Share your favorite PEEPS moments and memories for a chance to win a $50 PEEPS & COMPANY gift card!
In honor of the new PEEPSandCOMPANY.com online store, SocialMoms and PEEPS & COMPANY® have teamed up to introduce a fun, new blogging contest that asks you to share your favorite PEEPS moments! Easter is almost upon us and we’re already seeing those fun and familiar PEEPS candies in our local grocery stores. Did you know your favorite candies are also available online now? Check out the newly-opened PEEPSandCOMPANY.com online store for all the PEEPS, Mike and Ike, Hot Tamales and Peanut Chews products and toys you can imagine! Enjoy this exclusive offer for SocialMoms: Use this promo code at checkout - SMSPRING11 for 20% off all of your purchases until 5/4/11! Share the code with your readers and followers!
Tell us about your fondest PEEPS memory or moment! Everyone has a PEEPS story whether you love to eat them or just play with them. Do your kids like to bite the heads off first or eat them whole? Do you have a recipe that includes PEEPS? Have you ever put two PEEPS in a microwave and watched them battle it out? Have your kids ever used PEEPS to make a diorama? Are PEEPS a staple in your Easter baskets? We’d love to hear your favorite PEEPS stories and encourage you to share photos from all your most memorable PEEPS moments! We’re looking forward to all your creative ideas and posts.
We're looking for quality over speed, so please read on.
Share your favorite PEEPS moments in a thoughtful, original essay post of at least 400 original words. We want to hear all about your fondest PEEPS memories!
How it works:
We are looking for fifty creative, original and authentic submissions of high quality. Create an original post on your blog, in 400 words or more (using your own words), about your favorite PEEPS moments or memories. Include a thoughtful introduction, original content within the body of your post, and a conclusion. Check your spelling and grammar. You must also include the disclosure statement that is below in your post, then follow the rest of the requirements below. We will review every post and select 50 random qualifying submissions to receive a $50 PEEPS & COMPANY® gift card to use at the PEEPSandCOMPANY.com store! Make sure you check out all the surprises and delights you can find at the PEEPSandCOMPANY.com store!
The blogging contest starts on April 6, 2011 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on May 5, 2011. We will contact the qualifying bloggers on or about May 12, 2011. Official Rules are posted for your review here.
Rewards for Participating:
Fifty (50) $50 Gift cards to use a www.peepsandcompany.com will be awarded to randomly chosen qualified participants. See Official Rules.
Requirements:
To participate, we ask that you:
1. Create an original blog post on your blog, in 400 words or more, sharing "your favorite PEEPS moments." Please include a thoughtful introduction and conclusion in addition to the main body of your essay. Give it plenty of thought, and include content that your readers would like to hear about and can connect with! Short or poorly written posts will not be accepted. Copying and pasting does not count. Blank posts submitted to create a blog link on the discussion page will be disqualified. Don't copy another blogger's post or ideas. Plagiarism is grounds for immediate disqualification.
2. Participants must include the following disclosure as a footnote of their post:
“I wrote this blog post while participating in the SocialMoms and PEEPS blogging contest, for a chance to get a gift card worth $50. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (make sure you link to http://www.socialmoms.com/forum/topics/share-your-favorite-peeps)
3. Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and send a tweet including a link to your blog post with the hashtag #PeepsMoments.
4. Return to www.SocialMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your blog post and a direct link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)
Eligibility:
No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.socialmoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Official Rules. Please see SocialMoms FAQs for more information on blogging programs.
Enjoy this exclusive offer for SocialMoms: Use this promo code at checkout - SMSPRING11 for 20% off all of your purchases until 5/4/11! Share the code with your readers and followers!
About PEEPS & COMPANY®
In 2009, Just Born, Inc., maker of PEEPS®, MIKE AND IKE®, HOT TAMALES® and PEANUT CHEWS® opened its first retail store named PEEPS & COMPANY®.
PEEPS & COMPANY® is located at the banks of the Potomac, minutes from Washington D.C. at the very center of National Harbor’s dynamic main plaza. Directly in front of the PEEPS & COMPANY® store is the Seward Johnson’s famous statue, The Awakening, along with sweeping views of the beautiful Potomac River. The store’s location is at a converging point for residents and thousands of visitors arriving by bus, car, and ferries, which dock at the piers in front of the store.
More info: www.peepsandcompany.com
- The HOT TAMALES® Brand is the #1 sugar cinnamon candy brand in the U.S.* *Source: IRI Total U.S. FDMx, 52 weeks ending 12.27.09.
- Each HOT TAMALES® chewy candy has only 7 calories and 0 grams of fat.
- The HOT TAMALES® Brand was introduced in 1950.
MIKE AND IKE® Fun Facts
- Some theories about how MIKE AND IKE® was named include: as a result of a company-wide contest, after a 1937 song titled "Mike and Ike (The Twins)" and after a Vaudeville act "Mike and Ike, We're Just Alike".
- If you lined up each piece of MIKE AND IKE® candies produced in one year end-to-end, they would reach around the earth 3 times!
- Each MIKE AND IKE® chewy candy has only 6 calories and 0 grams of fat.
PEANUT CHEWS® Fun Facts
- PEANUT CHEWS® were first sold in and around Philadelphia by the Goldenberg Candy Company.
- PEANUT CHEWS® were developed during World War I and used by the U.S. Military as a ration bar. The high energy, high protein recipe and unique taste made it popular with the troops.
- PEANUT CHEWS® was one of the first candy bar brands to offer bite size pieces and portion control.
PEEPS® Fun Facts
- In 1953, it took 27 hours to create one PEEPS® Marshmallow Chick. Today, thanks to advances in technology, it takes six minutes.
- Just Born produces enough PEEPS® Brand Marshmallow Candies in one year to circle the earth twice.
- In the late 1950's PEEPS® wings were "clipped" to give them a sleek, modern look.
- PEEPS® Brand Candies have been the #1 non-chocolate brand at Easter for over 20 years*. *Source: IRI Total U.S. FDMx.
- Yellow is America's best selling color of PEEPS® chicks and bunnies.
- Yellow and white PEEPS® chicks and bunnies came first, followed by pink, lavender, blue, green and orange.
- PEEPS® branded products have made celebrity appearances on many programs including: Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, The Early Show, Saturday Night Live, Martha Stewart, Ellen, South Park, and The Daily Show.
- If you had 8,000 PEEPS® bunnies, and you stood them in a straight vertical line, you could reach the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago.
- PEEPS® have become gourmet favorites as fondues, Crème Brulee ingredients and cappuccino toppings!
Catch the PEEPS mobile on tour in your area:
Tags: Easter, Hot tamales, PEEPS, PEEPS & COMPANY, PEEPSandCOMPANY.com, Peeps Moments, candy, mike and ike, peanut chews, random acts of sweetness tour
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Permalink Reply by Barb Webb on -
Thanks for this super fun opportunity! I'm a big fan of Peeps, they are so adorable!
Post: http://webbwise.blogspot.com/2011/04/year-of-missing-peeps.html
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ruralmoms/status/55701519017836545
Best,
Barb
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Permalink Reply by Julee Morrison on -
Oh, I love PEEPS!
My blog post: http://jonbonjovious.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-first-peeps-moment.html
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonbonjovious/status/55711185940660225
Thank you!
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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Merritt on -
Just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly: this isn't limited to the first 50 qualified posts. This is different from how you do most of your campaigns, no?
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Permalink Reply by Amy F on -
blog:
http://lilacthebunnyblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/hanging-with-my-peeps...
tweet:
http://mobile.twitter.com/lilac_the_bunny/status/55711023788867584
Universal Widget Installed!
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Permalink Reply by Sarah Brooks on
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Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/Sarahtex06/status/55713962225975296
Blog Post: http://mommys-minute.blogspot.com/2011/04/yay-for-peeps.html
Thanks!
Sarah
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Permalink Reply by Emmi L. on -
post: http://mommys-freetime.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-favorite-moment-with...
tweeted:
http://twitter.com/#!/MommysFreeTime/status/55714739367587840
disclosure included
all inclusive widget on left sidebar
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Permalink Reply by Vanessa on -
Link to blog post:
http://thequeenofswag.blogspot.com/2011/04/favorite-peeps-moment-i-...
Link to tweet:
http://twitter.com/queenofswag4u/status/55716825928957952
Disclosure added.
Social Moms Changing button is on my site too.
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Permalink Reply by annalene on -
No widget?
post: http://brixtonstreet.com/2011/04/peeps-company-peeps-memories.html
tweet: http://twitter.com/woozlewozzle/status/55720763436707840
http://twitter.com/#!/woozlewozzle/status/55720763436707840
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Permalink Reply by annalene on
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also, can I still find the code for the rotating widget anywhere?
annalene said:
No widget?
post: http://brixtonstreet.com/2011/04/peeps-company-peeps-memories.html
tweet: http://twitter.com/woozlewozzle/status/55720763436707840
http://twitter.com/#!/woozlewozzle/status/55720763436707840
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Alner on -
Thank you for this trip down memory lane! Fingers crossed for the contest!
http://homemakerinprogress1.blogspot.com/2011/04/with-easter-coming...
My tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/trisha71478/status/55720741974446080
400+ words and disclosure included
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