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WIN £100 with JUST a photo in our latest competition!

August 15th, 2011 | Tags: albums, facebook, orders
Posted in Competitions, Photos
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If you’ve liked us on Facebook then you’ll know we created a photo album on our Page that we’ve been rapidly filling with pictures you’ve been sending us, photos of your latest orders, your culinary creations using American Soda products and all manner of other pics.

Such has been the amazing response to the album (over 180 photos already!) I’d like to reward you all by giving you the chance to win £100 to spend with us, simply by sending us photos of your American Soda orders. We send out over 1,500 individual orders each week, so there should be plenty of you with stuff to photograph!

However, I don’t want just ANY photo…I want you to be creative, innovative, I want you to display imagination and / or artistic talent, I want to be blown away by your photos!

What do I mean by that? Well, rather than a photo of your order unpacked on the kitchen side, as good as they are to see, why not try an unusual location, a unique way of laying it all out or some really creative use of the camera with lighting, close ups, that sort of thing. We’re not after world class photography, just a bit of imagination.

After all, there’s £100 up for grabs. And to make it even more interesting, it won’t be the American Soda team and I that choose the winner – it’ll be you! Once we’ve chosen some of our favourites, we’ll let everyone vote on them to determine the overall winner!

To enter your photos and be in with a chance of winning £100 to spend with us, visit our Facebook Page now. Full terms and conditions are on there too. And don’t worry, if you’ve already had a photo included in the Facebook album, you can still enter it into this competition.

Here are a few of the pics from the Your Fantastic Photos album that caught my attention, just to give you an idea of what I’m after…

The clever inclusion of a small baby turned an ordinary American Soda order into a photograph to be proud of!

An extreme close up of these Dark Chocolate M&Ms caught the eye, big time.

Not only is this a beautifully taken photo, I loved the thought that went into stacking up the root beer.

It's not always about the product...personalise your photos by including yourself!

So what do you think? Can you be creative enough to win £100?

I can’t wait to see all your entries, so get snapping and enter here.

Cheers for now!
- Dave

New American Soda Website Features

May 20th, 2011 | Tags: facebook, features, website, youtube
Posted in News and Updates
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Behind the scenes we’re always working hard to provide you with a better service, whether that’s over the phone or online via our website, Facebook or Twitter.

That’s why I’m very excited to announce a few new features on the American Soda site. Some of you may have spotted these already but for those of you who haven’t, here’s a nice round up.

Featured Products

You can find our new Featured page from the tab at the top right of the site. Here is where I’ll be putting and products of interest, products on offer and that sort of thing.

To kick off, I’ve put 10 products on the page AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE! They include:

Maseca Instant Corn Masa Flour

Mississippi Belle Creamy Peanut Butter

Mounds Dark Chocolate Bar

Warheads Sour Chewy Cubes

Gatorade Fruit Punch G2 Low Cal

Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Filling (Check out these great pumpkin pie recipes, by the way!)

Tabasco Green Pepper Sauce

French’s French Fried Onions

Vlasic Kosher Dill Baby Wholes

Keebler Ready Pie Crust Chocolate

Snap them up fast, at 50% off, they won’t last long!

Upload Your Video Reviews

Another new – and I think brilliant – feature is that we’ve given you the ability to upload your reviews of our products from YouTube so they appear on the American Soda site.

Let’s say you record a short review of your favourite root beer and share it on YouTube. That’s very nice and we appreciate it – but we’like it even better if that review appeared on the product page itself here on American Soda. To make that happen all you have to do is grab the YouTube URL and visit our Video Review page to pupload it. Complete the simple form and that’s it! Once the video is reviewed by our staff it will appear on the site. How cool is that?

New Products

Pop over to our homepage and scroll to the bottom and you’ll see a blue tab labelled “Our New Products” which, when you click it, drops down to show you all the latest stuff we have in. We haven’t properly updated this yet, but we will and it’ll be a nice feature for you to find all new products.

Facebook ‘Like’ Button

This one I really hope you guys all use as much as possible. When you’re placing an order or browsing the site and come across something you really like you can share it with our friends simply by clicking the Like button we’ve added to EVERY product page. Of course, we’ve all seen the Like button on nearly every site now, so you know what to do with it!

So what do you think of these new features? Let me know in the comments. In the meantime, have a great weekend everybody.

- Dave

A Wedding Cake with a Difference

April 7th, 2011 | Tags: facebook, royal wedding, wedding cake
Posted in Competitions, Photos
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One of the reasons I like our Facebook Page so much is that our fans often share some truly brilliant things with us. Like this, from Helen Marshall:

Posted to Twitter by @pickassoreborn, Helen reckons someone got a headstart on us with our Wills & Kate Cake Competition and I reckon she might be right! Not sure the Royal family would go for a pork pie wedding cake, but you never know! At £150 the price might be a bit steep too.

Speaking of our competition, you could win a Complete Cake Making Kit, including genuine American cake mixes, pie crusts, fillings, icings and decorations, just by designing your own wedding cake for Wills and Kate. Check out the full details on how to enter here.

And a big thanks to Helen for sharing that cracking photo!

Dave

A big thanks to all our customers!

January 25th, 2011 | Tags: facebook, shop, store, twitter
Posted in News and Updates
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We just want to take some time out to thank all of our valued customers for their support throughout 2010 and hope you keep coming back in 2011 and beyond.

It’s been a record year for us and we’ve really enjoyed supplying you with all your genuine American food and drinks, sourcing new ones and expanding our range.

If there’s anything you want we don’t have, do tell us and we’ll see what we can do! Just drop us a line via email or post it on our Facebook page.

We’ve been especially pleased with our new shop – we’ve served over 800 people since we opened up on October 1^st and are really looking forward to seeing more of you visit to stock up from our 700+ strong range of American sweets, chocolate, drinks and other foods.

You guys have been very generous with your donations to our Wall too, it’s really coming along. Please do keep sending your American memorabilia in – or better yet, dropping it off when you visit the shop!

We’ve got some big plans for 2011, both on the website and in store, so keep visiting throughout the year. You can also ‘Like’ us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to keep up to date on all our latest news, offers and products.

We look forward to serving you soon!

Competition Time: “I Love Mountain Dew because”

March 26th, 2010 | Tags: americansoda, competition, facebook, mountain dew, twitter, win
Posted in Competitions, News and Updates
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Mountain Dew is by far our best selling product, you guys just LOVE the stuff! To show our appreciation for your love of the sugary drink we have 5 crates of Mountain Dew to give away to those most passionate about it.

Were going to play a game on Twitter, Facebook and the American Soda Blog.

We want you to finish the sentence below, using your twitter account, our Facebook page or simply comment on this Blog post:

“I Love Mountain Dew because………..”

our favourite 5 will win a crate of Mountain Dew each!

Winners will be announced on Monday afternoon so get your thinking caps on!