{"id":378,"date":"2008-09-22T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=378"},"modified":"2008-09-22T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:52:31","slug":"free-t-shirts-are-so-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/free-t-shirts-are-so-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Free T-Shirts are so boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re free. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which establishes<strong> low value<\/strong>. So we&#8217;re not actually likely to wear them at all.<\/p>\n<p>Given the cost I suspect that getting you to wear them is not the key part, they want you to discuss their product as you received a freebie.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s change this.<\/p>\n<p>How about, you hire a designer off threadless to make an awesome t-shirt that may or may not feature your brand and give it away. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You then provide two opportunities for conversation.<\/p>\n<p>1) X company gave me freebies.<\/p>\n<p>2) Hey I like your t-shirt where did you get it from?<\/p>\n<p>3) You will actually desire to wear the t-shirt vs throw it out. (and thus allowing greater opportunities for discussion everytime it&#8217;s worn)<\/p>\n<p>Give it a shot, why not? We all know everyone throws those t-shirts out anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off. They&#8217;re free. \u00a0 Which establishes low value. So we&#8217;re not actually likely to wear them at all. Given the cost I suspect that getting you to wear them is not the key part, they want you to discuss their product as you received a freebie. Let&#8217;s change this. How about, you hire a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[303,502,505,599],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}