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Archive for November, 2008

Failure’s Not So Bad When You Have Fail Whale

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Check out these “Fail Whale” t-shirts, the first of what is expected to be a long line of Twitter-related schwag.
The image of birds straining under the weight of a whale they are trying to support appears on the Twitter main page when the site is experiencing server overload. Twitter users lovingly dubbed it the “Fail [...]

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Yahoo! Cake and Promo T-Shirts

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Combination promotional efforts are a good way to reinforce your promo objectives. Here, Yahoo! decided to combine promotional cake and custom t-shirts—a sweet coupling.

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Microsoft’s Live Search attended the SMXEast Conference, an exposition for the search marketing industry, giving out these biodegradable promotional pens. An environmentally conscious search engine?—that is good to hear that even the internet industry can make efforts to become earth-friendly.
Maybe I should go research on Live Search on how to be more eco-friendly!

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Google Vending Machine

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Here is my interpretation of the Google vending machine…rather than feeling like they always have to give staff members employee incentives, Google seems to be giving their employees a friendly reminder that they work for one of the coolest companies in the world! Way to promote your buoyancy internally!
If this Google vending machine isn’t cool [...]

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Google Baby Schwag

Friday, November 7th, 2008

We have mentioned some Google apparel for babies before, but this Google onesie is just too cute to let it get away. Baby promotional apparel is a great way to appeal to peoples softer side.

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Google Calendar

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Leggo of my calendar — I need to make a new entry!  This was a clever interactive way to encourage Google users to check out their calendar feature, which is part of iGoogle and can also be accessed in conjunction with Gmail.

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So now there is an easier way to make friends on Facebook all you need is a promotional t-shirt and a W-41 application on your mobile phone. The logo on the shirt is programmed with your URL and all your friend needs is a cell phone with the application to recognize the URL.

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