A Fake Arm Just 'TRIPLED' Our Business! File This!!!

[celente]

Before you go thinking this is another one of those attention grabbing headlines, YOUR WRONG!! To cut a long story into a short one for you read on....

My uncle and I started and insurance company about 12 months ago, things were going fine but I asked him what one thing can we do to double our business. We brainstormed and brainstormed and came up with some good stuff...NOTHING really special we could come up with.

UNTIL.....

One night I was going through the photos of our trip to New York a while back. I remember seeing a "Soprano's" advertisement on a cab with fake blood and what looked like real man's arm poking out the back of the trunk...like there was a dead body in the trunk. I remember taking photos of it because it literally caught the attention of anyone in the cabs vicinity when stopped....Was funny and shocking at the same time.

Here is the a similar picture to the one i had -

*DING* the lightbulb went off thought - what if we did something similar, and tied it in with our insurance not costing and arm and a leg.

Two months later, so be it. We had a very realistic man's arm sticking out the back of our business car, with the website and the headline "Want Solid, Safe, Affordable Insurance That Wont Cost You An Arm & A Leg!!"

I thought it was corny but... as soon as we started driving round, people were laughing, pointing, gasping, staring, shocked, and within a month our business had doubled, then tripled...so to the traffic going to our website. We are still simply amazed that something so inexpensive and simple would go a LONG LONG WAY! and make us lots of money.

Sometimes the answers to your problems are right under you nose!!!

Some days I will drive a kilometer from work and walk to the office to drum up local interest...LOL cheecky HUH.

[travlinguy]

Where I live the police will immediately pull you over and make you remove the prop. They say it causes dangerous distractions in traffic.

[celente]

Not a whole amount of cops here in Oz where I live, and we got away with it. Only had one or two run ins really.

[Talinn]

Hahahaha great!!! There can be no limits to advertising!

[Asher]

Nice!

I thought it was pretty ingenius to do that =) Thanks for sharing

Asher

[Marty S]

Great "aha" moment for you. Most people just don't "THINK" enough and thus lack creative ideas. Congrats, and keep thinking.

[Jesus Perez]

The Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile must be serving a life sentence I suspect.

Originally Posted by travlinguy

Where I live the police will immediately pull you over and make you remove the prop. They say it causes dangerous distractions in traffic.

[marketingstatic]

Great idea to just make you think and rethink ways to change up your mind.

[OnlineMarketingSys]

You really have to watch out for those weiner mobiles.



Wienermobile Crash: Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashes into Racine home - WITI

WITI-TV, RACINE - The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got itself into quite a pickle when it crashed into a Racine home Friday morning.

Neighbors tell FOX 6 the Wienermobile took a wrong turn and ended up on the dead-end street, Kenilworth Avenue in Racine.

While trying to get turned around, the woman driving the hot dog on wheels accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and lodged the Wienermobile under a house.

[peter gibson]

Originally Posted by BlueSquares

The Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile must be serving a life sentence I suspect.

All I can say to this is L O frikin L.

[Michael Taylor]

Originally Posted by travlinguy

Where I live the police will immediately pull you over and make you remove the prop. They say it causes dangerous distractions in traffic.

Sometimes, it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.