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It’s a sunny day here at the Publishers Clearing House Offices in Port Washington, New York. As I sit at my desk, I‘m looking out the window, and the sky is a gorgeous shade of blue. Now, I don’t mean to complain, but this beautiful weather has me dreaming of adventure outside these four walls […]
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 […]
Persistence paid off for Richard Maigatter (pronounced “My-gator”) last week when Dave Sayer of the PCH Prize Patrol arrived unannounced at his Appleton, Wisconsin home to present a $100,000.00 Tax Free Prize. Mr. Maigatter played the PCH Sweepstakes online five times a week for the past 10 years, hoping one day his entry would be […]
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 […]
On a recent PCH Prize Patrol trip in Southwest Michigan, we made someone other than our winner very excited! My partner Jack and I pulled the Prize Patrol van into a liquor store parking lot so we could pick up some last-minute champagne for the winner we were about to surprise. (Buying locally not only […]
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 […]
50,000 Trees! PCHlotto, the PCH Free Online Lotto site, has partnered with Trees For the Future to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day Anniversary in BIG ways! For a limited time only starting April 16th, PCHlotto will offer members a special Go2 Green $500.00 Free Online Lotto Drawing Card and a Limited Edition “Grow […]
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” […]
PCH Prize Patrol Notes from the road, following a recent surprise prize award in Raleigh-Durham Area … We arrived at Newton Grove Florist at 10:00 this morning to collect a dozen roses and inflate balloons with the help of the formerly skeptical proprietress. We waited to see if any of the media would venture down […]
