Ikea is letting a guy live in their store……

ikea.jpgwhile his apartment is being fumigated — he’s actually moving in for the weekend because he has nowhere else to stay – and he’s going to blog about it. The guy has a camera crew with him – and the video feed is being run on his site

 this is why Ikea are marketing gods. 

This guy fits their demographic well, young urbanite – the story is quirky enough to get lots of media attention, in the middle of the primaries – they look like really good guys – and they’re getting hours of video footage of their store, in front of what will likely end up being millions of people – for free. 

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Facebook is not a cash machine

The other day I mentioned that personally, I don’t believe that social networking is going to be the all mighty saviour that marketers think it is (here). Here’s a great article from Jim Meskauskas, at iMedia Connection, discussing why hype is oftentimes just hype.

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