litmanlive.co.uk » Cool http://www.litmanlive.co.uk/blog Cool Hunting, Trends and Social Media Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:29:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Want a good review for Four Lions? Ask twitter… http://www.litmanlive.co.uk/blog/2010/05/want-a-good-review-for-four-lions-ask-twitter/ http://www.litmanlive.co.uk/blog/2010/05/want-a-good-review-for-four-lions-ask-twitter/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 11:34:02 +0000 litmanlivecouk http://www.litmanlive.co.uk/blog/2010/05/want-a-good-review-for-four-lions-ask-twitter/

This is interesting…

…the honourable Rupert Britton, Dark Lord of Content Strategy here at PHD, has had a tweet picked up of his thoughts on the new Chris Morris film Four Lions, and it’s been used in an ad.

It’s the second one down…

He’s not the only one though… they’ve used about four or five, mixed in with reviews from proper journalistic organs.

Oh, and the Evening Standard.

Anyway, it’s really interesting, for several reasons.

Firstly, if you were a little short of good write-ups of your film (which I’m not suggesting Four Lions is, it’s just a hypothetical ‘if’), you could just find the tweets by people who did like your film, and use those.

Secondly, it highlights the fact that we increasingly trust (or at least marketers believe that we trust) the opinions of other people at least as much, if not more so, than those of the so-called ‘experts’.

Thirdly, if you are going to use someone’s tweet in a review… is it polite to ask? The first Rupert heard of it was when a friend called him up and told him…

Rupert says he wouldn’t have minded at all.

So why not just ask?

(If you’re listening, Four Lions folks, the very least you could do is send him a poster or something…)

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Best pres so far. Czech it.
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http://www.uniqlo.com/utweet/

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A link I picked up on got Gizmodo’d. It was rather lovely.

I had to turn off the iPhone app Boxcar because of all the @replies coming through after @gizmodo tweeted it and linked to it in their blog post.

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Consistently brilliant stuff from Helge.

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How they do this I have no idea. Amazing.

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Top graphic.

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If I could marry a presentation this would be it.

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To announce and promote their customer loyalty programme Sprize, the GAP store  in Vancouver, BC completely flipped everything upside down and adhering to their tagline rather nicely of turning shopping on its head. This I like.  So all of the mannequins, displays and signs were flipped, as well as some cars and a hot dog stand outside of the store. Brilliant.

It seems to me like a clever customer retention tool and keeping those existing customers happy. I think its only open in Canada at the moment but they can sign up for a free Sprize account at participating Gap stores for an opportunity to collect SprizeMoney. Put simply, if you buy a shirt at £25 and within 45 days it goes down in price then you get credited to your account the difference. Now thats something I’d sign up to for sure. Isn’t it annoying when you buy something full price for it to be discounted some weeks later?

This is smart because the idea / hope is that people will return to GAP more often to see what they can get for their Sprizemoney and undoubtedly pick up a few more purchases than they had intended. Potentially increasing footfall and volume of purchases.

Nice.

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