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Cash For Clunkers

Cash For Clunkers

I have received the following email from PhotoShelter.

PhotoShelter's Cash for Clunker Websites: August 2009

Is your website a clunker? We can help!

The US Government recently ended its "Cash for Clunkers" program. But PhotoShelter's "Cash for Clunker Websites" promotion runs for five more days!

If you have an old, clunky website - one that's in serious need of updating - we'll give you $100 toward a brand new PhotoShelter Pro website!

With a PhotoShelter Pro Account, you'll get:

  • Your choice of customizable website themes
  • E-commerce for selling prints, products and image licensing
  • The industry's best SEO tools
  • 100GB of secure image archiving
  • Listing in our photographer directory

View the full PhotoShelter tour & feature list.

Hurry, this offer expires August 31, 2009.

This great email is very good example of how to hook onto an existing, very well publicized event, especially government sponsored events. Could be converted to:

  • Are your family portraits clunkers?
  • Are your seniors' photos clunkers?
  • Are your latest ad-photos clunkers?

Cash for Clunkers … and you give some kind of discount.

  • Please note that the US government was giving away $4500 per car. That's a lot of money. Most car manufacturers also gave their own incentives, like Hyundai was giving away another $2000 off. When all the benefits were added, the discount was between 25% to 33% off.
  • The cash for clunker program from the US government lasted only 2½ weeks.
  • How fast would you decide if such a large discount was was expiring in the next week.
  • The publicity is already done for you.

Tags: Biz101 | Marketing