Creating a Sizzle Spin game

Click Add New Game Offer

An offer is a discount or savings that is passed to the User. This can be expressed in many ways but in all circumstances, it requires the User to make a purchase.

Enter a title for your offer. Your Offer Title is preceded in the game with “Congratulations, you’ve received ___________”.

• So you are well served to write your offer in the context of the sentence.
• An example might be A $15 Savings On The Purchase of $100 Or More From Our Store.

Next, you will enter a Description.

• This text is scrollable inside the game, you can add several paragraphs if desired.
• Keep your description within 500 words or less.

Is this offer active? Choose Yes

You would potentially select NO at a later date if you run out of inventory to satisfy the purchase that is incentivized by this offer.

Maximum number of wins determines how many times an offer may be distributed.

The Current Number of Wins shows how many times the Offer has been
distributed since the start of the Offer.

Redemption PIN. If your offer redemption will require a validation PIN (Personal Identification Number), enter it here. If none is required, leave this field blank.

An example of this would be a customer presenting a Sizzle Offer at a restaurant. The User enters their PIN and the restaurant is required to enter their PIN to match into the offer and validate it as being eligible for use. This double PIN system reduces potential fraud and may be easily employed if you desire.

The weight of your offer is the place where you will control the frequency of your offer showing up as the result for the consumer.

To make this easy to understand, first take the total number of offers you will program into the Sizzle Spin game. As 10 offers is the minimum, let’s use that for our demonstration. Take ten offers and put each of them into a metaphorical fish bowl. There are 10 items in the bowl. That means once 10 consumers each pull one out of the bowl, the bowl is empty and the game is out of offers and not playable. Here is where the weight changes that. If you had 10 different colored balls in the fish bowl, you would have 10 options as described previously. But if you decided to take the red ball and put 101 of them into the bowl, with the other 9 balls, you now have 110 balls in the bowl, and most of them are red. That is the effect of taking the offer for the red ball and setting the weight to 100. Now you take the green ball, and set that weight to 51, and now you have a total of 160 balls in the bowl, 101 are red, 51 are green and the remaining 8 are the other colors. This simple tool is very important to help you distribute the offers in a way that a consumer who keeps playing your game is getting numerous different offers and is therefore more likely to convert on one or more of them. A consumer who keeps getting the exact same offer, spin after spin, is quickly bored, probably does not convert, and is leaving less than thrilled with your game. The proper ratio of offers to prizes to likelihood of winning is a simple math formula that ensures that Sizzle Spin is profitable for you, as well as being a great experience for Sizzle Users. Your Sizzle representative will be pleased to help you finalize the numbers in your game, to ensure you are getting the projected results you are seeking.

Next, select your BRAND ICON IMAGE – This is your logo to help the consumer
understand who is making the offer. This file should be 600 x 600 px RGB JPEG.

Now you select THE MAIN IMAGE that corresponds with this offer. This image should be clear, and easy to identify and understand by the consumer. This file should be 600 x 600 px RGB Jpeg.

• You may opt to insert more than one image that the User may view in determining whether they wish to convert on this offer.
• Those ADDITIONAL IMAGE options follow directly underneath the main image.

The TYPE relates to how the offer will be converting.

• STATIC GRAPHIC – This presents the consumer with a single graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it. In either case, it is a single graphic that is common to every receiver of this offer. This is used for redemption in a physical location.
• DYNAMIC GRAPHIC – This presents each individual consumer with a unique graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it and these codes would be unique for each User, so none of these will be duplicates. In either case, it is a dynamic graphic that is unique to every receiver of this offer. This is used for redemption in a physical location.
• DIRECT TO URL – This instantly connects the User to a specific URL. It is common URL to every User who is converting the offer. It does not contain any element that allows you to distinguish between Users who are converting. It is a catch basin for these kinds of large volume offers. This is obviously an online redemption.
• STATIC GRAPHIC, SEND TO URL – This presents the consumer with a single graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it. In either case, it is a single graphic that is common to every receiver of this offer. It provides the User with instructions for redemption and then passes the consumer to a specified URL for activation. This option is the one you will use when you are making an offer that redeems inside your store in the Sizzle Shop. To insert a specific coupon, read the tutorial on creating coupons below. When pasting the URL for a coupon you want your customers to redeem in your store inside Sizzle.shop marketplace, follow this exactly: https://www.sizzle.shop/yourstorenamehere/?coupon_code=__ *insert an 8 digit code you create in the tutorial for making coupon codes below, or hire Sizzle Steward services to do this for you. To find your store name, go into your Sizzle Store and click on the name of your store at the upper left corner of the green bar.

Then click on Add Ons. The name in that box next to SEO name: is what you insert for your store name in the URL for the coupon above.

• Read this tutorial on Creating coupon codes for your Sizzle Shop to use in Sizzle Games and the tutorial on Optional codes for different kinds of coupons and offers for Sizzle games. YOUR DISCOUNTS AND PRIZES WILL NOT WORK IN THE SIZZLE STORE UNLESS YOU PROGRAM YOUR COUPON CODES IN YOUR STORE PROPERLY.

• DYNAMIC GRAPHIC, SEND TO URL – This presents each individual consumer with a unique graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it and these codes would be unique for each User, so none of these will be duplicates. In either case, it is a dynamic graphic that is unique to every receiver of this offer. It provides the User with instructions for redemption and then passes the consumer to a specified URL for activation.
• DOWNLOAD A FILE – Takes the User directly to a link for downloading a file. This could be a digital swag, digital free book, gift certificate, or other digital prize that may be redeemed through a one click download.

Select the redemption ticket graphic for this offer – Use the same image as the first image you used for this offer.

If URL is needed, insert the URL there.

Click on ADD NEW GAME OFFER, this opens a window that says UNTITLED OFFER. Click on that and add your next offer.

• Then repeat this for each offer you put into the Sizzle Spin game.
• Minimum of 10 Offers required per game at any time.
• If your offers run out in quantity, you must have another offer available to replaces it so that the game is always generating one of 10 Offers minimum.
• You may have a maximum of 20 Offers in any game.

Each Sizzle Spin Game must have a minimum of 10 Prizes. Click ADD A NEW GAME PRIZE.

• The User is able to choose which prizes that they want to spin for.
• Those prizes populate in the game and the User is asked to select a specific number between 2-6 prizes from the prize pool.
• All of your prizes will show in the prize pool, so by adding prizes, you are also making user impressions on different products, and this is where Sizzle Pull advertising works its magic. A consumer may be exposed to one of your products as a potential prize to win, but may still opt to purchase that item, in the event that they have not won it.
• Sizzle data collects which prizes a User wants to spin for and converts that data into promotion lists for you to market to that consumer.

Manage your prizes. On average, it is best to allow the User to pick from 4 prizes. NOTE… until you set the number of prizes to choose from, the icons in your game theme will not show up and this will keep your game from loading. So once you insert this number of prizes, go back to the game theme and load your game icons.

Title: Your Prize Title is preceded in the game with “Congratulations, You’ve Won___________”.

• You are well-served to write your Prize in the context of the sentence.
• An example might be A Free Pair of Earrings Of Your Choice!

Next, you will enter a Description. This text is scrollable inside the game, you can
add several paragraphs if desired. Keep your description within 500 words or less.

Is the prize active? Select Yes. If you select No, it will not appear in the prize pool,
until you select Yes.

The MAXIMUM NUMBER OF WINS creates a finite limit to the distribution of this offer.

• If the amount of wins is inconsequential to you, choose a very large number, greater than all the people you might expect would convert.
• Conversely, if your offer requires limitation in volume for any reason, this is the field to limit the total amount of offers that may be made available.
• Take into consideration that many of the offers will not be converting, so your number of wins, only relates to the ones that are converted.

PIN Required. If your Prize redemption will require a validation PIN Personal Identification Number, enter it here. If none is required, leave this field blank.

An example of this would be a customer presenting a Sizzle Prize at a restaurant. The User enters their PIN and the restaurant is required to enter their PIN to match into the Prize and validate it as being eligible for use. This double PIN system reduces potential fraud and may be easily employed if you desire.

Enter the weight of your prize next. To understand weight, review this topic in the game offer creation section that preceded this.

Next, select your BRAND ICON IMAGE – This is your logo to help the consumer understand who is making the offer. This file should be 600 x 600 px RGB JPEG

Now you select THE MAIN IMAGE that corresponds with this offer.

• This image should be clear, and easy to identify and understand by the consumer.
• This file should be 600 x 600 px RGB JPEG.

You may opt to insert more than one image that the User may view in determining whether they wish to convert on this offer. Those ADDITIONAL IMAGE options follow directly underneath the main image.

The TYPE relates to how the offer will be converting.

• STATIC GRAPHIC – This presents the consumer with a single graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it. In either case, it is a single graphic that is common to every receiver of this offer. This is used for redemption in a physical location.
• DYNAMIC GRAPHIC – This presents each individual consumer with a unique graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it and these codes would be unique for each User, so none of these will be duplicates. In either case, it is a dynamic graphic that is unique to every receiver of this offer. This is used for redemption in a physical location.
• DIRECT TO URL – This instantly connects the User to a specific URL. It is a common URL to every User who is converting the offer. It does not contain any element that allows you to distinguish between Users who are converting. It is a catch basin for these kinds of large volume offers. This is obviously an online redemption.
• STATIC GRAPHIC, SEND TO URL – This presents the consumer with a single graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it. In either case, it is a single graphic that is common to every receiver of this offer. It provides the User with instructions for redemption and then passes the consumer to a specified URL for activation.
• DYNAMIC GRAPHIC, SEND TO URL – This presents each individual consumer with a unique graphic image for conversion. This graphic may have a bar code or QR code inserted into it and these codes would be unique for each User, so none of these will be duplicates. In either case, it is a dynamic graphic that is unique to every receiver of this offer. It provides the User with instructions for redemption and then passes the consumer to a specified URL for activation.
• DOWNLOAD A FILE – Takes the User directly to a link for downloading a file. This could be a digital swag, digital free book, gift certificate, or other digital prize that may be redeemed through a one click download.

Next you may enter a REDEMPTION TICKET GRAPHIC for your offer. This is where you would use an image of the item that is featured in the offer, and the redemption URL, paired with a barcode that you want to use for redemption (only if YOU want to add a barcode, as Sizzle does not require that you do so).

Click on ADD A NEW GAME PRIZE. Then Click on UNTITLED PRIZE.

Continue adding Prizes to your game until you have added a minimum of 10 prizes and a maximum of 20 different prizes.