Take Flight

The Ultimate TF Giveaway has been going fantastic since we launched it last Thursday. So far the Take Flight Fan Page has grown almost 3,000 fans, and we’ve given away 8 Parkour shirts! Both of these numbers are increasing hourly. Great work everyone!

Since the contest launched we have received lots of emails, Facebook messages, and wall posts regarding the giveaway. Most has been full of excitement and appreciation. Unfortunately (and we can’t say we didn’t expect this) there has been some confusion. AHHH! We wanted to clear up as much of this as we can with this post so here we go:

The details of the contest and how to enter were/are posted here. Anyone who followed these directions has been entered in the contest. However, a few people attempted to follow the directions, but didn’t and have either not been added to the official queue or have been disqualified. Three of the most common errors were:

• Not adding Take Flight as a friend on Facebook.
• Not posting the number of friends you added on our page wall (not to be confused with our profile wall).
• Not inviting all your friends.

If you think you did all this but your name is not in the queue it is probably because you didn’t post your friend addition on our wall (it was from there that we created the queue). With that in mind, even if you are currently on the list, you could still be disqualified if we realize that the giveaway qualifications have not been followed (for example, if we realize that we aren’t friends! :\ )

One more thing to clear up: we’ve had a lot of people ask if there will be a time limit on this contest. The answer to that is…maybe… not…but maybe so? The thing is, at this point we don’t really know. The plan was never to have a time limit on the giveaway but rather let everyone who entered win even if that took a few weeks. So far things are going great and we are giving away shirts daily, but if that changes and the TF page stops growing in accordance with this giveaway then stopping it is something we will probably do since it really change anything. In fact, if this does become the case we’d much rather move on to other giveaways so everyone can have more chances to win again.

Lastly, if you have won (or will win) we will contact you. Don’t worry about sending us an email or message. You can leave that to us :)

That should pretty much answers all the questions we’ve received. If there is anything else we’re missing comment here and let us know!

Thanks to you guys we are rolling and giving away more Parkour clothing! The Take Flight Facebook page hasn’t received less than 1,000 interactions in 6 weeks and the streak continues with week 29 and 1,078 Interactions!

This week we are giving away a Parkour Skyline Tee. All you have to do is stay dialed in to our Facebook page for the announcement and we’ll let you know when and what you have to do to win (hint: all you’ll have to do is comment on a post. We like to keep things as simple as possible for our fans. After all, you are fans!)

Win this Parkour Tee this week!

To learn about the weekly 1,000 Interaction Challenge click here!

PK4Life!

We're giving away this tee this week! Stay tuned for details!

You guys have done it again! This week you have posted more interactions than ever before with 1,394 total comments, likes, and posts!

With a new record interaction total we are yet again giving away free Parkour clothing through our Facebook Fan Page! This week we are giving away a Take Flight City Tee. Sometime in the next 3 days we’ll post an announcement on the Take Flight page about the give-a-way. All you have to do is comment on the post for your chance to win!

Keep up the interacting and stay tuned into our page for more chances to win FREE PK gear and clothing!

Phantom Issue #1,042

For the fourth week in a row we have crossed the 1,000 interaction mark! This week, the 26^th week of the challenge, we had 1,042 interactions on our Facebook page which means that more than 1,000 times Traceurs around the world have commented, shared, Liked, critiqued, showed support of, and otherwise interacted with us and the Worldwide Parkour community through our page. Great job everyone!

For reaching 1,000+ interactions we are (as we always do in this case) giving away more free Parkour clothing! It’s just one way we can think of to encourage the interaction and sharing of Parkour through Facebook. Stay connected to the Take Flight Facebook page for all the details and your chance to win!

You guys have done it again! For the third week in a row you have accomplished the task of making 1,000+ interactions on our Facebook page! This means we are giving away more free Parkour clothing.

We'll be giving away this tee later this week!

Every week that fans make 1,000 or more interactions (Likes, comments, or posts) on the Take Flight Facebook page we give away free clothing. Because we reached 1,042 this week, you have another chance to win. Sometime this week we will be posting on our Facebook page regarding this opportunity. When we do, all you have to do is follow the directions (which will be “comment on this post”) and you’ll be entered. One commenter will be selected at random and we will contact them and let them know they’ve won!

Thank you everyone for interacting and spreading Parkour to your friends through Facebook. This is the #1 thing we do through our page, and we’re overjoyed to see everyone participating by critiquing, commenting, liking, sharing what we we post. Keep it up next week for another chance to win!

We are getting closer! This, the 22^nd week of the 1,000 Parkour Interaction Challenge, we experienced 854 interactions on the Take Flight Facebook Page. This is the highest interactions total since week 8 when we had 864 interactions.

Although we didn’t reach the 1,000 interaction-free-PK-clothing mark, the most exciting thing about the recent interaction total isn’t week 22’s total, but rather the total we are building for this week! At this point, in the last seven we’ve had 1,103 total interactions. This is the highest 7 day interaction total ever! The interaction total is calculated on Monday which means that all we have to do is maintain the interaction total over the next 5 days, nay, we can ever reduce our interaction total by 103 (!), and we will achieve the 1,000 interaction goal required for us to give away free Parkour clothing!

With 8 versions of the Original Parkour Tee now in the Take Flight store, and a handful of new products on the way in the next two weeks, we have more and more on the line which makes the weekly interaction sum more and more exciting. Let’s see if week 23 can be the one. Join us in helping spread Parkour; comment and “Like” posts, and post on the Take Flight Facebook Page so we can get to 1,000!

Week 20 and 21 closed and we’re still tracking the interaction totals on the Take Flight Facebook Fan page. The totals for these past two weeks were 496 and 573 interactions respectively.

The conquest for 1,000 interactions in a single week continues. With some new posting content to provide to the Parkour community, new Parkour apparel to be released this week, and a fan page that has recently exploded, we have high expectations that this week (#22) may be the one where we break through the roof and start giving away all that free Parkour clothing that our fans have been seeking for so long. Join our cause this week, and let’s see if we can make it!

This tee is up for grabs! Let's get 1,000 interactions so we can give it away!

Week 19 of the 1,000 Interaction Challenge has closed with 630 total interactions. Overall this is a lot of interactions but not enough for the 1,000 mark needed for us to give our free Parkour clothing to our fans.

Ferrari 630

Even though the Take Flight Facebook page has grown steadily over the past 4 months the interaction rate through our page hasn’t. Analysis of this trend had us looking for an explanation. To bring the problem into light, for example in week 8 we had 3,100 fans and experienced 864 interactions. Now in week 19 we have over 6,300 fans but only 630 interactions in the week.

Week 8 was an exceptional week when we had all the fans really working for the 1,000 mark which explains the high interaction total. But it’s still confusing to see a smaller total when we have more than twice the number of fans this week. Unfortunately this isn’t a consequence of fewer posts by us, it’s the cause of a Facebook control which limits how many times our posts show up in feeds! Even though we have 6,300 fans, our posts don’t appear to any more people than when we had 3,100 fans.

Even with more Take Flight fans Facebook controls the impressions and our posts are still seen by relatively the same amount of people. This is discouraging because it doesn’t allow us to share Parkour news, videos, and articles with as many people as we hoped. However we are working on new ways to share and bring this information and inspiration to people through Facebook so stay tuned. And in the meantime we are going to continue our commitment to bringing free Parkour clothing to Traceurs around the world through the 1,000 Interaction Challenge. Sooner or later we’ll make it, so keep interacting and keep spreading the Parkour news through Facebook and beyond!

The drive for free Parkour clothing continues! Week 17 and 18 have come to a close, and the Take Flight Facebook Fan Page had 701 and 546 interactions in each of them respectively.

Being short of the 1,000 mark for the 18^th straight week, we’ve decided to do some research into past weeks and present a graphical analysis of the Facebook interaction totals since this challenge began in January. Here is what we came up with:

As you can see, overall interactions are steady and averaging more than 525 a week which is awesome! That’s 525 times people have interacted, supported, and shared Parkour with their friends every 7 days through our page! We hope to reach the 1,000 mark soon and give out free PK apparel through this promotion. But whether we reach 1,000 interactions tomorrow or in a year, to us to see this type of support and sharing of Parkour is a success in and of itself.

National Geographic Issue #608

The 1,000 Interaction Challenge continues as does our pursuit of 1,000 “Likes”, comments, and wall posts on our Facebook wall in a single week. We are super excited to reach this because when we do we are going to give away free Parkour clothing! This week completes the fourth month that this contest has been going on, and we officially logged 608 interactions this week.

What makes the 1,000 Interaction Challenge so great is that there is nothing you have to do to enter except be our fans and interact with the content we post through Facebook. Whether we reach the 1,000 interaction mark tomorrow, in one week, or in 3 months, the free PK apparel will be there when we do. Keep the interactions coming and keep spreading the word about Parkour through Facebook!