Category Archives: Prize Insurance

Prize insurance gives marketers the ability to offer spectacular, attention-grabbing prizes that can be used to amplify engagement, create foot-traffic, motivate consumer behavior, generate sales, boost donations and increase publicity for a flat fee.

Baseball Promotional Nights: $5,000 Grand Slam Inning

Are you looking for an exciting baseball contest that will showcase you team or a key sponsor’s business during a baseball promotional night? Odds On has been working with a Minor League Baseball team based out of the Northeastern U.S. to insure a baseball promotion at ten of their games during the season!

For this team’s baseball promotional nights, the contest is a Grand Slam Inning promotion. During each of the ten games, if a member of the team makes an out of the park grand slam home run during the 4th inning of the game, one randomly selected fan will score a $5,000 home theater system, compliments of local Audio/Video retailer – the contest sponsor, and paid for by Odds On Promotions!

Interested in more ideas to help you sell baseball promotional night sponsorships, please feel free to visit our website, or give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. You can also contact us via email with any questions you might have.

P.S. Looking for a fun and unique way to register contestants, while gathering valuable marketing information in the process? Be sure to check out a demo of Odds On’s Online Contest Registration to see just how easy it really is, then give us a call for pricing information!

Baseball Promotion Idea: Ten Millionth Fan Promotion!

I’m back with another baseball promotion idea that a Minor League Baseball team insured in the Midwest – and it also happens to be an “nth” fan promotion, just like the prior baseball promotion idea story that I shared earlier!

Here’s how the promotion worked: On the specified promotion date, fans were eligible to sign up and be chosen to participate in the promotion at the baseball game through the 4th inning. The ten millionth fan through the turnstyle became the lucky contestant in Odds On’s “Ten Runs and Win the Game” promotion! If the baseball team scored exactly ten (10) runs and ended up winning the game, the lucky fan would have been awarded $10,000… compliments of Odds On Promotions!

While unfortunately, there was no grand prize winner, the MiLB team played it smart and didn’t dare leave the lucky 10,000,000th fan empty-handed: they were awarded with a team prize pack, valued at $1,500, which consisted of tickets, various team-branded memorabilia and more!

I love “nth” fan promotions – they’re a great way to increase game day attendence and excitement among fans. Especially when the promotion doesn’t consist of a skills-based contest — the fans merely walk through the turnstyle, the “nth” fan is chosen to be the contestant and sit back and watch the game, in hopes of a certain prize play occurring!

That’s not to say that we don’t offer various baseball promotion ideas which consist of prize plays, however — check out a list of the baseball promotion ideas on our website and then give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote… or if you have a unique promotion idea of your own! You can also email us for more information.

P.S. Looking for promotions for a different sport? Check this out!

Conference Promotions: Here’s a Great Idea for Your Next Event!

Looking to add some sizzle to an upcoming conference? A Texas-based company in the housing industry recently teamed up with a building products sponsor and was looking for some conference promotions. Odds On was able to help them to insure a Pick ‘Til You Win Lucky Envelopes contest designed to increase traffic and attendance to their local “Buyer Group” meeting.

On the promotion date, one conference attendee chosen at random via raffle had the opportunity to select from 5 of 40 of Odds On Promotions‘ Lucky Envelopes. Contained within each of the 40 envelopes were inserts, each of which indicated a prize. Eighteen of the inserts contained a trip for two prize, 17 inserts were worth a brand new Yeti Cooler and 5 were worth the insured grand prize — $25,000, paid for by Odds On! Both the trip and cooler were client/sponsor-provided.

As you may already know, the great thing about a Pick ‘Til You Win-style Lucky Envelope game is that no one goes home empty handed, which is what makes this our favorite out of all of the different envelope games we have to offer.

The contestant just kept choosing and opening envelopes until they collected 5 matching inserts, which indicated the prize they had won.

This conference promotion ended up being such a success that the companies will be doing another promotion, in the exact same way, at their National Conference this Fall.

Looking For More Conference Promotions?

If you’re looking for conference promotions, please feel free to contact Odds On today at 888-827-2249 or email us for more information. Additionally, if you’re looking for more ideas for conference promotions, be sure to visit our website for some fun and unique contests. Whether it’s a conference, trade show, or otherwise… we’ve got you covered with our A+ rated prize insurance!

Bingo Winner Scores $1,000,000, Odds On Promotions Writes the Check!

Verona, NY – On June 29, 2013, Frances Slesinsky of Binghamton won $1,000,000, courtesy of Turning Stone Resort Casino and paid for by Odds On Promotions. Slesinsky won the enormous cash prize, the largest jackpot in Turning Stone’s 20-year history, during a Million Dollar Matinee Bingo Session.

During the final game of the session, the casino offered a minimum payout of $25,000 for Level 3 players. However, if any player was able to cover all the numbers on a bingo card in 47 draws or less, they would take home a million dollar jackpot, which was insured by Odds On Promotions.

As luck would have it, Slesinsky got the final number she needed, “I-26”, on exactly the 47th draw, landing her in the Turning Stone record books and scoring a life-changing million dollar prize.

The million dollar promotion was the first event of Turning Stone’s month long 20th-anniversary celebration, which ran from June 29th through the end of July and featured big ticket giveaways, major casino gaming tournaments, special parties and events.

Interested in making a millionaire at your next golf tournament, special event or matinee bingo game? Give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 or visit our website at www.OddsOnPromotions.com.

Casino Sports Sponsorship: Make The Most of Your Investment

$10,000 Grand Slam Inning winner from 2011’s baseball promotion!

Does your casino sponsor a sports team? I recently helped a Minor League Baseball team in the West Coast insure both a Grand Slam Inning promotion, as well as a Jumbo Dice Roll contest in order to drive traffic back to the casino sponsor’s property… for the 6th year in a row!

Here’s how the casino made the most of their sports sponsorship:

The property insured a Grand Slam Inning promotion during every game this season. One lucky fan was selected at random before each game and got the chance to win $10,000 in cash if the 4th batter of the team managed to hit an out-of-the-park grand slam homer during the 6th inning of any of the games. Prize paid for by Odds On Promotions, of course!

$5,000 Casino Dice Roll Winner from 2009’s promotion!

Meanwhile, as a season-long traffic driver, a Jumbo Dice Roll promotion was held at the local casino, on the same dates as each of the baseball games. Fans who visited the casino after each game got the chance to be one of the lucky pre-selected players to participate in the dice roll contest. One player on each promotion date rolled six custom jumbo dice. If all six dice that were rolled landed with the casino’s logo face-up, they would have won $45,000, paid for by Odds On!

But wait, there’s more — if a player happened to roll the dice and 5/6 logos displayed face-up after the roll, they would have still scored $5,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions! That’s a total of $50,000 in promotion insurance!

While there was no winner this time around, the baseball team, as well as the casino, have both had winners in the past! In 2009, there was a $5,000 Dice Roll contest winner and in 2011, there was a $10,000 Grand Slam Inning promotion winner!

Interested In a Casino Sports Sponsorship?

Want to insure a casino sports sponsorship promotion of your own? Give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote… or email us and we’ll be sure to get back to you promptly!

P.S. Be sure to check out the other sports promotions and casino promotions we have to offer! Don’t see anything that catches your eye? Have your own custom promotion idea? Feel free to let us know and we’ll price it out for you!

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