March 19, 2012

Avoiding the SXSW slush-pile

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One of the high­lights of this year’s SXSW for me was, crea­ting a stam­pede over at the Racks­pace stand on the first day of the trade show.

Racks­pace prin­ted up 2,500 gaping­void t-shirts to give away. When the doors ope­ned at 10am, we had 50 peo­ple already wai­ting in line. We ran out of shirts by day’s end.

Get your awe­some on, indeed…

We like crea­ting sch­wag. Sch­wag is fun. The cha­llenge is to actually create something that trans­mits REAL MEANING to peo­ple. Other­wise you’re just adding to the slush-pile.

And it’s the slush-pile that kills most busi­nes­ses in the end, sch­wag or no schwag.

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