Archive for February, 2009
whoppervirgins.com was not even live when the TV kicked in. That’s one expensive spike in search volume. Anyone know if it drove any sales?

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From the Associated Press
- 12:28 AM EST, December 19, 2008
Looking to beef up your mojo this holiday season?
Burger King Corp. may have just the thing. The home of the Whopper has launched a new men’s body spray called “Flame.” The company describes the spray as “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”
The fragrance is on sale at New York City retailer Ricky’s NYC in stores and online for a limited time for $3.99.
Burger King is marketing the product through a Web site featuring a photo of its King character reclining fireside and naked but for an animal fur strategically placed to not offend.
The marketing ploy is the latest in a string of viral ad campaigns by the company.
Source: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/la-on-burgerking19-2008dec19,0,5172867.story
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fake whoppervirgin twitter account
fake Dalai Lama
it used to be domain squatting, now “bad guys” are holding brand names “hostage” on twitter, facebook, myspace, flickr, etc.
for example
100% of the uses of the “maybelline” username is NON-official

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almost 10X the search keywords driving traffic; 52,200 pages indexed by Google, and nearly 13X the monthly unique visitors. And they started in Mar 2007.
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if you had a dollar to spend today, where would you spend it? on paid advertising or on social marketing? why?
Paid advertising – it’s over once it’s aired
Social Marketing
1. peers telling peers – a lot more effective and trusted by modern consumers than a paid ad
2. archived conversations – when people take social actions like rate, review, comment, recommend, and share, these actions are archived for everyone to see online (valuable to future users doing research)
3. it yields a continuously increasing stream of free traffic (enhances SEO efforts)

So whatcha gonna do?
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