{"id":751,"date":"2009-08-27T04:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T11:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/denim-brands\/denim-brands-international\/gap-1969-premium-denim-jeans-promotion-strategy-news-views\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T04:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T11:56:34","slug":"gap-1969-premium-denim-jeans-promotion-strategy-news-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/brands\/denim-brands-international\/gap-1969-premium-denim-jeans-promotion-strategy-news-views\/751","title":{"rendered":"Gap 1969 Premium Denim Jeans &ndash; Promotion Strategy , Videos etc.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of the Gap 1969 premium denim has been widely covered by the press . Gap is a large retailer listed on the NASDAQ and it has been showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/aspx\/company-news-story.aspx?storyid=200908201907dowjonesdjonline000653&amp;title=2nd-update-gap-2q-profit-down-04-on-lower-sales\" target=\"_blank\">flat or negative results<\/a>&#160; for quite some time now \u00e2\u20ac\u201cand now the world is watching <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSTRE57C0NT20090813?pageNumber=1&amp;virtualBrandChannel=0\" target=\"_blank\">whether &quot; Gap can do it<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/strong>and whether this new jeans can bring it back on rails..<\/p>\n<p>Here are some miscellaneous points about this launch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c its promotion strategy, a video explaining the different styles in 1969 and a behind the scenes video on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBorn to Fit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Gap will rely on Facebook instead of TV ads to reach customers. Gap has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gap?v=app_146756048744\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a> . The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<strong>Born To Fit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> campaign is designed to make it interactive and anyone with a facebook account&#160; can upload their photos and create&#160; a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBorn to \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tagline. So you will find&#160; photos of people with interesting taglines like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBorn to Smile\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBorn to Dance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 , \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBorn to Tell Stories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#160;&#160; and many more .. This&#160; widget is posted on a users facebook profile and if approved, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gap?v=app_146756048744\" target=\"_blank\">Gap\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facebook page<\/a> also. The idea is clear \u00e2\u20ac\u201c let people create their their own widgets around Gap 1969 and share with the world. This way consumers would be themselves marketing the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s product . Cool..<\/li>\n<li>Gap seems to be luring the stock traders at the New York Stock Exchange to push up the Gap stock price by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/story\/markets\/industries\/retail\/jeans-nyse---believe\/\" target=\"_blank\">providing them 1200 free 1969 jeans<\/a>..Well actually , it was in commemoration of Gap\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 40th Anniversary coinciding with the launch of the premium denim line.<\/li>\n<li>Learn about Gap 1969 from Gap\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Denim architect: This is a nice video from Gap explaining the different women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s styles and why they think they are so special .     <\/li>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:45e92c15-f10a-4af7-8711-3e7de906389d\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-tkwU7tyNA8&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-tkwU7tyNA8&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>4. 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