February 4, 2008

Onion Swagology: Mad Money Master Lock

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Item: A Master lock

Promoting: The Queen Latifah/Katie Holmes/Diane Keaton buddy comedy Mad Money

Relevance to product promoted: Perversely cryptic. The words Mad Money don't appear anywhere on the lock or the packaging. The only indication that this was designed as a Mad Money promo is a tag with the film's release date (01-18-08), an M on the plastic cube housing the lock, and the tagline "Will They Get Away With It?" Since Mad Money revolves around money-robbing wackiness, locks play a sort of vague conceptual role.

Item quality: 3. The lock itself is a sturdy, no-nonsense theft deterrent, but whatever goodwill it might engender (key word: "might") is offset by the fact that it's packed in tiny, clingy fake-money confetti guaranteed to slip out of the box and get into all sorts of annoying, inconvenient places. Do you really want to associate an already-dodgy new film with irritating messes and staticky debris?

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March 15, 2006

Bringing Back Those Memories...

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February 24, 2006

Nothing to Hide

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There are plenty of times when promotional caps are ideal, but in this case I reckon a promotional comb would be more appropriate (and optimistic).

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February 16, 2006

Promo No-no: Highlighter Hijinks




From The Onion, CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years:

"A report released Tuesday by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters."

This would never happen to anyone buying promotional highlighters from ePromos. I swear. I would even testify before congress.


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February 12, 2006

Promo No-No: Snow Blower

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January 24, 2006

Chocolatey Badness

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This is about the only time when custom chocolate is a bad idea, but we do have lots of stuff for teeth.

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December 5, 2005

Promo No-No: Weigh Your Product Options

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You'll get more mileage from a logo pedometer.

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November 28, 2005

Promo No-No: Bad Coffee

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Leave the logo mugs to someone else, the sleep mask is what you want.

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November 21, 2005

Promo No-No: Miami Ice

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Skip the Ice Scrapers, try a Sun Shade. Also, I think I'll change my name to Miami Ice.

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