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Retail Promotions a Success at Jewelry Stores!

Looking for a great retail holiday promotion? This May we assisted three jewelry store locations in running a “diamond” themed promotion using Odds On’s prize coverage during a Mother’s Day sales event!

During the week-long promotional period, at each of the three locations, customers had a chance to participate in Odds On’s Video Scratch and Win game, “Diamonds & Dollars”, simply for stopping by one of the stores!

Customers selected six spots on the countertop unit’s touchscreen, in hopes of revealing six winning symbols — which, in this case, happened to be a diamond coupled with a stack of bills.

If a customer happened to choose six spots on the touchscreen which all revealed winning symbols, they would have won $50,000… and Odds On Promotions would have paid for the prize!

While unfortunately, no one managed to select all six winning symbols, the stores drove increased traffic to their locations during the week-long promotional period.

When it comes to using prize indemnity insurance in a retail environment, I always encourage clients to use a game that works well with their business theme. Odds On offers a variety of ready-to-run retail promotions, but custom options are always an option.

If you’re interested in learning about more retail promotions, or would like a quote on a Video Scratch and Win promotion of your own, please feel free to give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us with any questions! We’ll help you with the marketing, sales and traffic goals you’re looking to achieve. And remember: all of our quotes are free and no-obligation.

Lucky Envelopes Promotions for Every Business!

Scare up more traffic and sales this October with a Lucky Envelopes promotion! Not only are Lucky Envelopes a fun and affordable way to reward customers, drive traffic, and create a buzz about your business, but they can easily be customized to suit any situation, business, budget or event …

It all starts with selecting the right Lucky Envelopes game and the attention-getting grand prize of your choice.

Check out a few of our favorite October Lucky Envelope promotions below…

Simple & Affordable: The Lucky Pumpkin Pick …
It doesn’t get any easier than this! Purchase a bunch of plastic trick-or-treat “pumpkins” and create a “Patch of Cash and Prizes” display. Place a Lucky Envelope in each pumpkin. If a lucky contestant picks the right pumpkin, they’ll score your grand prize. Or take home a smaller consolation prize.

Truck or Treat Promotion: Qualify 2 contestants in any manner you choose and then give them each the chance to select from a series of Halloween “treat” bags placed on display. Inside each bag you’ll place a Lucky Envelope that contains either the word “Treat” and a number (dollar value) or the word “Truck”. Your contestants will each pick a bag and simultaneously open their “envelopes”. If they pick just right, they’ll each bag a new truck – paid for by Odds On. Or, they’ll take home the self-sponsored consolation prize. This promotion can be adjusted to suit any budget and feature your choice of grand or consolation prizes… up to $1,000,000.

Cauldron of Cash and Prizes: In this Lucky Envelope game, which features an optional customizable gameboard, qualifying contestants get to select three Lucky Envelopes, each of which holds a dollar amount. If the total adds up to $100, they’ll score $100,000, paid for by Odds On! Or, they will take home the total of the dollar amount as a self-sponsored consolation prize. Again, prizes and totals can be customized (i.e. $310 or $1,300, etc) to suit your budget and event.

Monster Cash! Ready to go big with your next Lucky Envelopes promotion? Check out Monster Cash, where if a lucky contestant finds a winning combination of monsters, they’ll score one of three monster cash prizes! Here’s how it works! Odds On will ship you a customizable game board and one set of Lucky Envelopes for every contestant. Inside each Lucky Envelope is one of three different “monster” symbols, each representing one of the three prizes you’d like to give away – one insured grand prize and two self-sponsored consolation prizes. Contestants then select and open Lucky Envelopes until they have collected 5 of any single symbol, winning the indicated prize. If they pick just right, they’ll bag your grand prize – insurable for up to $1,000,000, and paid for by Odds On. Again, this promotion can be adjusted to suit any budget and feature your choice of grand or consolation prizes.

Interested in learning more about a Lucky Envelopes Promotion?

Email or give us a call today at 888-827-2249.

P.S. Need a Halloween alternative? Ask about our Feathers of Fortune game!
P.P.S. Want more Halloween promotion ideas? Check out these spooky alternatives!

Retail Promotions for Jewelry Stores: Diamonds and Dollars

A jewelry store in the Midwest recently reached out to me looking for retail promotions. The retailer was looking for a promotion that they could use as part of a “Six Weeks of Savings” celebration tied to their 60th anniversary.

After we reviewed a few different concepts, the client chose Odds On’s countertop “Diamonds & Dollars” Video Scratch and Win game.

Preferred customers of the jewelry store will be invited to an exclusive VIP event at their store location on a specified promotion date. Each customer will then choose six spots on the Video Scratch & Win game’s touchscreen. If all 6 spots on the game’s touchscreen reveal a grand prize symbol (which, in this case, happens to be a diamond coupled with a bundle of bills), they’ll be an instant $60,000 winner, compliments of Odds On!

Luckily, it’s not “Game Over” for those customers who don’t manage to select all 6 grand prize winning spots!

The jewelry store will be awarding a number of smaller auxiliary prizes for those who find fewer grand prize symbols. If a player select 1 or 2 grand prize symbols, they’ll get a free prizes provided by the store. For 3/6 grand prize symbols, they wont have to pay sales tax on items purchased that day. Collecting 4/6 symbols will land customers 15% off of their purchases, while 5/6 symbols will result in a 20% discount on all purchases made the day of the VIP event!

No one leaving empty-handed is definitely the sign of a great promotion, if you ask me!

You can see exactly how the game is played at the bottom of this blog post!

And if you’re interested in insuring one of our retail promotions like this, you’ll want to check out our Video Scratch and Win games. Or visit our website for even more ideas! Interested in a custom game or promotion? No problem! Just give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. You can also email us for more retail promotion ideas as well.

Baseball Promotion Worth $1,000,000 Insured By Trading Card Company

It doesn’t matter what kind of business you are, anyone can insure a baseball promotion! Just take it from Zak Woodhead, Risk Manager with Odds On Promotions who’s working with a large trading card company to insure a “hit the streak” baseball promotion that’s sure to be a homerun with the company’s customers all season long!

Big Dollar Baseball Promotion

During this 7-month-long baseball promotion, customers who purchase trading cards will receive a unique code. After logging onto the company’s website, customers will create an account and use their code to ‘unlock’ a baseball player. The more cards a customer purchases, the more opportunities they’ll have to score another code, log on and unlock additional players!

Each day, customers will utilize their “team” of unlocked players to choose one that they think will get a hit that day. If the chosen player ends up getting a hit, then a ‘streak’ is started. If any customer ends up breaking the 56-game hitting streak, then Odds On will pay out… to the tune of $1,000,000! Smaller client-insured prizes will also be given away during the course of the promotion.

Interested in insuring your own baseball promotion? Have any unique baseball promotion ideas of your own? Give one of our Marketing Specialists a call today at 888-827-2249 or simply email us. Not only can we provide you with information and suggestions as to which promotions will work out best for your business/organization, but a free, no-obligation quote on any of the promotions we have to offer as well!

Logistics Company Insures Online Promotion Worth $60,000

Odds On Promotions’ Internet Business Development Manager, Damien Anderson, walks through how one company is using an online promotion in a rather creative application.

When it comes to online promotions, Odds On Promotions has you covered. From sweepstakes to instant win games, Facebook contests to online prediction contests, we have something for everyone! More importantly, the games and contest we offer are easily customizable for use in a variety of applications. Here’s an example of how flexible Odds On’s contests are: a logistics company based out of the Midwestern United States is insuring a “Prize Vault” instant win online promotion to attract potential employees.

Flexible Online Promotions, Enticing Giant Prizes

With a goal of hiring 100 new employees, this Midwestern logistics company is using an online promotion, featuring a giant prize, to incentivize prospective employees to attend one of the company’s open house events, which will take place at 17 different locations nationwide.

At each of the open houses, attendees will get to play Odds On’s “Prize Vault” game, selecting a number between 0 and 99 on each of the game’s four dials. If all four numbers happen to match Odds On’s preselected randomly generated 6-digit number, that individual will walk away an instant $60,000 winner and Odds On Promotions will cut a check for the insured prize amount!

In addition to driving traffic and drawing attention to your organization, an online promotion is also an excellent way to gather demographic information from your participants and beef up your marketing database!

When you experience the demo of Prize Vault for yourself, you’ll see all of the information that can be captured and which will be sent to you after the end of the promotion: e-mail address, first and last name, mailing address and more … at no additional cost!

You can also require your contestants to use a ‘play code of the day’ which they will manually have to enter in, in order to participate in your insured online contest! The code can be contained in your TV, printing or radio advertising, posted at your business location, or incorporated into your email, web or social media sites.

Interested in insuring an online promotion of your own? Take a look at what all we have to offer. Looking for a customized online promotion? No problem! Pick up the phone and give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. You can also email us with any questions.

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