Twitter #ScratchHere Giveaway

My name is Amanda and I am the voice of MyScatchOffLabels.com on twitter. Our company has made great strides since August to embrace the world of social media marketing. Our followership on Twitter has now swelled to over 2100 follower (not bad in three months). We don’t use an automated dm or following program so each post and response is coming directly from us to you. We are sincerely interested in you, your business, and how we can work together. We have a loyal and vocal Etsy followership but we want to hear from everyone. Throughout the month we tweet about new designs, answer customer questions, and offer a variety of money saving discounts. In the month of November we have decided to give away our HOT off the presses promotional t-shirt. If you would like one simply join our blog then over the remaining weeks of the month mention us in three tweets. Please add the hashtag #ScratchHere to help me better track the entries. Need ideas for mentions?
Find fun holiday promotions for your business http://bit.ly/9HsJ1M @myscratchoffs #ScratchHere
Scratch offs are great for wedding save the dates, favors, and bachelorette party games http://bit.ly/c91oqJ @myscratchoffs #ScratchHere
{Baby On Board} Find unique birth/gender announcements and baby shower games http://bit.ly/cWTUma @myscratchoffs #ScratchHere
Entice your customers to return sooner with scratch off promotions http://on.fb.me/c97Ynx @myscratchoffs #ScratchHere
Check out the many uses for scratch off labels and request FREE product samples at http://bit.ly/aXO6er @myscratchoffs #ScratchHere #smallbusiness

Preparing for Christmas

As I am writing this there are just 44 day until Christmas 2010. We at MyScratchOffLabels.com would like to help you be fully prepared to reap the benefits of the holiday shopping season. Already we have filled requests for Christmas postcards. These cards are a great way to wish your customers/clients a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Address them to the people on your mailing list, include them in completed online orders, or hand them out with purchase. Another popular choice is our business card size promotion like the one we completed for a shopping mall (pictured here). Lastly, we offer holiday scratch and win games. If you are hosting a holiday open house these games are great for hourly door prizes and they do make a fun addition to the annual office party. Check out our website for more FUN holiday ideas. Our team of designers is standing by to customize a promotion that suits you best.

Game Day Celebrations

Created with sports FANatics in mind this new promotion is sure to score big with customers. Use it for customer appreciation by offering 1/2 price appetizers or drink and food specials. It could also be customize and used to raffle off a game day grand prize. Add your personal graphics, change colors, and fonts quickly and easily. Visit www.myscratchofflabels.com or email karen@myscratchofflabels.com to place your order today!

Many New Customizable Designs Added

We at MyScratchOffLabels.com are working hard to keep our gallery fresh. This month we have added a number of fully customizable designs to meet the needs of our customers. Change the colors and fonts or even add your own clip art or logos to make them uniquely your own. From Bar/Bat Mitzvah favors, Gender Announcements, and Teacher Rewards to Black Friday Sales we are working to show you the many diverse ways that our labels can be used.
Please visit us again soon and be sure to share your favorites ideas and designs with friends.

Labor Day Sale

We at MyScratchOffLabels.com hope that you are enjoying your long Labor Day weekend. In store today you can receive $5 off a $30 purchase using coupon code 5OFF30. Now is a good time to think ahead for Halloween Party Games, Fall Wedding Favors, Save the Date postcards, and even Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotions.

Our DIY Design contest continues. All designs must be submitted by midnight Sept 20th for judging. The winner will be rewarded with 250 CUSTOMIZED SCRATCH OFF PROMOTIONS!

MyScratchOffLabels.com DIY Design Contest

MyScratchOffLabels.com announces our DIY Design Contest

One lucky winner will be chosen from contest entries to WIN 250 CUSTOM SCRATCH OFF PROMOTIONS. Simply create a design that best suits your needs and uses scratch off labels in a creative or innovative way. We have said that our products have many uses such as business promotions, giveaways, door prizes, save the date cards, gender announcements, teacher incentives, party favors, games, grand opening celebrations, black Friday/cyber Monday sales, and more. You are only limited by your imagination. We are giving you a chance to sit in the designer’s chair.
Submit your design (in .jpg, .png, or .pdf format) the following ways:

Email amanda@myscratchofflabels.com (preferred)subject: Contest Submission
or Facebook http://www.facebook.com/myscratchofflabels

One entry per email address please.
See our facebook albums or our gallery http://bit.ly/byBK29 for inspiration.


Prize Details:
250 CUSTOM designed scratch off cards that measure 3.5" x 2" (business card size) that will be professionally printed and shipped to the winner for immediate use.

Contest Ends at midnight September 20, 2010. The winner will be notified by email within 24 hours of the contest ending and the winning design will be proudly displayed on our blog, twitter, facebook, and in our newsletter.


PRIVACY STATEMENT: Your private information is important to us. We will NOT use your information other than to notify you if you are the winner. You will NOT receive any correspondence from us unless you opt in to be a subscriber for the newsletter. No record of your personal information will be kept or stored.

New Member of the Team

This month two longtime friends have joined together at MyScratchOffLabels.com. Amanda Geaney has partnered with Karen Sroka to help in the promotions division. Amanda will be managing the twitter and facebook related inquiries as well as consulting on new promotion and design ideas. In the near future expect to see fresh ideas on our "Examples" page (http://www.myscratchofflabels.com/examples.html) and in our facebook gallery. All of this is in effort to provide exceedingly better customer service and innovative ideas for our customers. To keep up with our progress you can follow us on twitter @myscratchoffs and on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/myscratchofflabels.

We were featured of 5MinutesforMom.com

Yep...Twice- www.myscratchofflabels.com was featured on www.5minutesformom.com

READ here :) :)

http://www.5minutesformom.com/mom-owned-stores/513/myscratchofflabels/

http://www.5minutesformom.com/our-readers-blogs/1557/myscratchofflabels/

So exciting with it having an excellent Alexa ranking (which we are trying to improve right now) SEO is a hot topic right now in the Mom Entrepreneuer Support Group that I belong to http://supportgroup.themomentrepreneur.com/community.html (which I HIGHLY recommend). My main cometitor- has 4 years worth of experience over me...so I am just trying to catch up with her. Our prices are basically the same, but she has the google rankings. My Scratch Off Labels Stickers business is doing well and I think all of my hard work is paying off!

DON't forget to enter my giveaway for 500 custom Scratch off game cards here: http://www.myscratchofflabels.com/giveaway.html Ends 31 March Winner will be drawn on the 1st of April!

Going on Vacation to Disney World...

Family Reunion to Disney World from the 17th- 24th Mar to meet up with the rest of my family- My kids will get to meet their cousins for the very first time- My brothers kids- the downfall of being part of the military world. My husband is military and my brother is military and we have never been stationed together...

Wish us luck that the weather will be favorable- and I will post some pics when we return! So excited!

Don't forget to enter our giveaway- www.myscratchofflabels.com/giveaway.html

Google Ad Words for My Scratch Off Labels

My Google Ad Words account has been active for 8 months now. And crazy as this seems but I really do notice a difference in sales when I have more Ad words traffic by clicks...I try to go in and adjust the keywords that are getting clicks every so often- and I also try to add suggested keywords from google. The constant change seems to bring a different variety of visitors. Here recently I have created business relationships with a few printers, a few small business owners, and quite a few Moms. I swear by the use of google ad words. But I use this in combination with quite a few other strategies. Twitter has become a new marketing strategy- as well as our "Giveaway" for 500 Scratch off game cards that you can find here: http://www.myscratchofflabels.com/giveaway.html

What is your best strategy for marketing your business?

Want to exchange links with www.myscratchofflabels.com ? Let me know- I am up for it!

The Power of social media

So I was skeptical of opening a Twitter account for my business. I did the Facebook fan page for www.myscratchofflabels.com and have over 100 fans, but keeping up with this blog, the Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, networking links, fulfilling orders, etc has proven to be a little too much.

But the more I get into Twitter and explore- the more I understand and now I am seeing what everyone was talking about...I can see how Twitter is a little farther reaching than Facebook for business. I love Facebook for personal reasons, not business reasons.

Want to follow me on Twitter? @myscratchoffs
Want to Fan me on Facebook? www.facebook.com/myscratchofflabels

You want to know the kicker of this all...my sales from 09" to 10" are up almost 50%...and I think that my marketing strategy from August of 09 is taking effect now and that is why we are seeing the results. And I have been posting coupon codes on FB and Twitter which is resulting in sales. Who knew!

Well this is a Thanks for all your support...

10% off $10 or more with coupon code TWITTER10 at www.myscratchofflabels.com

Giveaway details- 500 Custom Scratch off cards

Enter Here: http://www.myscratchofflabels.com/giveaway.html

The hottest way to increase repeat customers- offer them a discount on a future visit- but put a little bit of excitement into it!Make them work for it by scratching off to see what discount they won.

So here is what the winner will get in this $165 giveaway:
500 CUSTOM designed scratch off cards that measure 3.5" x 2" (business card size) that will be professionally printed and shipped to the winner for immediate use- The winner doesn't have to do anything but hand them out or mail them to their customers. 500 cards include 3 promotions- 250 of one, 125 of one and 125 of one. They will be shipped to the winner wrapped separately so the winner knows which are which. We are available to discuss the most commom promotions or uses for these cards. Just drop us an email to karen@myscratchofflabels.com
Samples shown are only examples. Winners design will be unique to their business! Winner can provide us input on how they want theirs designed to include their business logo etc... We will work with the winner to get the proof exactly where they want it before the cards go to print! Approximate design, print and ship time is 21 days.

Giveaway Ends March 31, 2010. Winner will be selected by randon on April 1, 2010.
Only one entry per email address, but EXTRA entries will be given to those that:
• Sign up for our newsletter (Sign up in left navigation bar)

• Fan us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/myscratchofflabels

• Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/myscratchoffs

• Promote this giveaway on their own Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Article, etc... (Email us links to verify...)

PRIVACY STATEMENT: Your private information is important to us. We will NOT use your information other than to notify you if you are the winner. You will NOT receive any correspondence from us unless you opt in to be a subscriber for the newsletter. No record of your personal information will be kept or stored.

Giveaway- $165 is now posted

Thank goodness- The Giveaway is now posted- $165 and you can register here!

http://www.myscratchofflabels.com/giveaway.html

Anyone who wants to promote the giveaway in FB and Twitter or anywhere else will also earn extra entries!

Can't wait!!

Karen

Details are coming together!

Giveaway will be worth $165! WOW!! Excellent for any business trying to get more business or encourage repeat buyers! I will outline all the details soon!

Upcoming Giveaway- details to come-

Hello all,

Lots of changes with www.myscratchofflabels.com and www.myscratchoffgames.com but the most exciting news is still to come---

I am formulating a NICE giveaway (Worth more than $100)- of scratch off cards for business purposes. This is the hottest new way to promote repeat buyers! Any ideas on the best ways to promote it?

I am trying hard to make the time for my business Facebook page and my Brand new twitter account. Need better time management skills.

More to come soon!