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Engage with your customers if you want to prosper

Monday, December 1st, 2008

If you want to prosper in business during these tougher economic times then now is the time to start engaging your customers.

Customer engagement is all about engaging your customers with your company or brand and it can lead to increased order values, customer loyalty and word of mouth recommendation. (more…)

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life…

Friday, November 21st, 2008

The last few weeks has seen a barrage of negative stories dominating the news channels around the globe.

No one can argue that the outlook is a little bleak in some quarters; however, as we hope to show you, there are still some positive rays of hope out there getting lost amongst all the talk of economic downturn and recession. (more…)

Warning to Cornish Facebook Users

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Cornish Facebook users are being warned not to open suspicious links in their Facebook accounts after a Trojan virus made its way through the profiles of hundreds of users in the county. (more…)

Faceless People… Revealed!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Over the past few days strange faceless people have been turning up at high profile events in scenes reminiscent of an episode of Doctor Who. All across London events such as Wimbledon and Elton John’s party have seen these faceless individuals lurking in the crowds with no one daring to question them.

Current.com features the story as it’s number one news item on the news pages and comments far and wide are speculating about exactly what their motives are.

Here at the Engine House we can see through the speculation and reveal with the minutest amount of digging that the ‘Faceless People’ are a cleverly devised marketing ploy from the car makers - Lotus.

How do we know this? Well take a look at the images below…

The first image shows within the code of the website www.facelesspeople.com, a dramatic site counting down till ‘True Character Emerges’, a line of code stating ‘http://www.grouplotus.com/cars/home.html‘ a clear sign that they are the creators.

The second image shows that the original website title tag was ‘True Character - Lotus’ - obviously the campaign has worked better than expected and the mystery is worth capitalizing on!

Further evidence for Lotus involvement comes from the use of the term ‘Project Eagle‘ within the code - a Lotus project that will see a ‘higher specification addition to the Lotus product range entering the market above the Elise’ and the Faceless people counter timing down to an event which strangely coincides with the opening of the London Motor Show.

So the mystery is over. However, we have to say we take are hats off to the creators of this campaign. Intensive online attention, speculation and widescale press and media attention makes this a truly brilliant piece of buzz marketing.

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