Earlier this week I mentioned, while in a state of post-wedding exhaustion, that I would never do mini cupcakes ever ever ever ever ever again. Well, I lied. As I’ve acknowledged before we all have our price and my price is an order for 30 boxes of minis for a company to give as gifts to their clients. How could I say no to that?! Of course it hurt me to say yes and I did it through a clenched jaw, but I also decided to add a little hustle to my game this time. “I’ll agree to do it if you will agree to use us for your next client appreciation order in the fall.” She agreed, so I’ll be making 360 minis next week. What was I thinking? My trip to Curacao in September. The running shoes I just bought. My love of buying sundresses and going out to eat. In other words – I have a price. And it ain’t very high.
A few minutes after getting off the phone with this new customer I got an email from another potential new customer mentioning the feature of my company on Living Social. I thought she had to be mistaken, because I’ve said time and time again that I’ll never do a deal like that. So why would they feature me on their website? The woman forwarded me the email and I found this at the bottom of the page:
Other than spelling “topped” incorrectly and the fact that I’d have NEVER suggested featuring the Nutella Cupcake (it’s ok, but it doesn’t even touch some of my others) I thought this was pretty fucking cool. In fact, I was downright giddy. What’s most interesting to me, however, was the fact that they didn’t even contact me to tell me they were doing this. You’d think they would, no? I’m not complaining, just think it’s curious.
nothing like free promotion…
hopefully you get some business out of it!
I’ve noticed that the person in sales/marketing who is willing to “do the work” and make their effort count is rare. Blown opportunity for Living Social – shoulda notified you (and gotten you to send more traffic to their site), and tried to get you to buy something from them! Bad for them, good for you ; D
That was what I thought – not likely I’d buy something, but if that one random person hadn’t emailed me this morning I wouldn’t have sent traffic their way. Once I found out I was all over it. But hey – I’m not complaining :)
That’s some nice free publicity, but as you said, someone should have informed you that it was running. I was once interviewed for a local news story and the reporter told me that they’d let me know when it was going to air. Didn’t happen. Randomly about a week later, my cell phone starts blowing up and folks are like, Turn to channel 4! You’re on t.v.! Oh. Well damn. Thanks for letting me know.