Hello to all my faithful Betterific readers and posters! This week’s collection of top ideas is pure quality, with ideas calling for things like box pickup services offered by moving companies to basing student loans off of the quality of the college and the likelihood of graduates receiving a job afterwards. It’s posts like these that make me proud of the community Betterific has created, and all I have to say is keep moving and keep shaking. Together we can innovate a better world. Browse the posts below, and remember to share with everyone!
Hey everyone, last week we had a great assortment of ideas featured on Betterific, ranging from fat camp for dogs to Facebook throwback Thursdays. Feel free to explore the ideas below, they’re innovative and interesting to think about. And as always, feel free to share share share!!!!
Hey everybody! This past week has been pretty good in terms of ideas, and we’ve got five really good ones for this week’s Top Ideas blog post. Stay tuned for more ideas coming next week and remember, stay innovative people.
We’ve been a little busy at Betterific this past week, so we’re running a little behind on a few things, one of which is the Weekly Top Ten Ideas from this past week (May 5th). But we certainly didn’t want to skip any of these fantastic and unique ideas. Stay tuned for more great ideas and upcoming campaigns!
Um, that looks delicious… (Image by Justine on the blog Hoboken Girl)
Betterific has had a busy April, running both the 16 Handles and Coke/McDonald’s Challenges, not to mention the current Washington Nationals campaign that has been running since April 25th and will end on May 5th, 2014 at 3pm (there’s still time to give the Nats your best ideas)! Needless to say, the Betterific team really enjoyed working with 16 Handles on their customer experience campaign. We had a great time talking with their team during the set-up of the campaign and we are excited to help such a young and inspiring new company, headed by their amazing CEO Solomon Choi. We also hope to follow-up with 16 Handles several weeks from now to do a case study on their campaign, find out what worked for them and what didn’t and to come up with a better idea of best practices to implement when companies crowdsource for product development and marketing. While we always enjoy the process of seeing what ideas come about when people start brainstorming for companies, coming up with new and creative ways for making the frozen yogurt experience better was certainly a lot of fun and it’s a good thing frozen yogurt is healthy because there were definitely some serious cravings happening as a result of intense fro-yo idea generation.
Now, back to the winners! The campaign ran from April 8th to April 18th during which time Betterific members were able to post their ideas on the site for how to make the 16 Handles customer experience better. Â 111 ideas were submitted with the top themes identified in creative marketing, special events, community involvement, new products and fro-yo accessories. The grand prize winner would receive free frozen yogurt for a year and 5 runner-up winners would each receive a $25 16 Handles gift card. In addition, all winners were to be given the chance to meet face-to-face with CEO Solomon Choi to discuss their ideas and their passion for frozen yogurt.
Our grand prize winner was Sara Levin and our 5 runner-up winners were Luke Bornheimer, Tovah Silbermann, Ashley Smith, Ari Polsky, and Diane Lipson. Below are a few of our favorite ideas posted by the winners. (Please note that these ideas are not necessarily the ideas that were selected by 16 Handles for implementation.)
Ok, we’re going to get some fro-yo… Happy innovating!
The winners of Betterific’s Coke/McDonald’s Challenge have been announced! The competition was fierce and all the ideas were amazing. We honestly have to say this was one of the best challenges we’ve run on Betterific and we are very happy with the results. Just to recap, Betterific members were asked to brainstorm innovative and creative ways to make the Coca-Cola experience at McDonald’s better. From April 8th to April 18th Betterific members posted their ideas on new products, new services, and interesting marketing campaigns. One grand prize winner was to be selected for a $500 gift card and 5 runner-up winners would each receive a  $50 McDonald’s gift card.
Over the course of 10 days, 125 ideas were submitted (35% of which were shared to Facebook and Twitter). Several themes were identified amongst all the ideas that were submitted including: new menu inspirations, beverage accessories, healthy options, vintage experiences, loyalty and customization.
Here a few of the ideas that we liked which our various winners posted during the challenge. (Please note that these ideas are not necessarily those ideas that were selected by Coke or McDonald’s for implementation.)
Thanks to all our Betterific members for being such great innovators!
We are happy to announce yet another successful close to a campaign on Betterific! Members of the site were asked to brainstorm innovative and creative ways to make the Wizards fan experience better by posting ideas on marketing, promotions, concessions, in-game entertainment and more. Betterific members had one week to post as many ideas as possible in order to be considered for a prize. At the end of the contest, the Wizards would consider all ideas that were submitted and select 5 winners who would receive tickets to a Wizards game. We had a lot of fun running the Wizards fan experience challenge on our site and here are the overall results:
136 ideas total were submitted
30% of the ideas were shared on facebook/twitter
Top themes: Vintage Bullets experience, in-game promotions on social media, new food items and concessions, technology integration, activating the fan base
The winners, who were chosen by the Wizards based on the overall creativity of their ideas, were: George Roche, Arthur Reinaltt, Rachel Sternstein, Jefferi, and Jammal Matthews. Below is a random sample of some of the ideas from our winners that were posted. (Please note that these ideas were not necessarily the ideas that were chosen by the Wizards for implementation.)
