Wednesday, December 10, 2008
iTunes Gift Card Prize Giveaway - Show Us Your Griswolds
For the next five days,you have the chance to win one of the five $50 
Apple iTunes gift cards we're giving away starting Monday, and a $100 VISA gift card for the grand prize on day 5! Send us a picture of the house with the craziest (read as tackiest) amount of Christmas decorations, and each day, we'll choose a winner for the best house. Send your photos to matt@marketingshift.com. 
You can think of it as a tribute to a great man, Clark W. Griswold.
This is an easy assignment, because every neighborhood has one of those families that goes overboard each year,and if the arrangement is crazy enough, the family earns the nickname: "the Griswolds."- in honor of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
As a Floridian, I'm subjected to some of the tackiest displays you could ever imagine, since it never snows and our average temp is in the 70s throughout December, we feel obligated to overcompensate with extravagant amounts of lights and decor.
Thanks to an email my friend Ben, from Indianapolis, I realized that this has become a nation-wide epidemic
(For the record, there is a town in southern Indiana named Santa Claus)
Some trends I've noticed this year:
- One snow globe isn't enough. Why have one when you can have 10?! Remember when the inflatable snow globes debuted a few years ago? Now they're so common place, one is no longer adequate for the hard-core fan of the holiday season.
- Stationary inflatable characters are out, animated ones are in.
We don't want to see that fat old elf just sitting around, we want to see action. We want snowmen popping out of chimneys and Santa CHASING a snowman INSIDE the inflatable snowglobe, or Santa in a helicopter with rotating blades.
- Mixing colored and white lights is a rule, not the exception
When I was a growing up, it seemed like most houses stuck with one layout for the exterior lights- the white lights or the multi-color bulbs. Now our streets look like more like the Las Vegas Strip.
So get out there and start shooting. We want to see the Griswold's from your block. Remember to email Matt directly with your photos attached. Every day, we'll announce a daily $50 iTunes gift card winner and on Friday we'll announce the Grand Prize Winner of the $100 Visa Gift card. The contest will begin Next Monday so that gives you plenty of time to start snapping some photos of the tackiest houses you see at night.
Basic Contest Rules
- You must take the picture yourself, don't submit someone else's photo or steal a photo online.
- Every submission must be in email format to Matt@MarketingShift.com and must include the following information: Photo (no more than 5 images per email, location photo was taken, your first and last name and phone number)
- Please describe why you think the decorations in your photo are worthy of the grand prize.
- Users can submit as many entries as they want.
Posted By Matt O'Hern at 12:16 PM
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