Speed Dating+Good

“Looking for love, or just love a good cause? Then come along to our Speed Dating night!
If you're in your mid-20s to late 30s, then sign up now! Just email 'loveagoodcause@gmail.com' to register. No need to say you're attending' on Facebook.
A donation of $20 guarantees you a place, and gives you 3 minutes with 20 guys or 20 girls. All proceeds go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.”

Hey Match.com. Stop running ads and steal this idea.

(A scrappy promotion from some marketing amateurs/Australians having fun with love. Is it strategically aligned? Hm, romance and breasts? I think yes.)

(And special thanks to Griffin Farley once again for the tip on this one.)

Steal This Idea: Why Don’t Green Products Use Greener Marketing?

Companies keep developing products that are easier on the earth. And that’s fantastic. Then they start the marketing, and it’s the same old plan, same old techniques.

My question is, if a product can have Goodness designed into it, why can’t a marketing plan?

The same innovation that makes that Hybrid get 45mph, apply that end-goal thinking to the marketing. It makes sense: if a customer wants to save the earth, they’re interested in this product. So how about structuring the marketing plan so that the very purchase of a Hybrid does even more to help the earth?

One way to do this is incentives. “Buy a Hybrid from our dealership, and we’ll pay to carbon-offset the rest of your life as well.” If I were a Hybrid shopper, I’d think that was pretty cool. I may even put a bumper sticker on my car about it. But it would definitely give me a reason to check out that dealer instead of buying a used car from my neighbor on Craig’s List. The dealer wins with a sale, a customer that may tell their friends about it, and there’s another Hybrid on the road.

It sure beats “Saved By Zero.”