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!

 

Number in the Newspaper Could Mean a Brand New Boat!

Attention: Newspapers!  Looking for a great way to increase readership?

Sponsors: Looking for a way to increase traffic at your location?

Good news!  With this promotion that the Chattanooga Times Free Press is running in combination with Cleveland Boat Center of Tennessee, you’re bound to pick up a few pointers!

On December 17th, the Chattanooga Times Free Press will release 86,000 newspapers, all of which have uniquely numbered sticky notes attached to them.  Each reader will take their number to the sponsor’s location (Cleveland Boat Center) and enter it into one of Odds On’s handheld verification units to see if their number matches Odds On’s preselected lucky winning number.  If it does, they’ll win a brand new boat valued at $30,000!

Seen above is an example of what a posted number looks like when put in a newspaper; however, in the example photo shown, readers were first required to come in to register for the promotion before merely checking their number to see if it was a winner.

Remember: there are multiple ways to go about doing a newspaper insert and having your customers register for/redeem their prize(s).

Seen enough?  Want a free, no-obligation quote on a newspaper insert?  No problem!  Call us today at 888-827-2249 or feel free to email us with any questions.  We’re here to help!

Winning Inning Packages!

Make every game night worth $10,000, $25,000, or even $100,000 all season long with Odds On Promotions’ Winning Inning Packages. You don’t need to spend a ton of dough to give fans a chance to win during every inning of every game this season! Odds On will help you select the optimal contest (i.e. Hit for the Cycle, Triple Play, etc.) for each inning based upon your sponsor and budget. If the winning play occurs during the selected inning, Odds On Promotions will pick up the tab!

For more information, email or call Linda Thomson, Sports Promotion Specialist, at 800-771-0250 for more information or a free, no-obligation quote!