Topic: Behind The Scenes at PCH

One of our recent sweepstakes winners, Dick Maigatter of Wisconsin, recently sent Dave Sayer a wonderful email describing his plans for the $100,000 Tax Free prize that he won back in April. Here’s the original blog covering the winning moment in case you missed it: Wisconsin Tax Free Winner Happy that He Entered Every Day […]

Publishers Clearing House? Talk to most people here at PCH and they’ll admit that we should change the name to Publishers Clearing Home! Why? It’s simple. Behind all the giveaway excitement and fabulous bargains, there’s a strong tie that binds the PCH Team. People don’t work at PCH for years. … decades are more like […]

The Walls of PCH Have an Interesting Story to Tell I’ve been working at Publishers Clearing House long enough to feel like it’s my “home away from home.” But that wasn’t always the case. When I first started, my biggest challenge was just navigating the hallways. To explain, our main building is a sprawling one-story […]

A few weeks ago I posted a blog story titled, “The History of PCH Told in Buenos Aires”. In that post I shared a brief history of PCH and promised to continue posting pictures and stories that I uncovered in my research of the Publishers Clearing House story. The History Channel, per a blog reader’s […]

Publishers Clearing House is a great place to work. Although I must admit that I’m a bit disappointed that as an employee I’m not eligible to win PCH prizes… But there’s a long-standing PCH tradition that (almost) makes up for it called…Freebie Friday! Throughout the year, our merchandise buyers are sent thousands of samples by […]

When the PCH Prize Patrol goes on the road to a surprise a cash prize winner, they usually stop at a local florist to buy a dozen roses before the big winning moment. From time to time in our PCH mailings and PCH online promotions, we tell folks about this, to give them a glimpse […]

Just last week I took some vacation time and visited the beautiful city of Buenos Aires in Argentina to visit my extended family. Many years ago, 25 to be exact, my parents came from Argentina to build a new life here in the US. I was born shortly thereafter and was followed by 2 brothers […]

Recently, my colleague Frank and I attended an Online Marketing Summit (OMS) in San Diego. Our mission was to learn more about social media, such as blogging, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, to be able to better serve YOU, our loyal followers, customers, entrants and game players. One major conference theme was “joining the online conversation” […]

Have you ever tried to win something in a radio contest? I have, and my experience has usually gone something like this: I scramble to dial the number only to be greeted with a busy signal. So I try again repeatedly only to hear the same blaring tone — you know the drill. That is, until […]

We’ve been busy over here at PCH working on improving many of our social media properties including the Publishers Clearing House Fan Page and PCHblog. We’re making quick progress on the PCHblog and I wanted to share a sneak peek of the winning design with you, our loyal readers, before the official re-launch. So here […]