
A Seemingly Obvious Idea
Risk of Ruin
Betfair's Approach to Attracting Customers
Betfair's approach to the problem of trying to attract customers while spending very little money was to get creative. They organized a big funeral march through the city of london, declaring, the bookie is dead. The day before we did that, they did a fake funeral through london. And this caused an awful lot of bad press. So as a result, or pr adviseds ad advised, we pull it. I all pretending to be, sort of, you know, coarse bookmakers, a and they dated their march through the london,. hold handing out, handing out, leaflets to people saying, we must stop this terrible company, solv and so forth.
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