Voting contests are organized competitions used to identify or crown candidates by popularity. Contests have in recent times become a trend for most pageantry or award event organizers who use the social media voting strategy to grow their fanbase or leverage on contestants fanbase to foster company growth.

Most event organizers get stocked while using the social media voting option since they is no effective reporting provision or a means to generate income to run their event even after the voting is completed. The social media strategy leaves the event organizers with completely no value in return than a bunch of new likes to their social media handles.

This article is to help introduce event organizers to platforms they can use to carry-on an organized voting and get an excellent reporting provision while they generate income in return if it is a paid voting activity.

Before we proceed, we will like to establish that they are two (2) main types of voting contests to include:

1. Free Voting: This is the kind of voting where no monetary value is required to cast a vote.

2. Paid Voting: This is the kind of voting where monetary tag is placed as a requirement to cast a vote. Candidates are to pay for each vote they make.

Having under-studied the market and its need, we can strongly recommend to you one (1) company who are professionals with organizing voting contests and that company is called Elfrique Solutions – www.elfrique.com.

Elfrique is a vote management solution providing company that is centered on providing both the 3-Digit USSD Short Code Voting and the Website Based Voting.

The 3-Digit USSD Voting of Elfrique is a multi-bank payment enabled voting code. Voters using this code can make payment with any bank in Nigeria. It identifies all bank account tied to a phone number when the Elfrique USSD code is dialed. Also, the USSD code is a 3-Digit Code (E.G *123#) that when dialed the customers will see the menu-drop down and simple instructions on the processes in completing their voting. They use the strategy of assigning candidate numbers to each contestant to help making voting easy.

The interface for the website-based voting of Elfrique is just so sweet. Candidate are listed on a single page with their information’s on it and voting activities can be made from that same page. Their voting system allows for multiple voting at a time.

You can visit their website at www.elfrique.com or call: +234-905-746-8771 or email: info@elfrique.com for more information.