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Oh to be a prize winner!

By Sarah Burns on May 18, 2012

Possibly the best bit of our job is contacting lucky winners to tell them of their good fortune. I once had to call someone to let her know she’d won £10,000. Needless to say, that took some time for her to digest. This week has been truly wonderful for winner notification. Firstly, we sent a tweet to the winner of our Jo Malone prize draw which we launched at Cybher – he was delighted. I then had to call nine mums to tell them their child had won a national story writing competition – not only do all the children win a prize for themselves (a zookeeper’s day at Paradise Park), each of their schools receives a £500 donation to fund new library books. They were all so chuffed and proud of their kids, I actually felt a bit tearful at one point. My favourite call this week was to a Jubilee party prize winner – she’d won £2k in food and drink to throw a party over the bank holiday weekend. I was so excited when I called it took some time for her to make sense of what I was trying to tell her.

We rarely get to tell prize winners face to face, so we can only imagine their reactions when we put down the phone. We can only hope that it’s a little bit like this …

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Tesco Real Food Challenge

By Juliette Thomas on May 20, 2011

Spark & Fuse have sourced all the prizes for Tesco’s new on-line promotion which invites consumers to share their recipes for dozens of chances to win. Click here to see the fabulous range of prizes which we lined up exclusively for this promotion – including cameras, cookers and a place on Rosemary Shrager’s Cook Course at Swinton Park – or even to upload your own recipe. Bonne chance!
Real Food Challenge

Prize promotions we love!

By Spark and Fuse on May 4, 2011

Short staffed? Check out the new Frijj on pack promotion where you have the chance to win Warren – the brand’s work experience boy for one day! To enter all you have to do is buy a bottle of Frijj, look for the promotional code and either text or enter online. We’ll let you know if we win! www.frijj.co.uk   

It’s not a recent promotion, but a great example of how to make a very dull product interesting. Back in 2009, to promote its Norton Online Backup service, Symantec invited consumers to send in stories, photos or videos of how they had lost computer files. Everyone that entered was sent a free trial subscription to the service and the winners were sent a year’s supply of bacon (because Norton would have saved their bacon had they already subscribed!)

We’re working on lots of creative prize promotions at the moment and we can only hope that some of our prize winners are as pleased as this young lady was …  (we suggest you don’t put the volume up too loud!)

Winner management for the British Council

By Juliette Thomas on October 22, 2010

In addition to setting up and managing The British Council’s eTwinning Design a Card competition, Spark & Fuse has also been asked to handle the winner management.  With the judging process now complete and the winning entries and judges’ comments uploaded to the winners’ gallery www.etwinning-competition.com/gallery.php, Spark & Fuse is busy designing certificates and sourcing the prize vouchers.  We’ll ensure the prizes and certificates are safely in the hands of the winning schools and will be on hand to answer any queries the schools or our client may have regarding the competition or prize fulfilment.  If you would like to run a competition to celebrate a birthday or special event, or to raise awareness of your brand, please drop us a line to find out how Spark & Fuse can help to make your promotion a success.

winning entry 7-10 category

Winner of the 7-10 category. An excellent effort by class 4, Winteringham Primary School