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Exclamation What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 23-04-2007, 11:30 AM

Hi guys,
Im 19 and my business partner is 21. we own a product design company that has got a fair bit of investment from a large marketing firm in the North West of England. Most of our investment goes into product development so we need 2 come up with interesting ways to market ourselve like blogging and stuff.

We have 30,000 post it notes that we managed to get donated from 3M but dont no wat to do with them. we were thinking of a pr stunt at a exhibition show by creating a post it snow man; people would put there email addresses on the post it note and add it too the snowman. we wud then be able to contact them via email

Any Ideas

P.S. check out our site at nurtur.co.uk for sum inspiration
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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 23-04-2007, 06:30 PM

Are those 30 000 people in the market for product design?

If so, great idea (I feel sorry for whoever has to type in all the email addresses)

If not, you're getting distracted (and I feel really sorry for whoever has to type in all the emails)

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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 23-04-2007, 06:57 PM

I think all UK business forums (and more) got this request over the past few days


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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 23-04-2007, 08:12 PM

basically we have 30,000 post it notes that we want to use in some way for publicity. we're trying to create awareness of our brand through some sort of publicity that can incorparate the post it notes seeing as they are free to us
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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 23-04-2007, 08:15 PM

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I think all UK business forums (and more) got this request over the past few days
lol, yeh this post is on 2 other business forums, but we only have access to the marketing firm that have invested in us on certain occasions so we're jz makin the most of the help we can get

Thanx guys
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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 23-04-2007, 09:17 PM

Can't blame them for trying.

What size pile is 30 000 post it notes anyway?

5th November perhaps?

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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 25-04-2007, 02:59 AM

If you dont mind me asking how did you manage to get 30,000 free post it notes.
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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 25-04-2007, 11:15 AM

If exhibition is related to your business then idea of PR stunt is fine. I presume you will have some stand there, however, why snowman? Why not your logo, or the word “design” – something that visually correlate to your line of business?
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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 26-04-2007, 01:28 AM

"wud" "wat" "sum" "jz"

if you want to be taken seriously in business, I suggest you learn English and grow up.
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Re: What to do with 30,000 Post It Notes?? - 27-04-2007, 10:06 AM

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Hi guys,
Im 19 and my business partner is 21. we own a product design company that has got a fair bit of investment from a large marketing firm in the North West of England. Most of our investment goes into product development so we need 2 come up with interesting ways to market ourselve like blogging and stuff.

We have 30,000 post it notes that we managed to get donated from 3M but dont no wat to do with them. we were thinking of a pr stunt at a exhibition show by creating a post it snow man; people would put there email addresses on the post it note and add it too the snowman. we wud then be able to contact them via email

Any Ideas

P.S. check out our site at nurtur.co.uk for sum inspiration
- a spelling/ grammar competition, perhaps?
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