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The Just BARE Chicken Facebook and Instagram Sweepstakes is rewarding lots of summertime fun prizes

It’s Summertime, which means it’s grilling season and chicken is one of the most popular food items for the grill. We recently helped launch a sweepstakes promotion for the brand “Just BARE Chicken” who is owned by parent company Pilgrim’s. The brand’s mission is to fuel people with wholesome, clean, responsible protein and it all starts with raising their chickens humanely on family farms.

Their #ThighsForTheWin Sweepstakes launched in early July and will continue through mid August. To enter people have to either visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/JustBAREChicken/ or their Instagram Page at www.instagram.com/justbarechicken/.

Once on either page they need to look for the sweepstakes promotional post and comment on the post by choosing which one of the chicken recipe dishes featured in the post they like the most and include the hashtags #ThighsForTheWin and #Sweepstakes which will earn them an entry into the sweepstakes. Two weekly random drawings, one from all the Facebook entries and on efrom all Instagram entries are being conducted per week for a total of six weeks.

The Sweepstakes is giving away a total of 24 prizes and each one of them is a different summer item. The post on Facebook today is giving away a Chicken Pool Float. Some of the other prizes include floating pool wine glasses, custom branded corn hole boards, tiki torches, a YETI cooler, a Weber Portable Grill set and many more.

During the final week of the sweepstakes, the week of August 12, a new promotional post will be added to both their Facebook and their Instagram pages. This post will ask fans to vote on which of four designated cities, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City, deserves to be the recipient of a Sponsor’s block party. So the City that receives the most votes from that post will receive a block party put on by Just BARE Chicken which will take place at an existing event within that city.

If you’re wondering where you can purchase this brand you can check on their website. We’ve actually been working with the brand’s agency, Osborn Barr, who we’ve helped run some sweepstakes for a couple of their other clients, but this is the first one for this brand.

Based on the current Facebook post the smokey almond & chicken mole recipe is the most popular per fan comments.

Here’s the Stitch Fix Stylin’ Summer Sweepstakes. Happy Summer!

The first day of summer is finally, officially here for us to celebrate! It’s the longest day of the year and today’s a beautiful day in western New York. After a brief shower last night that the gardens just loved. we now have blue skies with big, white puffy clouds. It’s a short season for us New Yorkers, so we definitely try and make the most of it.

So now that summer is here, it’s a good time to spruce up your summer wardrobe. I told you back in December about a fairly new company called Stitch Fix that I was introduced to then when we helped them run this promotion. I have since became a customer and have referred several of my friends and family as well. It’s worked well for me since I don’t enjoy shopping and I don’t really keep up with the latest fashion trends. Here’s how Stitch Fix works.

You first create an account online in which you go through a series of questions to help your “personal stylist” get to know you a little, what your style, size and price preferences are. Once that is done you request a “Fix” which is five hand-selected pieces of clothing delivered to you. You buy what you like in your Fix and you can send any items back at no charge or shipping fees. If you keep all five items you get an 25% discount off the total price which is a great way to encourage customers to keep all the items. They started out just for women, but have added men now as well.

Stitch Fix is currently running their Stylin’ Summer Sweepstakes which is their second promotion. They have strictly been promoting it to their current customers and inviting them to purchase their next Fix during the month of June and by the Fourth of July. All those that do will automatically earn an entry into the sweepstakes. We have to allow for “no purchase necessary”, so we have a mail-in option included in the rules for those to enter without purchase.

We’ll do a random drawing in July from all those that entered to determine the winners. One Grand Prize winner will receive a $2,000 Stitch Fix credit. 50 First Prize winners will each receive a $100 Stitch Fix credit. So Stitch Fix is giving away a total of $7,000 worth of merchandise.

May next Fix is scheduled for July 14. I’m not eligible to win, so there’s no sense in moving mine up. They normally are scheduled every other month, but you can change the date any time and skip a month or a Fix. I received my last Fix in May, just in time for my trip to Miami to attend our daughter’s graduation ceremony. I told my stylist about it and she sent me two dresses in that Fix for my trip, which I kept both.

So if anyone decides they want to try it out, here’s my referral code. Just use this link to get to the website and create you’re account. I’d appreciate it. Happy Summer!

Eight O’Clock Coffee launches the Chill in Italy Sweepstakes

The first official day of the Summer of 2016 occurred this week. The days are long and the nights are warm. What will be the major trends, events, happenings and songs of this summer? We have been blessed with some beautiful, sunny days here in western New York, but the heat is on across the county, especially in the southwest.

So it’s the perfect time for Eight O’Clock Coffee to launch their Chill in Italy Sweepstakes to promote their home brewed iced coffee. We’re administering this new sweepstakes and working through The S3 Agency, the same agency that we helped launched OCM’s “Room Goals Instant Giveaway” that I wrote about last week.

Eight O’Clock Coffee is giving away a total of 20 instant prizes which are available to be won from now till the end of the sweepstakes which is July 13. These instant prizes consist of an iced coffee package that includes two iced coffee tumblers, one cold brew coffee maker, one silicone ice cube tray, one coupon good for a free Eight O’Clock coffee, one Eight O’Clock mini-tote bag and some recipes for cold coffee.

The Grand Prize drawing will be conducted at the end of the sweepstakes to award a trip to “Chill in Italy” for the winner and guest. This prize includes round trip airfare and 7 day/6 night hotel accommodations in Italy. To enter the Chill in Italy Sweepstakes participants are invited to the Eight-Clock Coffee Facebook page and then directed to the promotion page by clicking on either the Facebook profile photo at the top of the page, the sweepstakes post at the top of their timeline, or the “Chill in Italy Sweepstakes” tab. They need to fill out the required fields on the entry form. Once submitted they will gain one entry into the sweepstakes and immediately be informed if they are an instant winner or not.

Participants can enter and play for a chance to win one of the 20 instant prizes once every 24 hours. Those that do not win an instant prize are encouraged to “Chill Out” and come back tomorrow to try again. In the meantime they are given this recipe for Tiramisu iced coffee made with Eight O’Clock Dark Italian Espresso Coffee. This looks delicious, so I’m going to give it a try…ice cream and dark coffee, two of my favorites! Stay tuned here to learn about some more fun, sweepstakes and contests that will be running this summer.