Thread: Marketing by Protesting
- 09-24-2008 12:10 AM #1
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Marketing by ProtestingProtest got big power if you do it right. To have success on this you gotta be one of the firsts, otherwise you will miss the train.
The idea is creating a campaign protesting something and you market your site in an indirect manner. The target should be a good brand, somebody well-known. If you talk about your little-known site people would hardly listen but if you talk about somebody reputed lot of people would listen; thats the trick here.
Examples:
Yahoo Redesign Protest:
As you know Yahoo is having a big redesign of their site. Now if you start a blog protesting it, it will catch easy attention. You gotta have some solid articles on the site and make some legit points why you think its not good. You can spice it up doing things like signature collection etc.
As you know everything needs marketing. So you have to market this one as well. But the brand your are protesting for should help you a lot in marketing.
Facebook?
I know some people are protesting the design changes. You may try, but its probably little late now.
- 09-24-2008 12:35 AM #2

ah yes...this is a popular method...i remember the day Chrome came out...there were people writing about how crappy it is after few hours...i mean at least use it for sometime before reaching such a conclusion.
- 09-24-2008 01:33 AM #3

even now, I just have seen an ad saying that "try orkut in chrome" in my orkut profile...
protesting can also give some more traffic
- 09-24-2008 09:46 AM #4
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Its just funny, how people use anything and everything for marketing.
So far the craziest idea is ass marketing
- 09-24-2008 11:18 AM #5
- 09-24-2008 12:25 PM #6
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- 09-25-2008 05:02 AM #7
- 10-20-2008 02:55 AM #8

This is also one of the tactics for promotion by spreading negative ideas for the thing.
- 11-01-2008 02:28 AM #9

yes one of idea of promotion by spreading negative ideas.
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