Online Contests – Xeesm/Compete™

Asking your customers to share new ideas and letting all customers vote is one of the most powerful customer engagement methods. You get the most direct Ranked Feedback and create a sense of ownership for your customer base.

Xeesm/Compete is now starting Beta tests.

You create your own competition, contest or voting initiative and ask your contacts to provide suggestions or vote on already existing suggestions. For instance:

The Agile-500 Contest

This is our first project using Xeesm/Compete!
1) We created the contest and provided some description what the contest is about.
2) We invite people to provide suggestions. In this case companies they feel should be an Agile-500 company list
3) Everybody can make suggestions and vote for their own and for other suggestions.

We will see the number of votes to determine the most agile companies in accordance to the customers voice.

You can do your very own contest, just create one.

1) Click on create a competition and explain what this is about
2) Invite all your contacts to provide suggestions
3) Everybody can vote on suggestions from everybody

Now – This is still in beta. Two things we are still completing:
1) To limit the number of votes a user may have (20)
2) The embed code generator, so you can add the contest page to your own website

Of course a user has to be logged in or register in order to vote.
Multiple votes on the same suggestion is not possible.

Some examples you may consider for your business
* Ask your customers about webinar topics they may be interested in and let them vote
* Ask your customers what kind of service offerings they’d be most interested in and let all customers vote
* Ask your partners what training they are most interested in and let them vote
* Ask your customers about product features and let all vote
* Ask your partners for programs they like to see and let them all vote
* Ask your customers what they think need to be added to your service portfolio and let them all vote
* Ask about product documentation…
* Ask about ease of doing business with you…
* Ask them to share their biggest concerns…

* You can ask pretty much anything and you will get the most direct ranked feedback ever. It’s not only an opinion from an individual – but actually ranked by your ecosystem based on their collective interest. Whether this is your customer base, your partners, vendors, consultants, your media connections or your own team.

Use Xeesm/Compete! for a technology contest, an idea competition, feature requests, event venues, leadership, partnership or many other topics to gain ranked feedback – let your audience compete for what’s important to them.

How do you get onto the Beta?
You either install Compete! from the Xeesm Apps world or contact us and we are helping you to get there.

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June 12 release – Xeesm Update

Several cool updates on Xeesm!
- New Dashboard for none subscription users
- Report on who is following you in Xeesm
- Updates on XNotes
- Enhancements on Flights with “Space Dominance Report”


1) See your followers / favorites

On the xeesm homepage you see now clickable links to the respective statistics.

One is the people who added you as a contact / favorite.

Click on the number of people you are favorited by and you see a list of people that added you as a contact. You can add them to your “Social Address Book” by simply clicking the add button. If you have an active Flight! open, you can add them to the active Flight

(this feature is currently only available to Business Edition Users)

2) Major Enhancements On XNotes


XNotes have now much more details and clickable references. You see them in the Xeesm Dashboard page. References include the Flight! you contacted a person from or the Opportunity in Edge! you worked on.

If you click on a person from within Edge! or Flights! you see the notes that you did from other Flights! or just in general. That way you now have a full view of all the activities with the respective person and the corresponding reference. For instance if you made a note in a Flight and you visit the person later on in Edge! you can see that note and better track other activities.

The other enhancement we made is that we record a visit to a persons site in XNotes as well. That way you don’t have to type like “left a note on LinkedIn”, instead we capture the visit and you’ll see how long ago and in what context.

3) Major enhancements on Flights!

We also did quite some work on Flights! We talked about the “Template Builder” before.

Flight Goals:

We now added an additional field where you can define a “Goal” of any Flight. This is in particular important when you share flights with others. A goal may be “Win 20 prospects” or “Get feedback from 15 top customers” or “Identify 3 top candidates for a sales search etc.

The Goal of a Flight! is copied over to a new flight and also part of the template maker.

NEW: Space Dominance of a Flight:

We now report the space dominace of a Flight. This is a simple yet very strategic report. You see where most of the flight members are and may direct your engagement towards ‘where your customers are’. It shows you the top ten sites where your flight members are.

You may see a number bigger than the members. That is if several members have multiple presences on the same network.

4) Social Finder Update

We updated SocialFinder so it adds photos to a profile if it can find a photo and no photo exists in Xeesm. In the first version Social Finder “updated” social sites if it found a record and another record already existed. We removed the ‘update’ and always ADD a new record if the site URL doesn’t exist.

Social Finder Success Rate

After some first reviews, we’d like to provide some initial feedback:

If you know the persons personal email address the success rate is typically above 80% in the US and around 60+% outside the US. In some areas however it may be rather low.

If you use SocialFinder with a list of webinar attendees you may find the success rate below 20% because often times users provide an email address they only use for registrations but not for their social presence.

Face lifting

We did some minor changes like a bit larger input fields and replaced the “old” buttons with “xeesm style” buttons.

Several Bug Fixes

And as always we did some bug fixes like:

- When going to your Dashboard the active Flight is no longer reseted
- Recognizing the checkboxes in the contact dispatcher
- Fixed some rules bugs when using a non subscription version
- Fixed an intermittent access issue with Notes 2 Contacts
- Added a message if an image can’t be read by Xeesm

And a few others.

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