Digital Mystery Season

All sorts of marketing / publicity ploys from Digital Designers or Affiliates come to mind, given the quantity of digital designers out there now (did someone mention 300+). Recently I’ve been intrigued to see two lots move into a solvable mystery scenario to grab people’s attention.

First we had the  Scrapanos at SIB with TVBoy - which I blogged about on Monday last. Now we have an additional mystery with 5 Digi chicks with a joint blog. More on each below -

Scrapanos and SBI

 I received an email from Ivebeenframed on this a couple of days ago. Here’s a direct copy, as it gives you some links -

Hello Michelle,

 

Thanks for posting about our investigation into the Scrapano Gang last week.

 

Thought you might want to know:

 

TV Boy Has Been Found - Hauled in for Questioning.

 

Read the full story at www.sbiblog.com

 

And get the swag discovered at TV Boy’s secret hangout by visiting
http://greensneakers.com/tvboyquestioned.asp

 

Stay tuned as investigators believe the final location of the
conspiracy is soon to be discovered.

 

All the best,

SBI Investigative Team

 

Pretty kewl, huh? Go to the top link for more information (and more cartoon graphics) and to the greensneakers link (part of the Kreate-a-Lope offering) and you will find two quick pages created by Dianne Rigdon and Doris Castle to download. I presume that Carrie Stephens’ pages are to come.  Just to add to this - the About Page on SBI says the following -

 

"A comical look at the world of scrapbooking from an investigative sensibility, reviewing new websites, new products, funny characters and anything worth a laugh"

 

So although the tie-in for the Digital Designers seems to be to supply some digital products, the SBI website itself looks potentially appealing from a themed viewpoint. Stay tuned, as they say… 

 

Digi Bunch - Who Are They?

 At a similar time, the following advert came out through Promos4Digis -

 

 

 

So we now have five digital designers getting together to create one blog, with a mystery also. Personally I can’t be bothered trying to work out who they are - although suspect that other clues are available in the fact their chick avatars are posted in the advert, and they have since sent out other ads giving other clues - 

1. Between the five designers, the sell at seven digital stores
2. Two share the same first initial, none share the same last initial.
   
3. The mails are coming from someone named The Tall Cool One - which means I pity the girl who might be the short squatty one (which I would be if in a group like this). There are obviously two blondes, two brunettes and perhaps someone of some Asian background involved also? Don’t know…maybe the avatar chicks are completely misleading.
   

I’m enjoying the mystery, but must suggest towards the quote initially used - "A Wise woman will make more opportunities than she finds" that for the five Digi Bunch gals involved - if you happen to be reading this - may I ask you to take my own offer. I’m going to open up an opportunity here, saving myself having to hunt over the internet for clues etc - I’ll buy one of your kits, and you can just tell me. How about that? Or how about making me a sixth Digi Bunch - the Silent Partner? There’s an opportunity for you…

Comments

[Angie Pedersen]

Of course, the ultimate win-win promotional opportunity would be for the Digi Bunch to contact you, and you could interview each of them, offering more clues, but still keeping their identities a mystery.

But kudos to them for creating their own buzz! Maybe *I'll* have to interview them for my podcast!! They are certainly welcome to contact *me*, too -- I can keep a secret, too! ;)

[Blog Bombshell]

Sorry, the position of Short Squatty One has already been filled by yours truly. I just felt that if I was going to have an alter ego I should go for the gusto and call myself a bombshell!!

How about a little clue? Two of us have day jobs completely unrelated to scrapping in any way. Bit of triva: those same two met through one of those jobs.

[Michelle@Scrapability]

Let's see - there are two blonde babes who are Nurses - Joanna and Melody at 2 Nurses Scrapping. That is the best I can do, as I'm sure I could only name 60 or so out of the 300 digital designers out there. I'm probably so far off the mark that Blog Bombshell is laughing her Sunday Best off.

[Tall Cool One]

Nope, no nurses. And actually, my name should be something more like Tall Dorky Klutzy One, but it just didn't have the same ring to it... know what I mean? FYI, if you want to play along some more, there are other clues residing at the digibunch.com site too!!

I understand, too, about not having the time to hunt all around for clues, Michelle. We started this as something fun and a way for someone to win a prize if they wish to embark upon our trail of clues. So while it may annoy some or have some saying, "I don't have time for that...," we hoped there would be others still who found it fun and entertaining! That was our intent, anyway. Perhaps I've been reading too many books like those by Dan Brown lately or something... ;)

And while I'm here, why not a clue, eh? Let's see, let's see...

Techno Gurl is a tech wiz (I don't believe her nickname stems from a love of techno music, but maybe she likes it). The very first kit I designed has two words in its name (and it's still up for sale, actually, at several locations online). Some of us paper scrap, some of us are only digi, some of us love other craft endeavors too. Digi is our shared addiction. Oh, and I'm a regular reader of your blog. :)