Patrick and I are organizing a "gorilla" marketing campaign in NYC, here's the basic idea of it:
Hire someone for approx 10 hours of work to:
-Buy 250 mini bananas
-Have them write "WSO" in sharpie on each banana
-Rent a gorilla costume
-Wear a WallStreetoasis shirt over the costume
- Wear costume and pass out the bananas / be a fun mascot / take photos with bankers (and/or occupy wall street people) in front of one (or several) finance/banking/wallstreet buildings on a tbd Monday morning between 730-930am as bankers are arriving to work
-Have them bring a photographer to document the whole event
-Photos will be posted on WSO site / our facebook page
-Idea is bankers will google "WSO" when they get into the office (we are doing google adwords that day in NYC so when they type "wso" in google a wallstreetoasis ad will pop up at top of search results)
Here's the current ad on Craigslist
Questions for you monkeys:
-What buildings / addresses would be best to target?
-Should we send them into the heat of the "Occupy Wall Street" stuff (w/ a signed waiver that we're not responsible for anything that happens to them) or wait until it is all over?
-Anyone know someone interested who would do it?
-Any other thoughts/comments/ideas?
Thanks monkeys!!
-Andy & Patrick
Ermmm right now??? Like, when the "Occupy Wallstreet" is still out there?? Nevertheless, I absolutely love this :D Look forward to the facebook album result :D
Stay away from all the Occupy Wall Street protestors. If cops see a guy in a Gorilla suit by any of the major banks, they will literally beat the shit out of him, arrest him, and then his ass will (perhaps rightfully) sue the shit our of WSO. (We might get some press coverage for that though, lol.)
I agree I think we should wait til all that calms down, maybe November/December?
I'm tempted to offer to do it, could be fun
Locations: Wall Street, Grand Central, PATH, the major hubsThat's awesome and would be way too much fun to do it.
Times Square, 5th and 57th, Grand Central Terminal north on Park Ave, maybe World Financial Center. Honestly, Occupy Wall Street is literally on Wall Street, but Wall Street itself (minus some DB trading floors) is not.
I'd do it for a certain price, this could be fun.
Definitely put a QR code image on the gorilla's back/ass.
If you fly me out to New York I'll for sure go toy with the Occupy WS people. hockey pads under the costume, of course, dont want to get beat too bad ;)
I would love to do that...I would have a blast. Damn job getting in the way.
That is a pretty good idea.
Caribou coffee did something similar when they were expanding. They would place giant cardboard caribou in random places and if a person brought it to a CC store than he/she would get like ten free cups of coffee.
Why don't you put a QR code on the back that links to some free WSO credits if you register?
great idea... I wish I lived in New York cause I'd totally be down
I nominate Flake. :)
This dude is going to make WSO look silly and possibly get beat up by hippies.
Cause the internet is serious business... I think a guy in a monkey suit would actually represent this site pretty well once you look past some of the snobbish people and the people obsessed with prestige which actually seems to be dying down... A laid back place to talk finance/ivy league girls/hippies/eating poor people/etc while also being able to talk to other serious professionals (I know we got some on here) if you choose to do so.
I second Flake's nomination as the guy in the Gorilla Suit!
actually, i think going down to Occupy Wall Street would be pretty funny, but I'd have to get a release from whomever did it that WSO is not responsible for bodily harm.
Actually, it would be funny if the guy gave some of the protesters bananas...they might be confused. Like, "is this guy with us or against us?!?!"
Would be especially awesome if we could get some naive OWS people to start posting on WSO!
...and if the media started interviewing him/her in the costume. hahaha
Would be funnier if it gave them monkey shit lol.
+1 sb, great answer
Just give em a pile of monkey shit and peg it at the hippies
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