Get Your Strategy On
Some pathetic company obviously agreed that the Peditra commercial was pretty clever and would capture attention. We acquired Peditra.com to protect ourselves from the crudballs that would take advantage of that domain name, but we didn’t acquire all the variations of toll-free telephone numbers. Until yesterday morning, 1-888-PEDITRA wasn’t a functioning number. Today, magically, a company has acquired the number and used it to promote their disgusting business. The problem isn’t the 888 number, it’s the number that the message encourages you to call. In other words, don’t call 1-888-PEDITRA.
Great publicity for us though. I love it when our creative efforts generate controversy and stir up attention. That just means Perry’s going to have a bigger platform in the coming weeks to share a biblical message that’s specifically directed to men.
Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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Chris
March 31st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Tony - is there a lesson to be learned? I did check out peditra.com and saw that it was redirected to the YouTube video but didn’t call the number.
Would you think twice about including a phone number in a video or make sure that the number is owned by the church next time?
tony morgan
March 31st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
yep.
kevin
March 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
you have to admit, this is pretty funny
tony morgan
March 31st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
yep.
Josh Martin
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’m going to be honest, it’s funny and peculiar. Supsicious I am.