Cache Around Town
Treasure Map

It′s a Treasure Hunt!

Cache in on the latest hobby craze - Geocaching* - with a fun new shop-local retail promotion. With as few as 10 participating merchants, your town can "cache in" and create an exciting new promotional event.

Participating shoppers go to www.cachearoundtown.com to get their validation sheet and the GPS locations of participating businesses. There are then three ways to play:

No. 1: Take your validation sheet and your hand-held GPS unit and find the participating businesses. Visit them all and have your validation page stamped by each merchant. Enter your completed validation page to win in a series of draws.

No. 2: Don′t have a GPS? You can still play! Each merchant will have a promo page on www.cachearoundtown.com where you can find the Cache Around Town logo and that merchant′s GPS location. You can find all the participating merchants just by "caching" around the web pages. Print each page out (there′s a special offer on each page!) or make a list, and visit each merchant with your validation sheet to qualify for the draws, or …

No. 3: Find the first merchant on www.cachearoundtown.com, go to that store with your validation sheet and receive a coupon for the next store on the cache around route. Follow the coupons to find all the participating merchants and get your validation page certified for the draws.

Participating businesses get:

  1. A hosted web page on www.cachearoundtown.com with a special on-line offer from your store. This can include a link to your company′s existing web page or web site.
  2. The design of your own special Cache Around Town web page.
  3. A GPS location done of your business (A new way of telling your customers exactly where you are!)
  4. A total of 120 coupons to give away to participants who come to your business with a validation sheet. (10 per week for an early bird offer.)
  5. Named sponsorship for three early bird draws worth $75, $125, and $300.
  6. Named sponsorship for the $500 Grand Prize to be awarded just before Christmas 2004
  7. Your business′s GPS location published in one of 12 newspaper ads run in your local newspaper to advertise the event.

A minimum 10 participating merchants required by 22-Sep-2004.

Total cost: $350/merchant.
                Payable $150 on sign-up; $100 due 1-Nov-2004; $100 due 1-Dec-2004.
Sponsoring Chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade receives a $50 commission per participating business paid up.

For more information contact: Don Reid 780-332-1531

*What is Geocaching? Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards.
**What is GPS? GPS stand for Global Positioning System. This system consists of 24 operational satellites in six orbital planes (four satellites in each plane). The satellites operate in circular 20,200 km (10,900 nm) orbits at an inclination angle of 55 degrees and with a 12-hour period. The position is therefore the same at the same sidereal time each day, i.e. the satellites appear 4 minutes earlier each day. Hand held GPS units consist of antennas and receiver-processors that receive and decode signals from the GPS satellites to provide positioning, velocity, and precise timing to the user.

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