@kateivan said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):
@fivetalents said in Sacramento Bee Loyalty Club (aka BeeBuzzPoints):
Hello BeeBuzz folks. I’d never heard of this site before today, but looking at what it offers, it seems to apply to an internal discussion we are having about where GPT threads should go. In your opinion, is BeeBuzzPoints a GPT site, or a contest and sweepstakes site?
By GPT, I mean sites were you get paid to (view video, take surveys, click links to partner sites, test products, play games, do tasks, etc. You can then cash out points for rewards like gift cards, merchandise, magazine subscriptions, airline miles, charity donations etc.
The title and the tags on this thread mention a contest, but the link indicates no contest with a defined start and end date, just ongoing activities that sound like a GPT site. How would you guys define BeeBuzzPoints and why? TIA.
We are looking for a new home for activities heretofore conducted on the BeeBuzzPoints thread at FatWallet’s Contests and Sweepstakes forum. We have been exploring options like Facebook groups and such, and PhW is a contender. So we started a thread in the complementary subcategory here on PhW to try to get a sense for usability. The ability to paginate threads has given PhW an edge.
As to what we do … BeeBuzzPoints is our local newspaper’s reader loyalty program. Our newspaper participates in Triton Media’s sweepstakes program (as do a number of radio and TV stations across the nation). Each participating media outlet has its own member site. Each member must reside in his/her respective media market. Members can earn points for performing tasks like responding to questions where the answers are printed in that day’s newspaper (e.g., what is the headline of the 2nd story on the left side of the “local news” page). Those points are then redeemable for entries into contest drawings. These are contests/sweepstakes because of the element of chance. You do not simply redeem X number of points for an item assigned a point value of X. Rather, you throw your NNN amount of points in the hat with everyone else who wants to win that specific item and hope that one of your entries is drawn. Like electronic raffle tickets. Sometimes the sweeps are national (across all the participating media markets) where you can enter a drawing for, say, an Amazon Tap. Sometimes they are local, where you could enter to win a pair of passes to a movie screening at a local theater). Current contests may be found at http://buzzpoints.sacbee.com/asp2/contests.aspx?status=current where the start and end dates are defined for each.
I’ve never heard of GPT, but you’ve piqued my interest. I do participate in Microsoft Rewards which seems like the bunny slopes compared to what I saw when quickly Googling “GPT”.
Thanks for such a thorough reply! It sounds like a unique hybrid between contests/sweepstakes and GPT, but the GPT crowd would not be happy about their points not having a known value (or no value if they lost). So, it sounds like this thread is in the right forum. If we do get a GPT forum, you are in for a world of goodies my friend. It’s definetly a big genre and some sites are much better than others, but that’s a story for another day.
I hope that your BeeBuzz group feels at home here and decides to stay. Remember that we had very little notice to get this up an running and to open it to the members (we’re not even a week old). There is a lot of tweeking, coding, and programming to do to get it just the way we’ve been used to and/or want it (it took FW many years to get their site the way it is). That’s why your feedback is critical. Please feel free to post feature requests or technical problems in the PhatWallet Support forum and we’ll work with you to address your concerns as best as we can, and search any available coding or programming options to work on down the line if it is not immediately possible.
Again, welcome and enjoy.