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Publicity Stunts Still Earn Attention
by Marcia Yudkin
Who says publicity stunts are passé? Outrageous staged events designed solely to show up on the evening news still get the job done when they're clever and fun.
Stan Heimowitz, owner of Celebrity Gems in Castro Valley, California, not long ago successfully dramatized in the streets of San Francisco the fact that IntraLinux, a small software company -- Heimowitz's client -- is challenging Microsoft, the industry giant.
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This creative bit of street theater made its point to onlookers and the media alike.
Publicity stunts go back at least to the days of showman P.T. Barnum, who announced his circus' arrival in town by hitching an elephant to a plow beside the train tracks. This raised such a ruckus that it's still against the law in some states to plow a field with an elephant.
Suspense became an element in a stunt featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times in 1980 when the paper challenged Bob Allen to make good on his boast that he could be dropped into any city with $100 and 72 hours later own several properties without paying down payments. While readers wondered if Allen could really do it, the author of Nothing Down indeed pulled it off.
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Publicity stunts and milder special events aren't ever a sure thing. Your parade can get rained on and a breaking news story elsewhere can pull the media away. When Massachusetts retailer Rick Segel sponsored a gala contest for the Best Hairdresser of Medford, the fur coats that bore contestants' numbers got switched, causing prizes to be awarded to the wrong people. Two judges walked out and fistfights almost broke out among the hairdressers.
Despite the risks, Stan Heimowitz had such a hoot with his IntraLinux Penguin vs. Gates bout that he floated himself as a publicity-stunt impresario to PR and ad agencies. The whole event cost just $3,700.00, Heimowitz says Cheap Gabriel Jesus Jersey , including the actors and costumes. Compare that to the cost of a color magazine ad that gets two seconds of a reader's attention!
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