Amplafi http://amplafi.com/blog its the message, not the technology Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Check out our subversive badge flags at Netroots Nation http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/07/29/check-out-our-subversive-badge-flags-at-netroots-nation/ http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/07/29/check-out-our-subversive-badge-flags-at-netroots-nation/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:17:15 +0000 patrick http://amplafi.com/blog/?p=7 This turned out to be an incredibly popular way to drive traffic to our booth.

Cheap but very effective! I didn’t mention it on the tape but notice that our badge flags were the same color as the exhibitor flag. Purely accidentally — but still a fun coincidence.

By the end of the show 10% of the people at Netroots Nation were wearing our badge flags. One person wearing the NSA Wiretap Specialist was actually asked if she was!

We had people looking for our booth to get their own badge flags. We had a few leftover. Rather than take any back with us, we went hunting for victims. We didn’t ask for permission — we just started putting the flags on their badges.

People didn’t mind because the flags were so funny and appropriate to the crowd.

Hat tip to Andy Sernovitz’s blog which gave me the original idea.

]]> http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/07/29/check-out-our-subversive-badge-flags-at-netroots-nation/feed/ TechCrunch50 application is in! http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/06/29/techcrunch50-application-is-in/ http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/06/29/techcrunch50-application-is-in/#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:14:19 +0000 patrick http://amplafi.com/blog/?p=6 Yeah … more soon.

Now its off to Netroots Nation

]]> http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/06/29/techcrunch50-application-is-in/feed/ Millions of dollars doesn’t mean you don’t lose contact… http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/06/02/millions-of-dollars-doesnt-mean-you-dont-lose-contact/ http://amplafi.com/blog/2008/06/02/millions-of-dollars-doesnt-mean-you-dont-lose-contact/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:03:56 +0000 patrick http://amplafi.com/blog/?p=3 A perfect example of why sometimes you really want to connect at the organizational level:

The relevant quote is:

“They finally assigned someone to West Virginia three weeks ago,” said Doug McKinney, the state Republican chairman there. “I had a couple of contacts with him and I e-mailed him twice and I never heard back. I finally called and they said that the guy had resigned.”

So the Republican state party lost contact with the Republican presidential campaign. Hmmmm…..

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