The NCAA Tournament is just around the corner!  The conference championships are in full swing and the tournament starts on Tuesday. The first four play-in games will be Tuesday and Wednesday and then the 64 teams will begin play on Thursday.

Did you know that Interactive Promotions Group offers coverage for NCAA brackets?  They have various bracket options that you can insure.  This is great coverage for restaurants, bars or even at your office.  Pricing is simply determined by the type of bracket contest you want to purchase coverage for and the number of brackets that will be submitted.  Once you have that nailed down you will just need to pick the value of the prize.  Keep in mind only one bracket per person.

Interactive Promotions Group has four different bracket contest options; one for the Full Bracket and three for the Sweet 16.  For the Full Bracket the contestant will have to correctly guess all 63 games.  For the Sweet 16 you can buy coverage so that your contestants would have to predict the teams leading up to the Sweet 16, the 16 teams that make up the Sweet 16 or a perfect bracket from the Sweet 16 to the final championship game.

All brackets need to be submitted to Interactive Promotions Group the night before the start of the tournament.  If you have not gotten your coverage in place yet and you are worried it is too late, it’s not!  You have until Tuesday to get your coverage in place.  Call Interactive Promotions Group today, 888-882-5140 or send an email to info@interactivepromotions.com.

As the dust settles around the longest Super Bowl of all time let’s take a moment to congratulate the Baltimore Ravens.  Interactive Promotions Group’s very own Patti Johnson is from Baltimore and was quite happy to see her team bring home the Lombardi Trophy Sunday night.

Some pretty amazing things took place on Sunday night.  The most amazing play and record making moment was Jacoby Jones’ 108 yard kickoff return for a touchdown to start off the second half.  Check out all of Jacoby Jones’ outstanding plays during the game here.  Fast forward to the thirty second mark to check out his kickoff return and at the forty-five second mark you can see Jacoby celebrating that remarkable play in the end zone.  However, the best part about his celebration was the dance that he chose to do, he did “the dance”, the one and only dance of retiring teammate, linebacker Ray Lewis.  If you have never seen Ray do his dance out of the tunnel, you can see his final dance at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore which took place yesterday following their welcome home parade Ray’s Final Dance.

Not to go without mention was the 34 minute blackout that took place very shortly after Jacoby Jones’ touchdown–Cue social media frenzy, from spoofed pictures of the Harbaugh brothers crying to their mother to pictures of  a giant electrical plug being pulled, the jokes went on.

So let’s circle back to that kickoff return.  Did you know you can purchase coverage from Interactive Promotions Group for just this type of thing?  Well you can and for those of you who are wondering, it is called a Team Achievement Promotion.  We actually had a restaurant purchase this coverage for 3 of their locations in and around Rockford, IL.  Jacoby Jones had an amazing game on Sunday and thanks to him 3 people are each $10,000 richer!

Once again, congratulations to the Baltimore Ravens, or RAYVENS if you’re from Baltimore!!

Interactive Promotions Group’s sister company is US Hole In One, the leader in contest prize insurance and event signage.  Golf tournaments are always a great way to incorporate a fundraiser with a day packed with fun out on the links!  Golf outings are also very popular but by purchasing hole in one insurance you can make your next tournament stand apart from the rest.

Purchasing hole in one insurance is very simple.  To determine the cost, you will need to know three things: the number of golfers that you are excepting for the tournament (this can be changed once the policy is in place, up until the day of the tournament before tee-off), the yardage of the par-3 hole where the grand prize will be located (150 yards minimum for prizes <$50k, and ladies can always play up to fifteen yards closer than the men) and the value of the prize you will be purchasing the coverage for (i.e. amount of cash, value of a vehicle etc.).  Once you have gathered this information you can either call US Hole In One or you can get an online quote, you will then be emailed the one page application and upon completion you can either email or fax it back to us.  Prize insurance can also be purchased online immediately after receiving an online quote.

Each and every hole in one package includes bonus prizes for hole in one contests on the remaining par-3 holes on your course, signs to designate each prize to each of the par-3 hole and gift certificates for each golfer in the tournament.

By purchasing hole in one insurance from US Hole In One you are sure to add excitement to your next golf tournament!

Direct Mail promotions are a great way to drive traffic into your auto dealership or retail location.  By giving current and prospective customers the incentive to win big you are sure to get your name out there in the community.  Whether you are hosting a grand opening, a grand re-opening, or just a huge blow out sale, Interactive Promotions Group is the number one place to go to for prize insurance.

To purchase the coverage from Interactive Promotions Group, we will need to know how many mail pieces you will be sending out, and the value of the prize(s) you need to purchase insurance for.  This information will allow us to provide you with a price quote for the policy.

It will be up to you to establish the list source by  which you will be choosing the database of addresses to mail the pieces to.  Most of our clients use their current client database, however if you are a new business you can purchase a lists of residences around your new business location.  You will also be in charge of setting up the printing of the mail pieces with a mail house; Interactive Promotions Group strictly issues the price coverage insurance for the grand prize(s) advertised on your mailer.

Direct Mail promotions are typically run for up to a thirty day period.  If you are interested in running the promotion for longer or at multiple dealerships or retail locations please give a call to further discuss these options with one of our prize insurance consultants.

Interactive Promotions Group offers a wide array of contests that are sure to bring excitement to your next event.  Some of our popular contests are the basketball half-court shot, football field goal kick, dice roll, and crack the vault but we also offer other unique contests for Fishing, Billiards, and Darts events

Many clients are constantly trying to find a promotion to run at their fishing tournaments.  Tagged fish contests used to be the popular contest to run years ago, however, as times have changed so have insurance carriers and they no longer offer coverage for the tagged fish events. Our contest designers at Interactive Promotions Group created a promotion that works perfectly for fishing tournaments.  The contest is called Lucky Fish Weight.  Here’s how it works: After you weigh all of the fish, pick the fisherman with the largest fish, take the fish weight (last two decimal places) and see if it matches the predetermined winning weight from Interactive Promotions Group.  If the numbers match he or she will win the grand prize cash!

For billiards events, Interactive Promotions Group offers an eight on the break contest. Many of our clients that own bars like to offer this promo but it is also popular for Pro Billiards events.  During your next billiards promotion select one lucky person to take their shot at winning a grand prize.  Here is how it works:  If the lucky contestant can sink the eight ball on the break then they go home a winner.  Nothing like offering a chance to win $25,000 to create an increased interest in your pool tournament!

We also receive requests for dart events and our clients are ecstatic to find out that Interactive Promotions Group does offer contest coverage for darts.  The triple bulls eye is a perfect contest to run at a bar, restaurant, or club.  This is a great contest to run during fundraising events at these types of venues because it is a great way to raise money.  By selling raffle tickets you can then pick a lucky contestant to test their precision for a chance at some extra cash.  If the contestant who is chosen can throw three double bulls eye in a row they take home the grand prize!

Interactive Promotions Group offers many types of creative contests that are sure to bring some extra excitement to your next event.  Call us today!

With Thanksgiving being on Thursday, it is definitely time to start planning your company holiday party.  Many of our customers are used to doing our regular contests but do not realize that by changing just a few things, you can instantly turn your regular promotion into a holiday themed contest.  The best part of this is that the contest rules do not change and there is no extra charge!  The most popular holiday party contests are the Dice Roll Promotion and the Lucky Number Promotion.

At Interactive Promotions Group, we have a good amount of  clients who are motorcycle dealerships, to be specific, Harley-Davidson dealers.  These dealers LOVE to run our Dice Roll contest.  During their big in-store sales they will have customers try to roll six dice to spell the word H-A-R-L-E-Y.  If someone can successfully roll the winning combination they will ride home a winner courtesy of Interactive Promotions Group. Now say they want to run a contest for their employees at their holiday party, all they have to do is set up a new policy and change up their six letter word or you can even do six pictures, one on each die.  The most popular holiday dice combinations are Ho, Ho, Ho so the dice would read H-O-H-O-H-O or you can do S-A-N-T-A-! and some people will even have us customize the dice so that one side of each of the six die will have a Santa hat on them.  The choice is totally up to you and we are happy to customize this however you would like.  You can purchase the policy for anywhere from three to seven dice just keep in mind, the more contestants you plan to have, the more dice you will want to do to keep your pricing affordable.

The Dice Roll contest will allow for all of your employees to get a chance to participate but if you are looking to do a contest where you raffle the chance to a few lucky employees, the Lucky Number contest is just what you are looking for.  Here is the idea:  Number items from one to one hundred and then have the selected employees pick their lucky number.  Many of our customers like to number mini Christmas stockings and hang them on a tree to tie in with the holiday theme.  Once your employees have selected their lucky numbered Christmas stocking, they will then enter the numbers into our online website. If one of your employees’ lucky numbers matches the predetermined lucky number then they just won some extra spending holiday money!

The NHL may be in a lock out but that shouldn’t stop you from running an ice hockey promotion during College and High School events! If you are looking for something to add to your next hockey game or fundraiser, Interactive Promotions Group has just what you are looking for.  Whether you are looking to do an on ice shot for one lucky fan, a chuck-a-puck contest or a team achievement promotion, Interactive Promotions Group will get you covered.

The on-ice hockey shots are definitely our most popular hockey promotion.  You have three options on this shot: close blue line, center ice, or far blue line.  To get this policy in place you simply need to know the number of contestants you are going to pick out of the crowd, the shot you want them to take, and the value of the grand prize that you would like to give away.  Once you have this information, Interactive Promotions Group will be able to provide you with pricing and write up a contract.  Between periods call a lucky fan down to the ice and test their skills!  If they can make the shot they will win the grand prize.

Chuck-a-puck is great for events when you are looking to run a contest that gets the whole crowd involved.  It is also a great way to raise money.  By selling numbered foam pucks before the start of the game you can bring awareness about the charity who you are raising money for to your fans .  In between periods, everyone who purchased a puck will throw their puck onto the ice and if their puck makes it into the designated area they take home the grand prize provided by Interactive Promotions Group!

If you are looking to do something a little different and test the skills of your team instead of a lucky fan in the crowd, then you will want to offer one of the Team Achievement promotions. The Hat Trick contest is always a great promotion to run.  You can run this at a few games or over the entire season at every home game if you so choose.  You can also pick whether you would like to have the contest test the achievements of just one player on the team or the entire team.  At the start of each game you will select a seat number and if the player or team, depending on which contest you purchase coverage for, can successfully complete a hat trick the lucky fan in that seat goes home a big winner, compliments of Interactive Promotions Group.

Interactive Promotions Group not only insures sports contests for fan participation but you can also purchase coverage for the achievements made by the home team. With team achievement promotions, the lucky fan or fans in attendance of the sporting event will be the recipient(s) of the grand prize if the home team can successfully complete the insured contest.

For football contests, one of the most popular promos Interactive Promotions Group insures is the Run-Back contest. In the event that the home team runs back a kick-off for a touchdown at the start of the game or the start of the second half Interactive Promotions Group will pay out the grand prize that you have insured for your lucky fan(s) in the crowd.

During baseball games, promotional coverage can be purchased for a 7 Runs in the 7^th Inning, Inside the Park Home Run or Stealing Home Base for example.  Pick your lucky fan(s) before the start of the game and if the home team has the skills to make it happen IP Group will provide the money to the fan(s).

NCAA Basketball season culminates with the NCAA tournament and March Madness.  This is quite a busy time for Interactive Promotions Group.  Insurance can be purchased for a Perfect Bracket for all 64 games, the Sweet 16 or just the Elite 8.  All submissions must be made prior to the start of the bracket series insured on the policy and if someone can pick all the winners correctly they are going to win big.  This is a great promotion to run at bars and restaurants.

Give for Interactive Promotions Group a call, 1-888-882-5140, and we will get all of your team achievement contests covered!  Keep in mind if you do not see something on our website we can always set up a customized promotion.  If you can think it up we’ll do our best to cover it!

With football season in full swing, it’s time to start planning your next big promotion.  It is never too late to bind coverage for a contest.  Interactive Promotions can provide coverage for an event that is taking place the very next day! Some of our most popular contests are the Punt into the Truck Bed of a Pickup and the Punt, Pass, and Kick.

The Punt into the Truck Bed of a Pickup is a great promotion for auto dealers to run.  Not only will it add excitement to an event but it also allows them to promote their company while also showing off one of their brand new pickup trucks.  You do not just have to be a dealer to run one of these contests.  If you are doing a fundraising event, for example, for your local high school or college you can also run this promo.  It is a great way to approach local dealers in your area and seek out sponsorships.  Once you have purchased the coverage from Interactive Promotions group and have the truck in place on the field, pick one lucky fan, at random, out of the crowd and see if they have the skills to land the football, and have it stay, in the truck bed of that pickup truck.  If that contestant gets the ball to stay in the bed they are driving home a winner!

The Punt, Pass and Kick contest will definitely get the crowd cheering on that one lucky person who gets picked out of the crowd.  There are three steps to this promotion in order to successfully win the prize, however depending on your skills you can make that final field goal kick very easy.  First the contestant will punt the football as far as they can down the field.  From the spot where the ball lands, they will then pick up the football and see how far they can throw it down field.  Finally, from the spot where the football lands, the contestant will then have to kick it through the uprights.  If the field goal is good, that lucky fan is going home a little richer.  This is a great contest for all age groups!

Interactive Promotions Group has all your contest coverage needs for this football season.  Call us today 888-882-5140 or check out our website: http://www.interactivepromotions.com/

Tradeshows are an excellent way of promoting your company and further expanding your client database. In order to do this you have to attract people to your booth at the show, Interactive Promotions knows the importance of having a special and unique way of pulling in potential clients and has designed a number of different promotions for this purpose.

Hands down the most popular trade show promotion is Crack the Vault. Since a trade show will run all day if not over multiple days, the crack the vault promotion is perfect. The game will allow you to involve everyone at the show so there is no extra work on your part to figure out how to select a few lucky participants. This promotion unlike many other offered by Interactive Promotions does not have to be videotaped since the game will be programmed based on your policies requirements. The game is a great way to collect information from your guest by asking them to fill in a request card before they take their chance at entering a number into the vault.

The Dice Roll promotion is a close second to the crack the vault. The dice roll promotion will allow everyone at the event to participate to win a grand prize by rolling the dice to spell out any word of your choice. The dice roll offers a creative side to the client by personalizing the die to spell out the company name or even use the company logo. Interactive Promotions will handle creating and shipping the die to you or your event and also included will be a dice cup for the participants to use when testing their luck!

If your trade show has a lot of space then the Airplane Toss is another great way to get a large group involved with the promotion. Have each person who visits your booth fold their piece of paper to create a plane they think will soar through the target. For more information on other tradeshow ideas visit our website or give us a call!