{"id":9055,"date":"2014-04-29T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2014-04-20T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T20:49:33","slug":"marys-market-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9055","title":{"rendered":"Mary&#8217;s Market Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sierra Madre Canyon there is a tiny restaurant named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/marysmarket.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mary&#8217;s Market<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It is hard to find and when you get there it is even harder to find parking.\u00a0 The canyon is full of tiny houses and lots of canyon tumbled stones.\u00a0 Charlotte the proprietor has an excellent and low cost marketing idea.\u00a0 She gathers up a few hundred of these rocks and has her customers paint advertising slogans on them.\u00a0 Later she give than to new patrons to put in their yards or use as doorstops.\u00a0 What a great low cost marketing idea.\u00a0 It builds her patron community and brings in new people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9056\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=9056\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?fit=3648%2C2736&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1393939956&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.493&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1477\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9056\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?resize=250%2C187&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1477.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lots of people want to paint Mary&#8217;s rocks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9057\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=9057\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?fit=3648%2C2736&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1393939941&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.493&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1475\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9057\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?resize=250%2C187&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1475.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brilliant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">WDITOT (Why Didn&#8217;t I Think of That)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sierra Madre Canyon there is a tiny restaurant named Mary&#8217;s Market.\u00a0 It is hard to find and when you get there it is even harder to find parking.\u00a0 The canyon is full of tiny houses and lots of canyon tumbled stones.\u00a0 Charlotte the proprietor has an excellent and low cost marketing idea.\u00a0 She gathers 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