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Serving Up the Machine
Posted by Rob Tonkin | August 26, 2010 – 11:05 a.m. | Category: Guest Post
The Rube Goldberg machine created for Esurance's sponsorship of the 2010 US Open.
Rob Tonkin is an executive producer at Marketing Factory, Inc.

Over the Memorial Day weekend I worked at the Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, Washington, performing on-site marketing work for Honda. During the event, I met the folks from Esurance. I was familiar with the company, thanks to their clever television commercials. Shortly after the festival, Marketing Factory was invited to devise some of our patented "experience marketing" — which we've furnished to our clients for 11 years — to assist Esurance with their on-site sponsorship of the 2010 US Open.

We repaired to our creative think tank and emerged with one idea in particular that interested everyone involved: an Esurance Rube Goldberg Machine.

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