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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.

Chamber of Commerce Attracts Shoppers with $25K Football Promotion

Looking to increase and encourage shoppers to spend more in your community? Want to reward customers with a generous cash prize for doing so? Then you’ll love what one chamber of commerce is doing for their retail members with this football promotion…

How this Football Promotion for Retailers Works:

During the month of December, for every $50 spent (receipts required) at a participating retailers, customers received an entry into a special raffle. Prior to the big game on February 3, 2013, one lucky individual’s name will be drawn. If, during the NFL Championship game, a member of the receiving team returns a kickoff for a touchdown, then that lucky preselected shopper whose name was selected via raffle will instantly win $25,000 and Odds On Promotions will cut a check for the prize.

Promotion Tip: Draw additional names and give them auxiliary prizes (gift cards, football memorabilia, or whatever you choose) so that no one leaves empty-handed from the promotion! For example, this particular client will be giving away a 43″ Samsung TV, recliner and $100 gift card! Additionally, you can also implement an online promotion on each shoppers’ receipt so they can enter themselves into a “second chance” drawing for a chance to win while helping to create a database of shoppers!

Interested in insuring a promotion tied to the big game on February 3rd? Check out a few of the Super Bowl promotions we have to offer then give us a call at 888-827-2249.

Want to learn more about this particular promotion? Just ask us for the details.

Tire Company Insures $20,000 Retail Promotion

Looking to insure a retail promotion that will have your customers lining up for a chance to win? Want to increase sales on a specific day or during a certain period of time? Check out this giant prize promotion cooked up by a Canadian tire store and their Pennsylvania-based marketing company!

Traffic-Driving Retail Promotion

On the specified promotion date, customers who visited the tire store got the chance to win a $20,000 vehicle in a hockey-themed Video Scratch and Win Game.

In order to play and win, customers chose 6 different spots on the game’s touchscreen. If all 6 spots on the game screen revealed a winning prize symbol (in this case, hockey pucks), then one lucky customer would driven home a winner.

According to Damien Anderson, Internet Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, “While there was not a grand prize winner for this retail promotion, the tire company and their agency ensured winning experience by providing a number of auxiliary prizes for customers that found fewer winning symbols… including hockey sticks signed by ex-Flyer and Penguin, Rick Tocchet, a Toronto native. What’s more, the retailer opted to hook the Video Scratch and Win kiosk up to an larger screen, ensuring everyone in the dealership could see what kinds of prizes people were winning.”

Interested in insuring a video scratch and win promotion at your retail location, or having us create a custom game for your special event? Odds On has both stock and custom options! Just give us a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us for a free, no-obligation quote. One of our marketing specialists will be more than happy to help build a promotion that will help meet your specific business goals. Also feel free to take a look at the other retail promotions we have to offer!

Lucky List Promotion Insured at 2 Supply Company Locations

Looking for a way to increase traffic and reward customers for shopping at your location? Need a creative way to drive additional traffic in order to move excess inventory? How about running a Lucky List promotion?

Increase Traffic & Reward Customers with a Lucky List Promotion

Here’s how the promotion worked: During the month-long promotional period, each supply company location insured their own Lucky List promotion where customers would have a chance to put 9 Christmas gifts in a specific numerical order. Each customer who entered the store was given a list of the 9 Christmas gifts and had the opportunity put them in the order of the choice.

Once all of the “Lucky Lists” were completed, the supply company randomly selected a few lists and submitted them to Odds On’s to see any of the lists matched a predetermined numberical order. If so, that individual would have won all of the gifts on the list, totalling $50,000… paid for by Odds On Promotions!

Want to give your customers the satisfaction of knowing whether or not they’re an immediate winner? Rather than using submitted entries, you can place Odds On’s handheld verification unit inside your store! Customers can then input the numerical order, and if they’re a winner, the handheld unit will notify them on the spot!

If you’re interested in insuring a Lucky List promotion, or any of the other various retail promotions we have to offer, then give us a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. You can also email us!

Driver’s License Match Promotion: Perfect for Radio Stations!

A radio station in the south recently gave fans the chance to win a giant prize in a Driver’s License Match promotion insured by Odds On Promotions!

During the month-long promotion, listeners tuned in daily for the cue to call. The ‘nth’ caller then had the opportunity to match the last 4 digits of their driver’s license number with Odds On’s preselected 4-digit number. If it ended up being a match, the lucky listener would win $50,000… paid for by Odds On Promotions!

On-Air License Match Games Made Easy

“Our Driver’s License Match promotion, ‘Licensed 2 Win‘, is an extremely simple contest to hold on-air thanks to Odds On’s internet verification system”, explains Chris Gardiner, Northeast and Midwest Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions. “When the caller is on the line, the DJ simply logs on to the online verification system and enters in the caller’s name, along with the license numbers the caller provides, to see if it’s a match. If it isn’t, the window automatically closes. If the number does match, then the DJ is prompted that they have a grand prize winner and to contact Odds On Promotions right away.”

Odds On’s Driver’s License Match promotion can be built using 3, 4, or 5 numbers based upon the sponsor and/or station’s budget, the length of the promotion and the size of the prize.

Interested in insuring your own Driver’s License Match promotion? Give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us for a free, no-obligation quote and more information! Any of our marketing specialists would be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have! You can also view the other radio station contests and promotions we have to offer.

California Casino Insures Swipe, Play and Win Lotto Promotion

Thanks to Odds On Promotions, casino promotions just got a whole lot… bigger! Take it from this California casino who insured Odds On’s new lottery-style Swipe, Play & Win promotion, The Big Draw, to increase foot traffic, attract new players and keep them on their property for an extended period of time!

During the 3-month-long promotional period, every Wednesday and Saturday, players had to the opportunity to participate in the casino promotion 4 times daily! All they had to do was swipe their players club card and choose 6 lotto balls (numbered 1-60) on the game’s touch screen.

Fun fact: The Big Draw has a “quick pick” feature which will select your six picks for you. You can also switch out the balls you’d like to select by simply clicking one of the six at the bottom to put it back and then reselect.

After making their picks, each player collected a drawing ticket which displayed their six chosen numbers, the date and time(s) that the ticket was valid for, as well as where the live drawing would take place. If one player managed to match all 6 of their chosen numbers on the ticket with the numbered balls that displayed at the time of the drawing, then they’d win $100,000… and Odds On would write the check!

While unfortunately, no one won the insured prize, there’s still a ton of great news: a guaranteed $100,000 prize was given to one lucky player at the end of the promotion! Smaller prizes were also handed out to players who managed to match a lesser amount of numbers: 3/6 numbers landed players $10 in free play; 4/6 numbers would give players $100 cash and 5/6 numbers meant a $1,000 cash progressive.

Want more information on The Big Draw? Feel free to give Odds On a call at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote or email us! Also feel free to watch the below video for a live demonstration of how the promotion works.

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