Few days ago a car dealer offered free gun or gas for his car buyers. Now a Nevada brothel is trying to market their business by offering free petrol.

Clients of the Shady Lady Ranch will get a $50 petrol voucher if they fork out $300 -- worth about one hour's worth of services -- at the brothel in Beatty, Nevada, 130 miles (209 km) northwest of Las Vegas.

Owner James Davis said he already has had to order another $1,000 set of petrol vouchers because the first $1,000 were spent in one week.

Ass-vertising is a new ad medium from a crazy advertising agency, NightAgency, which is based on a simple philosophy; "if you want to be seen, go where people are already looking". It involves putting a logo, a web address, or a brief message on the seat of a pair of bikini style panties. The panties are then worn by beautiful girls and ready to show your message to the target.

As shown part of a ass advertising campaign on the picture, bunch of shapely asses paraded outside Grand Central Station in New York to promote the New York Health and Racquet Club and a class they offer, called, appropriately, "Booty Call."

Recently CraigsList introduced the phone verification for their site. Now guess what some people sees business in this.

How? People living in the USA create accounts, do the phone verification and sell it to other people who are outside USA.

Guess nothing could stop the advertisers, or shall we say spammers

Todays marketing world is very competitive. Everybody trying to come up with new ideas; few succeed.

My bank recently sent me a postcard offering online bill pay. Whats so innovative about it? The whole post card is innovative; the postcard have seeds in it, if you plant it you will have nice and beautiful wildflower.

Take a look at the pictures of both sides of the postcard.

 

Before we started the contest we had:

Members: 250 

Posts: 1385 

 

30 days to go. Lets see what happens.

Things I did for marketing the contest:

- Since the forum is a webmaster forum, I posted the  contest on every webmaster forum I am member of. DP, V7n to mention a few.

- I submitted the contest to quite a few contest directories. 

 

I am running a contest on my forum webcosmoforums.com Since the forum is a relatively new one I am trying to give it a boost. 

My goals from the contest:

- Get more members

- More posts 

Prizes

Top Poster Prize:
Baby Plan from hostGator.com
Linux hosting
Disk Space 600GB, Bandwidth 6000GB, CPanel, 1 Domain, Unlimited FTP,
Site builder, Unlimited email accounts, Unlimited MySql, PHP, 99.9% Uptime guarantee and more.

Second Top Poster Prize:
Hatchling Plan from hostGator.com
Linux hosting
Disk Space 350GB, Bandwidth 3000GB, CPanel, 1 Domain, Unlimited FTP,
Site builder, Unlimited email accounts, Unlimited MySql, PHP, 99.9% Uptime guarantee and more. 

Contest duration

We are running the contest for 30 days ending on June 19, 2008. 

Rules

- All you have to do is post on the forum http://www.WebCosmoForums.com. You can make relevant posts in
any categories you like.
- This contest is open for existing and new members all. If you don't have an account, register an account.
- New threads, answering others all counts.
- Each new thread post worths 2 points. Each answers worth 1 point.
- All posts must be meaningful. Yes, no, good, bad, nice post these type
of short answers would not be counted.
- Starts May 20, 2008 12AM GMT
- Ends June 19, 2008 12PM GMT.
- Winners will be declared June 21, 2008.
- We would pay only for the hosting plans. Hosting accounts would be registered under your name. We are not responsible for any succeeding renewals.
- Minimum 150 posts (threads and posts any) during the contest period.
- One account per person.

This is sort of an experiemnt for me to maximize my contest marketing effort.

I will be writing a day by day log on this entry so you get a picture of what I did to marketize the contest and what I gained on a daily basis.