Who Took Advantage Of April Fools?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by MoneyMoose, Apr 2, 2008.

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    A bunch of big bloggers and websites had April Fools jokes that got plenty of publicity - did you do anything like this on your website? Is April Fools a good day for traffic?

    I whipped up a short post at the last second but I think I could've done a lot more with it. Only got about 500 pageviews from it.
     
    MoneyMoose, Apr 2, 2008 IP
  2. kingofsanda

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    That's a brilliant idea but unfortunately I did not take advantage of it.
     
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    sprooza Banned

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    No me either i did not take advantage of it.. but i did see these youtube guys names "smosh" who actually said that they were being sued and redirected visitors to their website to buy their stuff. Turn out it was april fools and they were not getting sued haha.
     
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    amanamission Notable Member

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    Last chance for me to plug our annual Holy Fool's day prank-see my recent blog post above.

    Also got a rise out of some folks on DP with this thread.

    About double the normal traffic, and a bunch of new links, but mostly it's just fun.
     
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  5. HL08

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    I wish I had thought of it. I have been hearing about different sales tricks people did from various forums. Next year I will definetely do something.
     
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    Chancey Well-Known Member

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    I think that JOhn Chow has taken advantage of it.
     
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    akdiver Well-Known Member

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    I completely missed it :( There was some pretty good news stories which I thought were pretty funny.
     
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    Wayne Liew Banned

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    I felt like a dumb reading those April Fools post after getting back from a long blogging hiatus. :D
     
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    I always forget to take advantage of events like this and realise it exactly a day after :p
     
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    I took advantage of it. At about 5pm the day before I realized that it was April Fools the next day, so in about an hour I put together an email containing April Fools pranks, and did an adwords campaign on "April Fools day pranks", and "April Fools day jokes". I was the only advertiser, so I got about 500 clicks for $40. I don't yet know what I'll do with the list to make money from it, but I think I can think of something.

    Some people might consider it kind of foolish, but it was only $40, and it was an experiment to see if it was possible to make money off such a thing. I've already got a plan on how to make some money off of it, but I guess we'll see how I do.
     
    xmartel, Apr 3, 2008 IP