The Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Contest is officially over!
The “rules” were to “Create a fun, quirky, unusual card message as a promotion for your company, product or service and tell me what you did. The message should be creative and promote something you want to spread the word about. It can be a product, a new product launch, an event, a celebration, a strategic alliance, does not matter. As long as the message can be expressed on a greeting card or postcard.”
What surprised me is that some people did just that and others sent in cute cards with no purpose in mind. They did not have a clear message nor did they promote their company in any way, shape or form. Having said that, we did have a few people who followed the directions and sent us some cute and/or quirky cards. It was a tough decision, in fact so much so, it took the judges an extra week to decide who to bestow the honors to.
Honorable Mention goes to the following:
Honorable Mention winners receive a half page ad in WE Magazine for women.
Kristine Sheehan of The MerryBird.com for her Valentine Postcard announcing her pen and Ink portraits for your Valentine.
Lisa Moren Bromma of Wise WomenInvestor.com for her postcards announcing her services and invitation to visit her website.
3rd Place winner in the Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Challlenge is Jessica Sellers of Chrysalis Logos.com – her card focused on “Make up Your Own Holiday Day” and offered an economic stimulus incentive (discount on services) to anyone who placed an order on that day. Way to Go, Jessica! Jessica won a One-year Charter Membership in the Women’s eCommerce Association.
2nd Place winner in the Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Challenge is Mr. Jim Barber. Jim promoted his company Tooter Talk (www.TooterTalk.com) with a picture of him on the cover standing in on stage at the IMPROV with the headline “Do You Know What Today is?” The inside said simply… “Today is the first day of the rest of your new career!” Talk about perfect timing in this economy! Jim won a full page ad in WE Magazine for Women!
1st Place winner in the Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Challlenge is …..drum roll please………………
Racheli Smilovits of WCS Lending! Racheli didn’t send in the required one entry – she sent in SIX! And each one was clever and unique. The one that cinched the winning was the postcard attached to a bag of peanuts that said “It will be NUTS to Navigate throught the Real Estate Waters without a Professional Lender.” And her contact info, etc. The graphic she used was a walnut shell and her beautiful face peeping out of it. Racheli won a two page article interview in the Spring Issue of WE Magazine, a copy of her choice of one of the fabulous books in our library AND a $25 gift certificate from SendOutCards (choice of Visa Gift Card, Candy, Brownies and more).
Each of the above entrants will also receive a frameable Certificate customized with their names and date of the Quirky Marketing Contest as well as a mention in the accompanying media release announcing the Winners!
Several of the contestants grabbed their free account at SendOutCards.com/Heidi. THANKS!
Look for our next contest in the summer!
And if you haven’t yet picked up your copy of Quirky Marketing, go here: www.QuirkyOffer.com. More than $2,000 worth of bonuses are waiting for you when you do!
March 25th, 2009
Okay, you are probably wondering what the *Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Contest is, right?
Glad you asked!
In celebration of the launch of my new book Quirky Marketing Calendar – 365 Ways to Use Zany and Non-traditional Holidays to Promote Your Business we are hosting a contest.
And there are lots of prizes.
Here’s the rules:
Create a fun, quirky, unusual card message as a promotion for your company, product or service and tell me what you did.
The message should be creative and promote something you want to spread the word about. It can be a product, a new product launch, an event, a celebration, a strategic alliance, does not matter. As long as the message can be expressed on a greeting card or postcard.
And you can even test out the card using the place I use to send out cards and that is, you guessed it… SendOutCards.com. When you click on SendOutCards.com it takes you to my SOC website and you can have a FREE card on me just to try it out!
Send your entry to:
Redhead Marketing Inc.
Attention: Quirky Contest
P.O. Box 550856
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33355-0856
Cards will be judged by a panel of marketing experts from the Florida Direct Marketing Association.
Contest ends February 28th so you have to hurry! Winners will be announced during Quirky Marketing Month in early March in honor of the launch of Quirky Marketing!
Oh, and the prizes…
Grand Prize winner will receive a two page article interview in the Spring Issue of WE Magazine, a copy of your choice of one of the books listed below AND a $25 gift certificate from SendOutCards (choice of Visa Gift Card, Candy, Brownies and more).
The Prizes:
2- $25 gift certificates from SOC for brownies, truffles and more!
A dozen Roses delivered anywhere in the US
Several books including:
Power and Wisdom, the New Path for Women by Dr. Priscilla Marotta
Rose Marketing on a Daisy Budget by Heidi Richards
Full page ad in WE Magazine for Women
Half page ad in WE Magazine for Women
A one-year Charter Membership in the Women’s eCommerce Association
and more!
1st, 2nd, 3rd place and Honorable Mention Winners will also receive a frameable Certificate customized with their names and date of the Quirky Marketing Contest as well as a mention in the accompanying media release announcing the Winners!
Be sure and go to SendOutCards.com/Heidi and sign up for a free account.
And send me your cards!
FYI: Heidi Caswell and I will be hosting a live demonstration of the SendOutCards system on Thursday January 29th at 9 PM EST. You are welcome to join us and see what all the excitement is about and learn how to use Send Out Cards to grow your business. Call the teleconference bridge line ~ 1-641-715-3840 participant access code is 361467#
Note: Greeting cards or post cards are acceptable entries. And you do not have to use the SOC site, but we hope you do! Multiple entries are also acceptable. All entries must be postmarked by February 5th in order to qualify.
The fine print: If we receive less than 7 entries, contest may be cancelled or postponed due to lack of sufficient samples to “judge.” In addition, if judges don’t feel entries warrant a first, second or third place honor, no prize will be awarded in those categories.
(*void where prohibited by law).
January 28th, 2009
November 29th is Electronic Greetings Day –
Post Free Funny, Edgy Video e-Cards On Social Networking Sites & Blogs with RattleBox. Or send a traditional ecard for free from several sites including Smilebox.com DoozyCards.com or American Greetings.
Like the real thing but don’t have time to go to the post office or local card store? You can sign up online for SendOutCards and send a REAL CARD that gets mailed to your recipient the very next day! SendOutCards are a wonderful stay-in-touch method to let people know just how much you care. You know that feeling you get when you go to the mailbox and in between all the direct mail soliticitations, and bills is a beautiful hand written greeting card? You see that and forget about all the other mail. All you want to do is tear that envelop open to see what’s inside. Real cards are no longer a lost art. Not since SendOutCards came on the scene.
Try it out! See what I mean. Way better than Electronic Greetings because people can keep these cards, post them on their bulletin board or refrigerator.
And if you like what you see, you can sign up with SendOutCards www.SendOutCards.com/Heidi as a distributor. What a wonderful way to add you’re your monthly income stream.
Source: Your Marketing Calendar 2008
November 29th, 2008