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

Tire Company Insures $20,000 Retail Promotion

Looking to insure a retail promotion that will have your customers lining up for a chance to win? Want to increase sales on a specific day or during a certain period of time? Check out this giant prize promotion cooked up by a Canadian tire store and their Pennsylvania-based marketing company!

Traffic-Driving Retail Promotion

On the specified promotion date, customers who visited the tire store got the chance to win a $20,000 vehicle in a hockey-themed Video Scratch and Win Game.

In order to play and win, customers chose 6 different spots on the game’s touchscreen. If all 6 spots on the game screen revealed a winning prize symbol (in this case, hockey pucks), then one lucky customer would driven home a winner.

According to Damien Anderson, Internet Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, “While there was not a grand prize winner for this retail promotion, the tire company and their agency ensured winning experience by providing a number of auxiliary prizes for customers that found fewer winning symbols… including hockey sticks signed by ex-Flyer and Penguin, Rick Tocchet, a Toronto native. What’s more, the retailer opted to hook the Video Scratch and Win kiosk up to an larger screen, ensuring everyone in the dealership could see what kinds of prizes people were winning.”

Interested in insuring a video scratch and win promotion at your retail location, or having us create a custom game for your special event? Odds On has both stock and custom options! Just give us a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us for a free, no-obligation quote. One of our marketing specialists will be more than happy to help build a promotion that will help meet your specific business goals. Also feel free to take a look at the other retail promotions we have to offer!

Lucky List Promotion Insured at 2 Supply Company Locations

Looking for a way to increase traffic and reward customers for shopping at your location? Need a creative way to drive additional traffic in order to move excess inventory? How about running a Lucky List promotion?

Increase Traffic & Reward Customers with a Lucky List Promotion

Here’s how the promotion worked: During the month-long promotional period, each supply company location insured their own Lucky List promotion where customers would have a chance to put 9 Christmas gifts in a specific numerical order. Each customer who entered the store was given a list of the 9 Christmas gifts and had the opportunity put them in the order of the choice.

Once all of the “Lucky Lists” were completed, the supply company randomly selected a few lists and submitted them to Odds On’s to see any of the lists matched a predetermined numberical order. If so, that individual would have won all of the gifts on the list, totalling $50,000… paid for by Odds On Promotions!

Want to give your customers the satisfaction of knowing whether or not they’re an immediate winner? Rather than using submitted entries, you can place Odds On’s handheld verification unit inside your store! Customers can then input the numerical order, and if they’re a winner, the handheld unit will notify them on the spot!

If you’re interested in insuring a Lucky List promotion, or any of the other various retail promotions we have to offer, then give us a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote. You can also email us!

Lucky List Promotion Insured By Mississippi Furniture Store

Want to move some merchandise during your February President’s Day sale? Check out how this furniture store in Mississippi increased business on Black Friday with a Lucky List promotion!

Lucky List Promotion: A New Year, New Room Giveaway…

During the promotional period, customers who entered the client’s furniture store had the opportunity to put a list of 8 numbered furniture items in the order of their choice, using Odds On’s handheld verification unit. If the number they entered matched Odds On Promotions‘ preselected numerical order, then the customer would win all of the furniture items on the list: a sofa, love seat, coffee table, lamp, end table, entertainment center, rug and recliner… totaling $10,000 and paid for by Odds On!

According to Odds On’s Damien Anderson, who works with a number of furniture store clients, “One way to ensure success with a Lucky List promotion in the retail environment is to build a large vignette featuring all of the items you are ‘giving away’ as part of your promotion. This way customers can not only get a good look at what they’ll be winning, but it ensures immediate engagement. I also recommend awarding auxiliary prizes to customers who come close to getting their lists in a winning order and, of course, including the promotion in your advertising.”

Need a first quarter promotion to help move inventory? Email us today for more information about our Lucky List promotion, or give us a call at 888-827-2249 if you’d like a free, no-obligation quote on more promotion ideas for furniture stores.

Insure a Grand Prize Dice Roll Promotion

Are you a retail business looking to increase foot traffic to your location? Are you a casino property looking to increase play and keep players at your location on a notoriously low-traffic day? Or maybe you’re a radio station looking to generate excitement among a crowd at a local remote. Whatever the case may be, a dice roll promotion is definitely right up your alley!

Odds On Promotions’ dice roll promotion is extremely simple to insure and run. First, you’ll decide on a prize amount to insure for. Keep in mind, you can give away anything you’d like – it doesn’t have to be cash! Whether it’s an entertainment package, brand new vehicle or an all-inclusive vacation package, Odds On will insure your prize… up to $1,000,000, in fact!

We will then customize a set of 1″, 4″, 8″ or 16″ dice for your promotion, depending on your preference. Then you get to decide what word individuals will need to roll for (i.e. B-U-I-C-K, W-I-N-N-E-R, M-I-L-L-I-O-N). Or, if you’d rather, you can have individuals try to roll all of the dice with your company’s logo displaying face-up.

When your contestant rolls the winning combination of symbols, they’ll be an instant winner… and Odds On will write the check for the insured prize amount! What’s more? Odds On Promotions will include a poster advertising your dice roll contest, as well as a sign-in binder for all of your contestants where they can write down their information before the big roll.

In addition to the materials Odds On will supply you with for your dice roll promotion, it’s also a smart idea to create your own flyers (see images for example). Have them announce the name of your contest, the date it will be taking place, how much prize money is at stake, as well as any other information and/or graphics you’d like to include. Distribute them to as many people as possible. The more you get the word out there about your grand prize promotion, the more likely you are to have an amazing turn-out!

Let Odds On Promotions help you achieve your desired sales and traffic goals. Let us know if you’re interested in a free, no-obligation quote by giving us a call today at 888-827-2249. You can also email us at any time with any questions!

Tennessee Retailer Insures Grand Opening Promotion!

Are you in the retail industry? Do you plan on opening up a new store any time soon? Even if you’re not, you’ll still definitely want to read about this Tennessee-based retail chain that is taking advantage of their 3 new store openings with a Lucky Envelopes promotion. It’s the perfect traffic-driving promotion which can be held at any time, for any reason!

On two separate dates, this retail chain will be insuring a Lucky Envelopes promotion to drive traffic to their 3 new openings! Prior to the start of the promotion, 10 random customers at each location who use the store’s point-based card when they come in and shop will have a chance to participate in the promotion. Each participant will choose from 1 of 200 envelopes. If the insert inside of the envelope they pick contains a grand prize symbol and message, they will be the owner of a brand new Dodge Dart, valued at $19,000… paid for by Odds On Promotions!

Talk about a great traffic builder! And the best part about Odds On’s Lucky Envelopes promotion is that there are multiple formats which the promotion can be run, as seen on our website via the link above. Want to make your Lucky Envelopes promotion an eye-popper? Be sure to include one of our “larger-than-life” gameboards along with your contest insurance. We can even fully customize one for you, if you’d like!

For more information, or a free, no-obligation quote on a Lucky Envelopes promotion — or any other of our retail contests and promotions — give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249… or email us, if you’d like!

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