Milk Arrowroots+Margarine-Dignity= Free Stuff?
All the news about Tiger Woods has brought his finance into the light and something I heard recently bumped the thrifty (Stingy McStinge according to gf) cogs in my head into gear. The money Tiger Woods gets from his sponsorships with Gatorade, Nike, Gillette etc surpasses all that Tiger earns from his golf. I know he obviously gets paid in the currently acceptable form of money, but look at what he has got right there… Drinks, clothing and personal hygiene products. All he needs now is sponsorship from an oxygen factory and he is set.
So it got me thinking, yeah Im not a celebrity or a sporting star but with a approximately 282 facebook friends (mostly made up of younger girls my friends went out with in high school) I realised I could use my internet presence to get things for free. People have been doing this since internet went mainstream. All the “Invite 3 of your friends and receive a free sample of our new moisturiser!” Then while your friends emails are spammed for the rest of their lives you get to enjoy a radiant glow for a few days.
So Im obviously not going to be able to live off my awesome frisbee ability like Tiger does with his golf, so I have picked out a few of my favourite items that I think it would be pretty kick ass to get. I will start with something cheap and easy until I get some advertising experience on my resume to put next to my women’s retail fashion experience from the time I was clothes shopping with my girlfriend and the shopgirl had to go to the toilet and left me in charge, or my cooking experience from when I took over a sausage sizzle run by an indian guy whilst he run off to get the reservations book for their restaurant.
Anyway Im gonna hit up Arnotts for some Milk Arrowroot biscuits (rrp $1.93 for you The Price is Right Addicts… Im looking at you mum). I practically lived off these biscuit my whole life and throw some margarine on top and not only do you have a riot on your hands but also probably the reason my growth was stunted but my energy levels were not.
Ok so here is how the message went that I sent through the Arnotts website.
Hi there
Just want to let you know that your Milk Arrowroots are practically my staple diet. I am 26 years old and put up with constant ridicule from my girlfriend because I like to cosy up with some Milk Arrowroots with a nice dab of margarine on top while she eats her crazy asian soy snacks. Anyway I have a business proposition for you Arnotts. I have a pretty active Facebook page that I am willing to dedicate to Arnotts for a week. What I ask in return is for you to send some Milk Arrowroots my way. They retail at like $1.93 right? But ask your marketing guys, can you really put a price on the kind of exposure this will get you? I have 254 facebook friends and increasing!
Anyway if you could pass my proposal onto somebody I can discuss all this with that would be great. Im sure they will think the idea is delicious hahahaha.
Thankyou
Just to show them I was serious I ticked the box to allow them to spam (or some biscuit equivalent, maybe a Savoury Shape) me.
Will keep you posted.
