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.

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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!

Kentucky Furniture Store Insures Football Conditional Rebate

If you work in the retail industry, chances are you’re looking to increase your sales…  Well, we have a great promotion story for you that comes from a furniture store in Kentucky, and we encourage you all to feel free to steal this idea:

During a week-long promotional period, customers of the furniture store who make purchases will have the opportunity to receive a 100% rebate!  Surely you’re wondering what has to happen in order for them to receive it…

After the week long sale ends, a college football game will take place.  And here’s where the prize insurance element kicks in: if the game results in a “shutout” (that is, if either team fails to post a score above zero), there will be some extremely happy customers… because depending on which team they’re rooting to shut out, they could win a 100% rebate on their purchase(s) … and Odds On Promotions will pick up the tab, relieving the furniture store of any risk!  Quite the win-win situation!

“What makes this promotion so unique is the fact that each customer is able to decide which team they want their rebate tied to”, explains Damien Anderson, Internet Business Development Manager with Odds On.  “This is a great way to engage fans of both teams and not make either one feel left out.”

Interested in insuring a conditional rebate of your own?  Great news: there are multiple ways to insure one!  Whether it’s a weather-based conditional rebate where customers receive a 100% rebate on purchases made during a particular timeframe if it snows, rains or reaches a certain temperature on the specified promotion date, or if it’s a sports-based conditional rebate like this one, where customers receive a 100% rebate if your local team wins the big game, hits a grand slam, scores a defensive touchdown, etc. — Odds On can insure it!

Give us a call today at 888-827-2249 to receive a free, no-obligation quote on a conditional rebate promotion from one of our marketing specialists.  You can also email us, if you’d rather!

Southeast Football Team Insures $10K Kick for Cash Promotion

To incentivize fans to wear red to  a particular football game, a college football team in the Southeast is insuring a promotion that’s sure to draw a huge crowd: a Kick for Cash promotion!

On the specified promotion date, one lucky fan wearing red at the game will be selected to participate in a field goal kick!  If the fan can successfully kick a football through the goal posts, they’ll be an instant $10,000 winner and Odds On Promotions pay for the prize!

“Insuring a sports promotion at any of your season games is a great way to not only attract a crowd, but also incentivize fans to fulfill your goals — in this instance, wearing a particular color at a game to show support,” explains Linda Thomson, Sports Promotion Specialist at Odds On.  “While you’re watching the stands fill up with loyal supporters of your team, fans will be excited to have a chance to participate in a contest that could potentially score them some major dough.  It’s a win-win situation for everyone.”

Need more sports promotion or football promotion ideas?  Give Linda Thomson a call at 800-771-0250… or email Odds On Promotions for a free, no-obligation quote and more information!

University Insures $5K Season-Long Volleyball Promotion

Colleges and Universities: Are you looking to increase entertainment and fan engagement at any of your upcoming volleyball games?  Check out the promotion that this university in the south is insuring through Odds On Promotions in order to achieve just that!

All season long, this university will be choosing one lucky fan at each game via tee-shirt toss to participate in a perfect serve promotion.  If one of the lucky chosen fans manages to serve a volleyball through Odds On’s custom-made volleyball target template, they’ll go home $5,000 richer that day and Odds On will pay for the prize!

Need more volleyball promotion ideas?  Feel free to check out the volleyball contests listed on our website, or give us a call at 888-827-2249 for more ideas and as many free, no-obligation quotes as you need!  You can also email us at any time.

CA Radio Station Insures $100K Birthday Match Promotion

Attention: radio stations!  Looking to boost your CUME and TSL?  Want to give all of those loyal listeners of yours a chance to win big just for tuning in?  Find out how this California radio station did just that… with a little help from Odds On Promotions!

All month long, in celebration of the radio station’s anniversary, listeners were able to call in to the station and give the DJ their birthday.  The DJ then input each caller’s birthday (2 digit month, 2 digit day and 2 digit year) into Odds On’s handheld verification system.

If the 6-digit number of their birthday (XX/XX/XX) happened to match Odds On’s preselected month, day and year, then the caller would have been an instant winner… and Odds On Promotions would have written them a check for $100,000!  All callers were given an auxiliary prize provided by the station just for playing!

Want to insure a Birthday Match promotion of your own?  Give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249… or email us!  And whatever you do, don’t forget to give your listeners consolation prizes for managing to match the month and year, or day and year… whatever the case may be!

P.S.  Would you rather use the last 4-5 digit’s of the caller’s social security number or driver’s license number instead?  No problem!  Check out Odds On’s promotions Born 2 Win and Licensed 2 Win for more details… and be sure to ask about our easy-to-use Online Verification System feature!