Hold a “Weird Gift Basket Stories” Contest and Send the Results to the Press

Hold a “Weird Gift Basket Stories” Contest and Send the Results to the Press
by Joyce Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen"

The media goes crazy about weird and crazy news because they know that people enjoy reading, watching, and listening to weird things. Hold a “Weird Gif Basket Stories” like sending a gift basket to the wrong girlfriend, or child wouldn’t leave gift basket because it was full of yummy candies. Hold the contest with your customers other prospects by offering a price for the weirdest and strangest stories that has happened to people as a result of buying a gift basket.

Once you receive your stories you can:

1. Place them on your website
2. Create a small book to hand out at home shows
3. Record them and create a free audio to give away
4. Include then in your newsletter


However the most powerful use of the stories is to get free publicity by creating a buzz in the press about them. You can send a press release to the local newspaper, have the local television and radio channels interview the winners or have you as a guest.

Examples of media release could be:

Granny Loves Gift Basket Too!
German Shepherd Got Gift Basket Goodies as a Thanks You Gift

Online entrepreneur Joyce O. Oladipo, "The Giftpreneur Queen," publishes
the award-winning 'Gift Basket Success' ezine with 400 subscribers.
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