This is the best thing that I am going to find this week. Without question. And it's only 9.15 am.
Seriously, I am thinking that it might be sensible to bugger off home right now and put my feet up, happy that I have accumulated sufficient knowledge of new stuff to last a full seven days.
My M&Ms is amazing. Brilliant.
You can actually print your own M&Ms. You can have your own messages on them, print your face on them (you can upload a photo and they sort it for you), you can put your logo onto them. Bloody magic. Oh, and you can choose which colours of M&Ms you want in your pack of personalised confectionery.
Love this very dearly.
And what is more, it's a brilliant business-building idea. Now, M&Ms are something different - a medium no less - for self-expression. Mars has found a new way in which to open up a whole revenue stream, engage people, make them ambassadors for their product and brand.
And if a small, round sugar-coated chocolate globule can go web2.0, you have to ask the question: why can't other brands come up with ideas like this to change the way that they engage with people across the web and the world?
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Genius James. Love it. Thanks for the tip :-)
Posted by: Stephen Waddington | 30 June 2008 at 10:24 PM
We were indeed loving it greatly.
J.
Posted by: James Gordon-MacIntosh | 08 July 2008 at 09:59 PM