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Holiday Promotion Idea: Run a Giant Prize Easter Egg Hunt!

Check your calendar: Is there a big holiday coming up? Then don’t just stand there — take action, like this car dealership in Missouri did, by using Odds On’s contest insurance to hold one heck of a winning holiday promotion! Damien Anderson, Internet Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, is here with the full story.

To increase donations for a local charity and boost attendance at a community Easter event, a Missouri-based car dealership teamed up with a non-profit organization that focuses on child abuse prevention to insure a Pick ‘Til You Win-style Lucky Envelopes promotion!

Here’s how the holiday promotion worked: During the venue’s Easter Egg Hunt event, one lucky hidden egg contained a note, notifying the “egg hunter” that they had found the chance to participate in the insured Lucky Envelopes contest!

The lucky contestant was then given the opportunity to open one of Odds On’s “Lucky Envelopes” at a time until they collected five matching symbols representing one of 3 different prizes. If the five symbols the contestant collected first were the grand prize symbols, they would win a brand new 2013 Chrysler 200 (valued at $30,000), courtesy of the car dealership and paid for by Odds On! The other two prizes available in the Lucky Envelopes contained smaller cash prize, which were self-insured by the contest sponsors.

Whether it’s a 4th of July conditional weather rebate promotion, Halloween-themed Video Scratch and Win promotion or a Christmas-time Zoom Ball promotion, we have a promotion for every occasion! Pick up the phone and give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us for more holiday promotion ideas — or better yet, feel free to let us know if you have one of your own. We’ll even throw in a free, no-obligation quote on your contest insurance policy for you!

Cow Bingo: Rotary Club Raises Bucks for Local Non-Profit

What do you get when you combine a cow, bingo, a field and a $75,000 prize?
Here at Odds On, we call it one heck of an attention-getting fundraiser!

This March, during the 19th Annual Florida Gateway Pro Rodeo, the Rotary Club of Lake City is giving donors a chance to win $75,000, paid for by Odds On Promotions, in a Cow Bingo fundraiser.

How Now Cow Bingo?

Also known as Cow Pie Bingo, Bovine Bingo and Cow Patty Bingo, Cow Chip Bingo gives donors the chance to win prizes based on where a bovine does his or her business.

After selecting an appropriate space – in this case, a very large field – the contest organizers will create a large grid of numbered square-yard “plots”, selling numbered “deeds” for each plot to donors. On the date of the promotion, the bovine will be released at the center of the field to roam about and do “what comes naturally.”

After the bovine “does its business”, the location will be noted and whomever “owns” that square will be named the winner, taking home a guaranteed $2,500 prize. However, if the square happens to be the same “Lucky Square” preselected by Odds On, the owner will win – no bull – $75,000, paid for by Odds On.

Deeds to each “square yard” of the field are selling for $10 a piece. All funds raised in the Rotary Club of Lake City’ $75,000 Cow Chip Bingo promotion will support the Columbia County School Foundation’s Backpacks 4 Food Program.

Interested in plotting your very own attention-getting promotion? From Golf Ball Drops, to Poker Runs to Duck Rolls and Jumbo Dice, Odds On as a great promotion for you. For more information check out our fundraising promotions page on our website or better yet, email or pick up the phone and give us a call today at 888-827-2249.

Get on a Roll for Tax R-E-L-I-E-F: Casino Dice Roll Promotion

Odds On Promotions Western Business Development Manager, Brent Kelly, shares a colorful way to drive increased casino play this April: a giant-prize dice roll promotion!

Dice Roll for Dollars

Let’s face it, this year, everyone could use a little tax relief. And that’s one of the reasons why I’m suggesting that companies consider marketing into Monday, April 15 – Income Tax Day – particularly since so many people now file their taxes electronically.

One the more entertaining ways to hand out a little relief is with a set of Odds On’s
custom 1″, 4″ or 8″ dice. In a dice roll promotion, you’ll give qualifiers the chance to spell a particular word – in this case – R-E-L-I-E-F, as in tax relief, or collect a winning combination of letters and numbers (e.g. 1-0-4-0-E-Z) in order to win $50,000, $100,000, $500,000 or more.

However, another creative way to customize your dice is to feature a different color on each die face – so that with every roll, your players spell RELIEF, reinforcing the theme of the promotion. Here’s just one way you might want to run a casino dice roll…

1. Draw a contestant every half hour from 3pm-Midnight on Saturdays and Sundays in April, giving players the chance to roll and win up to $1,040 or more in cash, slot play or points based on how many matching colored letters they roll.

2. In addition to your weekend rolls, on Monday, April 15, hold a special Tax RELIEF roll where you’ll draw 15 lucky players and give them each the chance to roll R-E-L-I-E-F in a matching color, and win $150,000, paid for by Odds On.

3. Make this one even more affordable – and more rewarding for your players, by teaming up with a local tax preparation service to assist with consolation prizes.

Want more information on developing a custom giant-prize dice roll that will help you drive incremental gaming revenue, while rewarding your players? Give us a call today at 888-827-2249.

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.

Poker Contests: Great For Fundraising AND Insuring Prizes!

Believe it or not, poker contests don’t always need to feature playing cards. Check out how this non-profit organization in the Midwest is upping the ante with a lucky number promotion during their fundraising poker tournament!

Each poker tournament participant who pays an additional $10 will get to select a sequentially-numbered poker chip from a pile of 300 chips for a shot at $10K!

At the end of the tournament, the winner, if they had placed the additional $10 “bet” will give their lucky numbered chip to the promotion official who will then enter the number on the poker chip into Odds On’s mobile number verification system* to see if it’s a match. If the contestant’s chip number matches Odds On’s preselected number, they’ll be an instant $10,000 winner… and Odds On Promotions will cut the check for the prize!

Ready to “ante up” and insure one of our poker contests at your next poker tournament, fundraiser or other big event? Give Odds On Promotions a call for a free, no-obligation quote at 888-827-2249 or feel free to email us any time with any questions you may have. We’ll be sure to help you custom-tailor a promotion that will not only generate tons of excitement among your attendees, but assist you in your fundraising endeavors as well, if applicable!

*While this organization opted for the flexibility and portability of Odds On’s mobile number verification system, Odds On also offers a handheld number verification unit as well.

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