Pub2Club Beer Mats eBay Charity Auction for NCT
The summer heat wave has hit the UK, and thousands of people are enjoying the sun in pub gardens across the country. It really does make you feel good, enjoying a pint of beer or cider, whilst sitting at a picnic table socialising with friends with idle chit chat.
Flip a beer mat for Charity
But right now is the opportunity to combine that friendship banter with some charitable fun, and participate in some beer mat flipping for charity.
I am selling 6,300 new beer mats that are very rare on eBay.co.uk and raising money for the NCT charity. Click here to place a bid on eBay.co.uk on one of the last of the 63 sealed and unused stacks of 100 beer mats. The auctions start on Thursday 9th July and end at 8pm GMT on Sunday 19th July 2009.
You might ask why I have so many? Well I once ran a dotcom company called Pub2Club.com between 1999 and 2001, and had a limited production of 20,000 beer mats made promoting the company and website address. After distributing over 13,500 in one summer, the remaining beer mats that were still sealed and in their original packaging, stayed with me after the company was closed down.
Now it's time to clear out my garage and put the last of this beer mat memorabilia and nostalgia to rest. But rather than throw them all away, I thought I'd sell them and raise some money for charity. Also, I want to prove a point to a family member that someone will buy some (hopefully).
eBay.co.uk Charity Auctions
I am not making any profit, as a minimum of £1 is given to the NCT charity (National Childbirth Trust) from each stack of beer mats sold. MissionFish will take this donation from the final value of each winning auction. Each stack of the 63 stacks have a starting bid of £5.99 and will be shipped for free with 1st class recorded delivery. I will ship worldwide for an additional £6.00 to cover postage to any country, with any remaining monies donated to the charity.
After eBay and PayPal fees, postage and packaging, any remaining money will be rolled up and donated to the NCT via www.justgiving.com/jimhaysom where I am trying to raise £1000. I'm running the 2010 Virgin London Marathon and this will help towards my fundraising target.
How to flip a beer mat video
Below is a video to help you once you have got your beer mats, on how to flip a beer mat. If you get them, you will need to know what you can do with them.
Click here to buy your beer mats on eBay.co.uk and do your flipping bit for charity.
If you are interested in the World Records for Flipping Beer Mats, follow the link to see the videos and current records.
Good luck and happy bidding!
Beer Mat Flipping World Records & Videos
A lot of traffic actually comes to this website, with searches for the World Record of Beer Mat Flipping. So I've decided to provide you with a quick shortlist of the current records as they stand for a beer mat flip.
How To Guide: Beer Mat Flipping
This is a short video showing you how to flip a beer mat or two. The best thing is starting at one, and then increasing this each time trying to beat your previous record. You need to know exactly how to flip a beer mat before you can beat a world record!
World Records for Beer Mat Flipping
With the recent increase of social media and video sharing, I encourage you to try and beat these world records and upload the videos into YouTube for validation. Please note, there are strict rules and guidelines if you want to beat an official Guinness World Record.
1. Flipping the largest single stack
The Guiness World Record for flipping a single stack of beer mats is 112. This was achieved by Mat Hand, ironically in 2001. There is no available video to show this, but this is a huge achievement.
You will need to buy two stacks if you want a chance of beating that record, and large hands! This video shows exactly how big a stack of 50 is. Click here to buy beer mats on eBay.co.uk.
2. Blindfolded beer mat flipping
The same as flipping a large single stack but blindfolded.
The World Record was set by Jim Haysom (myself of course) at 45 beer mats in 2008, as seen in the video below.
But this has since been beaten by Dean Gauld at a whopping 71 in 2009. He currently is the Daddy!
3. Two handed beer mat flip simultaneous
Two stacks of beer mats and caught by two hands at the same time. Ideally the stacks should be the same height, otherwise you may find flipping stacks of different amounts quite difficult.
The World Record for this is again Dean Gauld, with a total of 130, flipping two stacks of 65 back in 1987. Unfortunately there is no video of this record available.
4. Speed flipping beer mats
That record breaker Dean Gauld is at it again, 25 stacks of 40 beer mats flipped in 45 seconds, a total of 1000. This was done in 1993 and would imagine it's been unchallenged for a while. Again, not video to support this.
To break this record you will need to have 1,000 beer mats all lined up, to be in with a chance of setting a new world record.
Buy your Beer Mats on eBay
Click here to place a bid on eBay.co.uk on the Pub2Club beer mats shown in the videos above. Or follow the link and search for beer mats, as there are thousands available to buy online. I am selling 6,300 beer mats for the NCT charity, all are new and sealed, and in blocks of 100. Information about this can be found on this site.
Breaking a World Record
If you want to try and beat the official world records for beer mat flipping, you will need to be aware of the Guiness rules and note that you will have to have evidence, witnesses, and be the right size, and follow the strict submission process. Phew, all that effort eh?
Here are links to Guiness World Records and Record Breakers Republic which are two sites that you should consider looking at if you are serious about putting in a record breaking submission.
Alternatively, why not upload your beer mat flipping video attempts on YouTube for everyone else to see.
A Mobile Internet Thriller at New Media Age NMA Awards
O-M-G. How do you exactly sum up the evening I've just had. If you have had the pleasure of attending this years' NMA Effectiveness Awards 2009 at Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane, you will come away with a number of life changing major memories. I write this via my iPod Touch on a 2am train back to West Sussex.
1. The Irish comedian comparing the night was brilliant in the first half, notably the Dettol vs Yakult sketch, but lost his way after the travelling circus gag. Whilst the Arab Jew joke got a laugh at the end, you were out of your depth and it seemed a few shandies had taken it's toll after the interval. Shame really, as the new media advertising world was ironically well positioned at the beginning. BTW, I recognize you, but don't know you name. Sadly you were not promoted in the lavish programmes, so a shitty ROI for you I feel.
2. We are talking about the crème of digital advertising and personally immersing myself in digital, I expected much more. There were some obvious and well deserved winners; UPS Widget (Best Business to Business), Budget 'Compare The Meerkat' (Best Use of Social Media) and Pot Noodle's 'Tipping Pot' (Best Use of Viral Marketing). Just how many of the campaigns submitted actually got some visibility? You get the sense that smaller than WPP and the like agencies are much more aggressive into awards submissions and attendance to such a glamorous event in the digital diary of media jollies. I just didn't see many of the other submissions. I spend my working hours online, not just publisher specific to where I work, but I search, shop, bank. network, Social network and engage online at the very least.
3. Mobile Internet ran away with the awards. Not just 'Best Use of Mobile' but the prestigious 'Grand Prix' award, the best of the 24 winners on each category. Testament to Flirtomatic.com who have built a successful business using mobile Internet, but who can take on the big guns and come away as a category and overall winner. Maybe 2009 will be that year of mobile Internet.
4. The day that pop legend Michael Jackson died. What became a Chinese whisper in the basement level of London's notorious awards hosting venue, this rumour was confirmed by the very mechanic that had won the awards. The mobile Internet. Too late to phone a friend to confirm, dozens of people in black tie and slinky dresses searched the web for the latest news via their mobiles or wireless devices. Admittedly it wasn't people desperately trying to flirt and pull some bootie call at 2am, but use that mobile device with a specific need... Is it true?
So it's 3.25am and time for bed.
RIP Wacko Jacko. A life long fan and you will be seriously missed. I do hope I get refunded for my O2 tickets from Ticketmaster soon.
Secondly, a big congrats to Matt Dicks @ Flirtomatic.com on the NMA Awards. Lunch to be arranged as promised.
Extreme Beer Pong used in Phones 4U TV advert
To anyone who has landed on this page from a search in Google for ping pong ball, Phones4U, television advert and tricks, this explains exactly what they are getting at.
Firstly, what you witnessed on the advertisement is a skill called "Beer Pong". Some people refer it to "Extreme Beer Pong", merely down to the extreme execution of the tricks undertaken.
The skill is simply bouncing a ping pong ball off a surface and it successfully landing in a container. Generally the container is a glass, mug or beaker. This way the size is small enough for it to impress, but also so you can see it actually in the container, with no David Blaine influence going on.
Search YouTube for Beer Pong or preferably Extreme Beer Pong, and you will watch many videos and your lunch hour disappear in amazement. Click here to see some Extreme Beer Pong videos.
So some clever marketing person at either Phones4U or creative agency must have been told about this genius extreme sport or doesn't have any friends and suggested it themselves.
I have long admired the marketing of Phones 4U. Not always politically correct, pushing the boundaries on exploiting some disadvantageous user groups, the ads are pure comedy to watch.
The fact their latest advertising campaign is about having friends and benefiting from their mobile phone offers and tariffs, this ad is a perfect play on the "No" answer.
There you have it. Simple isn't it. I'm sure beer pongers, if you can call them that, would disagree. I do hope the lad in the television advert was briefed on how the final ad was going to be cut.
Certainly a major piss take, but a real classic. Well done Phones 4U, your marketing and creative agencies.
But do me a favour, get the video into YouTube for everyone to share and enjoy, and put on this blog post! People need to see that knuckle to knuckle appreciation at the end. Brilliant.
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I've found the ad on YouTube, see below...
Griffin iTrip FM Radio Transmitter iPod car adapter
Sitting in my car at 6.50am, listening to the Ibiza Annual 2005 on my iPod Touch. The sky is blue and the sun is out and I know it is going to be a funky house kind of day. But this Griffin iTrip Auto FM Transmitter car adapter and charger has just made it even better!
I couldn't wait until tonight to test this, and this eBay Deal of the Day has come through in true colours.
I bought this product for less than £10 with free signed for delivery last week. Worth a whole lot more, I can truly say I got a deal. I was sceptical about whether this will work after some people shot down the product saying friends had used a similar item with little joy.
So back to this wonderful gadget. Basically it is a FM trasmitter that must have some radio broadcasting antenna that is powered from the cars cigarette lighter. It looks about the size of a matchbox. When connected to the iPod, it then scans the FM frequencies for an available clear channel.
Once found, reset you car radio to the same frequency and quicker than making a fresh mojito, you have the music from your iPod or iPhone coming out if your car speakers. Genius.
When driving long distances, should the FM frequency change, you can preset 3 frequencies for smoother music listening (apparently).
Am I impressed? Yes, so much so, that the shitty "cassette on a wire" is going to see the bin as soon as I can figure out exactly how to get the damn thing out of the stereo.
My blogging holiday is over and website traffic increases
82 days later from my last post, I'm back! Hooray. Lots to tell you all, and boy has it been interesting.
Some might have questioned the absence given that one of my last posts was about winning the national lottery twice in one night.
Did I win the jackpot? Well one should not share such personal information in a public domain. However, I'd be willing to share the news that I didn't, but the winnings were well spent on a pizza.
The absence was more of a case of stop posting and see what happens. For example, what is the site's loyalty, or level of traffic that can be achieved organically from search engines from pages that had been indexed?
I'd consistantly blogged almost every day for 2 and a half months. Then took approximately 2 and a half months break.
The results.
January 1st to March 10th 2009
- 869 visits
- 632 unique visitors
- 1,643 page views
- 1.89 pages/visit
- 58.8% of visits from search engines (511)
- 24.05% of visits direct traffic (209)
- 17.5% of visits referring sites (149)
March 11th to May 31st 2009
- 835 visits
- 772 unique visitors
- 1,142 page views
- 1.37 pages/visit
- 84.19% of visits from search engines (703)
- 8.98% of visits referring sites (75)
- 6.83% of visits direct traffic (57)
Wow!
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