{"id":1379,"date":"2008-04-01T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/credit-unions-wants-ideas-on-how-to-promote-savings-contest\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:41:25","slug":"credit-unions-wants-ideas-on-how-to-promote-savings-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/credit-unions-wants-ideas-on-how-to-promote-savings-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit union wants ideas for promoting savings contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Henry of Laurel, Maryland writes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/piggybank.jpg\" hspace=\"7\" alt=\"Piggybank\" height=\"167\" \/>&#8220;I&#8217;m\u00a0a communications writer for a federal credit union\u00a0in Maryland. Earlier this year, we launched a year-long savings campaign\u00a0in which\u00a0members\u00a0who make monthly deposits into their accounts get a chance to win several thousand dollars in cash prizes through monthly and quarterly drawings. When members continue making deposits every month, they have a chance to win a $20,000 cash prize in December of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m interested in learning what type of affordable publicity ideas your Hounds\u00a0would have for a campaign of this type. I&#8217;d\u00a0like to present some low-cost promotional ideas and pitches to see if any of them can be done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our level of media coverage is typically within local newspapers, national trade journals and local TV news station coverage. However, we have been mentioned in one national paper to my knowledge, which was the Wall Street Journal, on the topic of employee wellness programs. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Henry of Laurel, Maryland writes: &#8220;I&#8217;m\u00a0a communications writer for a federal credit union\u00a0in Maryland. Earlier this year, we launched a year-long savings campaign\u00a0in which\u00a0members\u00a0who make monthly deposits into their accounts get a chance to win several thousand dollars in cash prizes through monthly and quarterly drawings. When members continue making deposits every month, they\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/credit-unions-wants-ideas-on-how-to-promote-savings-contest\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-1379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-free-publicity","8":"tag-help-this-hound","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41593,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/41593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}