{"id":1661,"date":"2010-10-18T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2010-10-18T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:44:26","slug":"busking-theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"Busking? There&#8217;s an App for That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderful example of grass roots viral marketing, or is it?<\/p>\n<p>when you have a need to get as large an audience or following as possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Start by (and the is the hardest part of all) with an original idea, something <a title=\"be unforgettable\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/2008\/09\/10\/be-unforgettable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remarkable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>then make it easy for users to pass on links of your product or discuss it, by utilising social media networks<\/p>\n<p>to create as big a buzz as possible try to piggyback off a product or brand that already has a huge buzz and audience who are already talking about it, as yours will benefit immensely from this brand association, in this case the iPhone&#8230; but be careful with this, choose your brand association carefully, it needs to be aligned to your own core values and brand proposition, plus don&#8217;t get dwarfed, <a title=\"Make your business viral, not just your campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/2008\/12\/22\/make-your-business-viral-not-just-your-campaigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you want people saying how good your product is, not how good your viral marketing idea was!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this case I think the later may happen, but it&#8217;s still a wonderfully inventive idea and should boost Atomic Tom&#8217;s recognition and standing (I certainly hope it does)<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NAllFWSl998]<\/p>\n<p>if you like the tune you can get it on<a title=\"Take Me Out by Atomic Tom\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-moment\/id382841830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a title=\"Engadget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/10\/16\/new-york-band-plays-a-subway-gig-using-nothing-but-iphones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderful example of grass roots viral marketing, or is it? when you have a need to get as large an audience or following as possible&#8230; Start by (and the is the hardest part of all) with an original idea, something remarkable then make it easy for users to pass on links of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[579,63,66,580,29],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands-marketing","tag-atomic-tom","tag-iphone","tag-online-video","tag-take-me-out","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}