Archive for June, 2009
- 28.06.09
Advertising the Pringle’s Way
Advertising is big business, you don’t need me to tell you that. If you are good at advertising it’s generally the case that you’ll live the luxurious penthouse bachelor lifestyle like you see in the movies, I always wanted that apartment in “What Women Want” with the views over the city.Anyway, back on topic, the guys that create those little banner ads you see on websites, they tend not to be in the same position but after seeing a rather impressive ad the other day, maybe some should. I never normally click on adverts on websites because I know exactly what happens but I strongly recommend that you click on this advert: http://awardshome.com/cannes2009/pringles/can-hands.html
It’s advertising Pringle’s (my favourite crisps [chips to my American readers]), but in a rather ingenious manner. See they know that most people aren’t going to see an advert in a sidebar of a website and think “I know what I’ll click that” so they play on that idea and “talk” to you, with phrases like: “BTW, thanks for trusting our banner not to send you to a porn site”.
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Some of my Latest Template Releases
Since I last posted, I’ve released a number of templates on ThemeForest, so I’ll showcase them all in one post, they have been received well and 2 of the 3 seem to be bestsellers so I’m very happy.
Long Brown FolioLong Brown Folio is a one-page portfolio website template that scrolls smoothly between each section. It [...]
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Working from home again
After having an office for the past 8 months I decided to move my office back into my apartment when I moved to a new place. The reason I moved into an office in the first place was because of motivation issues and the fact that I couldn’t concentrate because there were too many distractions.
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So [...]