The 2012 MAIA Big Event was a great success for Brownstone Insurance, having 50% of tradeshow participants stop by our booth to enter into our contests. For those of you who were not able to attend the Big Event, Brownstone offered attendees the opportunity to enter into 3 contests via a custom iPad application developed just for the occasion.
The first contest was for our grand prize contest for a luxury LV luggage set. Rather than require participants to be present for the drawing, we decided to hold the drawing via live internet broadcast the Tuesday following the event. Anyone could log into our LiveStream channel and watch live as we first broadcast some professional photos taken during the event by our photographers at Imagemakers Photographic Artists, followed by the live drawing here in our office.
The winner of the luggage set was John George from Jimcor, who coincidentally, was a vendor located next to our booth at the Big Event who mentioned during the show how much his daughter would love the luggage set. We hope John's daughter enjoys her new LV luggage!
The second contest was a Friday-only contest that was known only as our "secret contest." Many of you probably received custom Brownstone boarding passes in the mail or from one of our agent relations managers, Don Allan or Alexis Kimball. The purpose of these passes was to provide a place where you could write down your personal boarding pass code that was texted to you shortly after entering your cell phone number into our iPad app.
Then, at 7:18 Friday night, we used a computer program to randomly select a winning boarding pass code -- and we had not one, but two winners of the secret contest! Paul Zielinski from Horace Mann Insurance and Mark Germani from Germani Insurance both held the winning boarding pass code and will be boarding a plane with their guest for a whirlwind weekend getaway to Paris! Airfare, hotel and dinner will all be courtesy of Brownstone Insurance. Congratulations to Paul and Mark!
The last contest was for an instant prize at the Big Event -- a stainless steel luggage tag complete with the Brownstone Insurance logo. We awarded over 200 luggage tags during the event so if you weren't lucky enough to win the LV luggage or the surprise trip to Paris, hopefully you walked away with one of our custom luggage tags.
Thank you to all those who visited our booth this year, and to those of you who we did not see, hopefully we see you in 2013!
