Contrary to what most people believed, promoting free smileys on the internet is tough job; in fact, it’s Herculean task. These cute animated free smileys may be popular, but from the point of view of an internet marketer, this popularity is in itself the core of the marketing challenge. Try searching the more popular search engine for “free smileys" and your eyes would pop on 635,000 search engine results. To scale the summit of a search engine’s top page, getting passed this huge number of competitors, one has to find a strategy that is “attention-friendly"; something that appeals not just to his niche, but impacts other online users, as well.
The movies!
Not to be outclassed or outlived by the media’s frenzy over the multi-million gross receipts of “Dark Knight", a company that creates free smileys published online its free smileys versions of Batman and the Joker, making sure that its online users will have something to capture the movie with; a special free smiley icon that they can send in their emails or decorate the pages of their MySpace and Friendster accounts, or have something to remember by the brilliant performance of its fallen star, Heath Ledger, for months or even years after the movie has retired on DVD. Smart idea; what do you think?
And it seems it’s not enough, recently, another smiley came up online; an unlikely hero, but has definitely captured moviegoers’ hearts when it was first shown in theaters worldwide. Proof was its million-dollar receipts that catapulted it to one of Hollywood’s top grosser’s list in 2004: Hellboy.
“Hellboy" caught Hollywood by surprise; and if all surprises could mean millions of revenues, producers would not mind coming up with a sequel, and that’s exactly what happened.
Hellboy 2 (The Golden Army) debuted in theaters last week with $35.9 million in gross receipts. Owing to the public’s show of keen enthusiasm towards Hollywood’s latest movie release, smiley illustrators were quick to go back to the drawing board and came up with their latest edition of this Hollywood- inspired red-skinned hero from the abyss. That’s literally and figuratively-speaking “striking the iron while it’s hot" (as hell).
Why do free smileys take this marketing route?
James Schmidt explains that his company strives to empower personal communication via emails and social networking sites, such as MySpace and Friendster, by creating innovative and trendy free smileys that motivate, inspire and entertain. Everything redounds on giving online users what they want to share, and seemingly blockbuster movies and TV programs appeal to most of them.
In Good Company with Oprah
As more and more new trends of free smileys are recently added on the internet, there is this brand of free smiley that is cuter, more vibrant and a total runaway winner: Oprah Free Smiley. Search for it.
Oprah Smiley became an instant hit as who would not recognize her, or remember her couch? It was not too long ago when a very famous celebrity pranced on her show’s couch while professing his love to his new wife now, before Oprah’s stunned audience, and equally surprised TV viewers. That show of affection was one for a Danielle Steele’s paperback, while Oprah made it to free smileys’ featured hits.
Now the “battle" rages on: which one would be internet’s top grossing downloadable Hollywood free smiley or emoticon? Oprah, Hellboy or “Dark Knight"?
When dust settles back on the ground, one thing remains certain: hitching a marketing strategy on events, such as Hollywood’s blockbusters’ showdown, can be a big hit for website traffic. Don’t miss it!
Free Smileys And Emoticons
Setting out free smileys of entertainment megastar Oprah Winfrey and American Idol superhit, David Cook, or even the boxing champ, Manny Pacquiao in what are now downloadable favorites oprah smiley, david cook smiley and pacquiao smiley, caused some email smiley companies to get the ire of people who scoffed at the idea of smileys “imitating life". But what is life like if it can use a lot of smileys to clearly express what it wants to convey, and animate it to some degree? Would it not be more “life-like" – more fun, exciting, or even amusing?
Now, here comes Hellboy Smiley. As if on cue, some tongues started to wag again for why hellboy smiley of all designs? Are illustrators running out of ideas, or have been watching too many DVDs lately? Would there be an Angelina Jolie-smiley very soon? That one will surely rock traffic!
Hellboy smiley, inspired by the blockbuster movie, can be very useful in 3 ways:
1.)Send Hellboy Smiley to attract new friends on MySpace; as the original
movie became a box office blockbuster, and the sequel just as powerful.
Surely, there are lots of like-minded people who would want to befriend another Hellboy fan, and your Hellboy smiley just come handy.
2.)By the same reason in number 1, you can paste it on your forum posts or
use it to spice up your blog post, MySpace or Friendster pages, to name a
few.
3.) Simply send a Hellboy-smiley in your email for fun.
Hellboy the movie, and now your Hellboy smiley, re-affirm a famous quote. But first, for those who have not seen the movie at all, here is a short excerpt:
Whoever says demons can’t be angels (sometimes) should think again!
At the turn of events during World War II, the story of a demon destined to save humanity began. Hellboy, a lone traveler from Hell dimension crossed the portal opened by the occultist Rasputin and his cohorts. It was Rasputin’s intention to open a doorway for the God of destruction; summoning a vile creature called the Ogdru Jahad to annihilate his nation’s enemies and declare sovereignty over all human life.
Luckily, Rasputin’s plot was discovered earlier by an expert in paranormal activities, Professor Bruttenholm. Through his efforts, Rasputin was prevented from opening the gateway to hell. However before it could happen, a small creature was able to slip through the portal into the world.
Baby demon, Hellboy, became a student and son to Professor Bruttenholm instead of becoming an instrument to accomplish Rasputin’s evil plans. And under the professor’s guidance, Hellboy became a paranormal investigator and an unlikely hope to humanity.
The story allows imagination to run wild with graphic images of a little devil, with tail and horns just like how people picture devils to be. What creates contrast is how this devil character in the movie was depicted to grow up and become a guardian for humanity. It leaves one to ponder whether a person can change his or her destiny – is a person pre-destined to live out the life he seems to be born with or can he be re-programmed by a parent-figure who has taken the challenge to mold that person into becoming someone else?
The story is certainly “out of this world" but the basic idea behind the saying “Never judge a book by its cover" is fully expounded in the movie. No one would really expect a demon saving the human race from men who wish to destroy it. The image of an angel swooping down and stopping the bad guys is a familiar territory however for this movie, a demon saved the day.
As for Hellboy Smiley, would it not be nice to send it to someone who feels down on his luck, as if saying that regardless of circumstance, he has the power to change his life and make a 360 degree-turnaround for the good life yet to come? Would it not be appropriate to send your friends a Hellboy Smiley, as your subtle way of telling them to keep the faith they have in you as it is just a matter of time and you, too, realize your dream? And for your enemies…oh, just send out a Hellboy Smiley and leave it all up to their imagination to guess what you meant.
Download of Hellboy smiley and other smiley emoticons is fast, easy and more importantly – free. Do yours today.
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