We are really excited to announce some great news! Wildfire is joining forces with Publishers Clearing House (PCH) in a new and exclusive partnership that will greatly enhance sweepstakes promotions. By combining the power of Wildfire’s Promotion Builder with PCH’s newly released API, PCH Boost, Wildfire users can create online sweepstakes promotions within minutes and without the need to draft rules or fulfill prizes. Choosing to use the new PCH Boost option when building out your sweepstakes means you can easily offer your fans and users winnings of up to $100,000 without having to deal with the administration, high costs, legal issues and logistics associated with managing sweepstakes and awarding prize money.
What’s even better, the PCH Boost sweepstakes option will be available for no added cost to a regular Wildfire sweepstakes promotion through June 15, 2010! This means that for the next three months, you can provide your user base the ability to enter to win their dream house, or car, or something equally awesome, at no cost over a regular sweepstakes where otherwise you would need to provide a prize and create the legal documentation on your own.
Wildfire Promotion Builder has already helped thousands of companies to run sweepstakes on Facebook, Microsites, and company websites, but while our technology provided a solution for building and launching sweepstakes, our users still had to take care of their own rules drafting and prize fulfillment. By choosing to use the new PCH Boost option, campaign administrators can make the entire process of managing a sweepstakes campaign much easier, enabling a quicker and more streamlined way for our users to build their Facebook fans, newsletter subscribers and an active customer database.
The option to use PCH Boost is now available right in the Wildfire Campaign Builder Wizard. By selecting this option, you can choose from a range of prizes to offer your user base, and rules will automatically be supplied to suit this prize. The drawing of winners and mailing out of prizes will also be taken care of for you, so all you need to do is promote the sweepstakes and collect your entries!
The PCH Boost option allows your sweepstakes to be integrated into already existing Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, which allows you to generate buzz among your fans and users with the potential for a huge winning prize like $100,000 towards a dream car, but without you having to provide the huge prize or work out the often complicated legal terms and conditions. Once you choose to participate in the PCH option right from within the Wildfire Sweepstakes Builder Wizard you can use the drop down menus to choose from available options for prize winnings and display themes. When users enter these sweepstakes from your Facebook Fan Page or Microsite, they are entered into existing PCH Sweepstakes for those prizes while you get the benefit of building up your fan base and increasing engagement with your brand!
For a step-by-step tutorial of how to use the new sweepstakes turnkey rules and prize fulfillment with PCH Boost, check out the guide here.
The PCH Boost enabled sweepstakes includes choices of PCH supplied headers and banners that compliment the sweepstakes prize you chose for your campaign. The sweepstakes runs right inside of your Facebook Fan Page or Microsite just like all sweepstakes created with the Wildfire tool.
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