Category Archives: Social Media Contests & Promotions

Social media promotions are proven to increase website traffic, grow your social audience, build your database, engage customers, and generate excitement around your company or brand.

Online Promotion Ideas: Need One? Check This Out…

Is your business in need of some great online promotion ideas? Are you looking to collect valuable marketing information in the process? I recently assisted a mortgage company based in Virginia in insuring an online Facebook Instant Win promotion.

After sharing with me that their goal was to increase their Facebook fanbase via an instant win promotion, I suggested that the mortgage company run a month-long Prize Vault contest on their Facebook page featuring a $25,000 prize!

To kick off the contest, the mortgage company announced the start of their promotion in their target market areas using direct mail, social media and email blasts. Recipients were instructed to ‘like’ the company’s Facebook page for the chance to to participate in the online Prize Vault instant win promotion.

In order to better understand who the participants were, when the fans logged in with their email address, they had to answer a few brief questions before playing the actual game. Once the game was activated, and the “prize vault” was displayed on the screen, fans then got the chance to move the four dials on the vault and choose a ‘lucky combo’ of numbers which would hopefully open the vault… and reveal the insured grand prize of $25,000, paid for by Odds On!

While unfortunately, there was no grand prize winner, a variety of smaller auxiliary prizes, provided by the mortgage company, were randomly awarded to those who participated. These consolation prizes consisted of iPad Minis, Kindle Fires, Amazon Gift Cards and gift cards to Outback Steakhouse.

What I love about Odds On’s online promotions is that you don’t have to worry about facilitating the promotion once the contest is up on your page. We collect the marketing data, our system randomly determines the winner and all you have to do is sit back and relax, knowing that it’s all in the hands of Odds On Promotions and our A+ rated underwriters, Everest National Insurance Company.

Interested in experiencing a live demo of our “Prize Vault” instant win game? Check it out, then watch the commercial below. Feel free to give us a call at 888-827-2249 for more online promotion ideas. You can also visit our website for more ideas, or email us with any questions!

Happy Birthday! Car Dealer’s Online Birth Date and Weight Promotion Features $30K Prize!

One of the best parts about working at Odds On Promotions is seeing how creative our customers can get when it comes to promotions!

Check out how this car dealership in the South created an online promotion around their spokeswoman’s pregnancy.

Yes, you read that right. The dealership built a fantastic guess and win promotion built around their spokeperson’s baby’s birthday.

In a bid to generate donations for a local charity while creating a buzz, a Toyota dealership is giving locals the opportunity to win a 2013 Toyota Sienna, paid for by Odd On, based on the baby’s due date and weight!

Participants can submit entries via an online Facebook contest, or at the dealership’s website. The individuals who came the closest – or gets an exact match – will then get the chance to participate in a Pick ‘Til You Win Lucky Envelopes promotion, which will take place at the dealership.

In a Pick ‘Til You Win Lucky Envelopes contest, contestants select envelopes, and open them one at a time revealing one of 3 different prize symbols. When they get 5 matching inserts, they win the indicated prize.

In this contest, if the five grand prize winning inserts are collected first, the lucky finalist will instantly win a brand new 2013 Toyota Sienna, valued at $30,000… and paid for by Odds On Promotions!

We’ll have to wait a few months to see if there’s a winner, but we think this one is a winner for charity and the dealership right now!

Need an attention-grabbing online promotion of your own? Whether it’s for a charity or your in need of an online promotion for an autodealer, give us a call at 888-827-2249 or email us for a free, no-obligation quote!

Social Media Company Insures $1,000,000 Facebook Promotion

Looking to reward individuals with some major moolah for visiting your website and/or purchasing your product(s)? That’s exactly what this social media company had in mind when they called Odds On Promotions to insure an ongoing million dollar web game hosted on their site, using Odds On’s RNG (Random Number Generator).

Here’s how it works: Individuals who visit the company’s Facebook page during the Facebook promotion will have the opportunity to play the company’s web game once every 24 hours. After playing the game, the individual gets a chance to win $1,000,000 if a number generated on Odds On’s secure game server matches their lucky number.

If one of the visitors happens to play the game at the right time and the number requested by the server happens to match — in exact sequence — the corresponding winning number, then the lucky visitor will win $1,000,000… paid for by Odds On!

“This is a perfect way to drive traffic, increase conversion rates and incent or reward consumer behavior online,” explains Damien Anderson, Internet Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions. “When potential customers see that there’s a huge grand prize being offered — in this case, $1,000,000, then they’ll be more likely to submit their information, participate in a survey or answer questions on your company’s site.”

Interested in insuring your own million-dollar internet or Facebook promotion, using Odds On’s RNG (Random Number Generator)? Want us to design a custom webgame for you? Whatever the case may be, pick up the phone and give us a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote! You can also reach us by email if you have any questions or would like more information.