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How to market boring stuff

Posted on 25 June 2007 by DeanHunt

I often am contacted by people who want to know how to market their boring crap. Accountants, lawyers, people who make the bits of metal that attach to keyrings…

These people seem to think that boring stuff is impossible to market, I always reply with just three words: “WILL IT BLEND”.

Then I realise I have just sent a three word email that will make no sense, so I follow up with links to the will it blend videos, and I tell them that a boring blender has been the focus of one of the most amazing marketing campaigns this century.

The fact of the matter is that you can market ANYTHING, you just need to be creative.

Obviously there is no magic secret to being creative… even beer doesn’t help! But today I am going to show you the marketing that a dentist used to promote his dental practice:

How cool is that!!!

Dentists are as boring as Celine Dion reading the bible, so if they can think of creative marketing techniques then why can’t you?

If you still cannot think of anything, then feel free to get $10k and hire myself and the Midascode.co.uk team for one week. But there is no reason why you cannot find a way of doing it yourself.

Good luck.

Dean

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This is a viral video from Youtube that is getting a lot of attention.

I will let the author set the scene:

It was back in Oct 2005.

My wedding was about a month to go and I decided to make a memorable event for my future wife. But, I and she were working and due to preparation of wedding, I didn’t have enough budgets for expensive proposal. While I was considering for the event, I remembered what she said in the past. “Wow it would be great if I can get a chance to go in the room with full of yellow post it just like Sang Sang Plus” (Sang Sang Plus is one of the famous talk show (TV program) in Korea and they prepare a room with full of yellow post it - questions from fans to famous celebrity)

I wrote all the happy memories that I had with my wife in 5,940 post it. It took me 4 days & 5 nights to write everything and post it in the bathroom. (I tried main living room first, but, due to surface of wallpaper, I had to change the place) Once we back from honeymoon, we took all the post it off and kept it in the box until now.

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