The ‘double take’ factor

We’ve chatted about Diggnation being an innovative, yet mind-hurtingly simple concept, but the reason it became huge was because of its ‘double take’ factor. This is what happens when something you didn’t expect catches your eye, whether it’s for controversial reasons (I cant believe he / she did that), innovation (Dyson) or the offering is so darn good that you cant imagine living without it (iPod?) or better than any other offering (iPad anyone?).

In an effort to simplify things, we are cutting quite a few corners with this explanation, but you get the gist.

To really get the ‘double take’ factor you must do something that is ‘out of the box’ much like Diggnation was.

If you are ready to think all ‘blue sky’… Check out guerilla marketing.

Thinking caps at the ready!

Create your own ‘Diggnation’

Diggnation was a success story and a genius marketing idea. A regular chat show style set up whereby the owners of Digg get together and chat about stories posted to Digg that week.

So, with that in mind, how do you create your own Diggnation?

Simply put… don’t 

With live video and audio streaming, podcasts etc out there its easy to replicate their idea, but not their success. How come? They’ve already done it, move on!

An open letter to you

You get nothing in this world without begging, so this is our open letter appeal to anyone that’ll listen!

We want youto get involved.

We are looking for brand advocates to forward our links, spread the word, like our posts, recommend us etc etc etc…

If you feel you can get involved and help us take our fledgling company into the stratosphere, then get in touch by emailing us your ideas or comments:

ideas@76uk.com