Globe & Mail's great tactic to drive traffic & time on site

#contest  #Email Marketing  #Online Marketing  #promotion 

We all love Easter Egg or scavenger hunts.

The Globe & Mail (one of Toronto's biggest newspapers) have announced a new website promotion that should tickle many a reader's fancy.

They've hidden $1000 CAD per day on their website for the next 50 days; all you have to do is answer a daily question that's taken directly from a current story, feature or article on their site from that day.

Digging around looking for the answer means you get exposed to their advertisers, their other current promos, and obviously their content. It's a simple, fun, and likely effective way to increase their web traffic as well as their average time spent on their site.

I received this notice in an email marketing campaign, proving once again that when delivered at the right time and with the right content, email marketing works like a charm. What's more, after clicking the email, I land on a pretty simple but effective landing page that pushes what seems to be their top 4 content sections in order to drive further click-thrus to their site.

Not bad all around, except 1 thing they've overlooked - missing out on some free promotion by failing to add a 'tell a friend' link on either the email or landing page. Oops.

Check it out at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/1Kaday/'



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