Shanghaiist: And the winner is...

EPM

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:08:02 +0700

Tu chez 同志，

Sam

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:44:43 +0700

You five dollar boy and I'm a million dollar man You's a sucker MC, and you're my fan You try to bite lines, but rhymes are mine You's a sucker MC in a pair of Calvin Kleins

EPM

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:27:40 +0700

These promotions have made the Ctrip twitter feed very annoying, i've given it the axe. I'm sorry to say this Ms. Chow, because I've think you've been doing a good job on shanghaiist but that winning entry was pretty brutal. Any joke that uses 'retroactive' in it, is facing an uphill battle. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a bastardization on the old hockey joke about a girl getting two gretzkey tatoos on her thighs and thus making Lanny McDonald the center (search him on google images for a laugh), but the joke just ended up short. I feel much better having washed my hands of Ctrip and their bottom rung clientele.

EL JEFE

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:01:36 +0700

Not only is this a stupid idea, but if you were to look at her thighs spread around you, it would read CARLTON RITZ and not RITZ CARLTON. Or are thighs below the ass? The only thing I remember about that movie is that I wanted to kill myself after I watched it. Retroactive ink? A retroactive eraser would be nice to eliminate the dumbest idea I've ever heard.

Jacob

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:17:23 +0700

hhmm... Probably going to sound like a sore loser here but the contest specifically stated "if you had a 1,000 RMB". While it was a creative tweet it is also completely impossible whereas several other entries were possible and within the budget that was set. If you are going to just take something completely random and impossible to achieve next time just say "If you could do anything in the world". A statement like this would be more representative of what you're looking for. Moreover I'd have no complaint and there'd be no false objective. judging #fail.. (imho) A few actual guerilla marketing techniques that could have been achieved.... augapfel @CtripEnglish paint the Portman logo onto streetlamps in the city so they project the shape of the Portman onto the sidewalk josemontalvo @CtripEnglish i would get the staff from the portman a giant piñata, tons of tequila and a mariachi band to celebrate 5 de mayo with them! blurilakkuma @ctripenglish would rent a moving billboard truck that read: I just won a free night at Shanghai Portman Ritz-Carlton suite, life is sweet. casj969 @ctripenglish : i would print 100 t shirts with hotel logo and tel on the back and do a FlashMob on the Bund...efficient and mediadfriendly (although a flash mob with 100 people in China isn't a mob its smaller than the red-cap tours) ok.. go ahead flame me for being a sore loser