Healthy_Mama_contest

Funny thing happened when I announced I was quitting advertising to focus on Mommy Shorts full time— I got a call from a company asking me to do their advertising.

Not freelancing for an agency creating the advertising, actually working directly with the company. Kind of like Mommy Shorts was the agency.

Did I want to do that? Initially, I wasn’t sure.

But then… I really liked the brand (it’s a much needed line of over-the-counter remedies designed specifically for pregnant women called healthy mama)… AND I figured out a way to include all of you guys!

Here’s the deal.

I created three healthy mama print ads (they’ll be running in magazines like Fit Pregnancy and Pregnancy & Newborn starting in April) and now…

They’re offering up $750 to the Mommy Shorts reader who comes up with the next headline in the campaign.

I told healthy mama my readers are smarter and funnier than I am, so don’t disappoint!

Here’s the brief (that’s what we call it in the ad world)…

THE BRAND: HEALTHY MAMA

Remember when you were pregnant and got that crazy back ache in the beginning of your third trimester? You googled “what can I take for a back ache while pregnant” but that sent you to a community board on Baby Center with random unqualified people giving varying misinformation about drug ingredients you couldn’t even pronounce, right?

Well, healthy mama is trying to change all that. They’re on a mission to create a prenatal category you can easily find on one shelf. They’ve just launched a new line of over-the-counter remedies specifically designed to be the safest* for pregnant and nursing women. The products tackle common pregnancy symptoms like heartburn, lack of sleep, pain relief, nausea and constipation— but with fun names like “Tame the Flame”, “Move it Along” and “Shake that Ache”.

Because even if the sight of salmon makes you want to hurl on your cankles, this is still a happy time, right???

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Healthy mama is backed by the American Pregnancy Association, FDA accepted and made in the USA. It’s currently being sold at babiesrus.com, Buy Buy Baby, healthymamabrand.com and coming soon to Drugstore.com.

THE MESSAGE:

Pregnancy might be beautiful but it is definitely not without it’s unfavorable side effects. From exhaustion to stretch marks to nosy comments from strangers. The healthy mama campaign aims to open up an honest dialogue about what women go through while they are expecting, giving moms-to-be a reason to laugh at their circumstances together.

(I wrote that myself. Don’t I sound official?)

THE ADS:

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THE ASSIGNMENT:

I am reaching out to all my readers to come up with the next headline in the healthy mama campaign. Please follow the structure of the headlines already created (i.e. “We can’t ______________________ but we can help you deal with almost everything else.”)

Use your personal experience and go as far out there as you would like. We want the headlines to be funny, honest, and relatable.

As an example, here’s a fourth headline I REALLY want healthy mama to run:

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THE RULES:

1) You must be a healthy mama facebook fan to enter. You can “like” their page by clicking here.

2) Leave your healthy mama headline in the comment section below. You can enter a maximum of three times.

If you’d like to promote on twitter, facebook, pinterest or instagram, it won’t help your chances but we’d appreciate it! Please use #healthymamaheadlines.

I’ll be posting some of my favorite headlines next week and the winners will be announced on April 2, 2014. You must enter by April 1, 2014 at 6pm ET. The winners will be selected by both myself and healthy mama based on which headline we would like to use in the ad campaign.

For the official contest rules and regulations, click here.

THE PRIZES!

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GRAND PRIZE:

• $750 Visa Gift Card plus the chance to have your headline appear in a nationally run print and digital campaign

healthy mama products valued at $100

2ND PLACE:

• 1 Diono RadianRXT Car Seat ($350)

• $100 Visa Gift Card

• healthy mama products valued at $75

3RD PLACE:

• $50 Visa Gift Card

• healthy mama products valued at $50

Thanks to everyone for being part of my advertising team. And a big thanks to healthy mama for trusting me to do this!

GOOD LUCK!!!

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This post was sponsored by healthy mama. That was pretty obvious, I think. I’m very excited to be working with them!

* No medication is considered 100% safe during pregnancy and nursing.