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The leg's fake, the marketing genius is real Now that the fad of tattooing corporate logos on one's skin has run its course, a Canadian man named Nate Smids has upped the ante by selling ad space on his prosthetic leg! Smids is hoping to upgrade to a higher class of leg, but they don’t come cheap, so he’s off, hat in hand, to advertisers. We’ll spare him our usual scorn for ideas like this because a) we can’t pick on a guy with one leg, and b) his idea to use “removable, laminated logos [and] rotate ads on a regular basis” is genius. He should get companies to sponsor him in fun runs and turn himself into a human Nascar. —Posted by David Kiefaber

May 21, 2008 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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These are very high quality, designed by an incredibly talented artist. http://www.prosthetic.co.za/

Posted by: Prosthetic | May 21, 2008 7:39:24 AM

So did you copy the Daily (Ad) Biz on this post or did they copy you? It’s one thing to post about the same topic. It’s another for one of you to blatantly rip the other one off with the dueling NASCAR comments.

http://dailybiz.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/nate-smids-sells-ad-space-on-his-prosthetic-leg/#comment-1658

Posted by: MattM | May 21, 2008 12:37:57 PM

Go back and read Daily Ad Biz's post, slowly this time. No one's ripping off anyone.

Posted by: Tim Nudd | May 21, 2008 12:42:28 PM

Great idea! I have a glass eye (not really glass). An ad tagline placed there would be truly engaging, even eye-catching!

Posted by: John | May 21, 2008 2:28:46 PM

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