Month: August 2017

We’re helping the team at Banded give away another very unique and rare prize package ….a hunting trip of a lifetime. We’ve been involved with sweepstakes that have awarded firearms as prizes, but this is the first one that actually involves the hunt as well.

The Mallard Ducks and Big Bucks – Super Hunt Classic Sweepstakes launched on August 15 and runs till November 28. To enter people just visit the promotional website at http://superhuntclassic.com and fill out the entry form. One grand prize winner will be randomly chosen to receive a hunting experience for themselves and a guest. The experience includes six days on a hunt of a lifetime that will take place in Louisiana sometime in early 2018.

Winner and guest will spend two days with the Simmons’ Sporting Goods team, two days at the Honey Brake Hunting Lodge and then two days with Bill Jordan and Realtree Outdoors. The prize package also includes round trip airfare for winner and their guest to Alexandria, LA,  two shotguns for bird hunting, two rifles for deer hunting and $5,000 in Banded gear. Total prize is valued at $15,000.

Now I’m not much of a hunter, but when I told my husband about this package he said that many of the guys he works with would die to win this trip. They have now become part of the Banded Community. BANDED was originally formed by a group of avid outdoorsmen, innovators, and product designers that joined forces after years of working in the outdoor industry. Their goal has been to create superior products to enhance the outdoor experience with a special focus on duck hunters.

Banded.com offers over 600 items representing a diverse line of product categories which include outerwear, waders, boots, hunting accessories, blinds, decoys, calls and more. It not only includes outdoor merchandise for sale, but also some informative content targeted specifically for the Banded community. Users can find hunting tips, recent news items along with a couple of video series.

This is the third sweepstakes this year we have worked with Banded in handling the administration. The other sweepstakes that Banded launched with a very unique prize package was giving away Avery, a hunting dog, that I wrote about a few months ago in this post, The Bring Avery Home Sweepstakes. They also are running the The Waterfowlers Dream Boat Giveaway which is unique as well because one grand prize winner wins it all, a prize package valued at almost $19,000. Last year, our first sweepstakes working with the Banded team, they offered another big prize package which included not only the boat and trailer, but also the truck to tow it with in their Greatest Outdoor Giveaway Sweepstakes.

Banded has several partners that help to provide such big prize packages. These sweepstakes help to grow the Banded Community by gaining participants’ data and adding them to their email list. Banded has some great content that they develop to help keep their community engaged. So hopefully we’ll continue to work with them throughout 2018. In the meantime I’ll have some very lucky winners to contact.

This time of the summer kids will soon be heading back to school. Mid-August is when retailers will see a second round of back-to-school shopping which normally amounts to the largest volume. Parents and kids will sometimes wait to the last minute to see what mark-downs retailers have made or they may just have put it off to the last minute, which is human nature.

We’ve been running one back-to-school promotoin for a long-time client, RushCard. They offer the RushCard Pre-Paid Visa card which is offered throughout the U.S. to anyone with a social security number. The RushCard Back To School Sweepstakes started back on July 5 and has been awarding weekly winners and well as five grand prize winners who will each receive $5,000 for back to school shopping. RushCard’s objective is to help everyone get ready for the new school year and to apply and activate a new RushCard. Anyone who does within the sweepstakes period and direct deposits at least $500 into the card earns a chance to win.

Each week until September 9/12 we are giving away backpacks filled with school supplies. Ninety first prize weekly winners receive their backpack filled with notebooks, crayons, pencils, folders, a calculator and more. Ten other first prize winners will receive a golden backpack with the same supplies but it will also include a Samsung Chromebook with a total prize value of $580 each.

We’ve already drawn winners for five of the weeks and we have five more weeks to go. At the end of the sweepstakes we’ll draw the five grand prize winners from everyone who has entered. We are offering a alternate means of entry for those that don’t have a RushCard which is a mail-in option. If the five grand prize winners all have RushCards, their prize will be deposited on their RushCard and if they don’t they will receive a check instead.

This is also one of those sweepstakes where we are assisting with fulfilling the prizes. We have a local supplier who is embroidering the backpacks with the RushCard brand and filling them with all the supplies and the Chomebook. We actually sourced a “golden” backpack to use for the 10 lucky weekly winners who receive the Chromebook. The total sweepstakes prize value is $41,600. So best of  luck to all entrants. Hope everyone gets their school shopping done soon.

Eggland’s Best, one of our clients, teamed up with Air Bud Entertainment last summer to help promote Air Bud Entertainment’s newest family film, PUP STAR. Eggland’s Best launched the ‘Ultimate EB PUP STAR’ sweepstakes which was a success for both parties, so they’re at it again this summer to help promote this year’s musical sequel, PUP STAR 2: BETTER 2GETHER.

Last year’s movie followed Tiny, an adorable Yorkie pup, who found herself on an cross-country journey to compete in a singing competition for dogs, Pup Star. Tiny won the Pup Star competition and became an international pup sensation. So now her story continues in this year’s musical sequel which includes a huge cast of talking and singing dogs! What’s not to love here?

Now through September 17th participants can enter the “We’re Better Together” Sweepstakes by visiting Eggland Best’s promotional web page and registering for a chance to win numerous prizes that human and pet members of their family can enjoy together. Participant’s can also earn extra entries by completing several different tasks. Some of these tasks include watching the EB/Pup Star YouTube video, subscribing to Air Bud TV, visiting Air Bud’s website, signing up for the EB newsletter, visiting Eggland’s Best on their Instagram, Facebook and/or Twitter page and visiting the Visit St. Pete/Clearwater website and/or their Facebook page. Entrants can receive up to 38 additional entries which will increase their chances of winning a prize.

One Grand Prize winner will win a pet-friendly family vacation for up to four people to St. Pete Clearwater, Florida, that includes round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations and a $250 gift card. Two First Prize Winners will receive a Kurgo Summer Travel Package for their dog, ten Second Prize Winners will receive a Schwinn SmartStart bicycle, six Third Prize Winners will receive a St. Pete Clearwater Tote Bag that includes beach bag, visor, beach towel, dolphin plush toy, water proof bag, sun screen, lip balm screen, koozie, rubber bracelet and 50 Fourth Prize Winners will receive an Eggland’s Best & Pup Star Goodie Bag that includes a EB plush egg, a EB spatula, a EB phone pillow, EB egg coupons, a EB eco bag, a bag of OMH Dog Treats, a Fandango Gift Card for a free Pup Star rental and a Pup Star T-Shirt. Total Prize Pool is worth $7,250.

Check out this video and Tiny will tell you all about the sweepstakes. The movie is out on digital HD August 29th.

Remember your favorite classic arcade game, PAC-MAN, and the countless hours & quarters spent avoiding pesky ghosts while chompin’ on dots. Well PAC-MAN has returned for your consoles, PC, iPhone & mobile devices and we recently started working with their mobile marketing team. They just introduced a partnership with Hello Kitty and for a limited time, until August 20, you can play exclusive Hello Kitty mazes and specially designed tournaments in PAC-MAN mobile.

To help celebrate this partnership they also just launched the Hello Kitty and Pac-MAN Sweepstakes offering chances to win a swag-pack full of fun stuff. Now until August 13 participants can enter the sweepstakes on either the PAC-MAN Facebook page or on Twitter @officialpacman. They need to comment to the sweepstakes post on either page and post a photo that illustrates how Hello Kitty and/or PAC-MAN are a part of their daily life. On Twitter they need to also follow @officialpacman.

Here’s a photo recently posted from Mindy showing off her Hello Kitty tattoo. A random drawing will take place at the end of the sweepstakes from all the eligible entries to award five winners. Here’s a list of what’s in each Hello Kitty and PAC-MAN swag pack: a Hello Kitty Petite Mascot Plush: Soft Mame (Pink), a Hello Kitty x PAC-MAN Keychain, a Hello Kitty Short Sleeved Ringer Tee (Red), a Hello Kitty Ballpoint Pen (Slider), a Hello Kitty Canvas Tote Bag (Cuddly), a Paladone Pac-Man 4″ Plush with Sound, a Funko POP Games: Pac-Man Action Figure and a Pac-Man Heat Change Mug.

PAC-MAN is just one of the many games that is owned by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America, Inc., which is based out of Japan. The US group is who we are working with and the official sponsor of this sweepstakes. They have many other games that you might also recognize such as Dark Souls, DragonBall, Tekken and Naruto.

So if you haven’t played PAC-MAN in awhile here’s your chance to start again.