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While traveling on the street, I glided past a man with this advertisement on the back of his T-shirt:

“Duy Loi Folding Hammock. Find us at 1080″

1080 is the phone number of the telephone answer switchboard in Vietnam. Potential customer of Duy Loi can get the company’s contact by calling the operator.

Why did they do this

1080 is easier to remember than a 7-digit telephone number. Plus, it is a well-known service to a lot of people.

This is similar to “We are company XYZ. Find our website by searching on Google”! (-*-)

Evaluation

Starting with information portals like a switchboard or a wiki(search_engine) has grown a habit to many people. They’re really smart for exploiting this practice.

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(-*-) A flaw in the comparison is that the vendor must make sure their website appears on the top of wiki(search_engine)’s result with many popular combination of keywords.