I saw a post by a friend of mine, Patrick O’Keefe at iFroggy, about some less than stellar promotional tactics being used by a poker tournament that’s taking place in the Bahamas. I’m not going to give any link love to the event itself. You can read about their tactics on Patrick’s post, I just found out from him this evening that they’ve also taken advantage of some posts about Michael Jackson’s death to add their comments and links about the tournament.
The event consists of 25 sports legends and 25 poker pros competing in the tournament. What I’m curious to know is if any of them care about the under-handed and shady tactics being used to promote the event. Do any of the people care about their name being associated with such activities? Do these celebrities and athletes even "get it"?
If you know or look-up to one of these individuals, let them know about this post and this activities for this event. I’d love to hear their comments and opinions on such things?
| Sports Legends | Poker Pros |
| Troy Aikman Richard Petty Sugar Ray Leonard Emmitt Smith Reggie Jackson Julius "Dr. J" Irving Fuzzy Zoeller Laffit Pincay Bobby Hull Brooks Robinson Kyle Petty Rocco Mediate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Joe Namath Mike Ditka Ozzie Smith Herschel Walker Jim Brown Jerry West Gale Sayers Michael Strahan Rick Barry |
Antonio Esfandiari Cyndy Violette Gavin Smith Karina Jett Robert Daily Chip Jett Marco Traniello David Singer Jamie Gold Johnny Chan Annie Duke Amir Vahedi Marsha Waggoner Kenna Cowboy James Barbara Enright Kathy Liebert Layne Flack T.J. Cloutier Phil Laak Marcel Luske Men (The Master) Nguyen Capt. Tom Franklin |
There you go. Those are all the folks having their names associated with the event and promoting the event with their likeness and name.
It appears that some of these individuals have even had MySpace pages setup for them promoting this event like this and this.
If you’d like to see examples of the marketing tactics and promotions already being done, just do a search for the athlete’s name and Bahamas or poker. You’ll probably find some results. It’s working, but is this the kind of thing we want social media being abused for in promotions?
If you’d like to see examples of some of the promotional messages that have been you can click after the link to see links and examples.
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