on saturday evening Kylie and Parker were playing outside when they came up with an idea. I’ll take you back to the conversation…
Kylie: Let’s do a lemonade stand.
Parker: ok!
Kylie: We’ll need a table, lemonade, a sign, and a money cup.
Parker: Let’s make it free lemonade!
Kylie: Yeah!
Parker: And we’ll give people money!
Kylie: yeah!
…so they made themselves a sign, and away they went. I had to get a picture.
It was so stinkin’ funny listening to them come up with the idea. Erica wasn’t home, but even though i was by myself I was still laughing out loud. Oh the innocence of my adorable children.
Here’s the funny thing though: despite the sign, their first two customers paid for the lemonade. The girl across the street paid 3 cents for a cup and our neighbor Jeff paid “an Abraham Lincoln”, as Parker put it. Apparently Parker tried to give him money and he said, “No, you don’t pay me, I pay you.” All in all they had 5 or 6 customers and made a few bucks.
Was it the superb advertising, the gimmicky promotion, or their overall cuteness that made them money? I don’t know, but there’s got to be a marketing lesson in there somewhere.
Where’s Seth Godin when you need him?