CrossCheck challenged our employees to help raise brand awareness, generate business leads and mutually promote one another's endeavors through our social networks with the following contest - For the Love of Social Media Challenge.

Engaging with and growing your social network has become paramount to personal success in the 21st century. Find a job, find a stock tip, find your next qualified prospect, heck – find a husband or wife. What can’t you do through your social network?

CrossCheck is only as strong as their individual contributors. Master your social network and it strengthens the company's social network. Constructing and/or sharing relevant content in a social network is like fire to gasoline, explosive! In other words - You - can further contribute, mightily, to your and the company’s bottom lines by participating in this contest.

First things first though, you have to play to win the game.

Here are the rules:

1. The contest began on January 16th and concludes on February 6th.

2. Each participant was asked to register to a central e-mail address for tracking purposes. Once registered, participants were given an account set-up tutorial.

3. Three winners will be drawn lottery style on February 10th. 

- First place is a free laptop
- Second place is a paid day off on Valentine's Day
- Third place is a $50 gift certificate

4. Subscribe to company blog – 1 name in the hat

5. Create an account with any of the big four social media outlets (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube), with at least two header or summary mentions of or links to the company - 1 name in the hat for each account

6. Friend company Facebook account – 1 name in the hat

7. Connect with and follow company LinkedIn account – 1 name in the hat

8. Follow company Twitter corporate account – 1 name in the hat

9. Subscribe to company YouTube channel – 1 name in the hat

10. Those already engaged as described above receive the same credit

We have 40 registrants and have seen a significant uptick in our social reach in just 10 days!

Here are links to CrossCheck's social accounts; because we know you'd like to join in:

Facebook - CrossCheck - You will have to sign in
LinkedIn - CrossCheck
Twitter - CrossCheck
YouTube - CrossCheck

Next step? Teaching each other how to actively engage in remarkable content creation and sharing to keep the trend rising.

How do you use social media? How does your employer use social media? Where should the $50 gift certificate be to?