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We recently hosted one of our partner’s favorite webinars (okay, it’s one of our favorites, too) – 30 Contest Ideas in 30 Minutes. During this webinar, Julie Foley, our Director of Affiliate Success & Matt Coen, our President, reveals the top 30 contest categories run on UPICKEM in the past year. Each category comes complete with several examples for you to get your contest-building creative juices flowing to help build out your year-long contest calendar.

If you weren’t able to attend the live session, watch a recording in our resource center.

Be sure to check out all the contests mentioned in our webinar.

Miss our February Deadline Deals Newsletter? Check it out here.

To celebrate their Grand Opening, Mardi Gras Casino & Resort teamed up with WSAZ-TV (Charleston, WV) to give away a free night’s stay to one lucky viewer. What a great promotional opportunity!

UPICKEM has released a new college football contest for the upcoming 2010-2011 season. Read on to learn more about this exciting contest.

How It Works
• Players pick winning teams of the 15 games offered each week
• Players guess scores of ‘biggest’ game as weekly tie-breakers
• Second Street provides national weekly and overall prizes
• Game administrators can add local prizes

Earning Sponsorship & Ad Revenues
• Each contest has a variety of ad spaces on every page; sales force can attract a number of contest-related advertisers
• Contests achieve great traffic and site visits over extended periods of time – sales teams can feel confident that they’re selling valuable and high-traffic ad space
• On a single Top 15 college football UPICKEM game, smaller affiliates can make as much as $12,000 – $15,000; larger affiliates can make $20,000 – $30,000

Local Prizes
Affiliates can choose to add from zero to five weekly and grand/whole-season prizes. Prizes can be posted online with images and links to sponsor sites. Prizes can also be restricted to residents of specific states or zip codes as defined in the affiliate tool.

National Prizes
UPICKEM provides national prizes for each week of the season and overall. For 2010, the weekly prize is an NCAA Fathead.

For the overall season prize, UPICKEM is providing a 37” LCD HDTV. National prizes can be disabled at the request of the affiliate. If this is done, all national aspects of the contest will be disabled.

Contact us to learn more.

Today we have released UPICKEM Coupons to compliment our half price gift cards and new Group Buy program we announced last week. Our coupons are very similar to gift card, except they are free offers from advertisers that your users can redeem. Check out our live coupon examples.

And, here are two short videos to explain how it works. The first video shows you the end user experience; the second shows how to create a coupon in the admin tool.

Coupons are included at no additional fee if you are a UPICKEM Complete or UPICKEM Engine subscriber. And, our coupons can also be used in the same “Group Buy” manner that we announced last week for gift cards where you can require that a minimum number be downloaded in order for the deal to be on. So users are encouraged to get their friends to sign up for the coupon as well and when the minimum is met the coupon is sent to everyone who signed up.

As always, please feel free to reach out if you have additional questions on Gift Cards, Group Buy and of course, Coupons. To get you started, please visit our help guide for more information.

We are happy to announce the launch of the UPICKEM Resource Center. You can reach via links at the top of every UPICKEM Affiliate tool page, along with a link to the user manuals and a search box tied to the manuals to help you with anything you need to look up.

The UPICKEM Resource Guide is a compilation of the tools you need to make your contests successful, from links to the manuals, training webinars, sales tools and more!