Category: Prizes

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.

March 29, 2016 12 Comments

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.

March 15, 2016 No Comments

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.

February 23, 2016 No Comments

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

January 26, 2016 No Comments

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

January 12, 2016 No Comments

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

December 11, 2015 2 Comments

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

November 24, 2015 No Comments

Sweepstakes Prizes: Regift or Keep?

When offering prizes in a sweeps, you have to offer what people want. We generally tell clients to keep prizing simple: offer cash, electronics, trips or cars, depending on your prize budget. People want those the most. But we wanted to put this to the test! So we polled people on a short nine item list of potential sweepstakes prizes to see if they would keep or regift the

November 10, 2015 1 Comment

6 Tips for Creating a Contest Winning Entry

Creating a winning entry isn’t hard. As a promotional agency, Marden-Kane has helped our clients judge and moderate hundreds of thousands of contest entries over the last 57 years. We have seen great entries. And we have seen terrible ones. Be one of the great ones! Just follow these simple tips: Don’t use, mention or show any copyrighted materials! Thousands of entries are disqualified every year for not following

September 4, 2015 No Comments

MISSING: Star Wars themed 1977 Toyota Celica GT

A long, long time ago, in the ancient Marden-Kane offices in Manhattan, we gave away a car in a sweepstakes. But not just any car. This was a tricked out 1977 Toyota Celica GT, with a Star Wars custom paint package, powered by The Force. These are not the droids you’re looking for, but have you seen this car? This sweet ride was the Grand Prize in a STAR WARS

August 20, 2015 1 Comment