First time in the sand
A little self-promotion.
Last week Clean Freak Confessions launched (http://www.cleanfreakconfessions.com), my first project with Federated Media. It’s a hubsite, developed by Hoovers, that hosts cleaning discussions by leading bloggers. The cool thing about the site is that the conversation there is real, the cleaning experiences are ones people really have and they’re not forced. It’s my first time in this sandbox, but I’m enjoying it and learning along the way.
Touching on the subject of vacuums (mom is going to kill me for this), my mother is the only person I know who bought one from a door-to-door salesman. I don’t remember the time of year, I picture it being a dark and rainy night but that can’t be true, this story couldn’t have a setup that sweet. Most likely it was just a simple knock at the front door that brought a Kirby Vacuum into our lives.
The guy was young and talked with enthusiasm about his wares. I think he had my brother and I instantly when he sucked up change and it didn’t enter the bag but stayed in a trap. I have no idea what we were thinking; perhaps Elliot and I thought that every time it passed over the floor it would fill with change. I also don’t know which one of his tricks convinced my mother to buy; when he emptied fireplace ash on the floor and cleaned it up, when he put on the shampoo head “easily” or when he collapsed the whole thing into basically the same shape but folded over (it was the 80’s I guess that was a selling point).
Either way, we had a Kirby Vacuum after that night…. and it was never as sweet as it was right before we bought it. Loud; check. Heavy; check (it used to sit at the top of the stairs for hours until someone got the courage to carry it down). Impossible to use; check. We never shampooed at thing with the “easy” attachment. Overall, that vacuum sucked.
Why bring that up? Because that’s the value of this type of campaign by Hoover, not necessarily to get me to speak about vacuums in particular, but to get us talking about cleaning and stories about it.
In this case: point Hoover.
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