Archive for January, 2012

Super Bowl Promotions:

Super Bowl is less than two months away and it is never too early to start planning your interactive promotions for the big game. Whether you are a bar and restaurant owner or a retail location, Interactive Promotions Group has just the contests insurance that will draw business to your location.

If you are a bar restaurant business, a great promotion that you could run the day of the big game to get fans pumped up for the game would be the score prediction contest. As your patrons enter your restaurant on game day have everyone write down their guess of the final score. Right before the game starts pick out one of the guesses and at the end of the game you will see if that guess exactly matches the final score. If it does, your lucky patron goes home with a big prize courtesy of Interactive Promotions Group.

Looking to boost sales at your retail location? Interactive Promotions Group can definitely help you do that with our conditional rebate policy. Let’s say you are the owner of a furniture store and you want to run a big sale leading up to the big game. You can advertise that if the home team runs back either the opening or second half kick-off for a touchdown, you will reimburse the total sales from the start date of the sale up to that Saturday before the Super Bowl to each and every one of your customers. What better way is there to drive customers into your location than to offer the possibility of FREE merchandise? You just let Interactive Promotions Group know your estimated sales volume for the time period of the sale and we will calculate the premium based on your sales and the odds of the teams playing in the Super Bowl. It’s that easy! Don’t forget, you have less than two months to start planning so give Integrative Promotions Group a call and we’ll be happy to put something together for the big game day celebration!

Great Promotions for March!

March is a great month for promotions at Interactive Promotions Group! Check out these three popular contests your retail store, restaurant or bar, car dealership or fundraising event can run this month!

-         In the sports world, March means basketball! March Madness sweeps the NCAA college basketball world as people try to predict which teams will make it all the way. While the work bracket pool is fun, why not get coverage from Interactive Promotions Group and allow the pot to grow to $10,000.00. Interactive Promotions Group will insure the full bracket from start to finish or just the teams that will make it to the Sweet 16.

-         March is also the month of green, St Patrick’s days allows for contests like the Lucky Shamrock Pull where you can give one party-goer the chance to win up to $25,000.00 if they can guess the correct Shamrock. This promotion is great to do at your bar or restaurant where the Irish will be celebrating!

-         Spring also begins in March which means as a store owner you are probably having Spring Sales or your retail location or car dealership. Why not up the traffic in your store and run a weather promotion where whatever merchandise a customers purchases the first week or spring will get reimbursed if the temperature hits an all time high on July 4th!

For more great ideas or to get a quote on one of these promotions give us a call at 888-882-5140.

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01 2012

Hockey Promotions for this Season!

It is time to hit the ice, hockey season is in full swing and Interactive Promotions Group as a number of great hockey promotions that are sure to excite the crowd at the next home game. Most of the hockey contests offered by Interactive Promotions Group are fan participation promotions which means that you select the participate(s) at random from the crowd and they perform one of the following promotions in order to win the grand prize. These are the most popular promotions that Interactive Promotions Group customers have done in the past!

-         Target Score Shot- This promotion is the simplest that Interactive Promotions Group offers. One person is selected at random from the crowd and all the contestant has to do is shoot the puck through a template and into the goal. This contest can be done from the closest blue line, center ice, far blue line, or the far goal line. This many options allow clients to best utilize their budget by choosing if they want to do multiple contestants from farther away or just one participant with a closer shot!

-         Rapid Fire – This contest is an excellent way to have the contestant on ice for a longer period of time. The participant has 25 seconds to shot the puck as fast as he or she can. In the 25 seconds they have to get 20 out of the 25 pucks they are given into the open net. This promotion is done from center ice.

-         Hat Trick – With a hat trick promotion the contestant gets to take three different shots, one from the near blue line, center ice, and far blue line. Out of the three shots the person selected has to make two out of the three through a designated template. This promotion like the Rapid Fire is a great way to utilize the whole break during periods.

For more information on any of these hockey promotions or for more visit the Sports tab on our website and click on Hockey!

What Can Contest Insurance Do For You?

One of the simplest questions often asked is one of the most important to understand. What is contest insurance and what can it do for you? Interactive Promotions Group is known for the golf, hole in one contests, the fun football contests and even the direct mail promotions they offer to get people into your business. But, what is it?

Contest insurance is also known as prize indemnity insurance. It is a type of insurance protection for you. Here’s the breakdown.

  • You encourage participation in specialized contests designed by Interactive Promotions Groups.
  • The contests offer a chance for your participants to earn big prizes.
  • If they win the prize, Interactive Promotions Group pays for that prize. You do not have to pay for that prize at all.

Instead of paying out of your pocket for the prize you are offering to your contest participants, we cover those costs. You get to keep the benefits your event draws in, including profits from sales. Hole in one insurance, a golf related event, was one of the first types of insurance offered like this. Today, there are numerous options available to you to choose from.

Why work with Interactive Promotions Group for your contest insurance? In short, we cost less than everyone else (and we price match and beat it), we have an A credit rating and we ensure your participants have great prizes to earn. Take a look at how we can help you. You can even get a quote to learn how easily affordable this service is.