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Check out my new Valentine's card — it's me and my new BFF, the President of the United States. Bet you didn't know he's a Dodgers fan.
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Source: ScanCafe Jane and Obama |
Actually, I've never met the man. But in one of the cleverest promotions to promote a business, Scan Cafe is offering to insert Barack Obama in any photo you send in creating "An Obama Valentine". For free! What's more, the company will "even remove an 'ex' from the photo to 'spruce up' a picture of a past relationship." Free!
Scan Cafe is trying to draw attention to its core business—taking old photos stored in shoeboxes, scanning them, touching them up, and putting them on a DVD. Cost is about 24 cents a photo, and the company says it's already scanned and retouched more than 18 million photos...which, by my calculations, is $4.32 million in revenues.
By the way, here's the original photo I sent in-me and my son, Jack. I guess I'd rather have Jack as my Valentine, even if he refuses to clean his room...
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Jane and Jack |
THE DOWNSIDE OF V-DAY
A warning from the University of Miami Business School: eat chocolates this Valentine's Day at your own financial peril!!
"One Tiny Chocolate May Cause Overindulgent Eating & Shopping," reads the headline from a new study, which claims research shows, "shoppers can become triggered to indulge, unknowingly, by walking into a store and accepting a sample of chocolate from a salesperson. Valentine’s Day shoppers will obviously face this sweet tooth challenge." The study pitted 300 participants split between those who ate a chocolate truffle and those who resisted the temptation. "Those who enjoyed the first truffle also valued non-food consumer luxuries, such as Apple computers, designer shirts, high-end TVs and cruises as compared with those who resisted the truffles."
Gee. If the government wants to stimulate the economy and spur us all to start consuming again, it should just send us chocolates. Much cheaper than $790 billion.
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