When Hilarious Equals Sales
by Miki SaxonWhat’s the holy grail of marketing in these days of multiple media channels?
Viral.
No matter the medium, every marketer’s dream is to have everyone talking/sharing/tweeting/liking whatever they did.
Viral is four million views in four days.
That’s what happened to a startup that applied a proven subscription model to a very old product and made one of the most hilarious, irreverent videos ever.
How great was the effect?
“What [revenue] took me a month, I now do in an hour,” said Hello Flo founder Naama Bloom.
Here’s the video; what do you think?
(I recently wrote posts here, here and here, with links to more information on creating something viral.)
YouTube credit: Hello Flo
June 25th, 2014 at 1:16 am
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