We love watching the competition, and it’s great when we spot something we’ve done that they’ve followed. For example, the Schtickers.com Zebra design, which was added after we introduced our very popular Zebra laptop skin. I still think our design is way cooler though!
The film ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘ is now in cinemas in the UK and is coming to Ireland next week! We are repeating our previous free skins offer, with a few changes.
We think the message of this film is important and we want to get it out to as many bloggers as possible.
Basically, all you have to do to get your free skin is to follow these instructions:
1. You have to have a blog.
2. You have to be in a European Union country.
3. You have to apply for the offer before the end of October 2006.
2. You need to post a blog post containing a link to www.aninconvenienttruth.co.uk/ or http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/ and to this offer at http://aspoke.com/blog/.
For example, your blog post might read as follows (text here is from the film website, but the text is up to you).
‘Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. An Inconvenient Truth offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress in its tracks
Aspoke.com has a special offer which I have taken up. If you have a blog, you should check aspoke.com’s offer of a free laptop skin if you mention ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ on your blog.’
Remember, you can say whatever you like about the film or the offer, providing you include the two links
then send us via email:
* the web address for your blog
* what design you would like (choose from our products page)
* what size of skin you would like or what model of laptop you would like the skin for
One skin per household, one skin per blog. You don’t have to say anything nice about the film. Your blog has to have been in operation for at least 28 days. Send it to customerservice@aspoke.com with the Subject ‘Inconvenient Truth Offer’.
This morning’s Sunday Times has an article featuring aspoke.com’s startup laptop skins venture. (Pointed out by Walter at Sxoop.)
This is the laptop skin for people who have loads of money (or at least want to pretend they have).
At the end of the day, aspoke.com is about design. People buy the skins because they like the designs.
We want to broaden our appeal by having a wider range of designs and we want to work with designers and artists to do this. We already have some partnerships in the works, but we would like more. To work successfully with a designer, we would like the following:
Damien Mulley doesn’t have a laptop (except the one he uses when he is posing for photoshoots) but he’s wondering about skinning his fridge and his washing machine. Other people (occasionally) ask about skinning the cases of desktop computers. And yes, we can do anything that doesn’t get too hot and has a surface that doesn’t have too many corners on it. (The curves aren’t a problem for us, but it does make it a little trickier for you to apply the skin neatly.)
If you’d like something like this, just email customerservice@aspoke.com and we’ll get back to you with a quotation. In general terms you are looking at a cost of EUR 59 to get something custom for a standard fridge (about 850mm high, about 590mm wide). We can do something based on your design, your photographs or one of our own designs. (Imagine a kitchen full of zebra appliances!) There may be an artwork charge depending on what you want to get done. The finish is the same as our standard laptop skins. A minifridge would cost less, obviously!
Does anyone think there is a market for a standard range of appliance skins, perhaps at a lower price? It’s definitely a great way to make a b-o-r-i-n-g kitchen fun.
An Inconvenient Truth is such an important film that aspoke.com will pay you to go and see it! Read some reviews (Joi, scienceblogs, Lawrence Lessig, Realclimate, Climate Ark, Loic). Go to see the movie, keep your ticket stub and we will send you an aspoke.com laptop skin of your choice (any of the styles on our website) completely free. (Normally, this would cost you around 24 dollars.) Plus, if you have a blog, and you link to the climatecrisis.net site and to this offer, we’ll send you a free laptop skin, either one from our range, or one of your own design, and you won’t need to send in a ticket stub.There are a few things you have to do to qualify for this offer, but they aren’t too hard to fulfill.
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Welcome to the aspoke.com blog! I’ve talked about aspoke.com before on my personal blog, http://www.eire.com/. Be sure to subscribe to keep up to date with our offers. We look forward to talking more about our product and our ideas for the future. We hope you think our ideas are original, or at least entertaining, and we appreciate all your feedback.