You are not obligated to purchase anything to participate.
You are obligated to go to all stores OR restaurants OR online businesses listed in the
particular Scavenger Hunt you pursue. Once at the location you will be directed to "scavenger hunt"
for a particular item, and once you find it, write it down. You must keep what it is and it's details
in a notebook under the heading of the store OR the restaurant OR the online business and
save these notes for inspection after you Declare Completed to us. We may have several Scavenger
Hunts going on at the same time. A business is not required to participate in all of them; it can
participate in only one or in several or in all of them if it wishes to. When a business participates
in more than one Scavenger Hunt, we will post the other or others so that you can compete in
all of its entries as you compete for one. Also note, that businesses may be joining here and there:
for example, as soon as we have one business starting a new Scavenger Hunt - that particular
Scavenger Hunt is active. If the Scavenger Hunt requires 100 stores OR restaurants OR online
businesses to be a part of it, but only one has joined, or only 30 have joined - you'll have to check
The List daily, or as often as you wish, to see if any additional stores, restaurants, or online businesses
have also joined. And if so, you'll probably want to hurry on down to the store OR the restaurant OR
click into the website for the online version ... because the 1st person who proves they have visited
and compiled all of the Scavenger Hunt items or clues, wins the Shopping Spree OR the Restaurant
Dinner OR the Movie Tickets OR Whatever The Scavenger Hunt Is For. Also, to keep expenses down
for businesses who enter, no two winners (some contests will have only 1 Winner while other contests
may have 2 Winners, 3 Winners, or 5 Winners, etc.) the 1st Winner always has first choice as to which
store on The List he or she wishes to do their Shopping Spree at; or which restaurant on The List
they wish to eat at; etc. Additional Winners need to choose other stores to shopping spree at, or
other restaurants to eat at, which have not already been chosen by previous winners. Each Scavenger Hunt
is different and lists how many businesses must eventually participate. Whether it takes one week (for smaller contests)
to be completed or a whole year (for huge contests) a Player should be committed to sticking with it
until the Winner or Winners are announced and the Scavenger Hunt Contest ends.
For Your Business:
Cost is $50.00 - Your AD lasts till the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth
Winners are announced. No matter the size of the Contest, players must visit all 50, 100, 200
stores / restaurants / online businesses, and write down the Scavenger Hunt clues for each
participating business. It's up to you to design what your Scavenger Hunt "ITEM" or "CLUE" is.
After we complete this instruction, we'll have a few examples. In the case of a location store,
such as a grocery store, a department store, a clothing store, a book store, a restaurant, or any
of hundreds of possible location retailers, you must also designate a manager, or an assistant
manager, or other employee who will assist Scavenger Hunt Players coming into your establishment.
They are NOT required to purchase anything and you must NOT pressure them into doing so.
Nonetheless, you are allowed to give them a brief "tour" of your store if you wish to take the
time to do so. For example:
EXAMPLE A ---
Let's say you run a Craft Store and you have 30 aisles of crafts. Your designated person doesn't
have to, but she could say, "Follow me." As she walks down Aisle 3 she could say, "This is our
paint aisle. As you can see we have hundreds of colored pencils, crayons, watercolors, water-based
paints, and oil-based paints." Then at the end of the aisle your designated person might turn left
and walk down and make another left on Aisle 7. The Guest of course is looking at many items as you
pass them without saying anything. Then on Aisle 7 your designated person might speak again:
"And Aisle 7 here has hundreds of Assorted Decorative Birds and Butterflys and even a few Lady Bugs.
The Scavenger Hunt CLUE you are looking for is on the next aisle over, Aisle 8. You will recognize the
Item or Clue because it is Orange and Black. Thank you for coming to Randy's Crafts and I hope you
are one of the five Winners of the $300.00 Shopping Sprees!"
EXAMPLE B ---
You run a Health Food Store. Your designated person might be busy and simply tell The Scavenger
Hunt Player: "Your Scavenger Hunt Item or CLUE is on Aisle 15. The logo on the can, or the bottle, or
the box (I'm not going to tell - you discover what it is) looks like this:" --- and she holds up a picture
of a Logo like:
Your job is to identify the container, whether it's a can, a bottle, or a box; what the names are below this
logo, as well as the name of the product, and the cost. Thank you for coming to Jill's Health Food Store
and I hope you are one of the five Winners of the $300.00 Shopping Sprees!"
EXAMPLE C ---
You run a restaurant. Your designated person hands The Scavenger Hunt Player a restaurant menu (or if you don't
have a printed menu, perhaps he directs the player to read the menu above their heads). "Ok. we have a simple
Clue for you: Find the item that costs $2.95 and write the name of it and three of the ingredients. Be sure to
also include the price, and of course our business name and address."
In all three of these examples, note that although the people (or Players) that we send your way are not
obligated to buy, and you shouldn't pressure them to buy; nonetheless, they are walking down your aisles
seeing some of the things your store offers, or examining your menu items and their costs. Very few forms
of advertising do this for you! If you take out a TV or radio ad, most likely the people are NOT required to
come to your actual location (unless they want to be a customer). If you take out a billboard sign along the
freeway, as with the first two, TV and radio, it's very expensive, whereas our Scavenger Hunt For Shopping Sprees,
or whatever, only costs $50.00 to join for most businesses, but a few, at least one but possibly five businesses,
whom Winning Customers choose to partake of their Shopping Spree at, might spend an additional $200.00 or $300.00 (or something,
we'll determine the Shopping Spree expenditure beforehand); and from one to five restaurants,
whom again, Winning Customers choose to partake of their FREE Restaurant Dinner at, might spend between
$20.00 to $120.00 giving away dinners. Other possible prices are Movie Tickets, Concert Tickets, Gift Cards,
Spa Memberships, Boomboxes, TV Sets, Bicycles, Motorcycles, and even Cars. Also note, that although people
are not obligated to purchase, if a person is in your restaurant going through your menu (if you choose to use
the methodology above) and he is hungry, he probably will purchase something. And thirdly, our Scavenger Hunt For
Shopping Sprees, or, our Scavenger Hunt For Restaurant Dinners is a type of advertising with much greater
promise of bringing in hundreds of people right into your store or restaurant than just about any other type of
advertising out there. Other forms of advertising are mostly about informing people about what you offer that is
on sale, 'Come in to save $3.00 on a steak dinner,' or, '$39.95 shirts only cost $29.95 this weekend only,' --- but unless
a person likes what you have on sale, for most people there isn't going to be enough motivation to actually hop
into their car, drive down to your store or restaurant, or flower shop, whatever, and actually park their car and
walk into your place of business, window shop, look around, check out your items and their prices. But with us, for $50.00,
most businesses get just that! Hundreds of people, Scavenger Hunt Players, with the motivation to come, into your store!!!
Will they buy on the spot? Some will. Most probably won't. Will some of them return to buy at a later date? Because they have
taken a tour, designed by you, there's a good possibility that some of them might. But hey! You're not paying a thousand dollars
for this. 95 of you pay only $50.00 up front; and 5 of you, whom the Winners of The Shopping Sprees select because your
stores appeal to them the most, pay $50.00 plus an additional $300.00 for your Shopping Spree.
Now, all advertising involves risk. You don't know whether it's going to produce customers and sales. But we hope we've
shown you that this is a better risk than just advertising discounts of this product on sale and that product on sale.
And at the very least, Scavenger Hunt is less expensive; so much so that even if you currently have some other form of advertising
that you're doing - you can still give Scavenger Hunt For Shopping Sprees a try for $50.00 to see if it works.
FREE To Play!
