The campaign, with a budget estimated at $3 million to $4 million, includes radio commercials, billboards, transit ads, posters on phone kiosks, signs in stores, sample giveaways, contests, a new Web site and a presence in social media like Facebook.
In primary states that voted on or before Super Tuesday (limiting the 2008 sample to contests that were held before Mr. McCain had sown up the nomination), Mr. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, had relatively more support in nonmetropolitan counties than he did in metropolitan areas.
Sean Kelly, chief executive officer of Human Healthy Vending, which designed the machine with the digital message screen, said that promotions like digital messages, free samples and contests helped to increase monthly sales to an average of about $1,500 per machine, up from $1,000 last year.
This is why, today, Facebook users can't just request a coupon, get a free sample, enter a contest, hear about a limited-time sale, etc. via a brand's page – they are forced to like the page first.
If we launch a probe into space, we ought to make sure that some sample of this caption contest is included, so that alien civilizations understand the types of humor that we had.
But it's quite a versatile mixer, as I can confirm firsthand; while in Las Vegas, I judged a Tennessee Honey mixology contest and sampled 14 different drinks in which it was employed, most of them quite fine.
Radiocarbon dating of associated remains (47 samples) or stratigraphic contests (for nine samples) were used to select the samples to analyse [ 55- 57].
In a four-way contest, our table sampled the sliced beef brisket, the baby back pork ribs (good but not as tender as they might have been), the oversauced pulled pork and the juicy rotisserie chicken.
As a result, the original sample size of n = 120 per contest was reduced to n = 73 for each contest.
Many spam messages claim to offer "free trials", "samples", or a prize to a contest you didn't enter.
