Data Driven ROI
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Acquisition
Ty Pennington TXT Sweeps Nets 71 Million Entries
A recent text-to-win sweepstakes by Alltel featuring Trading Spaces star Ty Pennington and a $1 million grand prize received more than 71 million entries from over 600,000 Alltel existing and new subscribers. The sweepstakes, which ran from April 15 to …
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Acquisition
LeapFrog Debuts ‘No Ordinary Pen’ with Contest
LeapFrog Enterprises is giving consumers a new reason to surf the Web, launching an interactive Web site to showcase its first ever tween product— Fly pentop computer. Like its name, the Fly pentop computer resembles an ordinary pen, but works as a …
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Data Driven ROI
Hosted CRM Applications Are in Boom Times: Report
Sales of hosted customer relationship management systems grew by 105% during 2004, to $4.4 billion, according to a report from AMR Research. Hosted applications are those housed off-site, at service vendor locations, as opposed to those installed on the marketers
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Acquisition
HSBC Using Game Show Theme to Draw Business
In a bid to engage current customers and gain new ones, HSBC Bank is bringing a game show-esque street promotion to New York state branches and offering consumers a chance to win a HSBC-branded Cadillac STS. Outside some HSBC offices in New York City, …
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Acquisition
AOL Sweeps Tied To Goods Seized From Spammer
America Online thanked members for reporting spam— warned potential spammers— a sweepstakes that awarded property seized from a spammer as prizes. The AOL Spammer’s Gold Sweepstakes wrapped up Friday and awarded a grand prize of about $85,000 worth of …
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Acquisition
Lily of France Launches ‘Match’ Campaign
Lily of France is paying homage to online dating with a new campaign that invites women to submit personal ads for a chance to meet Charlie O’Connell, star of ABC’s The Bachelor. The campaign supports the launch of the Lily of France True Match …
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Acquisition
Sweeps Winner’s Name To Appear on a Satellite
EchoStar Communications is putting its own twist on a sweepstakes trend that gives the winner a trip to outer space. EchoStar and its DISH Network satellite television service’s Reach for the Stars Sweepstakes will place the winner’s name permanently on …
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Acquisition
Yahoo Promoting New Service with Trips to Anywhere
To encourage use of its new free PC-to-PC calling service, Yahoo is running a global sweepstakes that will award 30 trips to anywhere in the world the winners choose to go. The service is a built-in feature of Yahoo’s re-launched Yahoo Messenger with …
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Acquisition
CBS Drives Daytime Viewership Via Wedding Promo
CBS Daytime is extending a personal invitation to consumers to the wedding of the yearGuiding Light characters Gus and Harley’s weddingto build excitement around the soap opera storyline. “We felt that we had another strong story in the position …
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Acquisition
Samsung Leveraging Sponsorship of B.B. King Tour
Samsung Electronics is leveraging its sponsorship of B.B. King’s 80th Birthday Tour with a sweepstakes that will be held in each market where the legendary bluesman performs. The Samsung DuoCam Sweepstakes will travel with the B.B. King Blues Festival …