Prizes
Are Promotional Products Still Relevant?
Stacey Novick, Account Executive, contributed this post on promotional products. The $22 billion promotion industry is constantly changing to keep up with current consumer trends and the types of promotional products, whether premiums, branded merchandise or custom logo apparel, are also changing. Knowing that social media, gaining followers or having a commercial go viral are probably forefront on your mind, we want to provide you with some information on why promotional products are still relevant for you and your clients. Marden-Kane can recommend and help you source, procure and fulfill promotional products for any type of promotion. So what … Continue reading
Sweepstakes Winners: W-9’s and 1099’s
SVP, Fae Savignano contributed this informative post on what sponsors need to know about filing and processing winner W-9’s and 1099’s for their promotions. Sponsors of Promotion Games of Chance offering and awarding prizes valued at $600 or more should be aware that they are responsible to obtain a signed, legible copy of an IRS form W-9 from every winner that they issue a prize to. This means that any eligible entrant who has been verified as a prize Winner you issue a prize of $600 or more to, will need to fill out a W-9 form for you … Continue reading
Current Marden-Kane Promotions
Due to popular demand, we are providing a list of some of our current Marden-Kane promotions. Select sweepstakes and contests that we administer will be listed here. Check back often as we will be adding to this list weekly! Each promotion is governed by Official Rules that are accessible by clicking the link provided.
Father’s Day Promotion Ideas
Father’s Day is sneaking up on us. And if you have a product that speaks to dads, you should embrace all your dad fans out there by running a contest or sweepstakes to build up your fan base and increase brand loyalty. Here are a few promotion ideas to help your brand celebrate all the Dads out there! #DadLife Instagram Sweepstakes: New dads holding their babies. Dads coaching soccer games. Dads braiding their little girls hair. It’s all part of #DadLife. Ask people to share their dad life photos and short videos on Instagram that shows dads being dads and … Continue reading
The Facts About Prizes Revealed
Fae Savignano, SVP, contributed this post about prizes. Research shows that more than half of all adults in the U.S. enter at least one sweepstakes every year, and this amount increases exponentially. Promoting Sweepstakes and Contests are an excellent way to engage and retain your customers and a properly structured prize offering will definitely enhance your endeavor. Let’s face it, the chance of winning an expensive and alluring prize is just too tempting to resist! As we all know, a prize is always present in Sweepstakes and Contests; therefore, here are some key points to keep in mind when … Continue reading
How to Contact Winners in Social Media Contests
Running a promotion on Twitter or Instagram or other social platform is fairly easy. You basically follow the social platform guidelines, post rules, collect entries and select winners from valid posts or tweets or pins. The hard part can be contacting and clearing winners. In a traditional contest where a form is used to collect data you typically collect address and phone or email so contacting winners is easy. A small prize can easily be mailed straight to an address. A winner of a larger prize can be called or emailed. But in a social promotion all you may … Continue reading
Top Valentine’s Day Contest Prizes
Looking to make a big heart-shaped impression with your customers this year? Run a Valentine’s Day Contest and reward the winners with these amazing prizes. Here is a run-down of the best prizes you could offer in your Valentine’s contest this year: For the Winner of the Most Embarrassing Love Gone Wrong Contest A day trip to a spa for some time to get over the embarrassment and recover. The trip should include at least one massage and a giant bottle of champagne to help get over the sting. For Winner of the Most Romantic Couple Photo Contest A room. … Continue reading
3 Reasons to Use Electronic Gift Cards as Prizes
Electronic gift cards are a great option for prizes in your next Sweepstakes or Contest. E-gift cards can be purchased from retailers like Visa and Amazon and consist of a card code and a confirmation code that can be redeemed by a consumer online. The codes and instructions can all be delivered via an email from your brand to your winners. Here’s why e-gift cards make sense: Lower Fulfillment Costs Electronic gift cards don’t need to be packaged, labelled and mailed, which will save you money on fulfillment and postage. To put that in perspective, if you mail 1,000 … Continue reading
The Great Prize Recap of 2015
People ask us all the time what the best prizes are to give away. We have written a few blogs about prizes people want and trips as prizes and a few more ideas, but what did brands actually give away this year? We took stock of the prize vault at Marden-Kane and found out a few things about what our clients gave away in 2015. Most Popular Prize goes to….. Gift Cards! Far and away the most popular thing our clients gave away this year was Gift Cards. LOTS and LOTS of gift cards. In fact, almost two-thirds of … Continue reading
Making Holiday Toy Dreams Come True
The Cabbage Patch Kid my grandmother gave me for Christmas when I was a kid was one of those right place, right time stories. It was that Christmas 1983, when you could not find a Cabbage Patch Doll anywhere. It was THE hot item that year – the one everyone wanted and no one could get. And my grandmother happened to be on a cruise in Europe that November and spotted a mob of grannies from her ship in line at a gift shop in Spain and discovered – holy cow! – a fresh crop of Cabbage Patch Kids … Continue reading
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