This document discusses various holiday promotion ideas that media companies can offer to advertisers. It presents three gift packages of promotions that are ready-to-implement. Gift package #1 includes quiz bundles, holiday sweeps, and a deals network with a total potential revenue of $21,500. Gift package #2 adds upgrades like an ecommerce theme week, custom quiz and custom sweeps for a total potential of $49,000. Gift package #3 fills to the top with additions like a holiday photo contest and golf card for a potential of $82,500. The document provides case studies and specifics on setting up different promotion types to help media companies establish a goal and select the holiday gifts that best fit their market.
Summer brings challenges when it comes to driving new revenue with promotions, but it also bring opportunities. In fact, we’ve seen partners drive over $45,000 with summer promotions!
To discover best practices and tips for planning, selling, and administering summer promotions, watch a recording or our Summer Promotions Survival Guide.
40 million Americans fill out a college basketball bracket each year. Make the most of the madness by complementing your bracket with a star-studded lineup of basketball promotions that will engage your audience.
Football fans are incredibly passionate about their sport, and this passion holds for not only professional football, but also college and even high school football.
People throw parties every week to watch football games. They paint their faces. They spend hours outside in the sweltering heat or frigid cold tailgating before a game.
This means that the opportunity – and variety – around football promotions is immense. In fact, we’ve seen our partners drive six-figure revenue from a single pro football contest!
Our How to Drive Revenue & Advertiser Results with Football Promotions webinar took an in-depth at how local media companies of all types and sizes are finding success with football promotions - and how you can too.
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Summer brings challenges when it comes to driving new revenue with promotions, but it also bring opportunities. In fact, we’ve seen partners drive over $45,000 with summer promotions!
To discover best practices and tips for planning, selling, and administering summer promotions, watch a recording or our Summer Promotions Survival Guide.
40 million Americans fill out a college basketball bracket each year. Make the most of the madness by complementing your bracket with a star-studded lineup of basketball promotions that will engage your audience.
Football fans are incredibly passionate about their sport, and this passion holds for not only professional football, but also college and even high school football.
People throw parties every week to watch football games. They paint their faces. They spend hours outside in the sweltering heat or frigid cold tailgating before a game.
This means that the opportunity – and variety – around football promotions is immense. In fact, we’ve seen our partners drive six-figure revenue from a single pro football contest!
Our How to Drive Revenue & Advertiser Results with Football Promotions webinar took an in-depth at how local media companies of all types and sizes are finding success with football promotions - and how you can too.
YesDiner - Digital Solution for Restaurant MarketingYesDiner
YesDiner, a powerful suite of innovative Digital Marketing Solutions crafted by eBEYONDS for restaurants, helps them have a fully-baked digital presence leading to more sales, greater diner loyalty, better brand image, and sustained high performance over the long run.
Matt Coen presented to Granite Broadcasting in September 2013 on how to drive revenue from online promotions. Here is his deck that covers contesting, deal cards, and ballot promotions.
if you want to achieve your revenue and audience goals, you need to plan out your promotions strategy for the next quarter ahead of time. Fortunately, building an integrated promotions calendar that incorporates contests, ballots, and deals doesn’t have to be a complicated process. Learn how simple it can be in the Calendar Check-In webinar for Q2.
In search of innovative ways to position your dining establishment to stand out amongst prospective patrons? Be sure to review these "12 Tips On Marketing a Restaurant" for inventive opportunities to promote your eatery!
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Open up new revenue streams with Display and Facebook advertising, RetargetingWSI Business Performance
If you spent money on Google search advertising, you should spend in Display retargeting!
Is Facebook the new Google for targeted traffic generation?
Open up new revenue streams with a structured approach to Display advertising.
Corporate sponsorship is defined as the financial support a company provides to an event, activity, or organization to fulfill the budget requirements. Corporations invest in these events to get brand exposure and increase awareness. However, brands don’t easily invest in the events unless they find the cause moving and powerful. If you are organizing an event and don’t have enough funds to support it, make an appealing proposal for your clients using Corporate Sponsorship Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides. With our aesthetically-designed cover letter, create an appealing story for your target audience and provide the central theme of your proposal. Entice your clients by ensuring that their brand's message will be delivered conveniently to their target audience. Urge your clients to invest in the gold membership package with our PPT design. Illustrate the benefits of investing in the event including customer engagement, increased sales, more customers, and brand publicity by incorporating our outwardly-engaging patronage PowerPoint templates. Build interest in your customers by showcasing the value the event will add to their brand image, like social media exposure, credibility, and different marketing channels. Discuss various sponsorship packages, including gold, silver, and bronze with your clients by employing our financial support PowerPoint theme. Explain the characteristics of each package and give emphasis on gold package benefits by utilizing our professionally-designed financial aid PowerPoint proposal. Provide a detailed overview of the event and mention the activities that will take place. With the assistance of the pictorial representation, depict corporate event attendee profile. Put a strong impression on your customers and add brief detail about your company like history, vision, and mission. Introduce the skilled and determined team working behind the planning activities of the event. Therefore, persuade your audience by including clients' testimonials and create a mark. Download this financial help theme and amaze your audience. https://bit.ly/3x1YyC4
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A hugely popular feature of our Digital Summits, Daniel will share what we need to be thinking about as we head towards 2016, bringing you up to speed on the latest ‘need to know’ developments and helping to set the context for the rest of the day.
Despite the speed of consumer adoption, most businesses are still finding their feet with digital and social media and many of the platforms, tools and technologies available today are still in relative infancy. Change continues apace as new applications are launched, opportunities emerge and customer/consumer behaviour continues to evolve.
For marketers, the implications of these developments are profound. Digital permeates everything, from communication channels to business models, team structures to budgets. Getting a handle on this requires, in the first instance, clarity on where we are now – which will be provided in this ‘state of the nation’ address from one of the UK’s leading digital trainers, Daniel Rowles.
FSC worked closely with The Howard Hughes Corporation to create a strategic social media approach to promote the revamping and re-opening of the Outlet Collection at the Riverwalk. The attached Case Study outlines the social media success in garnering engagement, growing Facebook community and driving attendance to the Grand Opening event.
Matt Coen presented to Granite Broadcasting in September 2013 on how to drive revenue from online promotions. Here is his deck that covers contesting, deal cards, and ballot promotions.
if you want to achieve your revenue and audience goals, you need to plan out your promotions strategy for the next quarter ahead of time. Fortunately, building an integrated promotions calendar that incorporates contests, ballots, and deals doesn’t have to be a complicated process. Learn how simple it can be in the Calendar Check-In webinar for Q2.
In search of innovative ways to position your dining establishment to stand out amongst prospective patrons? Be sure to review these "12 Tips On Marketing a Restaurant" for inventive opportunities to promote your eatery!
Great tips, resources, best practices and strategies for entrepreneurs, start-ups, professionals and small business owners.to plan launch and grow successful businesses.
Open up new revenue streams with Display and Facebook advertising, RetargetingWSI Business Performance
If you spent money on Google search advertising, you should spend in Display retargeting!
Is Facebook the new Google for targeted traffic generation?
Open up new revenue streams with a structured approach to Display advertising.
Corporate sponsorship is defined as the financial support a company provides to an event, activity, or organization to fulfill the budget requirements. Corporations invest in these events to get brand exposure and increase awareness. However, brands don’t easily invest in the events unless they find the cause moving and powerful. If you are organizing an event and don’t have enough funds to support it, make an appealing proposal for your clients using Corporate Sponsorship Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides. With our aesthetically-designed cover letter, create an appealing story for your target audience and provide the central theme of your proposal. Entice your clients by ensuring that their brand's message will be delivered conveniently to their target audience. Urge your clients to invest in the gold membership package with our PPT design. Illustrate the benefits of investing in the event including customer engagement, increased sales, more customers, and brand publicity by incorporating our outwardly-engaging patronage PowerPoint templates. Build interest in your customers by showcasing the value the event will add to their brand image, like social media exposure, credibility, and different marketing channels. Discuss various sponsorship packages, including gold, silver, and bronze with your clients by employing our financial support PowerPoint theme. Explain the characteristics of each package and give emphasis on gold package benefits by utilizing our professionally-designed financial aid PowerPoint proposal. Provide a detailed overview of the event and mention the activities that will take place. With the assistance of the pictorial representation, depict corporate event attendee profile. Put a strong impression on your customers and add brief detail about your company like history, vision, and mission. Introduce the skilled and determined team working behind the planning activities of the event. Therefore, persuade your audience by including clients' testimonials and create a mark. Download this financial help theme and amaze your audience. https://bit.ly/3x1YyC4
Summary presentation: Preventing corruption:A Toolkit for Parliamentarians (Draft – developed with GOPAC, the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption), Oslo, 2 February 2010 Marie Laberge, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
Contact Mail World is among the leaders in the World Email Database Providers. Our main mission is to deliver market-defining high-quality solutions that create value and reliable competitive advantage for our clients around the world with a view of providing quality, satisfactory and fruitful Web services at an affordable price in such a way that supports their overall goals and strategic priorities.
A hugely popular feature of our Digital Summits, Daniel will share what we need to be thinking about as we head towards 2016, bringing you up to speed on the latest ‘need to know’ developments and helping to set the context for the rest of the day.
Despite the speed of consumer adoption, most businesses are still finding their feet with digital and social media and many of the platforms, tools and technologies available today are still in relative infancy. Change continues apace as new applications are launched, opportunities emerge and customer/consumer behaviour continues to evolve.
For marketers, the implications of these developments are profound. Digital permeates everything, from communication channels to business models, team structures to budgets. Getting a handle on this requires, in the first instance, clarity on where we are now – which will be provided in this ‘state of the nation’ address from one of the UK’s leading digital trainers, Daniel Rowles.
FSC worked closely with The Howard Hughes Corporation to create a strategic social media approach to promote the revamping and re-opening of the Outlet Collection at the Riverwalk. The attached Case Study outlines the social media success in garnering engagement, growing Facebook community and driving attendance to the Grand Opening event.
Presentazione di Daniele Scivoli di iniziativa di innovazione sociale al Focus tematico per l'innovazione sociale nella strategia di specializzazione intelligente della Regione Siciliana 2014-2020, tenutasi al Dipartimento di Programmazione, Palermo, il 22.05.2013.
Many companies have jumped onto the Facebook application bandwagon. Most of these apps bomb and the ROI must surely be negative. However, there are some great apps out there. Here’s a case study about an app we found that we think ticks the right boxes.
Football is an incredible opportunity for local media companies, and we have consistently seen our partners bring in more than $100K in revenue with football promotions. Interested in learning more about how you can make the most of football season?
Planning Your Revenue-Generating Promotions Strategy for the YearUpland Second Street
One of the best ways to succeed with online promotions is to form a year-long strategy and build an integrated promotions calendar that incorporates contests, ballots, deals in with your calendar.
The winter holidays are by far the biggest spending season, and each year retailers and ecommerce sites – like your deals program – generate TONS of revenue in November and December.
For 3 years running (2010-2012), Cyber Monday – the Monday after Thanksgiving Day – has been the top spending day of the year. But the spending is hardly limited to just that one day. In fact, there was a 36% increase in online spending on Christmas day from 2011 to 2012.
Consumers - and advertisers - are spending. So don’t you want them to spend with you?
To learn how to encourage your customers to buy more from your site this upcoming holiday season, flip through the deck of our Promotions for the Holidays webinar above.
The winter holidays are by far the biggest spending season, and Cyber Monday – the Monday after Thanksgiving Day – is the top spending day of the year.
Media companies have the opportunity to generate TONS of revenue, engagement, and new email opt-ins in November and December. To learn how to make the most of this opportunity with contests, ballots, and ecommerce promotions, check out the Promotions for the Holidays webinar.
There are 75 million auto racing fans in the United States (that's 1 in 3 Americans!), and one of the best ways to capitalize is by running auto racing promotions throughout the 37-week season.
Media companies have the opportunity to generate TONS of revenue with auto racing promotions. To learn how to make the most of this opportunity, check out the How to Drive Revenue & Results with Auto Racing Promotions webinar.
Unless you take the time to understand your advertisers' businesses on a deeper level, you won’t be able to give them what they really need – a solution. To learn how to more effectively sell solutions, flip through the deck from our How to Solve Advertiser Challenges with Promotions webinar.
Football is an incredible opportunity for local media companies, and we have consistently seen our partners bring in more than $100K in revenue with football promotions. Interested in learning more about how you can make the most of football season?
To learn how to make the most of this opportunity to generate significant revenue with deal cards, watch a recording of our Strategies for Making Money with Voter’s Choice webinar below, for which we were joined by Shawn Wilcox from UpNorthLive.com (they’re on track to make more than $200K with deal cards this year!).
With a million things on your plate and tons of ideas to consider, we’ve cut through the distractions to highlight four ideas you need to sell right now! In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll walk you through proven ideas, how to sell them, the advertisers to target, and all the resources you need to make it even easier to drive significant revenue.
Maximize Revenue & Renewals from Your Advertiser Lead-Gen CampaignsUpland Second Street
Lead-gen campaigns unlock an unlimited number of advertiser opportunities. Now while more businesses than ever are within your reach, are you reaching out to the top advertisers? See how you can make the right pitch to the right advertisers to maximize your results and drive renewals.
Fine Tune Your Best Of Strategy to Maximize Revenue & EngagementUpland Second Street
Learn the ins-and-outs of optimizing your ballot for success, maximizing your ad sales strategies, and prospecting businesses from nomination to winners phase. Hear top trends among our most successful Best Of campaigns to level up your strategy, get your whole company and community excited, and drive significant revenue.
Coming out of the challenges of last year, 2021 is poised to see the largest increase in advertising budgets ever. And promotions will be leading the charge. Your sales reps need to be talking to advertisers to plan their ad spend right now. Find out what to say – and how to say it – to make sure your media company is fully prepared to grab big dollars during the brewing promotions explosion!
How to Ensure Maximum Success from Recurring Revenue CampaignsUpland Second Street
Securing reliable, steady revenue is more important than ever. From covering the key steps of a perfect pitch to creating a successful long-lasting campaign, we’ll give you all the details to create a recurring revenue campaign optimized to deliver big dollars all year long.
At the 12th Annual Second Street Awards we recognized excellence across more than 4,000 media partners. With 28 categories, we shared the top promotions and email stories of 2020. This year was challenging to say the least, but the successes were bigger than ever!
Whether you’re new to promotions and interactive content, or you’re looking for ways to build on your annual revenue, it’s time to maximize your opportunities this fall.
In this webinar, we break down the opportunities month-by-month and provide you with advertisers to target, case studies for inspiration, and tips and best practices to help you succeed this fall.
Survey from Borrell Associates reveals email is key, digital advertising is in prime spot for growth within SMBs + how you can be prepared to take advantage of this huge opportunity.
While many media companies experience a dip in their revenue during the summer months, it doesn't have to be that way. By filling your summer calendar with a good mix of promotions, you can heat up your summer revenue.
As a newspaper or magazine, you have a large audience and a nearly unlimited inventory. You can leverage the power of print to achieve maximum results with your online promotions.
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# Internet Security: Safeguarding Your Digital World
In the contemporary digital age, the internet is a cornerstone of our daily lives. It connects us to vast amounts of information, provides platforms for communication, enables commerce, and offers endless entertainment. However, with these conveniences come significant security challenges. Internet security is essential to protect our digital identities, sensitive data, and overall online experience. This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted world of internet security, providing insights into its importance, common threats, and effective strategies to safeguard your digital world.
## Understanding Internet Security
Internet security encompasses the measures and protocols used to protect information, devices, and networks from unauthorized access, attacks, and damage. It involves a wide range of practices designed to safeguard data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Effective internet security is crucial for individuals, businesses, and governments alike, as cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity and scale.
### Key Components of Internet Security
1. **Confidentiality**: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to access it.
2. **Integrity**: Protecting information from being altered or tampered with by unauthorized parties.
3. **Availability**: Ensuring that authorized users have reliable access to information and resources when needed.
## Common Internet Security Threats
Cyber threats are numerous and constantly evolving. Understanding these threats is the first step in protecting against them. Some of the most common internet security threats include:
### Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a device, network, or service. Common types of malware include:
- **Viruses**: Programs that attach themselves to legitimate software and replicate, spreading to other programs and files.
- **Worms**: Standalone malware that replicates itself to spread to other computers.
- **Trojan Horses**: Malicious software disguised as legitimate software.
- **Ransomware**: Malware that encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- **Spyware**: Software that secretly monitors and collects user information.
### Phishing
Phishing is a social engineering attack that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Attackers often masquerade as trusted entities in email or other communication channels, tricking victims into providing their information.
### Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
MitM attacks occur when an attacker intercepts and potentially alters communication between two parties without their knowledge. This can lead to the unauthorized acquisition of sensitive information.
### Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
9. #PromotionsLab
2014 Holiday Spending Habits
Shop online
42% 72%
Search for
presents on
their phones
$702.84
Average holiday
budget per person
$600 Billion
Total dollars spent
19. #PromotionsLab
Quiz Bundle
TV
Email to Promotional Database of 30,000 $1,750
Targeted Online Banner Ads $750
Daily Facebook and Twitters Posts During Quiz $500
On-air Mentions During Morning Show (3x) $1,000
Quiz Linked from Related Content on Your Site $250
Quiz Results Posted for Talent to Personal Social Accounts $750
Investment: $5,000
26. #PromotionsLab
Holiday Sweeps
Exclusive Facebook Advertiser Sweepstakes
Facebook Marketing Consultation
Optional TV Campaign (+ $4,000) including:
• Audio/video ID in 10 :15 promotional spots, Mon-Fri, 5a-5p
• Production of :15 spot
Digital Campaign including:
• 100,000 728×90 ROS impressions
• Total dominance on website homepage
Email Campaign including logo:
• Invitation email to promotional database of 80,000
• Thank you email to all entrants with coupon or offer
Email opt-in checkbox on the registration page
Facebook Like box on the registration page
Social Campaign including:
• Contest setup and placement on Facebook Page, including Facebook cover photo
and contest app image
• Customized thank you page with coupon or offer
• Logo inclusion on promotional Facebook cover photo, contest app index page
graphic
Mobile Campaign including:
• 50,000 mobile display ROS impressions
Investment: $5,000 (2 weeks)
44. #PromotionsLab
Custom Quiz
TV
Email to Promotional Database of 30,000 $1,750
Targeted Online Banner Ads $750
Daily Facebook and Twitters Posts During Quiz $500
On-air Mentions During Morning Show (3x) $1,000
Quiz Linked from Related Content on Your Site $250
Quiz Results Posted for Talent to Personal Social Accounts $750
Investment: $5,000
52. #PromotionsLab
Sales
North Platte Telegraph
North Plate, NE | 12 Days of Giving
Survey Questions
Question Yes No
Have you previously visited or been a guest at NP Hampton Inn? 35% 65%
Did you know you can reserve conference rooms to host family
gatherings?
51% 49%
Did you know that NP Hampton Inn has 5 suite choices? 15% 85%
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Custom SweepsSponsored Sweepstakes Presenting Sponsorship (1+)
TV Campaign including:
• 2 mentions in midday news (call for entries, winner announcement)
• Audio/video ID in :15 promotional spots, Mon-Fri, 5a-5p (minimum 15/week)
Digital Campaign including:
• 50,000 728×90 ROS impressions
• Customized thank you page with coupon or offer
Email Campaign including logo:
• Invitation email to promotional database of 80,000
• Thank you email to all entrants with coupon or offer
Email opt-in checkbox on the registration page
Facebook Like box on the registration page
Social Campaign including:
• Mentions on Facebook & Twitter at least once a week
Mobile Campaign including:
• 50,000 mobile display ROS impressions
Investment: $7,500
56. #PromotionsLab
Gift #2 – Revenue Potential
Promotion Sponsors Revenue Potential
Ecommerce Theme Week Dining / Retail $15,000
Custom Quiz Toy Stores $5,000
Custom Sweeps Retail/Events $7,500
TOTAL POTENTIAL $27,500
63. #PromotionsLab
Holiday Photo ContestSubmission Contest Presenting Sponsorship (Limit 1)
Logo inclusion on all promotional elements for the contest
TV Campaign including:
• 3 mentions in morning news (call for entries, call for votes, winner announcement)
• Audio/video ID in :30 promotional spots, Mon-Fri, 6a-12a (minimum 10/week)
Digital Campaign including:
• Logo inclusion in contest header graphic
• Contest page 728×90 & 300×250 served together (100% share of voice)
• Pencil Pushdown (twice during the contest, during submission and voting periods)
• 100,000 300×250 ROS impressions
Email Campaign including coupon or offer:
• Daily news & breaking news emails to combined database of 115,000
• Invitation email to promotional database of 80,000
• Thank you emails after registration and submission
Email opt-in checkbox on the registration page
Facebook Like box on the registration page
Social Campaign including:
• Mentions on Facebook & Twitter at least once a week
69. #PromotionsLab
Golf CardMulti-Merchant Card (6+)
TV Campaign including:
• Video ID in :15 shared promotional spots, Mon-Sun, 5a-1a (minimum 20/week)
• 3 min. segment featuring your business in weekend news
Digital Campaign including:
• 2 shared Pencil Pushdown ads
• 100,000 shared ROS impressions promoting the card
• 100,000 ROS impressions
• Shared golf section banner ads promoting the card (50,000 ROS impressions)
• Golf section banner ads (50,000 ROS impressions)
Email Campaign including logo:
• Weekly shared emails promoting the card to database of 80,000
• Email with embedded 3 min. segment
Social Campaign including:
• Mentions on Facebook & Twitter (every other day at launch and then at least once a week
for the duration of the promotion)
Value: $80,000
Investment: $0
I’m Liz Crider a member of the Affiliate success team and I’m joined by Matt Chaney – both of us are really excited to be here today and talk about planning for 2016.
Promotion Elves!
We will be taking questions throughout the webinar and reserve some time at the end for QA. There are a couple of ways you can interact with us.
The goto panel on the left of your screen. We’ll have folks monitoring that and fielding your questions.
You can also ask questions and make comments on Twitter using the hashtag promotionslab, which is also on the bottom left of every slide. We will be awarding a prize to the top tweet, so fire up Twitter and get ready!
Also, we are recording this webinar and everyone who registered will be getting a link to that within the next 24-48 hours.
We also encourage you to follow us @secondstreetlab
You can also make comments and asks questions via Twitter. Just use the hashtag #promotionslab, as you seen the on the screen. This will also be on each of the slides in the bottom left
And we’re going to be giving away a prize to our best tweet, so fire up your Twitter accounts and get ready.
At Second Street We are proud to work with media companies around the country who are using the promotions platform to generate digital revenue, grow their email and social databases and capture valuable consumer data and insights through our suite of products.
So let’s jump in – I’m going to hand it over to you chaney to start us off with why planning matters
At little bit about Second Street. We are a software and technology company working with local and national media companies around the country to help increase ROI by Building & Engaging their audiences and collecting valuable data and insights through our promotions platform
which includes contests, ballots, quizzes and ecommerce solutions.
So, now review why planning is so important
Chaney
Let’s dig in a little deeper and set the tone for why the holidays should be a high priority for your company in Q4
It all starts with revenue. There’s simply a ton spending going on in the fourth quarter – both from consumers AND advertisers.
The money is out there; it is a matter if you’re willing to go get it. If you don’t, someone else will.
I would encourage you to think about leveraging promotions to expand on existing initiatives (like special sections and online guides), leveraging them to target new advertisers who don’t normally spend with you, and for giving existing advertisers a new, unique solution to help achieve their holiday goals.
Don’t just take it from me. Here are a couple of data points for what happened last year around the holidays.
That online shopping number just keeps skyrocketing. I remember a few years back and it being in the 20% range. Now it is nearly 50%!
Same with mobile search.
But wow, the average budget is over $700 – that’s kind of making me look like a scrooge. No one on this webinar is allowed to tell my wife that
Promotions are also excellent at engaging and activating consumers. That have built in incentives to encourage participation – great prizes, big discounts, bragging right for a trivia quiz or sports contest as well as being able to voice your opinion in a local, metro ballot. We like to think of them as a “lean in” medium where folks are actively involved in voting, submitting, buying, picking. To me, that’s the very definition of engagement.
Advertisers want to be in front of that engaged audience and you can provide it to them.
And that engagement is happening both on your sites and on social media. Promotions are inherently viral, and we have features built right into the tool to help turn your participants into promoters of your contest. That can exponentially grow your audience and help increase traffic to your site. By sharing your promotions on social media, they’re helping you expand your reach. People love to share a great deal or prize or with their friends, and in particular, I’m constantly friends and acquaintances sharing quiz results on FB!
Not only is that engagement great from a traffic and social activity standpoint, you’re also able to grow yours and the advertiser’s email databases. And your email database is the gift that keeps on giving. As it grows your, promotions become stronger and more valuable because you’re able to promote them to a expanded list of loyal and engaged consumers. When you think about your current email database, consider your market’s population. You’re goal should be to get a critical mass of total market, so that you have comprehensive reach not only in your core media but in email as well.
Now, I’m going to turn it over to Liz who’s going to kick off our section on how to package up your promotions for the holidays.
UT San Diego
Great partnership with this local venue promoting the nutcracker performance.
Nice prize – family pack of tickets
2,920 entries
Over 6,600 opt-ins (one third of which went to the sponsor
Template is available in two styles
Chaney
Love all of those turnkey solutions! Let’s you all focus on the selling and marketing and the promotion is taken care of for you. Now we’re going to expand on that and talk about some more customized solutions that will help you generate even more revenue, engagement and database growth.
I love an ecommerce theme week and that’s the first part of our second gift bundle. Theme weeks allow you to have a focused sales effort around a particular theme or topic. We’ve seen so much revenue generated from these. The holidays are a perfect time to run a theme week – especially during Cyber Week, which is when online spending is at is peak. These are also great because anyone can run one whether you have a deals program or not. Liz mentioned the network store, these can be a great, local complement to those offers.
$12,500
2 stores – Cyber and holiday deals
Our example is from the quad city times. They’ve really done a masterful job with stores and theme weeks. Their Cyber Week store year in and year out is generating this kind of revenue. They have this success based on the quality and variety of their deals.
They also do a killer with sales materials, which helps the sales team get the job done. Their packages include core and digital assets. Email. The whole gambit. They give their participating a huge a promotional package, which is of high value. And gets people to their site to buy.
Top sellers include…
Local attractions – indoor waterparks
Holiday events – nutcracker performance, light displays
Restaurants – always a hit
Retail – specialty boutiques, chocolate shops, jewelry
Next up, a custom quiz. Here’s your chance to create something truly unique. These can be custom quizzes that you build around a particular topic – like local sports match-up trivia – where you get a sponsor. Or they can also be created entirely around a sponsor with specific questions related to the sponsors and their products. Just goes to show the flexibility of quizzes.
Our example comes from KAKE out of Wichita, KS. This station has been cranking out successful custom quizzes for almost a year. It has been a real focus for them and has resulted in some significant revenue. One of their more creative contest came last December – the naughty or nice holiday quiz.
Title sponsor – auto dealer
logo in header
logo with link in footer (both were persistent throughout quiz)
Opt-in, social follow buttons
4x days of quizzes 4 different prize sponsors
Supporting sponsors (7x)
Nursery
Holiday light display
Jewelry store
Restaurant
Hotel
Car wash
Chocolate shop
The cool thing is that each question was setup for a particular advertiser and featured their logo and an unique image. They even incorporated the advertiser into the answers – my favorite: when you’re inlaws are snowed in at your house, what do you do? One of the answers was offer to get them a hotel – same hotel that sponsored that question!
Then each day, there was a new prize and those who took the quiz were entered to win. Each day’s prize was provided by a different sponsor not to mention the grand prize provided by the title sponsor (a $250 gift card)
This quiz was taken over 4,000 times! I think the fun tone and the great prizes were the key reasons why this quiz did so well. That said, we’ve seen custom quizzes with and without prizes on topics like American history or sports that have done this well and better. People just love a fun quiz!
We’ve really seen a wide variety of advertiser categories represented, but these are the ones that seem to keep bubbling up a lot.
Financial – a quiz around saving or financial planning trivia
Automotive – what car should you drive
Retail – what’s your home décor personality
Attractions – where should your next vacation be or what ride at the theme park are you
A custom quiz should be priced higher than a turnkey quiz – especially if you’re building it specifically for the advertiser. But it is worth the extra effort and as we’ve seen they’re a great way to showcase products and services in a fun, unobtrusive way.
We’re going round out gift #2 with two custom sweepstakes. Sweeps are my favorite promotion because they are so flexible. You can do so much with them and they’re simple to setup and excute, but don’t let their simplicity fool you – they’re also highly effective at capture emails and data.
The contest gave people a chance to win $250 worth of groceries for them and $250 for a friend for 15 days plus the station also gave each winner a chance to pick a charity of their choice to get another $250 – that right there helped make this a viral hit
The promotion around this was a full court press including tv, digital, email, social – everything under the sun. But social in particular is where they found a lot of traction
To promote the contest, we posted regular updates to our Facebook Page featuring the winners – they would post every time a winner was announced and add a new face to the image you see on the right.
The promotion around this was a full court press including tv, digital, email, social – everything under the sun.
But social in particular is where they found a lot of traction – number one driver – though this is often email
To promote the contest, we posted regular updates to our Facebook Page featuring the winners – they would post every time a winner was announced and add a new face to the image you see on the right.
The fact that friends were picking people they knew to also win the prize made it go viral quickly. That’s an optional piece but it certainly worked here. Goes to show you the power of a good prize.
I doubt this level of activity would have happened for a $25 starbucks gift card
One variation that I could see working well would be to allow the winner to pick a charity from a list and you all make a donation based on that.
Perkins Motor Plex paid $10,000 for the promotion, as well as put up the money for the gift cards, which totaled $7,500.
The contest received 7,235 entries, and collected 4,598 opt-ins for Perkins Motor Plex ( that’s a 57% opt-in rate). They also collected 4,156 new Facebook Likes – without a Like-gate!
Perkins loved the promotion and all of the community involvement that came with it. They have already committed to running it again in 2015! The community had an overwhelmingly positive response as well.
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Goes to show you the impact of a GREAT prize
11K entries
This example from north pl@atte telegraph is for a 12 Days of Giving promotion, which was essentially 12 individual sweepstakes tied together. So, instead of a single sponsor, you’re spreading this among a dozen. This type of promotion was by far our most popular during the holiday season last year. We saw hundreds of them being run. They’re a great way to get several advertisers involved at a lower individual rate. Especially useful to attract non-traditional advertisers, those with smaller budgets or those advertisers who have been interested in promotions but haven’t been able to commit to the bigger sponsorships. Here they get to be a part of a larger shared promotion but also get their day in the spotlight.
A key component of this was a holiday themed landing page where they previewed the upcoming prizes and linked off to each individual sweepstakes
Let’s take a look at the whole thing
This was built by them and then linked out to the individual sweeps
Notice the background is tied in with the theme as well
And they actually had a couple of online display banner spots as well around the page
We often see partners create landing pages like this that are calendars
This example from north pl@atte telegraph is for a 12 Days of Giving promotion, which was essentially 12 individual sweepstakes tied together. This type of promotion was by far our most popular during the holiday season last year. We saw hundreds of them being run. They’re a great way to get several advertisers involved at a lower individual rate. Especially useful to attract non-traditional advertisers, those with smaller budgets or those advertisers who have been interested in promotions but haven’t been able to commit to the bigger sponsorships. Here they get to be a part of a larger shared promotion but also get their day in the spotlight.
A key component of this was a holiday themed landing page where they previewed the upcoming prizes and linked off to each individual sweepstakes
Let’s take a look at the whole thing
Survey questions for Hampton Inn
There were three
Total of 322 entrants for this one contest
65% No – Great to be able to take that to the advertiser and show them how many new customer you reached (220 people said “NO” hadn’t been before)
Conference room was split pretty much half and half (still 150 people had not heard about it and now have)
85% - did not know about the different room types available which could inspire a family to do a staycation or something nice for folks celebrating an anniversary (288)
Look they could have advertised “Hey we have 5 room types” but isn’t the same as people reading and physically clicking yes or no. It is a higher level of engagement.
Over 4200 entrants overall
Here’s a sample of advertisers to target with sweepstakes, but really, the sky’s the limit here. You can create sweepstakes around any theme and tie an advertiser in to that. Or create a sweepstakes specifically for the advertiser and run it on their site.
So, to summarize, here the revenue potential for a second gift bundle. Not a bad chunk of change for a few promotions, huh! These all complement each other really well not to mention they can easily tie in with existing initiatives and run in addition to the turnkey solutions Liz mentioned.
July marks our one year anniversary of launching promotions university, and in that time we’ve handed out over 1,000 certifications.
These courses are geared towards Ad Directors, Managers, Corporate Leads and encompass how to understand the opportunity around promotions and create a plan to work against for the year.
Types of promotions
A process to evaluating opportunities
At the end of each you’ll be able to create your own promotions calendar based on your audience, revenue and database goals
These courses are geared towards front-line sellers and sales managers. Lots of great information in these about prospecting, conducting a thorough needs analysis and how to follow-up after the promotion.
A lot of partners have found that kicking these trainings off as group with your entire sales team, then having each person complete them on their to be an effective roll-out approach.
Finally, this bundle of courses was created for your admin folks or anyone who’s actively in the tool creating promotions.
As with all courses in promotions university, these were designed to be focused and quick, so you can get in, get what you need, and get out quickly.
You can get certified in just 90 minutes or less!
If you haven’t been to the Second Street Lab, then you’re really missing out on a lot of great industry insights, articles from your peers and case studies about successful promotions.
There you can also….
Mark your calendars! These are going to be two action-packed webinars with a ton of ideas for you. We’re taking a fresh approach on these and focusing not just on the top promotions but also how to take an advertiser category – like automotive or home improvement – and build a promotions package geared specifically to that category. Definitely don’t miss this one!
Amazing insights into all facets of promotions. We had some true rock stars at the summit, so be sure to check out their successes and all of the great takeaways from this year’s event.
Chaney
We’d love to see you run all of these promotions, but more importantly, we want to see you all be successful. So, think about your goals and resources, and find the gift combination that best suits you’re needs. Be bold but also realistic in what you can truly execute. That success will make it easier to grow and expand in the future.
Liz
Chaney
We timed this webinar with a timeline in mind. We’re three months from December. That gives you time to plan and prep your teams. Leverage our training resources – promotions university, the affiliate success team. Make sure you’re teams are ready. Give them the tools and materials they need. And give them ample time to sell.
LIz
I’m Liz Crider a member of the Affiliate success team and I’m joined by Matt Chaney – both of us are realy excited to be here today and talk about planning for 2016.