Shock ValueCan a controversial ad get customers to notice your great offer? It worked for this company.
ByJohn Draper•
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Everyone remembersGoDaddy.com's Super Bowl ad: a buxom womanappeared before a panel in increasing stages of undress. Aghast,Fox yanked the company's ad before it could be aired a secondtime.
As sole owner of the discount domain-name registrar, Bob Parsonshad shelled out the $5 million for the ads from his own wallet, sonaturally, he was sore--at least until 2.6 million people shot toGoDaddy.com to watch the ad. Sales skyrocketed--from $102 millionin 2004 to more than $200 million projected for 2005. "To grabconsumers' attention, you have to polarize [them]," saysParsons, 55.
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