Month: May 2019

Tamed Wild’s The Land of the Pharaohs Sweepstakes is a unique prize much like the products they sell

Popular prizes for Sweepstakes and contests are trips and getaway packages. We have awarded many trips to different destinations to very lucky winners and some are more interesting and exciting than other. Here’s a new sweepstakes that recently launched that we’re assisting with that is offering a chance to win a trip that I would love to take.

The Tamed Wild “Land of the Pharaohs” Sweepstakes is offering one lucky winner and their guest a trip to Cairo, Egypt, for an inclusive tour of one of the worlds most magical and historical places! The managers of Tamed Wild recently came back from their own adventure in Egypt and wanted to spread their love of this amazing country with their customers.

The prize package includes two round trip tickets to Cairo from the U.S., five nights hotel accommodations and all airport, hotel and tour transfers. Also included are these guided tours with a personal Egyptologist to the following sites: Great Pyramids of Giza & the Sphinx, the Egyptian Museum and the Sakkara including the new discovery of the tomb of Wahty. Then there is also a day trip to Alexandria to see the Catacombs of Kom El Shokafa”, “Pompeii’s’ Pillar” and a visit to Bibliotheca Alexandria. A couple of lunch meals and a dinner cruise on the Nile River come with the package as well.

To enter all U.S customers, 18 years of age or older, who place an order on shoptamedwild.com will receive an entry for every $10 spent in that individual order. Orders cannot be combined to gain more entries. As an example a $55 order (not including tax and shipping) will earn that customer five entries into the sweepstakes. The Grand Prize Winner will be chosen at random by us once the sweepstakes ends on December 31st, 2019. The Grand Prize Winner must take the trip between February 1 and September 30, 2020. If they would like to travel on dates outside that time period they would have to pay the difference in the prize package which is valued at $5,000.

As with any sweepstakes NO PURCHASE NECESSARY is a requirement in order for it to be legally compliant. So the Official Rules do include information on how to enter by mail without purchase. This method of entry has already received some entries.

Tamed Wild is a new client of ours whose e-commerce business sells a pretty unique collection of products including crystals, candles, apothecary items, jewelry, clothing, fragrances, books and more. They also offer some of these products as gift sets that can be purchased as well. The company was founded on the belief in ancient herbal remedies to heal not only the body, but the soul. They believe that what is given to us by the earth is all we really need to live happy and healthy lives.

So I think the trip to Egypt does fit nicely in with the Tamed Wild brand image. They are promoting the sweepstakes with email, on their Instagram page and with every order that goes out to encourage repeat purchases.

Text-to-win sweepstakes from Breckenridge Distillery offers chances to win a trip to their distillery and restaurant in Colorado

We are administering another new text-to-win sweepstakes that is for the Breckenridge Distillery, located in Colorado, to help promote their location in the summer months. They are offering the chance for three grand prize winners to each receive a great trip package for two people to visit their Distillery in Breckenridge.

Participants can enter the Breckenridge Distillery Sweepstakes by texting BDWhiskey to the short code 60905 that we provide to them from our mobile provider. Each participant will then receive a response message back that will include a link to an entry form which they must fill out all the required fields to complete their entry. They can also enter by going directly to the entry form that is located at https://go.sweeppea.com/BDWhiskey and filling out the required fields along with their mobile phone number.

The sweepstakes runs till July 31 and once ended we will randomly choose the three winners from all who have entered to receive the trip prize package. The prize includes the following: round trip airline tickets for the Grand Prize Winner and their guest to the Denver International airport, 2-night hotel accommodations in Breckenridge, a Breckenridge Distillery Tour, a meet & greet with Bryan Nolt, the Founder and CEO, and dinner at Breckenridge Distillery Restaurant. Each prize is valued at $1,600.

The Breckenridge Distillery is best known for their whiskey products, but they produce gin and vodka as well. They note that all their products include the water from the Rocky Mountain snowmelt to produce pure, mineral infused perfection.

The restaurant’s menu is currently provided by Chef David Burke who is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a student at Ecole Lenotre Pastry School in Plaisir, France. He received the ultimate honor, a United States patent, awarded to him for the unique process by which he uses pink Himalayan salt to dry-age his steaks for up to 100 days. He is also is a two time James Beard Best Chef in New York winner.

We have been working with the Republic National Distribution Company, distributors of these products. They have produced in-store point-of-sale materials to promote the sweepstakes in retail locations. The distillery is also promoting the sweepstakes to people taking a distillery tour and at the restaurant as well. Setting up a text-to-win sweepstakes is a great way to encourage in-store displays.

We worked with this same distributor with a Derby Sweepstakes that recently ended to help promote Four Hands Winery, the official sponsor of the 145th Kentucky Derby. This was also a text-to-win sweepstakes in which they awarded a Grand Prize Winner their choice of either a custom hat or bowtie from the House of MacGregor Millinery that is valued at $500. We hope to continue to assist with more of these types of giveaways with them.

Maycation Giveaway from Sandals honors moms, teachers, nurses and military persons who “rock”

This Sunday, May 12, is Mother’s Day just in case you weren’t aware. All forms of media, TV, Social, Internet, have been reminding us with ads and emails full of gift suggestions for moms.  Everyone including retailers, brands, restaurants and other businesses all have provides us with ways on how best to celebrate the moms in our lives.

One of our clients, Sandals Resorts, who we have worked with for several years, has a Mother’s Day promotion this year that is quite unique. They are currently running their “Maycation Giveaway” which not only celebrates Mother’s Day, but also Teacher Appreciation Week, National Nurses’ Day and Military Month. Every day for the month of May one deserving mother, teacher, nurse or military member will be rewarded with a complimentary 7-Day / 6-night luxury vacation for two at any Sandals or Beaches Resort of their choice*, for a grand total of 31 giveaways.

Participants are invited to visit the Sandals website at www.sandals.com/maycation/ and fill out a registration form. They then have to nominate someone they believe that “Rocks” who may be a mother, nurse, a teacher and/or an active or retired military person who they believe is deserving of a #SandalsMaycation. Participants must only nominate someone with whom they are personally acquainted with and must have the nominee’s permission and include their contact information. They may also nominate themselves if they feel that they fall into any of those categories. Part of the nomination process asks entrants to explain why the nominee rocks by writing up to 250 characters and also uploading a photo of the nominee.

Winners will be determined in four separate random drawings during the month of May. The first drawing will be conducted this Friday, May 10, and the last one on May 31. There will be a total of four Grand Prize winners and 27 First Place Winners.

Each Grand Prize Winner will receive a 7-day/6-night Luxury vacation for two in a Butler/Love Nest Suite® at any one of the 16 Sandals Resorts of the winner’s choice located in Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia, The Bahamas, Barbados or Grenada. Each Butler suite offers the utmost in privacy and plush elegance, including 24-hour room service with professionally trained butlers. Additional amenities offered at any Sandals are inclusive of all meals, unlimited premium brand beverages, daily & nightly entertainment, all land and water sports, including daily scuba diving, snorkeling and airport transfers. However, airfare is not included in any of these prize packages. Total value of each of these packages is $5,360.

Each First Prize Winne’s package will will receive a 7-day/6-night Luxury vacation for two in a Entry Level Deluxe Category Suite at any one of the 16 Sandals Resorts as indicated above or their Beaches Resorts located in Turks & Caicos or Jamaica. The same additional amenities are also part of the package, not including airfare. Total value of each of these packages is $3,556.

This Mother’s Day unfortunately I won’t be sharing with my two daughters. One just moved into a new apartment last weekend and the other daughter is closing on her first home on Friday. So they’re a little busy. Hope to visit them both soon though. Happy Mother’s day to all moms and hope you have a great day.

Two sweepstakes from Sugarlands Distilling offers fans of Cole Swindell and NASCAR® chances to win

Sugarlands Distilling Company is again working with us on a couple of sweepstakes. They run a distillery in downtown Gatlinburg, Tenn, which is a popular tourist attraction.  Guests are invited to taste free samples of authentic Sugarlands Shine, take a tour and purchase a variety of moonshine flavors, merchandise and apparel. We originally helped them with  their “Meet the Legends” Sweepstakes which offered up to 10 winners, each with a guest, to visit Gatlinburg for a fun-filled weekend to meet with Moonshine Legends, Jim Tom Hedrick, Mark Rogers, Tickle and the Sugarlands Distilling Co. gang.

They are now running two different Sweepstakes. First is the “Both Sides of the Mississippi” Sweepstakes which started April 1 and runs till June 3. This sweeps offers participants a chance to be one of nine weekly winners that each receive  a Cole Swindell and Sugarlands Shine merchandise package valued at $50.

The one Grand Prize winner drawn at the end of the sweepstakes will receive a beach vacation and an evening at the Sunset Repeat Tour with Cole Swindell. The winner will be able to choose from either attending the concert in Orange Beach, Alabama on July 19 or in Mountain View, California on August 24, 2019. The prize package includes round trip airfare for two, hotel accommodations for two nights, tickets to the tour, a meet and greet with Cole Swindell, a $200 food allowance and the Cole Swindell and Sugarlands Shine merchandise package as well. Total value of the trip prize is $1,650.

The second is the Sugarlands “Speed & Shine” Sweepstakes  which started April 19 and runs till August 16. Sugarlands is the official “Moonshine” sponsor of NASCAR®, so this sweeps is offering one Grand Prize winner a VIP experience weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway to help celebrate their 50th anniversary plus a VIP weekend getaway to Gatlinburg, Tenn. Each trip package includes round trip airfare for two, hotel accommodations for two nights at both locations, two tickets to the Fall NASCAR® race taking place at Talladega Superspeedway, a tour of the distillery in Gatlinburg along with tickets to some Gatlinburg attractions. The total grand prize package is valued at $4,199. There will also be 16 weekly first prize winners who will each receive an official licensed NASCAR® and Sugarlands Shine merchandise package.

People can enter either sweepstakes by visiting Sugarlands.com/cole or Sugarlands.com/nascar/speedandshine/and filling out and submitting either sweepstakes entry form. They can earn up to five bonus entries as well for each sweepstakes by performing different actions such as visiting Sugarlands on Facebook and Instagram, by subscribing to their YouTube channel and by referring friends.

Both sweepstakes are great examples of offering experiential prizes that a person could not obtain on their own. Plus, Sugarlands Distilling is doing a great job of utilizing their sponsorship of NASCAR®. I’m sure that there are many fans of both Cole Swindell and NASCAR® that will be signing up for a chance to win and thrilled if they do.