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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.

Lucky List Contest Worth $30,000 Insured by Church in Illinois

Want to drive traffic to your next special event? Check out how one Illinois church turned to Odds On Promotions to do exactly that, with a Lucky List contest worth $30,000!

To attract youth to their location during a Halloween-alternative event, a church in Illinois running a Biblical-themed
Lucky List contest.

During a 3-week promotional period, any youth member who brings a guest to this church event will qualify for a chance to participate in the promotion. A list of 8 biblical phrases will then presented to each member and it will be their job to try and put them in Odds On Promotions‘ preselected order!

Surely you’re wondering what they’ll receive if they manage to get everything in the right order? Well, here’s a grand prize that’s sure to be appealing to any youth (or adult, for that matter) a brand new Camaro, valued at $30,000!

Our Lucky List contest is a very effective traffic driver, and the best part is that the items on the list are completely customizable, meaning it’s your call as to what words, items and/or phrases you’d like to be on your ‘Lucky List!’ Call Odds On Promotions today for more information and/or a free, no-obligation quote on a jumbo prize promotion of your own at 888-827-2249. You can also email us any time!

$25,000 Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab Promotion

Attention radio stations! Check out this pull tab promotion that you’re sure to love! Looking to team up with a sponsor (or perhaps, multiple sponsors) to draw a crowd to one of your live appearances? Check out what this radio station in Virginia is doing to drive traffic to multiple locations!

As part of their Monday Night Football live appearance packages, the station is giving sports bars owners the chance to make one of their patrons $25,000 richer, using Odds On’s Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab cards!

Here’s how it works: All season long, a Monday Night Football party will be taking place at a different sports bar in the area. The first 100 customers to arrive each Monday night will receive a pulltab card, featuring a set of numbers for each quarter of that night’s game. If the last digit of each team’s score matches three quarters, they’ll win an instant $1,000. If they match all four, the lucky patron will score $25K, paid for by Odds On Promotions!

Odds On’s Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab cards are cost-effective and simple for contestants to use! For a free, no-obligation quote on a promotion like this, feel free to give us a call at 888-827-2249… or email us for more information!

Distributing Co. Insures $50K Safecracker VSW Promotion

Looking to increase attendance at an upcoming Tradeshow or Open House event?
Here’s an idea to steal from a distributing company based in Washington state.

During a recent promotion, the first 500 people who walked through the company’s Open House event, which took place at their warehouse, were automatically given a chance to play Odds On’s Video Scratch and Win promotion, “Safe Cracker.” All 500 attendees stepped up to the game’s touchscreen and got the opportunity to choose 6 squares. If all 6 revealed a “stack of cash” symbol, then Odds On would have paid for the lucky attendee’s prize up to $50,000!

Here’s another promotion to consider insuring, either as an add-on or alternative: incentivize individuals to come to your Tradeshow or Open House by insuring an Odometer Match promotion. It begins when you advertise a chance to win an insured grand prize, such as a new car or a year’s worth of gas, if the number on an attendee’s odometer matches Odds On’s preselected number. Attendees simply enter in their “mileage” via Odds On’s handheld verification unit or online verification system. If the numbers on the odometer match Odds On’s preselected mileage, you attendee will be an instant winner and Odds On will cut the check! Be sure to award attendees with self-insured prizes for any correctly matching digits!

Interested in obtaining a free, no-obligation quote on either of the above promotions? Give us a call today at 888-827-2249! Looking for more alternatives? No problem! Feel free to email us and we’ll find a promotion that best suits your upcoming event. Let Odds On help make your next tradeshow, open house, or show become a huge success!

Winter Fundraising Promotions for Non-Profits

Looking to generate some additional funds for your cause this winter season? Odds On Promotions has a variety of different winter fundraising promotions that will help you achieve your fundraising goals… so bundle up and get ready to take some notes!

Ice Fishing
So you think fishing tournaments can only be held during the spring and/or summertime? Guess again! With an ice fishing promotion, you can still hold your fundraising fishing tournament regardless of the season (if your location/climate allows for it, of course). Feel free to charge people $X to get in on the excitement of possibly winning up to a $1,000,000 prize, compliments of Odds On! From weight match promotions to tagged fish promotions, we insure it all! Don’t necessarily want to insure a fishing-related promotion at your event? No sweat! Check out our scratch cards and our Lucky Envelopes promotion!

Poker Run
One of our most popular winter fundraising promotions! That’s right — a poker run promotion can even be held in the dead of winter, by using a snow machine, or even skis! Have your poker run contestants drive/ski to all 5 sponsor locations pick up their cards and at the final stop, have contestants enter their 5-card hand into Odds On’s Lucky Hand Poker Verification machine. If their hand matches our preselected winning hand, they’ll win up to $1,000,000 and Odds On will write the check! And remember, the best part of any fundraising promotion is that you decide how much you’d like to charge your participants!

Ice Melt Prediction
Take notes from this rotary club in Colorado and let your contestants make the call as to how long (down to the very second) they think it will take for a particular structure to fall through the ice next Spring. This winter, you’ll have contestants write down the day and time, down to the second, they think the “ice” will melt. You’ll reward the top 3-10 people who come the closest with a secondary prize and the chance to win a giant insured prize by entering their “lucky time” (XX hours, XX minutes, XX seconds) into Odds On’s handheld verification unit. If any of your qualifier’s times match the lucky pre-selected winning time they’ll win up to $1,000,000 and Odds On will pay out the prize! Odds On can help you adjust this promotion for any body of water that freezes … just give us a call today.

Need more ideas for winter fundraising promotions? We love to brainstorm, so give us a call today at 888-827-2249… or email us for a free, no-obligation quote! Have another idea other than what’s listed on this blog post and/or on our website? Let us know!

Casino Insures $50K Thanksgiving VSW Tablet Promotion

Casino properties, are you looking for a “portable” and easy-to-run promotion that can be themed around virtually any holiday or major event? Then you’ll appreciate this creative application of one of Odd On’s Video Scratch & Win games!

During November, two casino properties in the Southwest will be insuring a Thanksgiving-themed Video Scratch & Win promotion, Cornucopia of Cash, on a hand-held tablet!

Here’s how it works. After a club member is randomly selected, a casino staff member will bring the hand-held tablet game to the player at their gaming position. If the player manages to pick 6 “lucky” cornucopias on the game’s touchscreen, they’ll win $50,000, compliments of Odds On Promotions!

According to Evelyn Golding, Southeast Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, “I find the hand-held tablet games to be an extremely versatile and fun promotion for casinos. I actually have a casino property that has a host dressing up in a different Halloween costume every Tuesday and Wednesday and bringing the tablet right to their lucky “Hot Seat” winners to play for the big money. The player never has to leave their seat so the casino has no loss of ‘coin-in’ and players enjoy the promotion because they feel so lucky being ‘the chosen one.” I think it works well for casinos because along with the game, the casino can also customize the faceplate that surrounds the game. For example, the casino property I’m working is using a pumpkin faceplate because it matches the theme of the game they are using, “Lucky Pumpkin Pick.”

Chris Gardiner, Northeast & Midwest Business Development Manager with Odds On notes, “These hand-held tablet games are a very affordable way to bring a “winning experience” to a large number of players on the casino floor. You can award the “Hot Seat” winner a play on the tablet, then give the person to their immediate left and/or right the chance to win as well. With more people participating, it really enhances the sense of “winning” on the casino floor! What’s more, due to its unique consolation prize capabilities, casinos can dictate the quantity and types of secondary prizes so they don’t go over budget.”

Brent Kelly, Northwestern Business Development Manager adds, “For me, these tablet games are a fun and easy way to bring some bling to the Pit because they are quick playing and easy to operate.”

Interested in insuring one of Odds On’s many Video Scratch & Win tablet promotions? Need a custom game made to suit your needs? Give us a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. Or, if you’d rather, you can email us instead!

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