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Custom Digital Spinning Wheel: 11 Ways To Customize Your Game

What exactly do you get when you buy a custom digital spinning wheel for your trade show booth or corporate events?

The digital spinning wheel part is easy to explain: you get a fun, crowd-gathering game that plays on iPads or a flatscreen TV, that you can use for awarding prizes or choosing names.

But the custom part – what exactly does that include?

With the SocialPoint Virtual Prize Wheel, you can customize how the digital wheel looks, how it awards prizes, and how it gathers data. Your 11 custom choices include:

Samuel J. Smith June 30, 2019
22 Virtual Prize Wheel Game Examples
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22 Virtual Prize Wheel Game Examples

SocialPoint recently introduced 3-dimensional layered graphics to our popular Virtual Prize Wheel game.

We thought this would be a great time to share that product enhancement, plus share many other recent Virtual Prize Wheel examples. Our goal is to inspire you as you consider how to graphically portray your brand with our interactive games.

Our Virtual Prize Wheel is fully customizable to your brand.  There are three main areas for customization:

  • The prize wheel slices, which can have up to 5 colors and your choice of fonts
  • The center circle where clients often put their logo
  • The background image

Virtual Prize Wheel - configurable options

Most of the examples we will show you here focuses on the background image, as that is where you have the most opportunity for creativity and design. First, let’s start with the new 3-D looks:

Samuel J. Smith April 5, 2019
SPIN TO WIN Virtual Prize Wheel built into trade show exhibit
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4 Ways To Boost Your Trade Show Giveaways Impact With Our Virtual Prize Wheel Game

Chances are you’ve used trade show giveaways to drive more booth traffic.  It’s a time-honored tactic that gets attention and lets attendees go home with a souvenir to remember you by.

But your giveaways can do even more to help increase your trade show results.  You can boost their marketing impact in 4 powerful ways, by combining your giveaways with our Virtual Prize Wheel.

Here’s how our Virtual Prize Wheel adds impact to your trade show giveaways:

1. Make your trade show giveaways more exciting to attract more visitors

When you show a colorful prize wheel on a big flat screen monitor, complete with photos of your big prize, it clearly signals to attendees that there’s a fun and beneficial reason to visit your booth.  Attendees get more excited to try to win a prize – even if it’s the same giveaways you would have given them anyhow!  And attendees love to smash the big button that drives the prize wheel on the screen.  As people spin to win, their enthusiasm and squeals attract attention from other attendees.  Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd!

Samuel J. Smith June 13, 2018
5 Uses At Events For Virtual Prize Wheel
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Fun Audience Engagement With A Virtual Prize Wheel

Note:  This is the latest post in our series of audience engagement posts.

One of the challenges of corporate events is to break out of the cycle of sameness.  A series of speeches, presentations, panel discussions and an uninspired trade show can have a hypnotic effect on attendees.

So why not shake things up a little and create some fun, energetic activity with a Virtual Prize Wheel? Here are 5 ways to use a Virtual Prize Wheel for audience engagement at corporate events:

1. Create a Name Wheel for Your Prize Drawing

Instead of drawing a name out of a hat and announcing the winner on stage, use a Spin to Win Virtual Prize wheel to take things to a howl new level.  Instead of putting prizes on the prize wheel, put drawing entrants on it.  Then, as the wheel spins the crowd excitedly watches to see whose name pops up – is it their name, or one of their friends? Finally, as the wheel gets close to stopping it slows down increasing the tension and excitement.

Samuel J. Smith May 28, 2018
trade show games for tech exhibitors - virtual prize wheel for Cryptozone
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How to Promote Your Virtual Prize Wheel For Even More Booth Traffic

When you include a SocialPoint Virtual Prize Wheel in your trade show booth, you’re going to get more booth traffic.  People will be attracted to the cool-looking, moving digital screens, and the chance to win prizes.

But hey, if you’re like most exhibitors, you want even more traffic! To get it, follow some or all of the following 7 steps, to more aggressively promote your prize wheel game:

1. Signage

Use bold, large text in your exhibit graphics above where the game is played (either on a flat screen monitor or on one or more iPads) to let passing attendees there’s prizes to be won! “Spin To Win” or “Play To Win” or “Win A Free ______,” if you are giving away a significant main prize. Consider using color in the graphics that makes these words stand out from the rest of your booth.

Samuel J. Smith August 3, 2017
Train your booth staff to succeed with our Virtual Prize Wheel in your trade show booth
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Train Your Booth Staffers To Get More High Quality Leads Using The Virtual Prize Wheel

It’s simple: When you as an exhibitor use our Virtual Prize Wheel in your booth, you will get more booth traffic. The intent of this article is to help you prepare your booth staffers to better interact with those visitors, so you get more qualified leads and better overall trade show results.

Your booth staffers can qualify attendees drawn to your booth before, during, and after they play the Virtual Prize Wheel:

Qualify attendees before they play the game

If you have a line of people waiting to play the game (yes, it happens!), then your booth staffers can strike up a conversation with people in line, asking them qualifying questions before they even get a chance to spin the prize wheel.  Booth staffers can ask qualifying questions such as “What are you looking for at the show?”

Samuel J. Smith July 13, 2017
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8 Tips For Choosing Prizes For Your Trade Show Prize Wheel Game

One of the biggest decisions for our clients who use our Virtual Prize Wheel game in their trade show booths is: What kinds of prizes should they give away? After seeing some clients struggle with this choice, I want to share with you some advice, so you can have a smoother experience and get more people into your booth.

Samuel J. Smith June 5, 2017
Cryptzone using Virtual Prize Wheel Interactive Game in their trade show booth at RSA 2017
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8 Reasons A Virtual Prize Wheel Is Better Than A Regular Prize Wheel

Hey, it’s no secret: an old-fashioned prize wheel costs less than our Virtual Prize Wheel interactive game. So why bother going digital? Turns out there are many reasons our Virtual Prize Wheel is the real deal:

1. Prize Inventory Management

As people spin and win prizes, your inventory of prizes changes all day long. Eventually some of the choices you offer on a regular prize wheel can run out, but attendees would still think they won them. Awkward moments ensue! Fortunately, with our Virtual Prize Wheel interactive game, your attendees will never know that you ran out of a prize, because our game keeps track of declining inventory as more people win, and then takes a prize off the wheel once it runs out.

Samuel J. Smith May 5, 2017
SocialPoint Virtual Prize Wheel IBM Conference
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Spin To Win Virtual Prize Wheel That Captures Leads

Everybody – and I mean everybody – loves to spin the prize wheel.

Our virtual prize wheel is no exception.

Recently a gala used our prize wheel to manage prize giveaways (and inventory) during an event. Everyone loved pushing the spin the wheel button. The gala sold out of 100’s of prizes in 30 minutes.

What is the virtual prize wheel?

The Virtual Prize Wheel is a digital, self-service game that pulls trade show attendees into an exhibitor’s booth to play because it is great looking, fun, and offers the chance to win free prizes. Which drives higher lead counts for exhibitors!

Samuel J. Smith May 31, 2016