Have you ever wondered how to get free products to test out for your Youtube channel or for your blog? If you have, then you may have come across Influenster before. Influenster is a program that partners with an abundance of companies to send out boxes of free items for you to review in exchange for your honest opinion. In this blog post, I’m sharing my tips on how to get an Influenster Voxbox for yourself.
What is a Voxbox?
A Voxbox is a box filled with mostly full-sized products that you get the chance to review and keep. The boxes are usually themed by seasons or around a product launch. Sometimes the boxes come with only one product while other time you’ll get a few pieces. Each Voxbox can contain up to hundreds of dollars, from large accessories to makeup to food items. Some of the brands that I’ve gotten are before are Marc Jacobs, Bite Beauty, and Venus Razors.
How to Join Influenster
You can join Influenster by making your own account via email or through Facebook or Instagram. You’ll then receive a link in your email requesting that you fill out your profile. The best part about Influenster is that it’s completely free to join!
How does the whole process work?
Once you sign up for an account and connect all of your social media platforms. Influenster will generate an Impact Score for you. The Impact Score tells Influenster how much reach and influence you have in your network, which will pay a big role on whether or not you’ll receive a Voxbox. On the app, there is also a section for Snaps, which are questions that allows for Influenster to get to know more about you, your habits, likes, and dislikes.
Once Influenster decides that a campaign may be a good for you, they’ll receive a more specific survey in your inbox that will ask you questions pertaining to the items you may receive. After you complete the survey within the destinated time frame (usually a few days), Influenster will make the final decision on the group that will receive the Voxbox. If you’ve been selected, you’ll receive an email, and the box will arrive on your doorsteps within a few weeks.
After your box arrives, you’ll be given a list of tasks to complete about the products that you received. An example of a task that you may have could be sharing a photo of the item on your Instagram or leaving a review on the brand’s website. They are usually pretty simple to do and don’t require a lot of time on your part.
The last thing that you have to do is send in proof of the activities, which you can upload straight from the app on your phone. If you complete enough of the destinated tasks, you can win badges. The more badges that you earn will give you a higher chance of getting another Voxbox in the future.
7 tips to improve your chances of getting your first Voxbox
Personalize your profile
Once you finish signing up for Influenster, take a few minutes to fill out your profile and really make it personal. When the team at Influenster is selecting people for a Voxbox, they are looking to see your likes and dislikes to figure out what products to send you.
Connect your social media accounts
After filling out your profile, the next thing that you want to do is to connect your social media accounts. Influenster uses the information to calculate your Impact Score, which is a deciding factor on whether or not you’ll be receiving a Voxbox. The higher the impact score, the higher chance that you’ll be selected for a campaign.
The social media platforms that you can connect include Influenster, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Foursquare, Blogger, Tumbler, WordPress, Pinterest, and Google Plus. If you still have a low impact score after connecting all of your social media platforms, here are some things you can do to increase it:
- Increase your social media followers
- Invite your friends to join Influenster
- Add the Influenster widget to your blog
Write reviews on products that you already have
When you’re first getting started on Influenster, you’ll want to start by reviewing any items that you have laying around. It’s super important to review items in the categories that you want to get sent free products. For an example if you want to get sent free beauty items to test out, then you’ll want to focus your reviews on beauty then. By being active on Influenster, you’ll have a better chance of getting selected for Voxbox.
Ask and answer any questions
Another way to improve your chances of getting selected for an Influenster Voxbox is to ask and answer questions on some of your favorite products or products you’re interested in testing. Influenster has a really great community that is super helpful and welcoming, so don’t be nervous about getting involved in the community! Before I make a new purchase, I always check out the reviews on the Influenster app to see the consensus of how people are liking the item, especially for beauty items.
Always answer any snaps on your dashboard
Once signing up for Influenster, there is a selection to answer these questions called “Snaps”. These are more detail and different questions to further get to know you as a person and what you’re interested in testing out. They usually ask what brands, products, or tools that you recently bought and what you’d be interested in buying. This allows the team at Influenster to get to know you better and allow you to be selected for Voxboxes that are centered around products you’d enjoy and haven’t tried before.
Check your emails frequently
If you are selected for a campaign, Influenster will shoot you an email with a short time frame to fill out a survey with more information. The survey will usually ask you a few questions that are specific to the items that Influenster will be sending you, such as hair texture, foundation color shade, etc. The answers to this survey will be the deciding factor on whether or not you get selected for the box.
Don’t forget about the final survey after receiving a Voxbox
After you receive your first Voxbox (Yayy!), Influenster will send over a final survey for you to fill out. This survey basically helps Influenster figure out if you enjoyed the products you received and your thoughts on the items individually. If you forget the survey and don’t fill it out, you will be disqualified from ever receiving a Voxbox again! Aka no bueno!
Influenster is literally the best platform for anyone looking to test out new, full-sized products without having to spend your own money first. Hopefully with the tips that I shared in this blog post you’ll be on your way to getting your first Influenster Voxbox! When you do, please leave a comment below about which one you received!
This post was originally published in July 2017 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
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