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The Incredible Hipness of Being a Cool Place to Work

June 11, 2007 by Eric Eggertson  
Filed under Marketing

There’s something called anti-marketing, where you aren’t trying to sell your product, yet it makes your product irresistible.

Connected Ventures staff pictureIn this case, Connected Ventures, a collection of web publishing and design companies, pulled together a fun lip synch video that captures what it’s like to be part of a group of young people who know how to have fun and not take themselves seriously.

One million views later, I’m with Mike Arrington on this one: This should be their primary recruiting video.

It isn’t traditional, it doesn’t push a message, and it works. You see the video and go "I’d love to work at a place like that."

Compare that to the lame attempt by agency.com to seem hip with their viral video pitch to get the Subway account (the video has since been pulled from YouTube). I’ve seen the video, and the last thing it inspired you to do was hire, or get hired by, the agency.

See also: Standout Jobs, Vimeo, Photo by Zach Klein

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11 Responses to “The Incredible Hipness of Being a Cool Place to Work”
  1. Chris Clarke says:

    I really loved this video when I saw it via Crunchnotes last week…why can’t we all spend our time at agencies doing that sort of stuff?

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    Yup, I want to work there!

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