{"id":2988,"date":"2009-02-24T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T09:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:43:52","slug":"ugly-patio-furniture-contest-needs-publicity-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/ugly-patio-furniture-contest-needs-publicity-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugly patio furniture contest needs publicity ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Cranford of Livermore, Colo. writes:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2989\" style=\"margin: 4px 10px;float: left\" title=\"uglypatiofurniture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/uglypatiofurniture.jpg\" alt=\"uglypatiofurniture\" width=\"274\" height=\"177\" \/>&#8220;My company, Stone2Furniture, which makes indoor and outdoor furniture from stone, is having an Ugly Patio Furniture Contest and we&#8217;ll be giving away a set of our stone furniture valued at $4,100. The contest runs through August. &#8220;So here I am with the rules drawn up, and it&#8217;s live on our website and in the Media Room. I sent out 130 snail-mail flyers and emails to editors. &#8220;My next step is getting it to the local news channels. But I am wondering if I am missing a step? I haven&#8217;t heard from any editors. I know this will be fun but I&#8217;m just not sure how to launch it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Cranford of Livermore, Colo. writes: &#8220;My company, Stone2Furniture, which makes indoor and outdoor furniture from stone, is having an Ugly Patio Furniture Contest and we&#8217;ll be giving away a set of our stone furniture valued at $4,100. The contest runs through August. &#8220;So here I am with the rules drawn up, and it&#8217;s live\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/ugly-patio-furniture-contest-needs-publicity-ideas\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":0,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,619,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-2988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-contests","8":"tag-photos-graphics","9":"tag-pitching","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42133,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/42133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}