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Autumn Promotion Ideas For Every Business, Compliments of Odds On!

Ready to scare up more business with some Autumn promotion ideas from Odds On? Odds On Promotions offers a variety of sales and traffic driving promotions, featuring larger than life prizes, that are designed to capture attention and help you close more sales. And when you have a big winner, Odds On will be there to pay for the prize! Check out a few favorite Fall promotions below, then click the links for more info or to obtain a free, no-obligation quote… or give us a call today at 888-827-2249!

Countdown to Kickoff
Are you ready to score big points with football fans? Odds On’s Pick 6 Football promotion is a fun, easy and customizable way to give everyone the chance to win big for a very affordable price! Customers simply select 6 spots on the tablet’s touchscreen and win prizes based on how many winning symbols are revealed. If they locate all 6 winning symbols, they’ll score your grand prize – up to $100,000! Be sure to check out more football promotions we have to offer.

Oktoberfünds
Celebrate the 180th Oktoberfest by giving your customers the chance to win $180,000 or an all-expenses paid trip for 4-6 people with Odds On’s Oktoberfunds promotion. Odds On will ship you a set of our Lucky Envelopes, which you’ll place inside of beer steins. If a lucky contestant can pick the winning “brew”, they’ll win a wünderbar prize and Odds On will write the check. Be sure to look at some of our other October promotions!

Black Friday Bonanza
Drive traffic to your website, social media page or brick and mortar locations this November by giving shoppers the chance to win everything on their holiday wish list with Odds On’s Lucky List promotion. You’ll select between 7 and 10 incredible prizes, such as $500 gift cards, 3-D televisions, all-expense paid vacations, brand new cars, you name it – and we’ll put them in a secret order. If one of your contestants can put your list of prizes in just the right order, Odds On will play Santa and give them everything on their list! Need more Autumn promotion ideas? We’ve got ’em!

Radio Promotions: Off-site, On-Air… Big Prizes, Big Results!

Wondering exactly how a big prize radio promotions can benefit your business?

This spring and summer, Chris Gardiner, Northeast & Midwest Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, been working with a broadcasting company based in the Midwest that is running two radio station promotions, both of which are utilizing prize indemnity insurance.

In support of the radio station’s Spring promotion and a Country concert, Odds On’s custom Video Scratch and Win game, “Mega Money Machine”, was taken to nineteen different sponsor locations during various live appearances.

Listeners at each location each got the chance to choose 6 spots on the game’s touch screen. If all six happen to reveal “stacks of cash” symbols, then the contestant would be awarded the insured grand prize of $98,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions! Smaller prizes could also be won by listeners who manage to reveal fewer winning symbols:

concert meet and greet passes
stadium blankets
t-shirts
drawstring sports packs
2 GB memory sticks
grocery totes
bottle koozies
“preferred seating” at the concert

Prizes galore; everyone leaves a winner!

On-Air Radio Promotions Too…

In addition to the live appearance Video Scratch and Win promotion, the radio station is also insuring an on-air Playlist Payoff promotion, where select callers will have the opportunity to choose from three of thirty songs on a list, each of which are correlated with a number. If the caller correctly selects the “top 3” songs, preselected by Odds On Promotions, they’ll instantly win — you guessed it — $98,000, compliments of Odds On’s prize coverage!

Two separate promotions, nineteen sponsor locations, multiple chances to win, one big Spring and Summer … worth over $196,000 in cash and prizes! Talk about ear-candy!

Interested in creating a radio promotion for you station – or group – that will get listeners tuning in to win? Want more information on insuring one of the above promotions? Feel free to email us or just give us a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote!

Furniture Promotions Can Also Be Basketball Promotions!

Are you a furniture store looking for fun and exciting sales promotion? What if I told you that you could hold your next upcoming promotion in your own parking lot? That’s right — just take notes from this California-based furniture store who reached out to me, looking to insure a basketball half-court shot contest on their own turf!

Each day during the furniture store’s two-day sales promotion, a lucky customer was selected to take a half-court shot in the store’s parking lot for a chance to win a brand new outdoor kitchen valued at $10,000, paid for by Odds On! What’s more? If both customers ended up making the shot, they both would have been awarded $10,000, making it a $20,000 promotion! Insuring for multiple winners is always a great idea — not only will it end up costing you less in the end, you’ll never have to end a promotion early, should more than one contestant end up winning — and trust us, despite what the odds of that may seem like, a half-court shot happens.

Of course, if basketball promotions can also be furniture promotions, what else could be insured at your store location? Whether you’re wanting to insure a different kind of sports promotion (an indoor or outdoor bowling contest or golf putting contest, for example) or even a skills-based promotion such as a paper airplane toss, we can insure it!

Need More Furniture Sales Promotions Ideas?

Make your furniture promotions unique and think outside of the box — with Odds On’s prize insurance, almost anything is possible so long as it has a risk tied to it! Just ask us!

Visit our website for a list of furniture promotions, then give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. You can also email us for more information!

On-Pack Promotions: Pentel Gives Consumers Chance to Win $500K

Big news here at Odds On Promotions! Pentel reached out to me, inquiring about on-pack promotions. Thankfully, I was able to help them insure the perfect on-pack promotion that would not only increase awareness of their EnerGel-X line of pens, but also increase sales at participating retail stores during the back-to-school season… all the while, giving one lucky individual the chance to win money for both themselves and their school!

Here’s how the promotion works: Approximately 700,000 specially-marked packages of Pentel’s EnerGel-X pens will be distributed to stores nationwide, each of which contain a unique prize code which is revealed once the package of EnerGel-X pens are opened. The consumer will then go to Pentel’s website to enter in the code in hopes of “unleashing the power of Pentel” during their super hero-themed promotion, which helps capitalize upon all of the super hero movies of the season.

The ‘power’ in question just so happens to be a $500,000 insured grand prize – $250,000 for you, $250,000 for your school! Compliments of Pentel for purchasing their EnerGel-X pens… and paid for by Odds On Promotions, of course!

And it’s not ‘Game Over’ if no one happens to have the winning prize code! That’s because Pentel will be giving away a secondary prize during the promotion: Power of Pentel Backpacks! Additionally, they’ll be hosting giveaways at their social properties throughout the duration of the contest for more opportunities to win prizes.

We’re all very excited to find out if Pentel will end up having a $500,000 winner by the time the promotion ends this Fall. It’s been such a pleasure working with Pentel; I’ve been extremely impressed with the presentation of their on-pack promotion and I’m beyond thankful to have them as a client. Be sure to watch their commercial at the bottom of this blog post!

If you’re interested learning more about on-pack promotions, be sure to give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249. You can also email us for a free, no-obligation quote. Be sure to check out our website for more retail promotion ideas… or better yet, let us know if you have one of your own!

Conditional Rebate Promotion Heats Up Sales for Pool Supply Company

What if I told you that you could build an effective sales promotion around the weather?

Whether it’s temperature, rain, snow, wind, sleet, or even a Sharknado, Odds On can insure a conditional rebate promotion to help your business increase sales during a specified promotional period.

This spring, a pool supply company based out of Wisconsin contacted us with a fabulous weather-based conditional rebate promotion: If the temperature reached 100 degrees or above on the 4th of July, then all purchases made by customers during the prior promotional period would be absolutely free to them.

That’s right, 100 degrees = 100% rebate.

Conditional Rebate Promotion: Multiple Types…

As I mentioned before, a conditional rebate can be weather, temperature or even sports-based conditional rebates! For example: if your local team wins the big game, hits a grand slam, scores a defensive touchdown, or whatever the conditional happens to be… then all purchases made by customers during your promotional period will be free! You can get as creative as you wish – based upon your business – and they are easy to run.

You simply advertise the chance to win big for stopping by, use the rebate to help you close additional sales and then wait for the specified “condition” to take place.

For more information on insuring a conditional rebate promotion, give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249 and speak to one of our experienced marketing specialists. You can also email us for a free, no-obligation quote.

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