Rob Barrett

Thanks for dressing me, FreshBooks!

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 11:08am

Just over two weeks ago, FreshBooks ran a little competition through Twitter. They’d published a new press release on their website and intentionally left a couple of spelling mistakes in.

The competition was this — first person to find and report the two mistakes wins a t-shirt. Simple!

I loaded the page, had a read through, and spotted a couple of words that I thought might be the culprit, so I shot off a reply. A few moment later, I was congratulated as the winner (wooo!) and was asked for my address so I could be sent the t-shirt.

The international shipping clearly took a while, but — true to their word — it arrived yesterday afternoon. Thanks, guys — here I am sporting it just for you!

Gotta admit, it’s a pretty cool and simple way to get people to read your press release, huh? It worked for me, at least!

In case you don’t know about FreshBooks, it’s a free (for basic level) and paid online invoicing and time tracking service. I’ve been using it about a month now, and it’s a vast improvement on my previous method of Excel and email. Keeping everything in one place just makes billing so much easier!

Now, straight up, the following is a referral link — if you’re interested and you think I deserve the recognition for pointing you onwards, click away, otherwise it’s easy enough to do a quick Google search.

Go take a look:
FreshBooks Online Invoicing, Time Tracking and Expense Service

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