Category: Publicity Stunts
By tsufit on Feb 25, 2010 in Authenticiy, Branding, Coaching, Marketing, Media, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Reality TV, TV, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Are you a parenting coach? Octomom, Nadya Suleman, mother of 14, appeared on The View yesterday, defending her sanity to Whoopi and Barbara Walters. What a great piggyback publicity opportunity if you’re a parenting coach, psychologist, psychiatrist or any related profession. I have a client who was one of 16 kids growing up (not a [...]
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By tsufit on Feb 19, 2010 in Cool Stuff, Marketing, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Success, TV, Technology, Traffic Creation, Uncategorized, Word of Mouth Marketing, internet marketing, story | Comments Off
It happened over 10 years ago and people are still talking about how Half.com, a startup online company, got onto the Today Show with a bit o’ the green stuff and a lot of ingenuity.
Pretty much admitting that it was a publicity stunt, they persuaded a rinky dink 3 horse town, (population: 89 people [...]
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By tsufit on Jan 25, 2010 in Book Giveaway, Books, Business Book Giveaway, Celebrity, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Media, Personal Branding, Positioning, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Success, TV, Uncategorized | 182 Comments
Last year, here at Step Into The Spotlight!, we were fortunate to be able to give copies of several wonderful business books including Andy Nulman’s Pow! Right Between the Eyes, David Meerman Scott’s World Wide Rave, Andy Beal’s Radically Transparent and Drew McLellan’s 99.3 Random Acts of Marketing
This week, we have another exciting Step Into [...]
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By tsufit on Jan 16, 2010 in Advertising, Books, Celebrity, Cool Stuff, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Media, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Traffic Creation, Uncategorized, viral marketing | 1 Comment
Got an email this morning that said:
“The Queen” spotted with self help book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Q3PorQEig
It’s not exactly The National Enquirer, but I wonder how Her Real Royal Highness would feel about this one. Gotta admit, it is kinda cute. And it did make me watch the video, so in a “You Just Proved Bench Advertising Works” [...]
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By tsufit on Dec 15, 2009 in Advertising, Communication, Communications, Cool Stuff, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Uncategorized, Word of Mouth Marketing | Comments Off
Need a New BBQ?
You Don’t Have to Spend A Lot of Money on Marketing or Advertising to Have Impact!
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By tsufit on Nov 24, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Communication, Communications, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Success, Traffic Creation, Uncategorized, internet marketing | Comments Off
A lot of entrepreneurs and marketers do outrageous things to get noticed but getting noticed is not enough to sell your stuff. You have to find a way of directing the attention you’ve attracted towards the message you want to communicate. Will your message blend with the vehicle you used to get the attention or [...]
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By tsufit on Oct 3, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Commercials, Humor, Marketing, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Social Media, Technology, Uncategorized, internet marketing, viral marketing | Comments Off
So here’s the question…
Are we laughing at them (it won’t be the first time…) ’cause of the lamer-than-lame Saturday Night Live-ish type video…or are they laughing at us? ‘Cause at least we’re talking about Windows 7!
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By tsufit on Sep 29, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Breaking News, Celebritiy, Public Speaking, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Uncategorized | Comments Off
I’m always telling entrepreneurs to stay in character in order to build a solid brand, but sometimes it pays to step out of character for a minute to get attention. Woody Allen’s characters jumped on and off the screen in Purple Rose of Cairo. Speakers know the best way to get an audience’s attention is [...]
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By tsufit on Apr 18, 2009 in Marketing, Microblogging, Public Speaking, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Social Media, Technology, Traffic Creation, Uncategorized, Word of Mouth Marketing, viral marketing | Comments Off
There’s a very insightful article by Simon Dumenco over at Ad Age about the significance of the fact that Ashton Kutcher won the race with CNN to be the first with 1 million followers on Twitter. Go read the article but here’s the bottom line. Social media was supposed to level the playing field (which [...]
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By tsufit on Apr 14, 2009 in Cool Stuff, Humor, Innovation, Inspiration, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Uncategorized, viral marketing | Comments Off
So is this a World Wide Rave, David? I played Liesl in an off off off Broadway version of this show (ie Illinois) AND I’ve been to Belgium, so I have a special affection for it.Thanks for sending it Maxine!
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