Target Marketing at it’s finest! A+ for effort!

As I was checking my Facebook messages, Superpoke, and App invites (deny all!), I saw this well executed advertisement. My friend (and facebook friend) Brad signed up for an offer a while ago to make some extra cash on the side. FusionCash put an advertisement on Facebook that checked my friends list with their fans and it popped up on my profile. That is good work by them! I signed up for it before, but I never actually used it…Looks like I am now!

And as a side note, I just spent the last 4 minutes refreshing my Facebook page to make it pop-up again so I could include a screen shot of it. Nice work FusionCash, you got a conversion today!

**UPDATE**

So I went to sign up and accidentally clicked the “x” to close out of the window.  It prompted me to stay and a “Live Chat” box popped up.  I didn’t think anything of it, but then Jessica posted again.  So I though, instead of being rude in the off chance that I was actually talking to a real person, I thought I would respond.  The image shows what happened.

Pay attention to what I said and then the following line by Jessica.  I figured it was a bot, and that made me laugh.  LOL, if you will.  It didn’t stop me from signing up though.

Using Pixish for Higher Ed

This has been a crazy busy week with like a million of projects, all back to back…finally I get to blog…my apologies.

So I ran across a website the other day called Pixish. That same day, Brad Ward from SquaredPeg blogged about it’s uses in higher ed. I met with some creative students yesterday and talked to them about how they would feel about submitting photos in exchange for photo credits for use on some of our webpages (Student Life, Student Page?, Media Quad, etc.). It was unanimous, and everyone said they would be happy to submit photos. We currently do not have a campus photographer (he retired 6 months ago) other than myself, and I am do not consider myself a professional photographer; I can just take pretty good photos. So I thought, why not open this up and see what kind of response we get. I will be monitoring the site for quality of shots and to ensure they will help add to our goals. I will not just take any shot of students, certainly not something point and shoot, but actual really excellent shots of students having fun. FJ Gaylor blogged about how to capture life after 5 p.m. This is definitely something we have always struggled with, and really do now since I have moved from the Student photographer position I held here last year to full time marketing. No one has filled that void yet, I’ve got my eyes on a young woman I met at a preview day, so hopefully she comes to UIS next year! Anywho…chime in on how you feel about this and whether or not you think students will really take advantage of this.