Category Archives: Contests & Sales Promotions for Retailers

Drive more traffic and sales with a giant prize sales promotion for your retail location.

Money Bag Pick Promotion: Double Traffic at Your Next Event

money bag pick promotionDouble the turnout at your next car giveaway with a “Money Bag Pick” Promotion…

It’s simple. Advertise for players throughout the promotion to “Bring a Friend” with you to the final drawing. Load the trunk of the car with Money Bags from Odds On. When you select the car winner, their friend gets to select a Money Bag out of the trunk. If the Money Bag contains a set of keys, the friend also wins a car, paid for by Odds On! This same concept can be used with any type of giveaway and starts as low as $700.

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Give the Gift of Gasoline

Give your new and future customers the chance to win an awe-inspiring amount of free gasoline, with Odds On’s Video Scratch + Win game.  This easy to play game will get customers lining up for a chance to unveil six spots on a touchscreen grid. Find all six grand prize symbols, and your customer will walk away with up to $100,000 or more in free fuel, paid for by Odds On. Keep them coming back for more by awarding up to six secondary prizes, such as bounce back coupons good for future purchases.

(Fun Fact: A tanker truck holds 9,000 gallons of gas.)

Sound appealing?  Want more information on this promotion?  Feel free to email us or give us a call at 888-827-2249.

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Millions in Minnesota! Nice …

Mall of America, Minn. – This Spring, the Minnesota State Lottery gave a few lucky members of their player’s club the chance to win prizes ranging from $10,000 to $1,000,000 in a Pick ‘Til You Win envelope promotion at the Mall of America.

All spring, the MN State Lottery held Scratch-O-Rama  “qualifying tournaments” at various venues across the state where eighteen finalists qualified for the Scratch-O-Rama Grand Finale Event at Mall of America in April. In addition to the finalists, two more contestants were chosen at Mall of America and given the chance to win big with just a scratch!

After three rounds of fast and furious scratching, Karen Fries of Redwood Falls got the chance to score the big bucks if she could locate the five matching $1,000,000 grand prize symbols before locating five of the second, third or fourth place symbols, playing Odds On Promotions’ Million Dollar Match Lucky Envelopes game.

According to Zak Woodhead, Risk Manager for Odds On Promotions, “What made this Million Dollar Match promotion is how the Lottery used insured prizes; they not only insured the grand prize of $1 million, but the 2nd place prize of $50,000 and the third place prize of $20,000, while self-insuring the $10,000 prize.”

Check out the great video about the event.

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Builder Drives Traffic with $100K Prize!

Reno, Nev. –  This February, Heartland Homes gave the first 300 people to arrive at the grand opening of their “Summit at Cheat Lake” development the chance to win $100,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions.

The promotion, which was one of a number of events taking place during the grand opening festivities, had “would-be” homebuyers entering a six-digit number into Heartland’s “Lucky Number Machine” (aka one of Odds On’s hand held verification units) for a chance to win a $100,000 prize.

According to Odds On Promotions’ Sales Representative Chris Gardiner, “With competition for home-buyers at an all-time high, this offer is a real attention-getter. I mean, $100,000 makes for a substantial down payment on a new home. And, since Odds On writes the check when there’s a winner, it’s an affordable way to pique consumer interest, make your advertising more effective and ideally grab some free headlines along the way. Where I think Homeland was particularly smart was in offering a number of consolation prizes including flatscreen tvs – another great perk a would-be homebuyer can appreciate.

Interested driving additional foot-traffic this summer to your location?
Odds On Promotion’s portable Prize Vaults are perfect for use in any location from fairs, festivals and events to retail stores and malls. Email today for more information.

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Million Dollar Tennis Anyone? Racket Up America!

Reno, Nev – Before the BNP Paribas Showdown last week, Christine Smith from Hurst, Texas got the chance any tennis fan would love – the opportunity to make a $1,000,000 Perfect Serve .

Smith got the chance to win the million-dollar prize after winning the “Racket Up, America” sweepstakes, a collaborative tennis industry effort created to build awareness and stimulate sales by giving anyone who registered at the playtennis.com website or bought a new tennis racket at participating retail locations the chance to win $1,000,000 by making a serve through a target template.

Smith, who registered for the contest in hopes of winning some tennis equipment for her daughter’s school, said, “Lo and behold, what do I win but the grand prize.”

As part of the grand prize package, Smith and her daughter also received a free trip to New York City, a sightseeing tour and introductions to Venus and Serena Williams and Billie Jean King, which made for a winning promotion even though Smith didn’t win the million dollar prize.

According to Zak Woodhead, Risk Manager for Odds On Promotions in Reno, Nevada, “Million dollar insured promotions are very effective in generating PR and generating traffic and sales both online and at retail locations. Even small companies can benefit from register-to-win promotions like this.”

Want to run your own mega-prize promotion? Give us a call at 888-827-2249 to learn more about creating a custom million-dollar contest for your organization.