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About Kristen Carter

Kristen Carter was the Marketing Coordinator for Odds On Promotions and it's sister company, Hole In One International. From 2011-2013 and 2013-2021.

Online Basketball Bracket Promotion: Championship Challenge

Expand your email database and drive web traffic for six weeks with a customized online basketball bracket promotion from Odds On!

Online Championship Challenge is a “set it and forget it” online basketball promotion that makes running a rewarding contest truly hassle-free! Your promotion includes: a $1,000,000 grand prize that’s paid for by Odds On; a free second-chance Final 16 contest that keeps customers engaged until the end of the tournament; plus a customizable interface featuring your logo and the ability to award self-insured prizes to both top-scoring and randomly selected contestants!

For more information on our online basketball bracket promotion, Championship Challenge, feel free to email us or give us a call at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote!

Prize Indemnity Insurance Gives Rodeo Fans Chance to win Bucking Bull

Whether you’re affiliated with a rodeo or are a sponsor looking to grab increased visibility tied to a major event, this score prediction promotion (a form of prize indemnity insurance) could be right up your alley.

This December, Zak Woodhead, Odds On’s Risk Manager, worked with the MGM Grand and Exclusive Genetics in running a million-dollar promotion tied to the National Final Rodeo in Las Vegas. The score prediction promotion gave fans the chance to win the big bucks (or in this case a big dollar bull), compliments of Odds On Promotions’ prize insurance!

Ride-A-Long For Riches – Prize Indemnity Insurance:

Each night during the 2012 National Finals Rodeo simulcasts at the MGM Hollywood Theater inside the MGM Grand, rodeo fans got the chance to win $1,000,000 or a million dollar bucking bull.

To participate in the free contest, fans simply completed an entry form taking their best guess as to the name of the winner of that night’s round, the winner’s score, and the second and third place scores. If a lucky contestant got all 4 predictions correct, they would have would won a whopping $1,000,000 payout, compliments of Odds On’s prize indemnity insurance!

While there was no million-dollar bull winner this year, roughly 500 folks participated nightly, ensuring a great crowd for the MGM’s simulcasts and outstanding visibility and marketing for Exclusive Genetics.

Interested in learning more about how Odds On can help you ensure a big turnout at your next promotion or special event with prize indemnity insurance? Email or give us a call today at 888-827-2249.

Media Promotion Ideas for the Months of February and March

Need some quick media promotion ideas? Are your Super Sunday plans in place? All ready for the madness that is March Men’s Basketball? Need a last minute promotion for President’s Day, Mardi Gras, or St. Pat’s? Odds On has got you covered!

Check out these super easy last minute media promotion ideas for February and March, or give us a call today at 888-827-2249, and we’ll help you custom-design a contest to suit your client, budget and sales objectives. Simply click the name of the contest below to request more information via email!

Mardi Gras Millions
Need a last minute idea for a restaurant or bar this February? How about giving someone the chance to be a Mardi Gras Millionaire? Odds On will send you a set of 40 Lucky Envelopes, each holding a strand of colored beads worth different prizes (e.g. purple beads for $250, green beads for $500 and gold beads for $10,000). Your lucky contestant will select and open envelopes until they find five matching strands of beads, winning the indicated prize.

Easy Money March
A favorite among our media promotion ideas! Choose from our stock or customizable Easy Money cards and distribute cards at your next live appearance to increase traffic, sales and excitement. Fans simply scratch off a predetermined number of squares, revealing different symbols. When they unveil a winning combination of symbols, Odds On will be there to pay for the prize!

Scoreboard Payoff
Looking for a fast, easy and rewarding way to make everyone feel like a winner during basketball season? Look no further than Scoreboard Payoff pull tab cards. Simply select any two basketball games and distribute the cards prior to tip-off. Players then pull off the card’s tabs to reveal a set of numbers for both games. If the last digit of each teams’ scores match both halves of the two games, they’ll score $25,000. Match any three of four scores, and the lucky card holder will win $1,000. Both prizes paid for by Odds On Promotions.

Direct Mail Promotion Worth $25K Insured at Harley-Davidson Dealership

Hey, auto dealers! Looking for a great direct mail promotion that’s bound to drive foot traffic through your doors? Want to increase sales while gaining valuable marketing information? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you’ll want to pour yourself a cup of coffee and take the time to read about the Video Scratch & Win contest that this Harley-Davidson dealership in Connecticut insured to promote the new 2013 Harley-Davidson Street Glide!

Direct Mail Promotion Using Video Scratch and Win Game

During a week-long period, customers who presented a direct mail postcard at the dealership got the chance to play Odds On’s Harley-themed Video Scratch & Win promotion, “Born to Ride.”

Each customer selected 6 spots on the game’s touchscreen. For every ‘Harley motorcycle’ symbol that appeared, they would win a prize! 1/6 Harley symbols landed them $5 off any purchase of $25 or more at their dealership; 2/6 symbols would award them a free helmet; 3/6 symbols, a pair of Hustin boots; 4/6, a classic leather jacket; 5/6, a Kendon single-rail trailer…

And now here’s the best part: If a customer managed to select all 6 spots which revealed a Harley motorcycle symbol, they’d win the insured prize, a 2013 Harley-Davidson Street Glide, valued at $25,000, and paid for by Odds On!

While unfortunately, there was no grand prize winner, many prizes were given away and fun was had by all — and in the process, the Harley dealership gained additional foot traffic and sales during the promotion… all for purchasing contest insurance from Odds On Promotions!

Interested in insuring a direct mail promotion of your own? Give one of our marketing specialists a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote… or email us for more information! Be sure to also take a look at the live gameplay of ‘Born to Ride’ below!

Newspaper Promotion Insured in Mid-Atlantic

Are you in the newspaper industry? Looking for a great newspaper promotion to help increase readership and drive traffic to sponsor locations in the process? Then you’ll definitely appreciate this holiday promotion that a newspaper company in the Mid-Atlantic insured with Odds On Promotions…

How This Holiday Newspaper Promotion Worked…

In the month of December, each Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday’s newspaper contained an insert which featured 6 extravagant holiday gifts. Readers were directed to put the 6 holiday gifts in the order of their choice and drop it off at one of six participating local sponsor locations, for a chance to win $50,000 in prizes!

At the conclusion of the entry period, the newspaper randomly selected one list from each of the six sponsor locations to see if any of the reader’s had placed their items in the same order as Odds On’s preselected winning order. While none of the selected entries featured the winning order, the promotion drove valuable foot-traffic during the holiday shopping season while allowing the newspaper to showcase selected sponsors and their merchandise.

Interested in insuring a Lucky List promotion, or learning more about any of Odds On’s giant prize newspaper promotions? Email or give us a call today at 888-827-2249!

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