July 2, 2003
What's New - Standing Out above the Crowd!
This Week's Promotion - Best Buy ROI
Marketing Tips - Saying “Thank-you”
Feedback - Telemarketing gets a wake-up call
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What's New!

Standing Out Above the Crowd

Ask yourself this .. “What sets my gaming business apart from every other operator out there?” Do you actually have a more compelling value proposition than the next Casino? And…have you clearly identified your value to your target market? Producing cost effective promotions that raise the overall response rates of your marketing campaigns are increasingly harder to find.

Let’s take a giant leap. What if you could offer players a chance to win One Million Dollars for patronizing your casino? That’s exactly what Trump and Harrah’s Casinos do on a regular basis. And instead of putting up the cash themselves, and administering the rules and regulations for the contest, they work with one of the largest Insured Promotions Organizations to handle it for them, at a fraction of the costs. Often, the cost of bringing contestant finalists to the Casino cost more than insuring the Contest itself.

Customized contests that let the advertiser choose the venue and theme, calculating response rates versus contest odds, and flexible contest budgets are all just one facet of the new emerging power marketing plans in today’s gaming industry.

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This Week's Promotions

Best Buy Guaranteed ROI

We have a very special offer that targets Poker, Bingo, Casino or SportsBook players using an effective exit traffic system. You’ll receive ONE MILLION impressions for just $2500, and we guarantee that you’ll get your spend back in new deposits, or we refund the difference. Poker and Bingo sites are converting very well. Geo-targeting is available at a small premium….over 15 targeted countries including Italy, U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, and Korea. Contact us for more details.

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Marketing Tips
Saying “Thank-you”

Saying “thank you” to your clients is a powerful marketing tool. And, the cost of saying thank you is relatively inexpensive when compared to the amount of business it can potentially generate.

“Thank you” is a simple approach to viral marketing, and is truly an effective way to increase client retention and loyalty. And, viral marketing is really just a new buzzword for the oldest form of publicity in the world: “Referral" or "Word of Mouth" marketing.

The Internet is the perfect tool for viral marketing because it offers many ways to utilize existing technologies to say “thank you” to one’s clients. "Word of mouth" has evolved into "word of mouse", the Internet version. Technology makes it easy to reach out to all of your clients to say thank you, plain and simple.

Make sure to add a thank-you when offering discounts, promotions or bonuses to customers for repeat business. A “thank you “ connects you to your clients on a completely different level than when you are selling them.

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Feedback
Telemarketing gets a wake-up call
Since the launch of the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) free national Do-Not-Call Registry on June 27, consumers who want to stop getting telemarketing calls have registered more than 10 million telephone numbers….85% of which were registered online.

On Friday, June 27th, day one of the registry, seven million telephone numbers were logged into the FTC's online system, according to the agency. Another 4.6 million telephone numbers were registered on June 28th, and two million were registered on June 29th.

That caused the FTC's Do-Not-Call registration Web site to slow to a crawl, according to Keynote Systems, which offers e-commerce performance monitoring capabilities. Ironically, there was a problem with consumers receiving their confirmation emails because some of them were being filtered out by users' spam-blocking software.

Telemarketers who call numbers on the list after October 1,2003 face penalties of up to $11,000USD per call, as well as possible consumer lawsuits. Consumers can sign up for the list by logging onto the site, www.donotcall.gov.

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Hound Humour

A man follows a woman out of a movie theatre. She has a dog on a leash. He stops her and says, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I couldn't help but notice that your dog was really into the movie. He cried at the right spots, he moved nervously in his seat at the boring parts, but most of all, he laughed like crazy at the funny parts. Did you find that unusual??"

"Yes," she replied, "I found it very unusual ...because he hated the book!"

 
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