Big Brown Box Blog

Got a letter this morning from a company called The Karcher Group. Inside was a certified “bunch of stuff” letter to put in the Big Brown Box. Including…

1. One year FREE web hosting ($600 value)
2. One search engine optimization initial research report ($1,500 value)

Bringing the total value of the items to $2,100!!!!

Bringing the new total value of the Big Brown Box to $18,628!!!

Sam at CostPerNews has graciously put $1500 worth of ad sponsorships into the big brown box. Thanks yo!

Free “Premium Sponsorship” package for one month on CostPerNews valued
at $1500. Package includes prominent banner in sidebar, mentions in “Sponsor Thank You’s” posts, inclusion in the blogroll to help your page rank and visibility.

Banner Properties: (no gambling, porn, pharma please)

Height: 250, Width: 125

Thus making the big brown box value at $16,528! Thanks Sam.

Jill Konrath of Awesome-Women.org has sent the big brown box a one-year free membership for awesomely awesome women. Yeah, it’s not a huge thing, but hey, any organization with the word “awesome” in it is good in our books. Thanks Jill.

The most important thing is that this awesome gift to the big brown box puts the total value of the box over $15k!

You know him, you love him, he’s Michael Gray of Wolf-Howl.com and he’s giving the Big Brown Box the shirt right off of his back!

We’ve been told that “the lisa” tshirt is high in sentimental value, but really only retails for $9.99. But you know what? How could we turn that down?

I’m not gonna promise anything, but… My friend at Google headquarters just let me know he’s sending in some official Google schwag for the big brown box. Juicy, fresh, tasty Google schwag! MMMMMMM. I can’t wait to see what it is.

We just got a stack of calling cards in the mail today from Brian at Pingo.com. Those are valued at $250, so we’re adding it to the big brown box.  That brings the value of the big brown box up to… $14,899.

Shawn Collins of the Affiliate Summit just offered up a full, free conference pass to the event this summer in Miami.

That’s a value of $1,449 added to the big brown box, bringing the total to a whopping $14,649!

You don’t want to miss this event, especially because ZEFrank is the keynote!

Holy moly people. Dave and I are stunned. Jon from Wickedfire Forums and aojon.com just made a $10k gift of stuff for the big brown box, and I’m telling you, this is good stuff for anyone who values high-quality web traffic. The details of the package is below. This takes the official value of the stuff in the big brown box to $13,200!

 $10k Web Traffic Package from WickedFire
 
Item #1: Free linkbait campaign. Value: $6k
Details: I come up with an idea for a campaign for the company/product, and we drop the news for it and it gets a ton of people talking, blogging, and linking back to it. Viral marketing at it’s best.

Item #2: 1-month banner sponsorship on WickedFire.com. Value: $3k
Details: Just so long as the ad isn’t porn, pharma, or gambling. And it cannot be another webmaster forum. 728×90 flash file.

Item #3: 1-month blogroll link from my blog on aojon.com. Value: $1k

What? We’re live for 10 minutes and we already have offers for stuff to put in our big brown box pouring in. Check this one out. Super radio and Internet guru David Lawrence who does a 3-hour nightly show heard by millions of listeners has donated a $500 podcast design consultation, direct with him!

This makes the current value of the big brown box to be $3200, and growing fast!

The official offer from David is…

An hour’s worth of podcast design consultation with David Lawrence. Looking to put together a podcast, but don’t know where to start? Have a podcast already that you want to take to a new level? Looking to make money through sponsorships or subscriptions? From the hardware you need to tweaking your strategy for reaching a bigger audience and everything in between, David Lawrence will give you one-on-one coaching for a full hour.You can see all of the ways David can help at his website: http://www.podcastdesign.com/

David’s been podcasting for longer than podcasting’s been it’s name, having published his nightly Personal Netcast back in 1995 via RealAudio and email. And today, he podcasts for MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Pepsi, NASCAR and supports all of his syndicated shows with podcasts of their own. He teaches professional broadcasters how to podcast at the National Association of Broadcaster’s conventions, and he’s helped dozens of celebrities get their podcasts up and running as well.This consultation will be via phone, or if in the Los Angeles area, in person.

Awesome Dave (Dave Potokar) has decided to give the big brown box one of his professional logo design packages, valued at $1,000. Thus bringing the value of the big brown box up to $2700!

Dave says about the package…

The logo (or better named business identitiy) package includes: logo design, business card template with logo, letterhead and envelope templates ready for print at your favorite printer.  Dave can also print your collateral on a per quote basis.

View more of Dave’s awesome logo designs on his website here.