Thinking Outside the Box and Goats on the Roof

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Just read this article and after LOL for a few minutes, I thought about what a brilliant marketing ploy this was. Definitely outside of the box thinking.

It's Not Santa's Reindeer You Hear on the Roof, It's Lars Johnson's Goats - WSJ.com

Inspires me to come up with some creative thinking for my own marketing efforts ...

Anyone else have some crazy ideas that worked for you?

Now that's, grabbing people's attention. The grass looks very fresh too..lol

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ChristineP

14 years ago

Ha Ha, it's out of the box - but not totally unique.. Here's somewhere we go all the time: Coombs Country Market - also known as 'Goats on the Roof' hahah

It's been here forever. If you're thinking of visiting Vancouver Island make sure to stop in. They have great food and shopping!

Christine

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bgmacaw

14 years ago

I've been to the place they sued here in Georgia and wasn't impressed. A gimmick won't help you if you suck otherwise.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

I've been to the place they sued here in Georgia and wasn't impressed. A gimmick won't help you if you suck otherwise.

Do you happen to know if the original Goat on the Roof guy won that case? I couldn't find the outcome. How on earth does someone trademark Goats on a Roof ... as in real goats on a real roof rather than just the Words Goats on a Roof?

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JohnMcCabe

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Do you happen to know if the original Goat on the Roof guy won that case? I couldn't find the outcome. How on earth does someone trademark Goats on a Roof ... as in real goats on a real roof rather than just the Words Goats on a Roof?

I thought I saw a snippet in the article saying it was settled by the guy paying a licensing fee to use the gimmick in four different states.

I wonder if any of them have goat on the menu?

Dennis, if you had to pay for those jokes, you'd run up quite a billy... I kid you not.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

I thought I saw a snippet in the article saying it was settled by the guy paying a licensing fee to use the gimmick in four different states.

I wonder if any of them have goat on the menu?

Dennis, if you had to pay for those jokes, you'd run up quite a billy... I kid you not.

lol at you and Dennis. Ewes guys are really funny

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Dennis Gaskill 14 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

Dennis, if you had to pay for those jokes, you'd run up quite a billy... I kid you not.

Ewe are correct, but I'm too sheep to pay much. And with that, I'm going to take it on the lamb...
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- CurtisN 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill
  
  Ewe are correct, but I'm too sheep to pay much. And with that, I'm going to take it on the lamb...
  
  Woolly good puns...but why are we talking sheep in a goat thread?
  
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  Dennis Gaskill 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CurtisN
  
  Woolly good puns...but why are we talking sheep in a goat thread?
  
  The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep -- both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. Rule number one of pun making is the right to poetic license.
  
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buslead 14 years ago

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

I've been to the place they sued here in Georgia and wasn't impressed. A gimmick won't help you if you suck otherwise.

Remember the gimmicks work because they attract a specific group of people by their very excentricity, but if it Rams it home for one group it is likely to leave someone else ruminating on the banalness of it all.

Reminds me of the way some viral videos can spread, or even some of the simple joke emails that get passed from pillar to post.

Still haven't thought of the way of whistlinging the collie to keep the little criters within the pen.
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d0rhk

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ChristineP

Ha Ha, it's out of the box - but not totally unique.. Here's somewhere we go all the time: Coombs Country Market - also known as 'Goats on the Roof' hahah

It's been here forever. If you're thinking of visiting Vancouver Island make sure to stop in. They have great food and shopping!

Christine

I've been there! So cool to see them up on the roof lol

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tryinhere

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Inspires me to come up with some creative thinking for my own marketing efforts ... ?

? what and a chick wearing an old leather pilots cap, chuffin on a big cigar with a tattooed chest just not doin it for you anymore ?

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Dennis Gaskill

14 years ago

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For a bleating moment I thought about making a baaaa-d joke here, but I herd it might not goat over too well.

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CurtisN 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

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For a bleating moment I thought about making a baaaa-d joke here, but I herd it might not goat over too well.

I love baaaad jokes
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Gary McCaffrey

14 years ago

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Luke McCormack

14 years ago

Very good! Just spilled my coffee!

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Could this be a new niche ... lol.
I just Googled Goats on the Roof and ... About 1,140,000 results

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sidpoudyal

14 years ago

Suzanne,

Back in the day when flash websites were the coolest I teamed up with coders who knew ActionScript to put up sites that went viral easily. Yes, sites did go viral even before FaceBook, Twitter and even YouTube!

I am pretty sure that if you got your AS3 down, or outsource a great coder, you could probably still do the same.

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Sid Poudyal