Win a Private Fishing Stream in Your Own Backyard with the Busch Light Stream Home Makeover!!

Promosis is partnering with The Martin Agency and Busch Light to deliver the Busch Light Stream Home Makeover. We’re providing complete promotion consultation, administration, independent judging and prize fulfillment services. Why not enter for a chance to win?

Check it out here.

Thinking about developing a unique promotion to engage your audience? Reach out to us for a no-obligation estimate.

Exciting news for My Bose Members! Bose has partnered with UConn for an exclusive giveaway opportunity!

Enter the UConn × Bose Sweepstakes now for a chance to win exclusive UConn x Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and tickets to a UConn Women’s Basketball game.

Promosis is proud to support Bose by offering sweepstakes consultation, administration, digital services, and prize fulfillment services.

Looking to create a unique promotion to captivate your audience? Simply contact us and we’ll get right back to you.

No purchase is necessary. Sweepstakes end 3/13/25. See Official Rules for details.

I’m psyched to announce a new chapter in Promosis’s commitment to sweepstakes security: our sweepstakes administration company is SOC 2 Type II certified. This significant milestone isn’t just about meeting standards; it’s a testament to our continuous pursuit of iron-clad security for our clients and platform.

The third party audit evaluated whether the internal controls in place met the required Trust Services Criteria for safeguarding customer data. This report reflects the effectiveness of our systems and controls by way of a six-month observation period. This meticulous examination assessed the effectiveness of Promosis’s information security controls and evaluated how well these controls operate in real-world scenarios, including ensuring system availability, maintaining processing integrity, safeguarding confidentiality, and upholding privacy commitments.

The audit affirms our:

• Protection against unauthorized access
• System availability
• Processing integrity
• Safeguards for confidentiality
• Privacy commitments

TL;DR?

Our systems – from HR and crew member training to our data storage processes and disaster recovery preparedness – comply with rigorous third party testing and auditing to ensure the highest possible level of sweepstakes security.

Thinking about developing a holiday-themed or kickoff promotion for the New Year? Reach out to us or reply to this email. After all…your promotions are safe with us.

Tired of your best mate canceling dinner plans? So is Outback Steakhouse – and they’re doing something about it!

The ReplaceMates Outback Steakhouse Sweepstakes, a brainchild of Mischief @ No Fixed Address, celebrates Outback Steakhouse Mate Day on May 8. An online video ad and social media posts encourage brand followers to tag their flakey mate for a chance to enjoy dinner with an actor who will stand in for their constantly canceling best mate. ;-p

Promosis is proud to provide Mischief, Praytell Agency and Outback with complete sweepstakes consultation, promotion administration and prize fulfillment services.

If you liked the Outback Steakhouse Sweepstakes and want to discuss how we can help you bring your own national holiday to life, please don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here to help.

Skill Contests can be the source of outstanding user generated content (UGC). A skill contest is a powerful tool to drive product and brand engagement. It can also create valuable user generated content that you can use in your next marketing campaign to tell a relatable story about your product and your customers’ experience with it.

Learn about skill contest basics and more in Promosis’ Skill Contest Promotion Tips.

Successful Loyalty Rewards programs generate 30% larger order sizes from loyalty rewards program participants. And, according to Harvard Business School studies, while you are on your way to that higher level of business, rewards “create and accelerate loyalty”. Your customers remain your customers and less frequently try your competitor’s products.

Want larger orders and turn your customers into brand evangelists? Read Promosis’ Loyalty Rewards Guide

Motivating consumer reviews, getting your customers to submit product or service reviews can be difficult – but we love a good challenge.

Our mattress client, the largest bedding company in the world, asked Promosis to help them and a retail partner motivate their customers to review both companies in the same campaign. Check out their co-branded Reviews Sweepstakes and note these innovative features – and each step earns a sweepstakes entry:

1. Entrants find their retail store (the store locator filters for only their brand) and a link automatically pops in taking them to the Google store review for that specific location
2. When entrants complete the mattress product review it is published on the client’s ecommerce website and also syndicated to the retailer’s site.

Ready to motivate your customers to award you 5-star reviews? We’re here to help!

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

JetBlue has recognized that no community has taught us more about what it means to be human — no, superhuman — than the millions of healthcare workers across our country who risked their lives, and in some cases, tragically lost them, to protect ours. Spearheaded by executive leadership, JetBlue approached Promosis for help executing a program offering 100,000 pairs of round-trip flights to these brave professionals. Once they are able to take some much deserved rest, promotion winners and a guest will be able to fly to any JetBlue destination – courtesy of JetBlue. Separately, JetBlue invited its 23,000 Crewmembers to also nominate their own healthcare hero!

Utilizing our READYsweeps™ platform, we collaborated with our amazing clients to launch this massive initiative in just ten days. We’ll also be verifying each of the 100,000 nominees and electronically fulfilling their pair of flight certificates.

“Promosis is an excellent partner that I would work with time and time again and recommend to others! They are true experts in their space, responsive to our needs and very helpful as priorities shift. They have the ability to scale up and manage everything from small to very large-scale promotions with ease.”

-Ashley Graf, JetBlue Marketing

We’re honored to partner with Ashley and her team to deliver future relaxation to our heroes.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

With READYsweeps™, we can help you launch a customized promotion in just days!

Thanks for your great response to our READYsweeps platform launch. A few of you asked great questions about the service, so we put together this sweet one-pager to provide all of you some answers.

And, if you don’t feel like checking it out right now, here are five big benefits of READYsweeps:

1. Easy: Provide us a bit of info and Shazam! – we deliver a customized sweeps site to you
2. Fast: Launch within days (or even hours!)
3. Legal: Official Rules, disclaimers, and indemnification are included
4. Affordable: A fraction of the price needed to develop and code a site from scratch
5. READY: Did we mention we can launch a legal sweepstakes for you in just days?

You can also check out our live demo – go now and you could even win a little something!

If you’d like to discuss if READYsweeps is right for you, don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here for you.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

Introducing the first of a suite of motivational-marketing platform services from Promosis – READYsweeps™!

Drawing from our decades of experience, our new READYsweeps blends our long-standing approach of developing promotions that meet your specific needs with a quick-to-launch web-based sweepstakes platform. Equipped with white-label technology, every READYsweeps promotion may be customized to reflect your individual company’s identity, tone, values, goals, and audience.

To experience our new service, simply visit our READYsweeps Launch sweepstakes site. Once there, we invite you to share a quick story – just a sentence or two – about someone you know who recently demonstrated a small act of service or aid. We’ll randomly select a winner who will receive a $100 Visa prepaid Gift Card. And, if we select the person you nominated, you’ll also receive a $100 matching gift card!

If you’d like to discuss if READYsweeps is right for you, don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here for you.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

We’re creating and building for you.

People are hungry for an upbeat message and a touch of kindness. Sweepstakes and skill contests are perfect tools for providing a real boost to your customers.

Our crew is collaborating on the launch of two new promotion services to help you quickly and affordably launch your next motivational project.

Keep an eye out for our email next week. We’ll announce the first of these services, along with a chance for YOU to win a positive prize from Promosis.

Don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here for you.

And remember…

Patience and determination will prevail.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

Just in case you’re like we are and have lost track of what day it is, today is Friday, March 27, 2020.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

Better Things to Come

We hope you and your loved ones are OK.

We just wanted to confirm that all current programs remain live and functional.

Our crew, working remotely, is available to serve in any capacity you need – even if you’re just looking for a streaming suggestion (Treme is a sleeper!).

While current times feel grim and without hope, we remain powerfully optimistic that together we will rebound and reach new heights of collaboration, health and prosperity.

Don’t hesitate to reach out – we’re here for you.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

Say Hi to Harry and Kramer’s dogs – both named Chester. Weird, right?

We’re psyched to welcome our new Lead Full Stack Software Engineer – Kramer Huculak.

Kramer recently moved with his wife, children and dog from their life-long home in Canada to the Boston area. He will be working alongside his Promosis crew members at our office in Marblehead, MA. He earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Metals and Materials Engineering from The University of British Columbia in Vancouver and has over 10 years of software engineering and development experience.

Kramer will be leading our efforts to develop next-generation technologies that change how both our clients and their customers connect and interact with information and one another.

Do you want a fresh perspective for your next promotion? Give us a call at 781-639-1937 or drop us a note.

Regards,

Harry & Peter
Co-Founders

Build a website in ten minutes. Cut and paste. Template-driven.

Whether they initially realize it or not, these terms and solutions aren’t a fit for our clients. Instead, every promotion site we develop must adhere to a client’s creative standards, style, and voice.

When Bose asked us to develop Sound Sanctuary – a site to share how Bose products help a friend or family member cope or heal – they requested we include a full-bleed, dynamically looping background-image gallery in the website’s header area.

What’s particularly special about this header can be broken down in three parts:

1. Complex content that needs to sit above the dynamically looping images
2. A background area with adjustable opacity, based on the displayed image
3. Providing functionality that allows the visitor to change the index of the looping images in real-time

Dealing with opacity

Those who have dealt with the opacity requirement are aware of the technical considerations needed when placing content on layers that need to utilize opacity. At its surface the answer seems simple – set the background property of our header element to an image and set the opacity property to something a bit translucent like 0.8. Even when considering a looping set of background images, this answer seems ok because they can be set programmatically – so it’s not the looping that causes an issue.

The problem with this approach is that setting the opacity property on an element affects all children elements. Because we need to adjust the opacity and place complex layout content in child elements (really this background is just one layer of multiple in an intricate header), this solution won’t work for us.

Instead, we utilized a solution we’ve deployed many times in the past – creating a separate sibling element that sits alongside our parent element, but doesn’t have any children elements of its own.

To allow this to work we need to set the sibling’s position property to absolute, and give it a width and height of 100%. Then, we give our main parent element a position property of relative and make sure to have its height set.

Now we are free to set the opacity of our sibling element and dynamically set the background images without intruding on our child elements.

Creating the looping image gallery

Let’s look at how we coded the looping gallery and animation alongside the dynamic image selection.

Programmatically, we needed to not only allow the background images to loop on their own timer, but we also need to account for the fact that users may change the background image at any time by clicking on the small indicators at the bottom of the header.

To achieve this, we decided to start the background-looping action on a timer using the browser’s setInterval function. This looping action would consist of:

1. Lowering the opacity
2. Removing the current image
3. Placing the new image
4. Increasing the opacity

Typically, this coding is sufficient. However, since users can interrupt and alter the background-looping action, we needed make further maneuvers.

Using setInterval()

First, we store the result of the setInterval browser function in a variable in our Vue instance. setInterval is a way to kick-off a function repeatedly on a set time – perfect for our use-case. setInterval returns the id of its instance, which gives us a hook into the process. This is important because there’s actually no way to poll the browser for all active intervals – we need to keep track of them.

Then, whenever a user chooses a new background image, we cancel the old setInterval and set a new setInterval instance based on the background image the user selected. The user will see their selected image appear, then the looping will proceed normally, displaying the next image in the array . Using this process we programmatically bob-and-weave as a user changes the background image and restarts the looping dynamically. BUT, we’re still not done!

Implementing the fading transition

Just like their products, Bose’s brand reflects a premium, solidly-engineered feel. We wanted to bring that same luxurious quality to the fading transition animation between the looping background images.

Visually, we landed on a transition value of opacity 1.4s ease-in-out – moving slowly in and out of each image to add a premium feel to the animation.

Also, you may have noticed we are only transitioning the opacity property – this is very important because only a few select properties are considered safe to transition without completely bogging down one’s browser. The other safe properties are position, scale, and rotation. If you’d like, check out this article by Paul Lewis and Paul Irish to read more on why this approach is important for performance.

Wrapping up

We hope you found a little insight into the process of crafting just a single site component to be useful. Why not check out the live site to see it in action? And, if you’re ready to begin crafting your next unique motivational marketing website, give us a call at 781-639-1937 or drop us a note.

Contributing Author

John Datserakis

Lead Full Stack Developer

Sweepstakes, skill contests, and instant-win games are appropriate tools to use for attracting prospective customers and motivating sales. We can also help strengthen the post-sale relationship with your customers with four different tactics:

1. Gift with Action: Want to better understand what your customers think about your products and services? A gift with action – something that will help folks enjoy their purchase to the fullest – is just the thing to motivate them to complete a survey or review.
2. Loyalty Rewards Program: Stay connected with, extend your relationship and keep your customers using an efficient points program
3. Product Recall: Mistakez happen. Strengthen your bond with your customers by offering a clear, simple-to-participate-in product recall program. We can help with logistics, site development, product return and replacement, and customer service.
4. Rebate Program: Reward your best customers with a cost-effective VISA prepaid gift card or Amazon.com reward code.

Do you want to dramatically improve and extend the relationship with your customers? Give us a call at 781-639-1937 or drop us a note.

Boston City Hall selected Promosis to administer the Boston’s Safest Driver Competition. The promotion is part of Mayor Marty Walsh’s initiative to bring traffic deaths in Boston to zero. Launched last week and running through July, City of Boston residents and residents of most Metro Boston cities and towns can hone their safe driving skills and compete for prizes that reward safe driving.

The contest is a partnership effort between Promosis, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Cambridge Mobile Telematics – the developers of a smartphone app that scores drivers on their behaviors (acceleration, braking, cornering, speed and phone distraction) and allows them to see and think about the details of each driving trip.

Want to check it out? Download the app from the Apple Store or Google play.

 

Do you want to explore using a skill contest to motivate a specific behavior of your target audience? Give us a call at 781-639-1937 or drop us a note.