SensoryMetrics » wildes http://sensorymetrics.com re-inventing the User eXperience Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Opportunistic Marketing and Free Lube http://sensorymetrics.com/2009/01/20/opportunistic-marketing-and-free-lube/ http://sensorymetrics.com/2009/01/20/opportunistic-marketing-and-free-lube/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:15:52 +0000 Mitch Brisebois http://sensorymetrics.com/?p=3401 busstrikemarketingSM friend and serial entrepreneur Aydin Mirzaee shares this picture.    It’s the storefront of an Adult store in downtown Ottawa.  Currently our city has suffered a 40+ day old transit strike.     People who depend on public transit are suffering.   Roads are clogged.  People are cranky.  Small businesses are losing business. The [...]]]> SM friend and serial entrepreneur Aydin Mirzaee shares this picture.    It’s the storefront of an Adult store in downtown Ottawa.  Currently our city has suffered a 40+ day old transit strike.     People who depend on public transit are suffering.   Roads are clogged.  People are cranky.  Small businesses are losing business.

The only plus side to this – downtown air quality is way up.  Because Ottawa has no clean transit (like trains), the city core is clogged with 500 idling dirty-diesel-spewing monstrosities.

Kudos to Wilde’s for demonstrating some marketing savvy, humour, and a penetrating political message :)

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Aydin’s original pic is here

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