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Net A Bigger Audience: Four Basketball Promotions For TV and Radio Stations

Looking to net a bigger audience for your sponsors & station?  Turn the thrills surrounding the Men’s College Basketball Tournament into a springboard for driving increased traffic and sales for your station and sponsors with a little help from Odds On Promotions’ prize insurance. Check out some of our most popular basketball promotions below and give us a call today at 888-827-2249 or email us!

Super Seconds
Award a fabulous prize, paid for by Odds On Promotions, to a randomly selected fan if the home team nets a three-pointer at the exact moment in the game that matches your station’s radio frequency.

Prize Plays
Here’s a great promotion to keep customers on premise during every game … a customized Basketball Prize Play package. Select a series of plays each worth a rewarding cash prize (i.e. half-court shot at the buzzer to win the game, a game winning free-throw, or a crazy three-pointer to tie it up at the half), then register your contestants prior to tip-off. If one of the selected play occurs, your contestant wins big, and Odds On Promotions will write the check!

Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab Cards for Restaurants & Bars
Have a bar or restaurant sponsor looking to drive more business this March and April? They’ll love Scoreboard Payoff pull-tab cards.  Simply select a prize geared for excitement and distribute the cards before the “double-header” of your choice. Customers simply pull-off the tabs on their card, revealing a set of single-digit numbers for each period of the two games. If the last digit of each teams’ score matches the final scores of each team for three periods, they’ll win $1,000; match all four, and they score $25,000 – and Odds On foots
the bill!  Customized cards are available.

Live Appearance Traffic Driver: Video Scratch & Win …
Looking to attract a crowd during any March live appearance? Give basketball fans the chance to win up to $100,000 or more, courtesy of Odds On Promotions!  It’s easy with Odds On’s basketball-themed Video Scratch and Win Game! Customers simply select 6 squares on the touchscreen grid. If they find 6 six basketballs, they’ll score your grand prize, and Odds On will write the check. Award consolation prizes based upon finding fewer basketballs!

Also… be sure to check out our Online Championship Challenge post!

Casino Runs Holiday-Themed Money Bag Pick Promotion

Throughout the month of December, a casino located in the Northeast will be running a Money Bags Pick promotion to increase traffic and reward their players big… to the tune of $250,000!

To increase traffic at the casino’s less busy days (in this case, Mondays and Wednesdays), the property will be giving players a chance to earn 10x entries!

Here’s how the promotion works: 5 players each Saturday of the month will qualify to select 1 out of 100 lucky ‘money bags’.  If a lucky player finds half of a snowflake on their first draw, then they’re able to move on and select a second money bag, in hopes of collecting the 2nd half of the snowflake.  If both halves are successfully retrieved, the player will be an instant $250,000 winner… and prize insurance provider, Odds On Promotions, will write the check!

If the player does not manage find the first half of the snowflake on their first draw, they’ll take home the consolation prize that’s inside the envelope: they’ll either win $1,000, $2,500, $5,000 or $10,000 in free game play or cash, depending on which ‘money bag’ they choose!  Wow – talk about a win-win situation!  Plus, during the promotional period, a total of 40 lucky players will also be awarded with $500 in free slot play!

Interested in running a similar holiday-themed promotion?  Whether you’d like your players to find two halves of a heart for Valentine’s Day or two halves of a four-leaf clover on St. Patty’s, give us a call at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote!  You can also email us with any questions!

Spring Into Bigger Sponsor Sales: Giant Prize Baseball Promotions

Want to hit a marketing home run with sponsors while delighting your biggest fans? How about kicking off your 2012 season ticket program in a million dollar fashion with Odds On’s prize insurance?  Odds On’s Sports Promotion Specialist, Linda Thomson, has some fantastic baseball promotion ideas for the upcoming year!  Check them out:

 

 

Strike Out The Side
Here’s a great way for a bank or credit union to “own” an inning for the entire season. Simply select a prize, designate an inning and start cheering on the pitcher. If the home team can strike out three players in a row, a lucky fan will win the big bucks, and Odds On Promotions will pick up the tab!

 

$100,000 Hit it Here
A Homer Hole contest is a great way to showcase a single sponsor all season long. It’s easy! If a player can send the ball through an outfield target template, a lucky fan will score an incredible prize, and Odds On Promotions will pick up the tab.  Better still, templates can be customized to suit any sponsor or theme you’d like.

 

7th Inning Scratch, Match & Win
Put the chance to win in every fan’s hand, while giving your sponsor incredible exposure before, during and after the game with Odds On’s Scratch, Match and Win video board promotion.  Odds On will customize a scratch card for you to distribute to every fan instructing them to “scratch” off their cards and watch the video board during the 7th Inning stretch. If the numbers on the fan’s card match the ones revealed on a customized video playback, they win BIG and Odds On pays.

 

If increasing fan engagement, sponsorship, and ticket sales are on your 2012 to
do list, then it’s time to email or pick up the phone and give Linda Thomson a call at 800-771-0250.

 

 

Basketball Bracket Promotion That Nets Results!

basketball bracket promotion - championship challengeLike the idea of offering your audience a $1,000,000 basketball promotion, but don’t want to manage a bunch of paper?

Banish those bracket forms and eliminate the hassle of hand-tallying, while increasing traffic to your store, website and/or next live appearance with Championship Challenge, Odds On Promotions‘ turnkey online basketball bracket promotion for radio stations, TV stations, newspapers, retailers and casinos.

Talk about easy!  You’ll select an attention-grabbing prize – up to $1,000,000 – and invite your audience to your website to register for a chance to win.

Once on your website, contestants will click a link to the custom contest page that’s branded for your business and make their picks.  If a lucky fan predicts a winning number of games, they’ll score up to $1,000,000 and Odds On Promotions will write the check!

According to Chris Gardiner, Northeast & Midwest Business Development Manager with Odds On Promotions, “This promotion has been very effective for a number of radio stations. Not only does it provide a variety of advertising and sponsorship opportunities including title sponsor, banner and video advertising on the game site, as well as consolation prize sponsorships, but it is a fun way to engage the audience; listeners can challenge and interact with each other as well as play against on-air talent.”

Brent Kelly, Odds On’s Southwest Business Development Manager sees Championship Challenge as a unique, “hands-free” way for casinos to run a basketball bracket promotion, “Many casinos love the concept of a bracket promotion but don’t want the hassel of managing the brackets … with this contest, no manual management is needed. What’s more, casinos  can qualify players in the days leading up to the Big Dance, distributing  a special access code at their player’s club booth, giving even the smallest of properties a great way to ‘pay’ for this ‘off-property’ contest!”

Evelyn Golding, Odds On’s Southeastern Business Development Manager notes, “For me the big bonus is what I like to call the  ‘Sweet 16 Second Chance’. This feature gives both radio stations and casinos the option of adding a second contest covering the last four rounds of play. This is not only a great way to get contestants that may have missed the first round engaged, it gives all participants a second chance to win big.”

Ready to learn more?  Email us at oopinfo@oddsonpromotions.com to access our demo site and/or request a free, no-obligation quote!

Pennsylvania Casino Increases Holiday Foot Traffic With Holiday Zoom Ball!

Check out how one casino in Pennsylvania is increasing play and foot traffic this December with a month-long Holiday Zoom Ball promotion!

Every Friday in December between Noon and 9pm, players will have a chance to win a possible $100,000 cash every hour!  Players will be pre-selected for a chance to capture a total of 6 matching red balls into the ‘Zoom Zone’ of Odds On’s new Deluxe Zoom Ball Machine to become an instant $100K winner, compliments of Odds On Promotions!

In addition, the casino property will also be giving away $50 in free slot play to 9 lucky players each hour, as well as smaller auxiliary prizes to players who only manage to catch 4-5 red balls in the ‘Zoom Zone’!

Looking to attract players to your casino property this holiday season?  Give us a call at 888-827-2249 or email us today for pricing and further information on Deluxe Zoom Ball!  Also keep in mind: Odds On has a variety of colored balls to choose from… and will custom wrap the machine for you with your logo and artwork!