ShortStack

ShortStack is a fiercely aggressive, highly intelligent disruptor that looked at standard contest widgets and completely rejected them. Its entire architectural philosophy is: "A contest shouldn't be a tiny widget; it should be an entire, highly optimized landing page." ShortStack provides a massive, drag-and-drop website builder dedicated exclusively to building breathtaking, standalone marketing campaigns and contests. Its signature feature is "The Landing Page Architecture." If a radio station is running a $10,000 giveaway, they don't want to bury it in a blog post. They use ShortStack to build a massive, standalone URL with background videos, countdown timers, and custom forms. The drag-and-drop builder allows a marketer to mathematically construct complex, multi-step contest funnels without writing a single line of code. It heavily dominates the "Automated Email Follow-up." ShortStack realized that collecting an email via a contest is useless if you don't instantly engage them. It mathematically fuses contest software with email marketing. The moment a user enters the contest, ShortStack's internal engine automatically triggers an email sequence: "Thanks for entering! While you wait to see if you won, here is a 20% discount code."