Doing the unexpected will always attract attention. It’s up to you to make sure that it’s productive.
A small restaurant looking for some positive press sent an email to a local blogger at The Amateur Gourmet. To call it a success would be something of an understatement. The restaurant treated the blog to dinner. The blog treated the restaurant to a single post that’s garnered the restaurant better publicity than anything else they could have done.
The review was nominal. It was the post that captivated because it was so unexpected. Who in their right mind would go to this amount of trouble to post a simple restaurant review? Someone who understands that the post itself is designed to impress the audience. See the whole post here.
Seems to have worked out for the blog as well.
We love the unexpected; unexpected customer service, unexpected perks, unexpected humor. If you’re not doing the unexpected then, almost by definition, you’re doing the average. The mediocre.
Do something you don’t expect of yourself.
I think everyone in the marketing world would love to have the creativity and keen sense of comedic timing that the Amateur Gourment displays.
You can add me to their fan list.
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Sorry, no truffles included.