These promotions provide cost effective incentives that are easy for your 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.

Boost sales by rewarding your customers with exciting prizes! Increase engagement by offering additional entries based on their purchase amounts—more purchases, more chances to win!

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.

Engage consumers by running sweepstakes and contests with Instagram hashtag promotions, Facebook comment to win, and YouTube video contests.

Mobile promotions engage consumers right when they see your product or ad. SweepstakesPros mobile technologies let you create an effective mobile sweepstakes quickly and affordably.

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.

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.

• Scratch & Win Games
• Spin the Wheel Games
• Slot Machine Games
• Custom Instant Win Games

Whether it’s scratch and win, spin the wheel, trivia, concentration, puzzles, e-learning, or custom games, SweepstakesPros game designers build fun, engaging games that make consumers want to return everyday to play.

Grow your followers, increase video views, website traffic and more by incentivizing actions with additional chances to win.

SweepstakesPros specializes in creating custom sweepstakes, contests, and games tailored to fit your promotional goals. Call us today for a FREE consultation.

We are experts at running successful, legal sweepstakes. We provide concept development, prize structure planning, execution management and strategic guidance to maximize the results of your sweepstakes.

We stand behind our work. SweepstakesPros will indemnify you for the services we provide related to your promotion and that your promotion complies with applicable prize promotion laws (unless, of course, you disregard our recommendations).

We will draft the Official Rules for your sweepstakes to comply with all applicable laws.

SweepstakesPros will act as the third party independent judging organization for your sweepstakes. 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 sweepstakes 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.

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..

SweepstakesPros will manage the operation of the contest including:

• The day-to-day operation of the contest.
• Customer Service in order to reply to help requests
• Initial Judging. SweepstakesPros can review each entry and narrow down and/or disqualify entrants prior to the final round of judging.

SweepstakesPros will draft and deliver the winner validation and release documents for your sweepstakes (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 sweepstakes. We will then store and file all winner affidavits in compliance will all applicable laws.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most business insurance will not cover your company if you run into trouble while running a sweepstakes. 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.

We will provide you will the mandatory legal language, abbreviated rules 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.

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.

Questions and complaints from sweepstakes 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.

Running UCG contest 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:

• Create contest rules, terms of use, posting guidelines and FAQ’s
• Draft content moderation guidelines to be used by the moderators to approve/disqualify entries.
• Review and moderate entries daily, weekly or in real-time as entries are received.
• Notify entrants if their contest entries have been disqualified.
• If applicable, email entrants as soon as their entries are posted live in the contest gallery.
• Setup the systems and respond to inappropriate content notifications by visitors.
• Provide moderation reports to keep you informed and up to date.

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.

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 and fulfill all winners' list requests.

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.

In the U.S., each state has different data security and document retention laws that must be followed when you run a sweepstakes. In addition, documented procedures need to be followed to adhere to the law and limit liability. SweepstakesPros will securely manage your sweepstakes and data and maintain the appropriate documents so you don’t have to worry.

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.

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).

Our expert designers specialize in creating dynamic promotional websites and interactive games tailored to captivate your audience.

Our Quality Assurance Engineers perform rigorous testing of your promotion for functionality, browser support, stability, security and load.

Our load balanced servers support extremely large volumes of traffic.

Our systems provide redundancy for hardware, software, power and bandwidth.

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.

Promotions automatically start and end at scheduled times. Pre-launch and post-completion pages are automatically displayed to visitors before the sweepstakes begins and after the game ends.

Automatically send personalized emails upon entry, keeping participants engaged with timely reminders and congratulating winners. Monitor the success of your campaign with our online reporting interface, featuring detailed insights on open, click, and conversion rates.

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.

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.).

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.

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 complies 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 directed at children.

All visitor tracking and submission data is collected centrally in a secure, redundant database.

SweepstakesPros’ helpful customer support staff can answer questions related to the promotion and help visitors with any promotion related issue that may arise.

SweepstakesPros will post the official rules and the winners list online.

Evaluate activity and optimize performance while the promotion is in progress with online reporting of visitor traffic, entrants, winners, prizes issued, and viral statistics.

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: