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GetOnTheShelf.com Walmart American Idol-like Contest for Entrepreneurs
Looks like Wal-Mart.com might be the next best place to get the publicity that you are craving for your new product. Can’t seem to get the amount of sales that you hoped for when you invented your first gadget? Wal-Mart might be able to help with that as they announce today they are running a contest to help inventors and entrepreneurs get virtual shelf space at Walmart.com.
The contest, called “Get on the Shelf”, will be run similar to American Idol. The top products will be voted on by the public, at GetontheShelf.com and the top voted product will get “shelf” space on the largest retailers website. Having a contest like this is pretty much opposite of how Wal-Mart typically picks products for their stores. Giving product owners just one hour to wow the Wal-Mart buyers and give reasons why their product would be bought by shoppers.
“For a long time, the ability to get a product into a retail store was at the sole discretion of the store buyer,” said Venky Harinarayan, senior vice president of Wal-Mart’s global e-commerce unit. ”Today we are removing these barriers by giving anyone the chance to launch their product at Wal-Mart and reach millions of shoppers nationwide,” he said. [source]
Any resident of the United States that would like to get their product on the Walmart.com website should submit their product by Feb. 22nd. The first round of public voting will go from March 7th to April 4th and will narrow the field down to 10 finalists. The second round of voting will go from April 11th to April 24th to determine the top three winners.
From that point Wal-Mart will offer assistance that is needed with production, etc in order to get the amount of stocked merchandise the website could potentially sell. After the initial offering, Wal-Mart will decide whether or not the product will be sold on the Wal-Mart website again.
CrashTheSuperBowl.com Doritos Sweepstakes Win $10,000 Cash!
The Super Bowl is one of the most watch events in television history and over the past 10+ years, companies have been jockeying for commercial spots that can cost up to $2 million for 30 seconds. Usually you see the typical beer commercial, car insurance commercials or soda commercials, but this year you get a chance to decide what commercial you see. Doritos is holding a sweepstakes where you get to vote daily on what commercial you want to see during the Super Bowl. To sweeten the deal, Doritos is giving away $10,000 for every 100,000 votes during the sweepstakes.
The sweepstakes ends before the Super Bowl on January 29th, so you have to get over to www.crashthesuperbowl.com and enter your votes. Share with your friends on Facebook and Twitter because the more votes the more Doritos will be giving away.
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Sun-Maid Happy Holidays Movie Ticket Give Away
Did you know that Sun-Maid is giving away 10,000 free movie tickets? That’s right 10,000 movie tickets and the contest ends Jan. 6th 2012, so you have to hurry. One of the best things is that you can enter ONE time PER day! There is no purchase necessary and the sign up for, shown below, is very simple and easy so that you can get the form filled out in less than 1 minute!
Fine print from the bottom of the website reads:
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 U.S. STATES & D.C., 18 OR OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Begins 11/4/11 12:01 A.M. EST, ends 1/6/12 11:59 P.M. EST. Subject to Official Rules, avaliable at www.sunmaidprize.com. Sponsor: Sun-Maid Growers of California.
A guy that I work with showed me this contest and he has many other places he visits online each day to win various products in the same way. Hurry up and get over to www.sunmaidprize.com and enter! ALways enter using a VALID email address as they will send you a confirmation link for your entry. If you do not click the confirmation link, your entry will NOT be counted!!
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Win Xbox Kinect from Pepsi! ChoosePepsi.com/Kinect
Here is another way you can sign up for a chance at a FREE Xbox Kinect system!
You already know that the Kinect system for your Xbox is the hottest gift of the year, why not try and win one for yourself? Yeah, you could just go out and buy one (retail about $150) but it’s a lot cooler to tell your friends that you got one for free instead!
Win an Xbox Kinect from Pepsi
What are you winning?
One thousand (1,000) Grand Prizes will be awarded, each Grand Prize will consist of one (1)Xbox® 360 4GB Console, with one (1) Kinect™ Sensor and one (1) copy of “Kinect Adventures” game and one (1) “Kinect Sports” game. Estimated retail value $350. Fifty (50) First Prizes will be awarded, each consisting of one (1) Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor and one (1) copy of “Kinect Adventures” game. Estimated retail value $149.99. Four Hundred Fifty (450) Second Prizes will be awarded, each consisting of one (1) Kinect game. Estimated retail value $49.99.
What you have to do:
Basically just go to www.choosepepsi.com/kinect and get the entry form. There you will find all the rules and regulations and all the boring, yet important stuff.
Then you can mail in the form after following ALL the instructions and cross your fingers!
You can enty without purchase and those rules are also posted on the website listed above.
How many times can you enter?
You can enter as often as you like, per the official rules page.
The contest ends on December 31st, so please make sure all of your entries are at least postmarked by then. Any entries received after Jan. 7th will not be entered in the drawing.
Dont Forget:
Here is another way you can sign up for a chance at a FREE Xbox Kinect system!
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