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How to create viral swag for your brand 🛍️

The 3 rules of conversation-starting swag, and why “Low Content Books” are trending right now.

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Tom Orbach
Aug 18, 2023
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Let’s be real: 99% of startup swag is just blah.

I recently went to a cybersecurity conference and got sprayed with useless swag. I mean, literally, entire bags filled with useless swag.

Pens, bottles, notebooks, socks, t-shirts, stickers, toys, passport holders, hats, playing cards, wallets — you name it.

Boring!

But there’s a new category of swag that’s currently exploding all over social media, which I consider to be anti-useless (=useful).

📚 Enter: “Low Content Books”

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