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Cordawrongs: How not to viral-market a product

Dianne de Guzman ยท 02/14/08 04:00PM

When a presidential candidate puts her daughter on the hustings, they call it "pimping." But when a company sends a girl out looking for dates, we're supposed to call it a community service? That makes Cordarounds the pimp this Valentine's Day. In a viral marketing project titled "Karen the 13th," the horizontal-corduroy pantsmaker subjected winsomely hapless Karen Palmer โ€” and us โ€” to a drawn-out search for the man of her dreams.