Help generate ideas for each other! take a photo every time you see an interesting use of sms in adverts: post it to flickr and tag as MOBBITS and SMSAD.
That's all you have to do to enter the competition
Every 3 months we will give away an i-Phone to one of the contributors.
Where might you spot these adverts?
In London they're everywhere: tube adverts, posters, magazines, shopping bags, stamped on restaurant bills, or EPOS receipts, TV & Radio (harder to photograph - we agree), stickers, business cards, menus, on the side panels of London Taxis, Free Newspaper listings etc..
So:
How to Enter:
1. take photograph of advert (make sure we can see/read the text instructions)
2. upload the photograph to flickr and use the tags: SMSAD & mobbits
3. add a comment to this entry with a link. be sure to tell us a little about the advert/submission: country, type of business, market, success (if known) etc.
...that's it.
Rules:
a. you can enter the competition at any age
b. you must have a mobbits.com account (White or Free Tariff is ok).
c. mobbits will evaluate your submissions based on :
* creative 'location' (how the advert was delivered)
* best incentive (reason to take the action)
d. public perception and comments may influence our decision (so feel free to comment)
Mobbits have many different jobs. There are no mobbits who are poor or superior to the rest all mobbits are equal. If a mobbit finds another mobbit who is struggling with finding a job or finding food, then that mobbit will help the other mobbit. Mobbits have a kind and generous nature. The one thing mobbits can’t understand about humans is why there are so many poor and starving humans all around the world.
Th most popular of jobs is food collecting lots of mobbits need to do that, they collect all sorts of things. Once the food has been collected, it goes into a hollow tree trunk to save for the winter. one quauter of the food that is collected goes in the tree trunk the other three quaters gets shared out equally to all the mobbits.
Once the food has been given out the mobbits have 2 choices, either to eat the food raw or to have it cooked by a mobbit cook. Both options are equally as tasty.
There are shop keepers who make cloths for all the mobbits and they can choose what item of clothing they would like. All mobbits have a clothing booklet, this tells the shop keeper what each household is allowed.
There are musical mobbits, who play at the mobbits monthly gathering where there is also a huge feast. The musical mobbits can also be hired for special occasions i.e weddings, birthdays, funerals. Items that we may think have no musical value at all, mobbits can make into brilliant instruments i.e bottle tops, nails, wood bark and many other things.
There are also cleaning mobbits, who pick up any items which happen to be left in the forest by careless humans, this helps to clean the forest up. The items that the mobbits pick up are very useful to mobbits and are a part of their everyday lives.
Mobbits have lots of other jobs but it would take forever to describe them all to you.
in this nonsensical 'nanny state'... there is of course a body designed to protect the world from unsolicited emails. they have a logo and their very own acronym. you can read about their 'manifesto' here....
The UCE part of the acronym stands for 'unsolicited commercial email'.
Excuse me if the opening sounds as though we at mobbits don't care enough about stopping SPAM, this is not the case. What is the cause of the frustration is that self appointed European bodies promoting penalties and rules that are difficult to enforce, is probably not the solution.
The reason for the cynicism is that there are must be new ways to use technology to reduce the nuisance of SPAM. we recently decided to try Google's mail service for our business. Spam was reduced by over 90% immediately. What is the secret of their success? Do they aggregate reputation? Is it the power of their community flagging what is and is not SPAM? Do any of you have better ideas? Authenticating the SMTP server &/or sender ID? other please tell us.
ITMT - you can at least use the mobbits.com account to easily manage OPTIN and OPTOUT.
That's what the 'thumbs up' logo stands for ('yes, you have my permission to tell me something'):
and thumbs down means the opposite - ('I'd like you to remove my details from your lists').
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