Thank You for an Amazing 2011!

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

I want to start this post by saying THANK YOU to all of our clients who made 2011 our best year ever!  70% of our business in 2011 was repeat business.  Game Show America sincerely appreciates you making us part of your families with your events.  That makes 30% of our business new clients.  We look forward to working with ALL of you again in 2012!

What helps keep Game Show America the leader in corporate and casino game shows is the dedication and hard work from the crew.  I want to thank my entire crew at Game Show America for being the best crew in the world!  You all make coming to work FUN!

2012 kicks off big with our all new Bird Bash casino promotion in Mississippi and a HUGE corporate event in Los Angeles with John O’Hurley.  Also in January, we’ll be showcasing our latest casino promotions at the Indian Gaming Marketing Conference at the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, California.  We’re looking forward to networking with many of our casino clients at the conference.

Game Show America wishes everyone a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season.  We’ll see you next year!  That’s all for this post.  Until next year…keep on playing!

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Thanksgiving in Vegas

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

We’re almost done with 2011, and what a year it’s been!  Our Q4 has been filled with exciting productions and promotions.  October brought Tic Tac GO! to Fitzgerald’s in Tunica, Mississippi.  In November, we brought SpinMania to Fitz and moved Tic Tac GO! to Potawatomi Carter Casino in Northern Wisconsin.  This past week the GSA Crew was in Murfreesboro, Tennessee for the TASBO Conference (a weeklong production that started Sunday and concluded Friday).   Their featured keynote speaker was four-time Super Bowl Champion Rocky Bleier (Pittsburgh Steelers – Super Bowls IX; X; XIII; XIV).

TASBO General Session produced by Game Show America

TASBO General Session produced by Game Show America

The GSA Crew on the TASBO event - Jim, Scottie, Matt and Jon

The GSA Crew for TASBO: Jim, Scottie, Matt and Jon

The GSA Tech Station at the TASBO event

The GSA Tech Station at the TASBO event

Four-time Super Bowl Champion Rocky Bleier

Rocky Bleier with his four Super Bowl Rings while playing with the Pittsburgh Steelers (Super Bowls IX; X; XIII; XIV)

Every Saturday in November, GSA has been at Potawatomi Carter Casino hosting Tic Tac GO!  We’ll be hosting the promotion through December 10th, which is our final show for the year.  2011 has been Game Show America’s best year ever, and we all look forward to a busy 2012.  The new year starts January 5th and has everyone on the road through the end of April with 20 shows already on the books.

Thanksgiving is just a few days away (we’re heading to Vegas for Thanksgiving!) and I wanted to thank my entire crew for their hard work and dedication to keeping Game Show America the leader in corporate game shows and interactive casino promotions.

Special thanks goes out to Dan for burning the midnight oil and kicking butt with our new HTML5 mobile platform games.  Watch for some awesome Game Show America apps in early 2012.

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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Sustainability and Four New Casino Promotions

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

As I sit here on a quiet Sunday morning, I think about how 2011 started, where it’s gone, and what’s next for 2012.  We’ve had our best year ever in 2011, and the forecast for 2012 is nothing shy of amazing.  Over the past year, Game Show America has developed into an exceptional corporation and developed a long term sustainability plan which we see put into action each and every day.

Game Show America now has three distinct divisions: GSA Corporate (corporate game shows and event production), GSA Casino (casino floor promotions and live game shows), and GSA Media (concept, design, licensing, and production of game shows for television, internet, and mobile devices).  In upcoming blogs we will highlight each division and introduce you to the GSA staff that makes the magic happen.

Part of our sustainability plan is to continue to design new and exciting promotions for our casino clients.  These promotions help them draw players to their casinos.  GSA Casino has four new casino promotions: Bird Bash, Moneycomb, Charge It!, Money Match.  Bird Bash will be debuting at Fitzgerald’s in Tunica, Mississippi in January.

Game Show America presents Bird Bash

To close out 2011, our SpinMania promotion will be at Fitzgerald’s for November and December.  SpinMania is offered in two sizes depending on the space available in the casino.  Below is a photo of our SpinMania with a 5′ x 5′ footprint.

Game Show America's presents SpinMania

Game Show America's presents SpinMania

Also in November and December, our Tic Tac GO! promotion will move from Fitzgerald’s to Potawatomi Carter Casino in Wabeno, Wisconsin.  The promotion will be every Saturday from November 5 through December 10 and will be hosted by Game Show America’s hosts!  You could win up to $5,000!

Game Show America presents Tic Tac GO!

Game Show America presents Tic Tac GO!

With Game Show America expanding our casino division, we have given our casino website an all-new look.  Check out the new GSA Casino website to learn more about our floor promotions and exciting stage show, Risks and Rewards.

For those of you who haven’t been to our Facebook page, follow this link, or scan the QR Code below with your smartphone and “Like” us.  We will be featuring some upcoming contests available only to our Facebook Fans.

GSA Facebook Page QR Code

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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Houston, Harbour, & Rules

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

We’re back from Houston and an AMAZING Quest for the Best game show production. The theme of the event was “Driven to Inspire” – and what an inspiration this event was! We had the entire audience of 400 people participate in the game show.  Big thanks go out to Adam Christing and Insperity for bringing in GSA for this incredible show!  When Game Show America puts on a game show – we do it BIG!  Below is a photo of the set.

GSA's Quest for the Best in Houston, TX

GSA's Quest for the Best in Houston, TX

Our next event was a smaller event at The Abbey Resort and Conference Center in Fontana, Wisconsin.  It was our third consecutive year producing a game show for Harbour Investments.  This year we started the week with our team-building program “The Island” for their managers.  We followed this program with an awesome game show for the entire company the next night.  Below is a photo of the tech station for the show.

Game Show America - Tech Station for a game show production

Game Show America - Tech Station for a game show production

Even for smaller events, we operate four or more computers to bring the game show to life.  Thank you to Harbour Investments for making GSA part of your family!  We are already looking forward to next year’s event!

At Game Show America, we have a number of clients who use Game Show America every year for their events.  This challenges us to create new games for our clients to keep things fresh and exciting for each event.  For the past few years, our Quest for the Best game show has been our #1 selling game show for corporate events.  For 2012, we have an all-new game that allows for 100% audience interaction all the way through the entire game!  Game Show America proudly presents – Majority Rules – an exciting team-based game show where it’s the job of the contestants to make an “educated guess” as to what the audience is thinking.  Majority Rules is an excellent game where companies want to cover a lot of content and learn what’s on the minds of their employees.

Game Show America presents - Majority Rules

Game Show America presents - Majority Rules

For more information on Majority Rules and to find out how you can incorporate this exciting new show into your next conference, call us at (608) 469-8326 or email us at play@gsapro.com.

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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New Casino Promotions Website from Game Show America

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

As we come to the end of our fiscal year, there are a number of major projects going on at Game Show America.  On the corporate side, all of our game show sets have gotten complete facelifts this year.  The contestant podiums, backdrops, and software have all been upgraded, redressed, and modified to be completely unique to Game Show America. On the casino side, we now have ten interactive floor promotions and an amazing stage show all designed to increase player development and draw more traffic to your casinos.

2011 has been the best year on record for GSA and we have many people to thank for that.  First we must thank all of our clients. Without you, what we do would not be possible. You’ve given us your ideas and we’ve created some amazing events together. 50% of our clients this year are repeat clients from years past.  50% are new customers who are already looking to include Game Show America on their 2012 events. Thank you for an amazing 2011!

Next, a huge thank you goes out to the Game Show America crew. Each and every one of you help Game Show America produce the best game show productions on the planet. Whether it’s a small event for 30 people or a huge production for 2,000 people, all of you always give 110% to every production.  You guys (and girls) are the best!

So – what’s on deck for the rest of 2011? As I am typing this, we are heading to Houston for a corporate event. Next week, we’ve got two events back-to-back. The first is an outdoor team building event. The next day is our Quest for the Best game show – which has gotten a major upgrade and some new elements to make it even more competitive for the contestants. Next, we head to Tunica, Mississippi where Fitzgerald’s will be featuring Tic Tac GO! for their October promotion. From there, Tic Tac GO! heads to Potawatomi Carter Casino for November and December. Meanwhile, Fitzgerald’s will be featuring SpinMania for November and December.

The website for our casino division has also received an upgrade. You can visit the website at: www.gsapromo.com. It showcases our most popular promotions, with information on our new promotions coming soon.  Our floor promotions include:

Our current floor promotions include: Bank or Bust, Tic Tac GO!, Winball, SpinMania, Touchdown!, Pokerama!, Bank-O, Lucky Rollers, Punch It!, and Royal Flush. Our stage shows are Risks and Rewards and The Big Game. For more information on any of these promotions, email us at: play@gsapromo.com.

In 2012, we will start running two separate blogs – one for corporate and one for casinos. For the remainder of 2011, this blog will feature posts for both divisions.

That’s all for this post. Until next time, keep on playing…

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The Latitude Attitude and New Casino Promotions

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

We’re back from the Cayman Islands and right back into a busy August.  It was my intention to write a blog entry while sitting on the beach, but when the Latitude Attitude kicked in, it was simply not going to happen… :)

However, it’s the Latitude Attitude that is prompting me to write about it – with the intention of sharing it with the world.  If you’ve never experienced the Latitude Attitude, but you really like to relax every now and then, it’s something you should put on your bucket list.  There are many places you can go to experience it – The Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hawaii, Fiji, St. Thomas, Aruba, Puerto Rico, and The Cayman Islands – just to name a few.

Once you arrive at one of these tropical destinations, the Latitude Attitude kicks in fairly quickly.  As you sink into your beach chair and take a sip of that delicious drink, the sun shines on your face, and you hear the sound of the waves…  You lean back and feel the warm island breeze, the smell of the ocean in the air, and close your eyes.  There is an inner peace that takes over, relaxing every part of your body – you mind drifting away from any stress, and you realize that you’re on “island time.”

Things seem to slow down, and it’s not necessary to wear a watch, for you can tell the time just by looking at where the sun is in the sky.  When the sun goes down, it’s time for bed – because after a long day of doing nothing (except for maybe snorkeling and scuba diving), you find that doing nothing is pretty exhausting…seriously…  And you need a good night’s rest, because when the sun comes up, you get to do it all over again…

This is the Latitude Attitude.  And to me, it’s the ultimate way to relax.  I personally believe that everyone should experience the Latitude Attitude sometime in their lives.  It refreshes you, renews you, and when you return to “real life” – part of it stays with you and helps you not sweat the small stuff…

So – moving on to other news…

We have been extremely busy with our casino promotions over the past few months – and we’ve added some new promotions too!  Our current casino promotions are:  Bank or Bust, Tic Tac GO!, SpinMania, Winball, Bank-O, Punch It!, Lucky Rollers, Pokerama!, and Touchdown.  Touchdown is a sure fire hit with football season just around the corner.

For more information on our promotions, email us: play@gsapro.com or call us: (608) 469-8326.   We have a digital media package containing detailed information on all of our promotions.

All of our floor promotions include:
Delivery and Set-up of the promotion
(we personally deliver and set-up the promotion for you!)
Training of Casino Staff
(your staff becomes the hosts of the show!)
Customized Payout Structure with Min & Max Payouts based upon your budget
200 Custom Printed T-Shirts
Breakdown of the game board and return shipping
Logos and Graphics for your casino to create marketing and promotional materials

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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Casino Marketing Conference at Planet Hollywood

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

We’re back from two exciting weeks in Las Vegas.  Our first week there had us at Caesar’s Palace for Symantec’s Worldwide Sales Conference.  Kudos to Scottie and Jon for a fantastic show!  Big thanks to Invision for making this event possible!  We’re looking forward to working with you again this year!

Our second week in Las Vegas was at Planet Hollywood for the Casino Marketing Conference.  We showcased our Winball and Tic Tac GO! floor promotions to casinos from all over the world at this amazing conference.  Below are some photos from our booth.

Game Show America's booth at the Casino Marketing Conference

Game Show America's booth at the Casino Marketing Conference

Katie showcases GSA's Winball floor promotion

Katie showcases GSA's Winball floor promotion

Our booth received a lot of attention with our two promotions.  Everyone wanted to launch the balls in our Winball promotion.  Winball is an exclusive promotion to Game Show America.  Game board graphics and prize values are completely customizable for each casino.  Our Tic Tac GO! promotion was equally popular.  Players watched the randomizer hop all around the board and stopped it with the “big red button”.  Two players decided to “go all the way” and hit the top prize of $5,000.

Tic Tac GO! is available in three sizes (kiosk, 8′, and 14′) depending on the amount of space your casino has for the promotion.  There are also settings to determine the speed of the randomizer.  Prizes for either promotion can be free play, promo cash, rewards points, or real cash.  Payout levels (min and max) are also totally customizable.

Thank you to all of the casinos that stopped by our booth for information and played these exciting promotions.  We look forward to working with you in the near future!

We’ll see many of you back in Las Vegas at the Global Gaming Expo in October.  Also watch for some new promotions in Jan-Feb 2012 at the Indian Gaming National Marketing Conference at the Agua Caliente Casino.  We’ll be showcasing our newest promotion – Pokerama!

Our current lineup of floor promotions includes:  Bank or Bust, Winball, Tic Tac GO!, SpinMania, Punch It!, and Pokerama!  We’ll be showcasing Punch It! and Pokerama! in an upcoming blog.

To close out the month of July, we’re back in the shop working on some new technology for some upcoming productions.  The first week of August we return to the Cayman Islands for some fun-in-the-sun and three amazing resorts (Marriott, Westin, and Ritz Carlton – all on Seven Mile Beach).

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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Northwest Savings Bank and Bank or Bust at Fitzgerald’s

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

I wanted to start off by giving a huge THANK YOU to Northwest Savings Bank for seven more incredible shows!  Congratulations on winning the J.D. Power Award for Customer Satisfaction two years in a row.  We’re looking forward to that three-peat next year!!!

Two years ago, Northwest Savings Bank launched their SWITCH campaign.  They wanted to kick it off with a game show style event in seven cities across Pennsylvania.  After researching Game Show America and three other game show companies, they selected GSA as their exclusive game show and production provider.  Because of our attention to detail, our level of customer service, and the overall quality of our productions, Northwest brought GSA back for seven more events to celebrate their successes over the past two years.  Kudos to Scottie for an OUTSTANDING job hosting each and every show.  Thanks to Brian and Jon for being an amazing and tireless road crew.  Thanks to Dan, Dan, and Dan (yes, there are actually three Dan’s) for your fantastic graphics and programming.  And a very heartfelt thanks to Shawn, Dave, Pat, and Kim for bringing us back to Northwest and making our jobs the best in the world.  You all make us feel like part of the family!

Today, we’re on our way back from Fitzgerald’s Casino in Tunica, Mississippi where we just installed our Bank or Bust promotion for the month of July.  Their promotions staff was great to work with, and they made the training a lot of fun!  Here is a photo of Bank or Bust on their promotions stage.

Bank or Bust at Fitzgerald's

Game Show America's Bank or Bust Casino Promotion at Fitzgerald's

Bank or Bust is one of a number of casino promotions that we offer.  Our other promotions include Winball, Tic Tac GO!, and SpinMania.  We also have our Risks and Rewards stage game show - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fLWtLi1c-w which is the perfect draw for VIP and player development events.

Once we get back to our office, we have two days to prepare for our trip to Las Vegas for two weeks of exciting events!  The week of July 11-15 we will be at Caesar’s Palace for a huge promotional event.  Then on July 18-20 we will be showcasing Winball and Tic Tac GO! at Planet Hollywood (right across from the new City Center).

After our Las Vegas adventure, we’ve got a few days in between to get organized for August, as we return to the Cayman Islands for a week of fun-in-the-sun!

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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LA, Dallas, Detroit, and Northwest Savings Bank

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

We’re back from Los Angeles from an exciting event at LA Live.  Our clients chose our GSA Squares “Light” version for their event.  The stage was amazing – with a 60 foot video screen as the backdrop and giant 20 foot screens on each side of the stage. Kudos to Mark for doing a great job hosting the show!  Here are some photos of the set.

GSA Squares "Light" at LA Live

GSA Squares "Light" at LA Live

GSA Squares "Light" at LA Live

GSA Squares "Light" at LA Live

When we got back to our office, we had just a few days to prepare for nine shows to close out the month.  Dave and Jon headed down to Dallas for a super-sized presentation of our Quest for the Best show where all 400 members got to play along with the show with our new LCD wireless audience response system.  At the same time, Bill and Dan headed to Detroit for a 100 keypad Q & A event.  And finally, Brian, Scottie, and I headed to Erie, Pennsylvania to start a seven show tour for Northwest Savings Bank.  Huge kudos to Dave, Jon, Bill, and Dan for totally outstanding productions!  You guys really knocked it out of the park!

As I’m typing today, Brian, Scottie, and I have completed three of the seven shows for Northwest Savings Bank – and are driving to the fourth location tonight in Warren, PA. Here are some photos of the set.

GSA in Erie, PA for Northwest Savings Bank

GSA in Erie, PA for Northwest Savings Bank - Large Venue

GSA in Erie, PA for Northwest Savings Bank

GSA in Smethport, PA for Northwest Savings Bank - Small Venue

Two years ago, Northwest chose Game Show America to launch their SWITCH campaign. This year, they are celebrating a number of awards including TWO consecutive J.D. Powers awards for excellence in customer service.  GSA is proud to be a part of Northwest’s celebration this year – with the hopes of them getting a J.D. Powers three-peat next year!  The game show we are doing for them this year is top secret (but each audience of 300 people are able to play along with the game), and since we still have four shows to go, we are not able to reveal it on the blog yet.

Our final show on the Northwest tour is June 29th.  Then we head home and prepare our Bank or Bust casino promotion heading to Tunica, Mississippi and our all-new Face-Off show (with a completely transformable set) for a trip to Las Vegas.  We are also showcasing Winball and Tic Tac GO! at Planet Hollywood the week of July 18th.

That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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SpinMania, Scottsdale, and LA

Greetings and Salutations Everyone!

The GSA Crew is heading to Scottsdale for three game show productions this week.

The game shows were custom designed for our client, allowing for 100% participation utilizing our wireless audience response keypads.  We also created some new graphics for our classic contestant podiums (we’ll be using a total of nine of them for the three productions).  Here is a peek at the graphic design.  Thanks to Dan for creating some fun graphics for these game shows.

Custom graphics for GSA Contestant Podiums

Custom graphics for GSA Contestant Podiums

Custom graphics for GSA Contestant Podiums

Custom graphics for GSA Contestant Podiums

In the background behind the podiums you will see our SpinMania casino promotion.  We delivered SpinMania to Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee for their June/July promotion schedule.  The promotion starts June 8th and runs through mid-July.  You could win $5,000 playing SpinMania (a GSA exclusive!).  Here are some photos of the SpinMania promotion in the grand lobby at Potawatomi.

Game Show America's Spin Mania Casino Promotion

Game Show America's Spin Mania Casino Promotion

Game Show America's Spin Mania Casino Promotion

Game Show America's Spin Mania Casino Promotion

Game Show America's Spin Mania Casino Promotion

Game Show America's Spin Mania Casino Promotion

Once we have completed our productions in Scottsdale, we then head to the Nokia Center in Los Angeles for another GSA Squares production.  We’ll have some photos of that show in our next blog.

After Los Angeles, we’ve got a week to prepare for a seven city tour in Pennsylvania the last two weeks in June.  In July, we’re back in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Palace for a corporate event and then head over to Planet Hollywood where we will be showcasing our Winball and Tic Tac GO! Casino Promotions.

Stay tuned for more tales from the road, as GSA travels coast to coast.  That’s all for this post.  Until next time, keep on playing!

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