SweepstakesPros promotions will
increase sales, build your opt-in email list, excite
consumers about a new product launch and drive large amounts
of traffic to your website or retail store. From simple online contest entry forms to instant win games
or viral sweepstakes, SweepstakesPros creates
customized promotions that motivate consumer behavior, generate
excitement and maximize results.
SweepstakesPros will manage all aspects of
your online or offline promotion including strategy, research,
creative design, technology, administration, legal, winner
selection and prize fulfillment. We will track the performance
of your contest, marketing and advertising during the campaign
and optimize the effectiveness of your promotion to ensure
success. to increase performance and maximize the campaign.
SweepstakesPros comprehensive
Contest Administration Services,
Prize Management Services
and
Contest Development Services
ensure that your promotions will be a success.
SweepstakesPros has driven over 4,500,000
sweepstakes entries in 30 days!
SweepstakesPros is Trusted by Small
Businesses, Fortune 500 Companies, and Millions of Consumers!
- Ubisoft
- Dollar General
- JBL
- Energizer
- Dickies
- Shell
- Sony
- Huggies
- Evian
- AT&T
- Food Network
- eBay
Promotions Achieve Your Marketing Goals
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Attract New Customers. 80% of consumers
enter online sweepstakes.
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Increase Sales. 69% of consumers have
made a purchase due to a promotion.
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Steal Your Competitors Customers. Up to
44% of consumers are very likely to switch brands due to
an effective promotion.
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Create Buzz. 2 in 3 consumers would
likely purchase a product if it was recommended to them
by family, a friend, or someone they know.
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Increase Ad Effectiveness. Consumers
are more than twice as likely to respond to an ad if it
includes an appealing incentive.
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Build Customer Loyalty Reward programs
are highly effective at retaining customers and driving
repeat purchases.
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Increase Productivity. Motivate
employees and sales teams with strong promotional
incentives.
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Build Your Mailing List. Promotions
drive registrations from offline consumers and online
consumers alike.
About Us
SweepstakesPros is a full service, interactive
promotions agency that specializes in creating online campaigns
that motivate consumer behavior and drive brand engagement.
Whether its sweepstakes, contests, games, mobile promotions,
loyalty programs, viral marketing or social media engagements,
SweepstakesPros has over 30 years of
experience in building campaigns that influence and excite your
audience, and drive immediate results.
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Our most popular types of promotions are...
Standard Sweepstakes Campaigns
These promotions provide cost effective incentives
that are easy for yuur customers to enter. Standard
Sweepstakes Campaigns are typically a simple
registration form and a thank you page. Winners are
randomly selected from a pool of online, in-store
and mail-in entries.
Facebook Sweepstakes & Contests
Build likes and engage your Facebook audience with
powerful incentives. Facebook sweepstakes and
contests generate interest, excitement and viral
growth. We will create a custom designed sweepstakes
or contest app, help you pick the most effective
prizes and handle all of the legal and
administration necessary to make your campaign a
success.
Viral Tell-a-Friend Sweepstakes
A Viral Sweepstakes is an excellent way to generate
traffic and significantly increase registrations. A
Viral Sweepstakes can be incorporated into any other
type of online sweepstakes (such as a standard
sweepstakes or instant win), and rewards visitors
for inviting their friends to play.
After entering the sweepstakes, consumers are
offered more chances to win by telling their friends
about the sweepstakes. Consumers can automatically
share the sweepstakes on their favorite social
network (such as Twitter or Facebook) or send an
email inviting their friends to enter the
sweepstakes. By giving consumers more chances to
win, they are provided a powerful incentive to
invite friends and associates to enter.
Mobile Sweepstakes
More than 90% of the people in the United States
have mobile phones, which makes Mobile Sweepstakes
the best way to engage consumers right when they see
your product or ad.
SweepstakesPros mobile
technologies let you create an effective mobile
sweepstakes quickly and affordably.
- Mobile Sweepstakes and Games
- Multimedia Marketing
- MMS Multimedia Downloads
- Mobile Websites & Applications
- Toll Free Call-in Campaigns
- Mobile Advertising
- Personalized Voice Messages
Photo/Video/Essay Contests
SweepstakesPros interactive
contest platform allows us to build online photo,
essay or video contests quickly and affordably. Our
contests include everything needed for your contest
including file uploads, an online gallery, voting,
moderation, judging and a secure administration
interface.
Instant Win Sweepstakes
An Instant Win Sweepstakes is a fantastic way to
build excitement for a sweepstakes. An Instant Win
Sweepstakes immediately notifies the visitor if he
or she has won a prize. This instant notification
gives added incentive to enter the sweepstakes and
provides an immediate sense of gratification for the
visitor.
Sweepstakes Games
Whether it’s scratch and win, spin and win, trivia,
concentration, driving, e-learning or custom games,
SweepstakesPros game designers
build fun, engaging games that make consumers want
to return everyday to play.
Toll Free Call-in Sweepstakes
SweepstakesPros can make it easy
for consumers to enter your sweepstakes just by
dialing a toll free number. Clear voice prompts
guide consumers through the entry process and give
you the perfect opportunity to tell them more about
your products and services.
Custom Sweepstakes
SweepstakesPros specializes in
creating custom sweepstakes and games tailored to
fit your promotional goals. Call us today for a FREE
consultation.
Promotions Administration Services
Managing and administering promotions can be very complicated.
In addition to running the promotion and selecting winners,
rules must be drafted, laws need to be obeyed, insurance should
be obtained, winners must be validated for eligibility, taxes
must be reported, and prizes must be delivered.
SweepstakesPros provides the full range of
sweepstakes administrative, legal and management services so you
have everything you need to run successful sweepstakes and
contests. We give you the information and advice you need on how
best to run your contest, access to legal counsel to ensure that
your promotion is compliant with all applicable laws, and we
will manage and optimize your sweepstakes so you are ensured
success.
Strategy
We are experts at running successful, legal
sweepstakes and contests. We provide concept
development, prize structure planning, execution
management and strategic guidance to maximize the
results of your promotion.
Full Legal Indemnification
We will take full liability for all of our work. We
provide full indemnification to you for all of the
services we provide (unless, of course, you
disregard our recommendations.)
Drafting Contest Rules and Regulations
We will draft the Official Rules & Regulations for
your contest to comply with all applicable laws.
Independent Judging & Arbitration
SweepstakesPros will act as the
third party independent judging organization for
your contest. We will interpret rules and make fair
and impartial decisions if issues arise and we will
arbitrate any consumer complaints or inquiries. This
will protect you. By designating
SweepstakesPros as the third party
independent judge in the Official Rules of the
contest you (and more importantly your entrants)
agree that if an issue or complaint arises,
SweepstakesPros will decide how
best to proceed. Courts have upheld that decisions
by third party independent judges are binding and
this limits your entrants from suing if a problem
occurs.
Mail-in Entry Management
All sweepstakes must have a free method of entry.
Often this is established by allowing consumers to
mail-in entries for free.
SweepstakesPros will establish and
maintain post office boxes for mail-in entries and
compile all entries received for the random drawing
and, if needed, data enter all submissions so that
you can import them into your contact database..
Contest Management
SweepstakesPros will manage the
operation of the contest including:
- The day-to-day operation of the contest.
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Customer Service in order to reply to help
requests
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Initial Judging.
SweepstakesPros can review
each entry and narrow down and/or disqualify
entrants prior to the final round of judging.
Winner Documentation and Validation
SweepstakesPros will draft and
deliver the winner validation and release documents
for your contest (such as the Congratulations
Letter, Affidavit of Eligibility, Advertising and
Publicity Release, and the Prize and Travel
Releases). We will receive the completed paperwork
from the winners and complete the validation process
to verify each winner’s eligibility in the contest.
We will then store and file all winner affidavits in
compliance will all applicable laws.
Background Checks
Winners can generate great PR for your company, they
can also pose a significant PR nightmare when they
have criminal records.
SweepstakesPros can investigate
the background of your winners to determine if you
should promote them in the press and in your
advertising.
Prize Acquisition
SweepstakesPros distributes over
50,000 brand name items so we can find the right
prizes at discount prices, or we will source and
acquire custom prizes or find and negotiate with
potential prize sponsors for free prizes. See our
Prize Management Services
for more information.
Prize Insurance
Want to offer a $50,000 prize but only have a $5,000
budget? SweepstakesPros can help
you take the risk out of a great promotional idea by
acquiring a prize insurance policy for your grand
prize for a fraction of the prize amount.
Tax Filings
You are responsible for reporting (and sometimes
withholding) winnings for winners who receive $600
or more in prizes. SweepstakesPros
will prepare and issue the appropriate IRS tax forms
to all applicable winners and will withhold and
submit the appropriate winnings and documentation to
the IRS if required.
Full Legal Services (Domestic & International)
We provide information and advice on how best to run
your sweepstakes and access to legal counsel to
ensure that your promotion is compliant with all
applicable U.S. federal and state laws, Canadian and
provincial laws and international laws.
Promotions Insurance Coverage
Most business insurance will not cover your company
if you run into trouble while running a sweepstakes
or contest. But if you work with
SweepstakesPros, we will take on
that risk. All of our services are covered under a
comprehensive Professional Liability Insurance
policy which is expressly designed for promotions
marketing and sweepstakes. Our insurance covers all
of the services and materials we provide.
Advertising Review
We will provide you will the mandatory legal
language, abbreviated rules and regulations and the
required disclaimers for all of your advertising
materials (print, radio, television, web, etc.). We
will then review all of your advertising, media and
materials to ensure that they are consistent with
the promotional offer and with all federal and state
regulations.
State Registration and Bonds
In the U.S., the states of Arizona, Rode Island, New
York & Florida all have regulations requiring
registration of sweepstakes or contests under
certain conditions. In addition, if the total prize
value of your sweepstakes is over $5,000, separate
surety bonds for the total value of all prizes are
required in New York and Florida.
SweepstakesPros will manage the
registration and filing of your promotion in each
state and acquire the appropriate surety bonds (or
if eligible, file a surety bond waiver request) so
that all of your state filing requirements are
covered. We also handle
international filings and bonds too.
Contest Help Desk
Questions and complaints from contest entrants can
quickly escalate into PR issues and legal disputes.
SweepstakesPros will establish a
help desk to ensure your consumers that a trusted
3rd party is responding to their requests quickly
and fairly.
Contest Moderation
Running contests featuring user generated content
can drive significant traffic to your website, so
reviewing content prior to positing live on the site
or in the gallery will protect your brand from
inappropriate and possibly illegal content being
displayed.
SweepstakesPros professional
moderators will review all entries before they are
posted live to the site or online gallery. We will:
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Create contest rules, regulations, terms of use,
posting guidelines and FAQ’s
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Draft content moderation guidelines to be used
by the moderators to approve/disqualify entries.
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Review and moderate entries daily, weekly or in
real-time as entries are received.
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Notify entrants if their contest entries have
been disqualified.
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If applicable, email entrants as soon as their
entries are posted live in the contest gallery.
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Setup the systems and respond to inappropriate
content notifications by visitors.
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Provide moderation reports to keep you informed
and up to date.
Third Party Winner Selection
How do you ensure customers and courts that your
sweepstakes was fair? By having
SweepstakesPros pick your winners.
As an independent party,
SweepstakesPros has no incentive
to pick your “best” customers so we will ensure that
your winners are picked fairly and impartially. To
pick your winners, SweepstakesPros
will compile all of the sweepstakes entries and
complete a supervised, impartial, random drawing to
select the winners.
Winners Lists
You are required by law to provide a list of winners
to all who request it.
SweepstakesPros will create an
independent, certified official winners’ list for
your sweepstakes or contest and fulfill all
winners' list requests.
Prize Fulfillment & Travel Management
Whether its trips, cars, TVs or cash,
SweepstakesPros will manage the
fulfillment of all of your prizes. We will notify
winners, coordinate signing of prize releases,
securely store and deliver your prizes and provide
toll free customer support to answer any questions
your winners may have.
Data Security and Document Retention
In the U.S., each state has different data security
and document retention laws that must be followed
when you run a sweepstakes or contest. In addition,
documented procedures need to be followed to adhere
to the law and limit liability.
SweepstakesPros will securely
manage your promotion and data and maintain the
appropriate documents so you don’t have to worry.
Prize Management Services
Selecting the right prizes for your promotion is the single most
important factor in determining your promotion’s success.
Selecting the right prizes can increase participation in your
promotion 16 times (5% vs. 83% participation).
SweepstakesPros will ensure that we choose the
right prizes for your promotion and for your budget and we will
make sure that the prizes are delivered to your winners quickly
and affordably. SweepstakesPros will:
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Help define your target audience and their
interests/needs/passions.
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Develop a prize structure that will have the greatest appeal
to your consumers.
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Source the prizes at the best prices or negotiate with prize
partners for FREE prizes.
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Warehouse and fulfill all prizes with personalized
congratulations letters.
- Manage all of the travel arrangements for trip prizes.
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Provide online and toll free customer service to all
winners.
SweepstakesPros distributes over
50,000 brand name items.
We can find the right
prizes at discount prices!
Contest Development and Technology Services
SweepstakesPros has the technology and
expertise to create any type of online or offline promotion. Our
years of experience, managing hundreds of promotions, has
enabled us to develop sophisticated technologies that can
deliver, manage and track your online contest and integrate the
campaign with any offline component.
Experienced Promotions Experts
Experienced Project Managers, Developers, Designers,
Consultants and Engineers and will ensure that your
online promotion is a success. You will be assigned
a dedicated project manager who will guarantee that
all aspects of your promotion (from creative design,
production and QA testing to campaign delivery and
winners selection) will exceed your expectations.
And, our technical support staff is available to
assist you with any questions.
Sweepstakes/Contest Development
Production and implementation of all of the
necessary HTML (or Flash) pages. In addition to
support for both HTML and Flash-based forms,
sweepstakes can be incorporated into more advanced
online games or systems, such as games of skill or
other activities (such as automatic entry
sweepstakes where registered web site visitors are
automatically entered into a sweepstakes).
Integrated Designs
We can incorporate any creative design or game
concept into our promotions engines.
Quality Assurance Testing
Our Quality Assurance Engineers perform rigorous
testing of your promotion for functionality, browser
support, stability, security and load.
High Volumes
Our load balanced servers support extremely large
volumes of traffic.
Fault Tolerance
Our systems provide redundancy for hardware,
software, power and bandwidth.
Hosting and Support
SweepstakesPros provides all
necessary equipment, servers and software.
Enterprise scalability, maximum security and
complete redundancy are provided with firewall and
virus protection, load balanced web servers,
clustered database servers, daily backups, and 24x7
monitoring and support and management.
Scheduled Start and End Dates
Promotions automatically start and end at scheduled
times. Pre-launch and post-completion pages are
automatically displayed to visitors before the
promotion begins and after the game ends.
Automated Invitation Emails
Send personalized emails. Open, click and conversion
rates can be analyzed though our online reporting
interface.
Viral Sweepstakes and Social Sharing
Telling friends is easy with our built-in
technologies to email an invitation to a friend or
share the promotion on your favorite social sites.
Consumers earn more changes to win by sharing with
their friends.
Validation
Entries are validated to ensure that the information
is accurate and complete and that all entrants meet
the requirements of the Official Rules (e.g. entry
frequency, geography, age, etc.).
Entry Restrictions
Consumers can be limited to entering the promotion
based on any criteria such as email address,
household, frequency (i.e., once per day), geography
(i.e., excluding Florida), age (must be over 18), or
any other criteria desired.
Marketing to Minors COPPA & CARU Compliance
SweepstakesPros provides automated
child privacy protection systems that can block
child registrations or require parental permission
before children can participate in the promotion. We
ensure that your sweepstakes and contests comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA) and the Children's Advertising
Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business
Bureaus which restrict sweepstakes and contests
directed at children.
Data Collection and Tracking
All visitor tracking and submission data is
collected centrally in a secure, redundant database.
Online Help Desk/Customer Service
SweepstakesPros’ helpful customer
support staff can answer questions related to the
promotion and help visitors with any promotion
related issue that may arise.
Online Rules and Winners Lists
SweepstakesPros will post the
official rules and the winners list online.
Online Reporting and Analysis
Evaluate activity and optimize performance while the
promotion is in progress with online reporting of
visitor traffic, entrants, winners, prizes issued,
and viral statistics.
Post Promotion Analysis & Data
After your promotion ends, Site System provides an
in-depth analysis of your promotion, a complete list
of entrants (and their answers to the questions on
the entry form) and a list of winners (and their
associated prizes) delivered to you at the end of
the promotion. Exports of entrants will be provided
in ASCII (comma or tab delimited) format.
Comprehensive Security Features
SweepstakesPros comprehensive
security measures include physical and online
security techniques to monitor and block irregular
activity (i.e., hackers, automated entries, viruses,
etc.) from disrupting your promotion. Our advanced
security techniques help ensure that your promotion
will run smoothly, uninterrupted and error free. Our
security measures include:
- Entry Validation
- Duplicate Validation
- Security Image
- Audit Logs
- 24x7 Monitoring
- IP Address Blocking
- Online Security
- Physical Security
Related Services
SweepstakesPros provides a full range of
promotions and marketing services so you have everything you
need to run a successful campaign.
- Online & Traditional Offline Promotions
- Sweepstakes & Contests
- Interactive Games
- Viral Campaigns
- Social Media Engagements
- Websites & Interactive Marketing
- Mobile Marketing
- Prize Sourcing & Fulfillment
- Loyalty & Reward Programs
- Email Marketing
- Complete Sweepstakes & Contest Management
- Creative Design
- Software Development
- High Volume Hosting
- Comprehensive Security
- 24/7 Customer Support
- Moderation Services
- Prize Sourcing & Fulfillment
- Insured Prizes
- Travel Planning & Management
Call (888) 900-4245 ext. 3 Today!
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easy it is to run a successful promotion. Whether you need
advice, rules or all of our services, we will be happy to help
you.
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