Our next free webinar "How to Merchandise a Redemption Counter" is this Thursday, July 30 at 3PM CDT. You can register here.

Merchandise displays drive game revenue and profits. Our merchandising specialists will share their combined 20 years of experience setting over 500 counters to teach you how to design an organized and attention-grabbing redemption counter.

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Our good friends at Paradise Park are hosting Strotherfest this upcoming weekend at Paradise Park. It should be a great event July 31st and August 1st.

Beer Garden (at the Paradise Park Picnic Pavilion), Bands and Festival Food are provided by Holy Spirit Church - $5 tickets are available at the garden gate

Family Entertainment – (Max Pak tickets including unlimited go karts, mini golf, rock climbing, foam factory, bumper cars and children’s edutainment center) are provided by Paradise Park – These $20 tickets are available at any Paradise Park ticket counter on both days of this event and include your entry to the stage area for the bands.

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I've always said "You have to catch your customers attention to capture impulse revenue." In today's crane and merchandiser market one of the most powerful attention grabbing methods is a "themed" presentation.

Themed presentations take several forms. One of the most popular and effective is a themed plush display in a crane. The plush can be 100% licensed plush from a popular cartoon or it can be generics with something in common. Whether licensed or generic the uniformity of the presentation makes your crane display "readable" at a glance, requiring less effort from the audience to identify desirable prizes.

Another attention grabber for cranes is toys or balls with a common license, color scheme or gimmick. Puffer assortments are particularly attractive due to their tremendous ability to drive sales combined with ultra low price points.

Cranes are not the only prize dispensing machines to benefit from theming. Merchandising machines like Stacker and Sports Arena have demonstrated attention grabbing power when flashed with a theme. In the case of Stacker a powerful theme is candy minor prizes. Candy offers universal appeal and immediate brand recognition at profitable cost averages. Sports

Arena games merchandised with Webkinz or Lil' Kinz are another example of a proven effective, themed display, delivering again on brand recognition and perceived value.

Whatever your merchandising method it's important to remember that crane and merchandiser revenues are impulse driven: capturing attention=capturing impulse revenue!

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Get popular redemption merchandise ideas from our new Product Spotlight!

• Features an assortment of hot items hand-selected from our full product line.


• Great place to start building your redemption orders.


• Helps ensure you offer a range of top moving items.

We'll be updating regularly, so keep checking back to see the latest and greatest.

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We are very excited to be on the cover of Replay magazine this month! We love any chance we get to give an inside look at the Redemption Plus office, which is a really fun and rewarding place to be. They also talked about how we make it EASY for our customers to do business with us and manage their redemption programs.

You can view the full article here.

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While we were in Las Vegas for Bowl Expo, we held an event at GameWorks to celebrate the new state-of-the-art redemption counter we helped integrate into their game room. Everyone who attended had a great time socializing in the chic Loft and then engaging in some healthy competition in the game room. You can view pictures from the event here.

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Merchandise displays drive game revenue and profits. Our merchandising specialists have a combined 20 years of experience setting more than 500 redemption counters. They will be sharing their vast knowledge during our upcoming webinar and in our newly released video.

The free webinar will be held on Thursday, July 30 at 3PM CDT. Jim Kipper and Matt Rau will give a 30 minute presentation followed by a 30 minute Q&A session open to all attendees. You can register here.

We also recently produced a video demonstrating some of the best practices for merchandising your redemption counter. This free video is available here.

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Marion Hixon with FUNWORLD magazine writes how Redemption Plus’ new online redemption system keeps customers connected to FECs long after their visit.

WHAT IF FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS (FECS) could reinforce brand loyalty and reach their visitors after they’ve gone home for the evening—not through traditional advertising, direct mail, or even phone calls, but by the customer voluntarily logging online at home?

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Redemption Plus has become the official distributor of the Lava Lamp® product line for these markets.

Lava Lamps® have held a place in the hearts of generation after generation and Lava Lite LLC is the only manufacturer of the the original shape of cool™. Redemption Plus will offer customers 4 different sizes ranging from 10” tall to the enormous 27” Grande in varying colors, as well as an assortment of Lava barware.

The first motion lamp was designed in 1963 by an English engineer, Edward Craven Walker, who sold it under the name Astro Lamp. In 1965, the Astro Lamp was brought to the USA, renamed Lava Lamp® and production took off in Chicago.

Dewey Kendall, VP of Product Solutions, said “We are delighted to add this iconic novelty lighting to our product line. We’re constantly trying to introduce new products that will enhance our customer’s redemption programs while maximizing their revenue.”

“Redemption Plus is the premiere supplier to the Family Entertainment industry and we are excited to have them as a partner,” said Larry Gutkin, CEO of Lava Lite LLC.

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