You may think we mistreated the raccoons by demonizing them. I agree, but for the sake of justice, I must add we also decriminalized them in media. In another promo action two years later, a raccoon from the same company became the animal that saved a clothing boutique from plunder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XszPhXTFO0
And then we allowed raccoons from another company to admire a woman’s tits, but that is a different story.
Trial Over the “Russian Google”
I personally dislike the news in Russia, with all those car accidents, murders, crashes, and man-caused disasters hitting the headlines. Who needs this depressing stuff? Even Professor Preobrazhensky from The Heart of a Dog after the eponymous novel of Mikhail Bulgakov made a point about the pernicious impact of Soviet newspapers upon digestion. “And God keep you from reading Soviet newspapers before lunch!”
Someone told me it’s a bit different in the US where you hear more positive news.
So, my attorney and I thought of something: the main culprit is the Yandex search engine, most popular in Russia, where the main page always shows the top five news by default. I expressed my discontent in the lawsuit where I claimed I was “growing bald because of bad news,” having attached to it the opinion of a trichologist where he confirmed that stress indeed causes hair loss. It was up to the press to fill in the blanks and connect the dots.
As a result, we had the following publications:
http://mashable.com/2016/03/18/russia-bad-news-lawsuit/#.EKwMdSbuPqm
http://www.sulromanzo.it/blog/diffondi-troppe-notizie-negative-e-allora-ti-faccio-causa
and a lot more.
The guys from Yandex must have found the phrase “Russia’s Google’ as their description particularly hilarious.
Eventually, I got an amazing spin in the international arena and respective new clients to boot.
The PR-secret of Cat Woman and Professional Bed Warmer-girl
My friend told me an anecdote about the Russian poet Sergey Yesenin who ordered the maid’s services with his colleague Marienhof in soggy St. Petersburg. Her main service was warming the beds for poets and then leaving.
Four days later, she quit the job because she was flabbergasted that she was never harassed and she hoped this would be the case.
This was a cute anecdote, and I decided to repeat it in modern-day Russia with my client – the landing web page LPgenerator.ru. We came up with the she-is-generator.ru site, found a “heroine” who would be a “cat woman” (or “bed warmer”), and launched this hoax in media: https://life.ru/964200
How many leads (potential queries) do you think she received on the first day? (the right answer: more than 200).
How many clients actually used her services? (the right answer: more than 0).
How much money do you think Viktoria Ivachyova made out of that hoax? (the right answer: more than 100,000 rubles or about $2,000).
These were fees paid to the young entrepreneur by media, foreign outlets prevailing (Chinese and German TV channels).
The result was over 50 publications, of which 15% were foreign press releases:
http://10ways.com/profit/alternative-jobs/woman-earns-1350-per-month-warming-beds-with-her-body-heat
https://v.qq.com/x/page/o03710lkpwq.html
http://www.nai2.com/dailymail/8617.html
http://www.bhaskar.com/news/KZHK-meet-professional-bed-warmer-news-hindi-5521933-PHO.html
http://usfinancepost.com/meet-Viktoria-ivachyova-the-worlds-first-professional-bed-warmer-27916.html
And