Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference

Re:Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a con... by 542458 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:36AM (#39078785)

I actually have gotten a children’s picture book from a brand of cloth diapers that describes a silly and exaggerated story of how they invented their core product (a pivot from the two founders’ masters degrees in aerospace engineering). It is, as you suspected, very effective marketing as it is now seared into my brain from many re-readings.

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Re:Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a con... by XorNot on Sunday January 21, 2024 @06:40PM (#39084222)

My son was gifted a toolset by his aunt and uncle for Christmas. Plastic tools, belt etc...and a little voice box which every 3rd press or so extolls the virtues of John Deere tractors.

Those slogans are now going to be stuck in my brain forever, so I've got to hand it to them (no one realised it did this before they got it).

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Re:Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a con... by mauvehaus on Sunday January 21, 2024 @08:11PM (#39084893)

A month after I met my now-wife, I went with her to Thanksgiving at her sister's house. My nephew was two at the time, and he had three magnets: a horse, a frog, and a duck. Each of which made the respective noise when you pushed a button on the magnet.

Naturally, being who I am, I took it upon myself to swap the circuit boards around among the magnets. Apparently this caused some distress a couple days later when my nephew discovered that the frog now made horse noises.

We did not give our wedding guests the opportunity to object to our union.

TL;DR: it sounds like you have an opportunity on your hands!

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