Unusual Advertising and Business Practices

Advertising has been used in some very creative ways. These are just some of the creative or humorous ways signs and advertising have been used. Business can get a little wacky too.

Dairy farmer Charles Wilkinson had to get creative when advertising his farm. Signs were prohibited along Route 696, near his farm, so he turned his cows into mobile road signs.

New Yorker Marc Halberstadt wrote an advertisement about himself in order to attract a wife. A personal ad may not seem unusual, but this one was not the average personal ad. His was book length.

Coffee drinkers are probably familiar with the slogan "Good to the last drop". But they may not know Maxwell House didn't come up with it - Theodore Roosevelt did.

Bill Fink is a graphic artist in Hollywood who uses business cards, like many people do. However, his business card is a signed plaster cast of his foot.

Signs reading "Beware of dog" are found everywhere. This may not be a modern creation though. In Pompeii, Italy, an ancient mosaic features a figure of a dog along with the popular slogan.

If you can type over 40 words per minute you may think you're a fast typist. Albert Tangora could put you to shame. He could type 160 words per minute. At his fastest, he typed 265 words in a single minute without any errors.

On the side of the Great Pyramid Giza in Egypt, a hieroglyph actually reads "this end up".

Fax machines may be a little outdated now, but many consider them to still be a part of technology. The fax machine is much older than many think. It was invented in 1842 by Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain.

A sign was hung in a hospital in Germany in 1704, stating that "It is forbidden to quarrel, fight or brawl here. Guilty parties will have their right hand chopped off." The sign is still displayed in the Rothenburg hospital.

Near Montreat, North Carolina, there is an old moonshiner's road. A sign can still be seen here, reading "hitz just 1 m", with the "j" and "s" backwards, and an arrow pointing towards a jug. It was supposed to say "It's just 1 mile".

We've all heard of casual Fridays, but a public relations company in New Jersey has a very different approach to their dress code. On Fridays, the employees wear tuxedoes and ball gowns to work.