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The Worst Jobs Ever...

So you hate your job?

These hilarious photos from a German advertising campaign may make you feel better! 

As you can see, recruiting agency jobsintown.de's 2007 ad campaign by Berlin ad agency Scholz & Friends featured "real-life" images pasted to the sides of various machines.

These clever images highlight the drudgery that is built in to many modern careers. 

Do any of these "wrong jobs" remind you of experiences in your own life?

 

 

We all had to start somewhere – what did you used to do that you don’t miss? 

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Fun Snowflake Maker Viral Promotion

When you live in Southern California like I do, snow is exotic.

So I particularly enjoyed this online "Snowflake Creator".  It's a very nice deployment of flash advertising by a Minneapolis-based digital agency (whatever that means) called Popular Front.  You can create, cut up, and post messages on your own paper snowflakes, plus see snowflakes submitted by others from around the world.  The game was clocking 40-50 new snowflakes per minute when I played with it earlier today!

If you've got a few minutes to play, and miss the snow, go ahead take a short "Snow Day" break while still staying warm indoors.

File this under "clever seasonal online promotions".  This deployment is obviously going viral very successfully.  See other examples of viral marketing here.

Amazing Mind Reading Site - Fun

Here's a fun site that should entertain you for a minute this weekend:  Check out the challenge at AmazingMindReading.com.

This clever site donates proceeds to animal rescue, too.  Both fun and charitable!

Thanks to Paul Myers' newsletter for this.

(And let me know in the Comments if you figured it out...)

3 Fr-ee viral avatar toys for you - Time for your Makeover?

Update your look already, would you?  It's 2008! 

Here's your chance for a personal makeover.  Here are three fun and fre-e online tools that you can use to experiment with a new appearance.  Just upload a jpg or gif of your face and you can create fun new headshots or avatars to use online.

1. Manga Makeover:  Ever wished you looked like a cool Japanese cartoon character?  It's easier to do today than ever before!  Visit www.faceyourmanga.com and you can ready your headshot for anime adventure.

2.  Yearbook Yourself:  Reimagine your look if you had been a high schooler in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s or 1980s.  Choose the decade (and style) that suits your mood: http://yearbookyourself.com/  Here's me circa 1954.

3. South Park Makeover:  Turn yourself into a fat little kid with big eyes and a foul mouth!  My visit to http://www.sp-studio.de/ created this little guy on the right.  Now I just have to practice cursing more often...

Let me know if there are more of these funny tools out there.  Which are your favorite?

Facebook Viral Marketing - Learn How Now!

Everybody's buzzing about Facebook - but Peter Shankman knows how to use it!  Peter's fr-ee HARO ("Help a Reporter Out") public relations service has exploded into a Facebook success story that can teach you a lot.

Listen to this week's podcast to hear about how Social Networks like Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn can boost your online marketing.  Facebook has a huge audience of over 100 Million people - how are you tapping this opportunity?

Peter Shankman and I discuss:

• The launch of his Help a Reporter Out (HARO) publicity service on Facebook. 
• How to use "Facebook Groups" to collect an audience of your own.
• The personal touch you need for your marketing to succeed on Facebook.
• How HARO helps you get fre-e press by responding to inquiries from reporters.

This interview is a "two-fer"!  Listening can help you learn how to market your business better on Facebook AND it will introduce you to Peter Shankman's f-ree public relations service, HARO, that can help you get news coverage of your business.

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Pimp My Lift? - Funny Viral Ad

What do you get when you combine creative advertising with online interactivity for the MTV audience? 

Pimp My Forklift of course!

http://www.pimpmylift.ca/

Thanks to Rob Mills.

Jingle Generator - Create a Fr-ee "Jingle" for Your Business

Clever custom rock song "Jingle Generator" from Intuit (really?!). 

Last month's Presidential campaign video maker was fun but this new "custom musical jingle creator" is more savvy online viral marketing than I expected from the accounting software company that makes Quickbooks!

Listen to my new customized jingle here.

Try it for yourself here:  http://www.thejinglegenerator.com/

Thanks to The Outfield for the music and to Small Business Trends for sharing this hilarious (and fr-ee) tool.

Viral Video: Look out McCain and Obama!

Now THIS is viral marketing - putting the web's video capabilities to clever use.  Click to watch a short video about my new campaign for President!  ;)

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki's Twitter "tweet" from last week for this! 

You can try it yourself, too, here:  http://www.paltalk.com/

The point? 
You don't need to have fancy technology like this at your disposal.  Even plain text promotions can "go viral" like this if you are creative enough to offer great content. 

What can you do to make your next email newsletter or marketing campaign worth forwarding?