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Creative Porsche marketing stunt targets wealthy homeowners

In a bid to book more test drives for Porsche dealership Pfaff, Toronto-based marketing agency Lowe Roche agency came up with this brilliant idea.

A brand new Porsche 911 Carrera S was driven around an affluent North Toronto neighbourhood and parked in front of the driveways of some very, very nice houses. The $90,000+ car was photographed to make it look as though the car was pulling out of the houseowner’s driveway. The picture was then printed inside a van parked nearby and, then, added to a template to form part of a live customised direct mail shot, which was then posted to the respective houses.

32% responded to a website where they could book a test drive according to the video below. To put that in perspective, according to the Toronto Star, advertising professor Tom Arhontoudis called the rate “fantastic,” given the fact that banks and insurance companies “high-five themselves” when 2 per cent of people respond to their direct mailings.

Source: Simply Zesty

Involved agency: Lowe Roche

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Rich Leigh is an account director at 10 Yetis PR Agency. He started PRexamples.com in January 2012, after writing about Good and Bad PR for a number of years. He also founded light-hearted PR/journalist award scheme The CRAPPs in 2010 on behalf of 10 Yetis. In March 2013, Rich launched blogger outreach tool bloggabase.com with Andy Barr. Rich lives in Gloucester with his wife and two children.

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