{"id":2101,"date":"2011-09-20T11:34:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:34:55","slug":"my-pinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/my-pinky\/","title":{"rendered":"My pinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One week ago in a silly small accident a branch hit me in the left hand while I was riding a bike causing a crack in my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Metacarpals_numbered-en.svg\">metacarpal pinky bone<\/a>. Nothing serious, but doctors put a cast on my hand just to be sure the bone heals properly and is not further accidentally damaged.<\/p>\n<p>As some of you know, on my left arm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/more-blood-for-the-adobe\/\">I have Adobe tattoo<\/a> and just for fun I thought I could draw Adobe logo on my cast while it is hidden. During that same day I was pondering on that, I was on a meeting when a client suggested to stamp a logo with a company stamp on my cast. And then it hit me, like a thunder.<\/p>\n<p>I have quickly made a <a href=\"http:\/\/worship.hr\/gips\">small one-page website<\/a> where I would offer advertising space on my cast to whoever was interested. The page is in Croatian, and to quickly summarize it; it says I have 2 panels on my cast for sale, I briefly explain what are the benefits for the potential clients and what I promise to do (not destroy cast, not compromise the brand). The cast is removed on 10th of October ending the advertising campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (19.09.) morning, I have uploaded my one-pager, and promptly afterwards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netokracija.com\/web-dizajner-prodaje-fizicki-oglasni-prostor-na-gipsu-slomljene-ruke-16911\">Netokracija<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeljkoriha.com\/2011\/09\/goran-peuc-prodajem-oglasni-prostor-na.html\">Zriha Blog<\/a> covered the story.<\/p>\n<p>In a matter of half an hour, both panels were sold. The top panel went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgeterija.net\/\">Gadgeterija<\/a>, a techno geek blog, and the bottom panel went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonbon.com.hr\/home\">bonbon<\/a>, fresh mobile network. I did receive more inquiries in my inbox, but alas &#8211; too late. First come, first serve.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening the agreed visuals were inked onto cast with permanent marker, and I will take care of them till the end of campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious to everyone that the visual exposure of logos in my daily life is not the prime advertising bulk. Yes, it is crazy seeing someone on the street with a telecom brand on a cast, but that&#8217;s not the point. The point is all the hype generated by the idea and campaign itself. The advertising itself is not important here, it&#8217;s the &#8220;advertising&#8221; of the advertising (blogging, radio interview I gave, etc&#8230;) that will bring better ROI to my clients. Mad world, eh?<\/p>\n<p>The power of the internet and flash ideas.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/cast-gadg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/nivas.hr\/pub\/blog-images\/cast-bonbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week ago in a silly small accident a branch hit me in the left hand while I was riding a bike causing a crack in my metacarpal pinky bone. Nothing serious, but doctors put a cast on my hand just to be sure the bone heals properly and is not further accidentally damaged. As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}