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3 Tips for a Big Football Sweepstakes Score

Football season is back! Time for tailgating and weekend fun watching the pee-wee, high school, college and professional games. You might think that it would be a great time to promote your business by giving away game tickets or running a football sweepstakes. And it is! People love winning free tickets or team merchandise, especially autographed items or trips to big games. However, there are three questions to ask before

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August 25, 2017

Get Social with a Back to School Sweepstakes for Students

  Social is the perfect platform for a back to school sweepstakes as it’s the easiest way to engage high school and college aged students. You don’t need a huge budget to run a social campaign, and as long as you run the promotion on a platform familiar to your target age group, and offer something they want they will find you! It’s a win-win for your brand and for

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July 19, 2017

Sizzling Summer Social Sweepstakes Ideas

  Need a summer social sweepstakes idea? Here are 6 of them! Hashtag a Day Sweepstakes: Post a new hashtag every day in your social posts, and ask your customers to tweet or post an Instagram photo or Tumblr post using that hashtag of the day. This sweepstakes will encourage people to look for your social posts each day – and reward customers with random drawings for daily prizes. I

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June 16, 2017

Social Contests and Sweepstakes: Favorite (and Least Favorite) Platforms to Use

Social contests and sweepstakes are currently the most popular tactic that we are seeing our clients use to increase brand awareness and reach. The Marden-Kane team has some strong ideas on what social platforms work, and which ones can cause headaches. We compiled this list of pros and cons to use when evaluating social platforms for your brand’s next social promotion. Remember: If you are thinking of running social contests

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April 4, 2017

20 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Contest Vendor

Before hiring a contest vendor you should ask lots of questions. Not all vendors are created equal. Some may be technically proficient but lack legal expertise. Some have the legal credentials but can’t build a website or do registration and bonding. Here are twenty questions you should be asking before you select your contest vendor: How well do they know sweepstakes law and advertising and mobile? A top notch promotional

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March 10, 2017

Use the Marden-Kane Social Tracker Tool for a Successful Hashtag Contest

Marden-Kane’s Social Tracker tool is a quick, efficient way to run a social sweepstakes or contest. A social media sweepstakes or contest is a cost effective way for your brand to gain followers and increase sales without setting up a special web site or sophisticated data collection. The Social Tracker tool tracks hashtags, likes and comments on social media platforms. Simply let us know what hashtag to track for your

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January 10, 2017

Top 10 Promotional Marketing Posts of 2016

  Here are the top 10 most popular Marden-Kane posts from 2016, as ranked by traffic and searches. 1. Criteria for Judging a Photo Contest I would like to expand the list of suggested Contest Judging Criteria as it applies specifically to Photo Contests to include updated entry methods, social media trends and promotional knowledge acquired in the past 2 years. Continue reading → 2. Sweepstakes Winners: W-9’s and 1099’s Sponsors of Promotion

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December 30, 2016

Promotional Marketing Predictions for 2017

Every year at this time we discuss what the next big thing will be. Sometimes we can see it coming, and sometimes we don’t.  So how did we do for this past year’s marketing predictions? Here they are so you can see! 2016 Prediction #1: Native ads will be booming – and promotions are part of that mix. Results: Native ads did turn out to be big news this year,

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November 22, 2016

Marden-Kane Employee Spotlight on Eric Grimm

The Marden-Kane Spotlight shines this month on Eric Grimm, our former senior developer and resident beer expert. Explain Your Role at MK: I’m the senior applications developer here, which means I have a hand in most aspects of any online/tech-driven promotions we run. Essentially this entails finding the right tool for the job, be it a database- or website-driven promotion, or a handful of Python scripts to turn a monumental

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November 8, 2016

Run a Legal Giveaway

  Trying to figure out how to run a legal giveaway? It’s easier than you think – or not, depending on where you are running your giveaway, who can enter, how you collect and use data, and what you are giving away. First, there are some basic things to know about the legalities of a giveaway. In the United States, a giveaway, or sweepstakes in legal terminology, is when you

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September 30, 2016
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3 Tips for a Big Football Sweepstakes Score

Football season is back! Time for tailgating and weekend fun watching the pee-wee, high school, college and professional games. You

Read More

Get Social with a Back to School Sweepstakes for Students

  Social is the perfect platform for a back to school sweepstakes as it’s the easiest way to engage high

Read More

Sizzling Summer Social Sweepstakes Ideas

  Need a summer social sweepstakes idea? Here are 6 of them! Hashtag a Day Sweepstakes: Post a new hashtag

Read More

Social Contests and Sweepstakes: Favorite (and Least Favorite) Platforms to Use

Social contests and sweepstakes are currently the most popular tactic that we are seeing our clients use to increase brand

Read More

20 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Contest Vendor

Before hiring a contest vendor you should ask lots of questions. Not all vendors are created equal. Some may be

Read More

Use the Marden-Kane Social Tracker Tool for a Successful Hashtag Contest

Marden-Kane’s Social Tracker tool is a quick, efficient way to run a social sweepstakes or contest. A social media sweepstakes

Read More

Top 10 Promotional Marketing Posts of 2016

  Here are the top 10 most popular Marden-Kane posts from 2016, as ranked by traffic and searches. 1. Criteria for

Read More

Promotional Marketing Predictions for 2017

Every year at this time we discuss what the next big thing will be. Sometimes we can see it coming,

Read More

Marden-Kane Employee Spotlight on Eric Grimm

The Marden-Kane Spotlight shines this month on Eric Grimm, our former senior developer and resident beer expert. Explain Your Role

Read More

Run a Legal Giveaway

  Trying to figure out how to run a legal giveaway? It’s easier than you think – or not, depending

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