The best marketing ideas of the past 7 days.

Monday inspiration drop!

Here are 5 marketing moves I can’t stop thinking about this week:

#1

The LinkedIn notification loophole

A company called tl;dv just promoted every single employee to CEO.

All 50+ people updated LinkedIn the same day.

That’s 50+ “new job” notifications flooding thousands of people 😈

And the posts were super funny:

It looked like spicy corporate drama - like there was internal conflict about who the real CEO is. That confusion made it spread even faster.

My take: LinkedIn rewards job changes with free distribution. I wrote about fake job posts going viral a while back, and this stunt builds on the same idea. Just give your team new silly titles for a day and enjoy free reach to their huge networks.

#2

Someone found a way to hack Google’s algorithm (legally)

I saw this pop-up on a website:

Wait, what? You can do that?

I had no idea this was even possible. So I clicked.

What happens next is genius marketing. The kind of thing that makes you say “why didn’t I think of this?”

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