Posts Tagged ‘Viral Marketing’

Promotional and Viral Marketing

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Posted by: Lauri Laufman, MAS

How exactly does promotional marketing work? How can one item handed out have a trickle down effect making that cost of impression worthwhile? Is viral marketing related?

Personally I prefer to think of promotional advertising more targeted in that we provide ways to keep your message in front of those that count to you most. It could be recognition to an employee for a job well done just as easily as providing clients with a useful item that creates visibility for you in the process. Take for example an item that stays around for about a year…

Imagine your company name or organization’s message on a nice wall calendar and 50 of the 100 recipients put them up in their office or reception area.  In addition to your recipient seeing your message repeatedly over the course of a year, all others who pass that wall will also see your message. In that it is being displayed by your recipient, it also can be interpreted as an endorsement of sorts.

Now, let’s go to the media… a little viral marketing and how differnt forms of advertising work together.

Which brings me to the fun of today’s blog… www.News3Online.com …and yes, we can provide you with banners and temporary tattoos (along with buttons, nail files and a myriad of other ideas) should you end up in the political arena yourself. After checking out the following, you too can enjoy seeing your name splashed around for “all” to see.

Made in the USA?

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Posted by: Tiffany Yates

Every now and then I stumble across something that really makes me shake my head in disbelief.  Are there really people in the world that overlook things like this???  And the answer is, YES.

Yesterday I bought some envelopes at my local Kroger grocery store.  I try to buy “Made in the USA” whenever possible, and I saw a box with that little logo on the front.  Hurrah!  I had my envelopes!  Bought ‘em.  Marched out.

When I got home, I just happened to glance at the package.  “What the…?!” It said “Made in the USA” on the front, and “Made in China” on the bottom.  Officeworks is an Australian company that sells through national U.S. retailers.  Perhaps their graphic designer was having a bad day…

…but alas, I can only sugarcoat stupidity for so long.  Unfortunately for them, I can even capture the egregious error in a single shot.  Somebody needs to administer the Federal Smack Down of the U.S. Government.  ::wink::

Lesson learned: a company’s marketing needs to be CONSISTENT, especially when we’re talking about the panels of the same darn box.

Made in the USA, China