RE: Does this make me a published author?
Wow, congratulations! That experience with Tokens 24 had to be really nice for you. It's good that there was someone smart who appreciated your work. ;)
I had quite a funny experience with one of my articles. At that time I was still working as a salesman in a call center. My boss asked me if I wanted to write an article for a special gala for e-commerce. I said so and wrote a very honest article. Unfortunately, it did not present call center companies in a good light.
However, it had a different mission. I described how thanks to working in these firms you can create your own business and develop it.
Before the gala I received a phone call if I can confirm my participation.
At this event it turned out that my article received the main prize. It was also printed in a magazine for marketers and published on several portals.
The worst thing was that I became an AMBASADOR CALL CENTER for the whole year! I didn't have any duties, it was just a title, but for me it was like a punishment for that moment. 😂But it was the same year in which I left the job and started to be the boss for myself.
The article is in Polish, it contains my name and surname, so I do not attach any links.
Thank you, yeah getting that validation that your thoughts and what you have to say is pretty nice
LOL wow that’s crazy it’s funny how random opportunities we say yes to can lead to the strangest outcomes
I have a similar story I was working for an e-commerce site and we had a big campaign coming up for the companies birthday and I made a silly suggestion and the manager said they liked it and I should run with it and it was a huge hit and was trending on twitter and we even won a marketing award for the campaign but it was sort of embarrassing because I was the sort of mascot for it lol!
All part of the experience I suppose, it was fun though!
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LOL!!! It's also a fantastic story! Can you tell us more? Have you been a mascot of a specific type of product? If so, what kind of products?
Lol I don’t want to give more details because my name is attached to it and the articles are still live on the internet 😊☺️ it was for the entire campaign so I was the mascot for the products sold during that time, for the competitions and for all the social media posts!
The products were general stuff, books, music, electronics!
The whole concept was around this person / mascot who likes to surprise people with gifts 😁 so say you ordered a product we would deliver it to you and you would get a chance with me to get another free random item as a gift!
We ran the campaign physically in Cape Town and then nationally on social media and it was the number one hashtag on Twitter in SA lol
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It sounds like great fun! Do you still receive royalties from this cooperation? lol How did you feel when this idea turned out to be a hit? Did you start to be recognizable?
LOL no royalties also the company was bought out a year later and changed its name! Luckily not, only friends and colleges who would make fun of me because of it!
I was pretty shocked really even many months after it was done we won 2 big awards for the campaign!
Hopefully I’ll get to replicate it with my own website one day
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