[vpFREE] part 2 - wasted -- suggestions for better casino promotions

 

After wasting a lot of time at these parties which drag on and on and often have poor or little food while waiting for drawings, it occurs to me that casinos could do a lot better in promotions that would bring people to their casino, and get the people actually gambling rather than just sitting around waiting for a drawing.
 
1.  Why not send out a "you have won a mystery prize" of $50-1000.  You must register it on day such and such at our club booth by 6pm, and return to the  to claim the prize after 8 pm the same day.
This forces people pretty much to gamble or eat for at least 2 hours or more but gives them an incentive to go to the casino.  The casino no longer has to staff a bunch of people to log you in to hand you a ticket for a drawing or a wristlet to get into a drawing, or waiters or busboys, etc.  Maybe put a table next to the club booth from 5-6 pm and 8-9 pm when a lot of people might come staffed with say 4 people.  To prove their rub off prize was registered on time, they just stamp some symbol on it.  (no scratching before 6 pm allowed)  Then they return to the cashier for redemption on the same day.
 
You could have this be in free play too, to make more money for the casino.  The cashier just hands out free play machine-readable vouchers for any money won.
 
2.  You could make this offer even more equivalent to the "reception" offer by including a free buffet coupon, only good for the day of the prize.  Giving a free buffet probably would cost a casino far less than doing even the cheapest cheese-chips-salsa reception because you no longer have to higher special waitresses, bus boys, bar tenders, door watchers, etc. 
 
You could do this for higher level people by offering a voucher for $100 or $200 or whatever you want good at any restaurant in the casino, but that day only (reservations strongly suggested).
 
3.  Then there are those crappy gifts that casinos often give out to players who come to these reception/dinner/party prize drawings.  Just figure out the approximate cost of these gifts and give out a voucher for X$ in free play too, useable only on that one day only.  The vouchers for food and free play all come in the mail - save on personnel costs to hand out special meal tickets, gifts, etc.  No costs for storing or packaging gifts.  If you really really want to give out gifts, give a voucher for one of those gift companies that have catalogs of gifts.  They get the catalog/voucher thing when they "register" for their scratch card.
 
4.  Or just do the whole prize thing electronically -- you register sometime during the day at the club booth, and all the entries go into an electronic bin and names are announced at 8pm and posted at the cashier -- you have until 12 midnight to pick up prizes.  If the casino doesn't have the technology to do it electronically, then when you register for the prizes, your invitation card (or a hand-written one if you didn't bring it), goes into a barrel.  Someone pulls out the winners in some corner of the casino at 8pm, but you don't need to be standing there to win.  The names are announced on the loud speaker and posted at the cashier - pick up by midnight or noon the next day. 
 
These are just a few suggestions to make players lives easier.  They also would make more money for the casinos because players would be gambling instead of sitting around for two boring hours waiting for a drawing. 
 
I'm sure there are many other ways to do things that would work better than they are done now.  The surprising thing is that these bad drawings have been going on for years and years wasting time and money.  If a casino really wants to do one of the party/drawing things, then for gosh sakes, post exactly what times you need to arrive to register (for example 4:30-5:30), times for food (5-6 pm), time for drawing (6 pm), and then have some decent food! and a band (not super loud blasting peoples's ears!) or maybe a magic show or a guitarist or something (and not someone praising the President of the casino as in my last complaining post on and on and on....).  
 
And please someone, stop giving out 2 wine glasses to people over 40 years old as gifts!

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