering the contest.
4/15/2012 08:08:33 PM Report AbuseI agree, too hard for friends and family to vote. Seems like it is just a popularity contest.I only attempted this contest once and after the calls and emails from my friends and fam saying they tried to vote but soooo much red tape and other confusion they just gave up.This contest should not be judged by the public.
4/9/2012 05:55:26 PM Report AbuseYes, I entered my kid last year and had a terrible time finding her and my friends and family thought the whole thing was more trouble than its worth!!
4/9/2012 11:49:05 AM Report AbuseYes, there should be No public voting. Did you notice that number one pictures have about a thousand votes? This is ridiculous. Even if all your friends and relatives would vote for your child every day, that number of votes is not possible to achieve. And they wouldn¿t want to do it over and over again. My pictures were #2, and #3 several times, but #1 person was always at least 600 votes apart. I think some people figured how to use/program their computer to vote all the time. I quit.
10/28/2011 10:24:47 PM Report AbuseDoes anyone have any suggestions on how to get my sons pics on a cd so he can enter these contests Iam not very computer literiate open for suggestions. So do we have to have pics downloaded on a cd from where we had them taken or is there an easier way? Help!!
10/10/2011 04:07:26 PM Report AbuseI entered my son in the kid of the year contest but cant seem to find it...What do i do????
10/4/2011 11:33:49 AM Report AbuseI agree - this is more of a popularity contest than a true cute baby contest. I entered my child in a contest and she came in 25th - but there were a few ahead of her that were just really awful pics - not of kids, but the pic itself was so blurry or dark you couldn't even see the kids face! Ridiculous.
6/28/2011 11:11:44 AM Report AbuseVERY frustrating website. and this is ridiculos that friends and family are vote for baby. I guess professional should choose the best picture. And there are no search option working for me either.
6/26/2011 04:45:59 PM Report AbuseI agree that asking family and friends to vote is stupid and does not really determine a true "winner." Parents should choose a "Board" to review and select a winner. Ridiculous. Guess my son lost, since I refuse to spam my friends and family.
6/24/2011 12:45:39 PM Report Abuseuh, the point of sharing w ALL of your friends and family is so that it drives traffic to their web site. they don't care about this contest...they care about how many hits their web site is getting and they get those hits every time your friends/family go to the site to vote for your kiddo. Therefore, their advertisers will pay to be on the site. More hits, more advertisers, more money for the magazine. That having been said, my kid should win. HAHA
6/21/2011 01:53:28 PM Report AbuseI agree, there should be objective judging - not by family and friends! All it is about is how many people you know!!
6/2/2011 10:34:15 AM Report Abusei do believe all babies are adorable and i did enter my daughter into the contest but i have to agree there should be a limit of how many children are entered and the photos should have to be approved by somone before they are even enterd. My daughter is beautiful and i did this for fun but things should be done differently ...
5/23/2011 12:30:38 PM Report AbuseI did this before and people said they did not know how to vote!! It should definetly not be a popularity contest based on how many friends and family you have to vote for your child!!
5/20/2011 03:27:02 PM Report AbuseHow to you vote????? VERY frustrating website.
5/16/2011 07:55:28 AM Report AbuseI agree about the process for cutest kid and other contests, if you dont have bookoos of people to vote then your child doesnt have a chance. It should be a professional viewing and selecting. Please take all these feed backs seriously.
5/5/2011 10:49:36 AM Report AbuseI don't understand why "the cutiest kid" is dtermined by whoever has the most family and friends. Shouldn't a professional team of photographers decide on this? I will not bother my family and friends because I Think I Have The Cutiest Kid. Really, how many of my co-workers really care?
5/5/2011 07:25:40 AM Report AbuseA professional should be deciding this. Whoever has the most "friends" will win. We aren't into the social media scene, so only our few REAL friends would vote. Thumbs down Parents!
5/4/2011 08:38:10 PM Report Abusethis seems to be a marketing attempt to get all the parents and family to generate traffic to the parents.com website. after sending this out to friends and family to ask them to vote, i regretted doing that and feel embarrassed. especially when there are thousands of photos out there. doesn't seem like anyone from parents.com is actually viewing any of these photos or filtering the bad ones out.
5/4/2011 04:10:23 PM Report AbuseYeah, same here...can't find the picture to vote if you don't actually send out the link. Seems it's more of a "get everyone you know to sign up at this site" by using facebook, twitter and etc...I asked myself after several emails to friends and family..."why isn't a professional photographer, or model search agency deciding this?...why is it up to the child's family and friends of family?"...Doesn't mesh well.
5/4/2011 10:01:59 AM Report AbuseOn the week that my granddaughter was to be voted on was the week of the tornado disaster in our area. Most power was out and still is. I would really like the chance to vote on her again. I that possible?
5/3/2011 06:32:09 PM Report AbuseI think Parents Magazine should edit the entries down to 100 or so and then start the public voting. It's intimidating to have 8000 entries and no one is going to actually go through and vote for the cutest kid. Photos only get votes from people they actually know. Oh well!
5/3/2011 06:08:06 PM Report AbuseBeen having the same problem as you guys... the cutesr babies dont win! Seems like a waste and its rigged
5/3/2011 05:40:56 PM Report AbuseIt doesn't matter anyway. The cutest babies don't actually win. It's a waste of time. I regret all the messages I sent out to all of my friends everyday bothering them.
5/3/2011 05:13:04 PM Report AbuseMy family can't vote either, when I search for my son I also get no results.
5/3/2011 10:09:28 AM Report AbuseWhy can I not find the VOTE button? It is not located where it says it is under the FAQ's.
4/27/2011 12:47:15 PM Report AbuseI'm having a hard time finding my son and no one can figure out how to vote.
4/26/2011 03:09:00 PM Report Abusei AM HAVING TROUBLE FINDING MY G-SON IN THE PHOTO CONTEST. IS THERE AN EASY WAY TO SEARCH SINCE ALL MY SEARCHES SAY NOT FOUND.
4/26/2011 06:54:16 AM Report Abuse