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US teen's YouTube promo for jobless dad scores big

Updated on: 24 March,2009 09:58 AM IST  | 
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A YouTube video by an enterprising 14-year-old showcasing the talents of his laid-off dad, a Florida-based marketing specialist, has scored thousands of hits and several job interviews.

US teen's YouTube promo for jobless dad scores big

A YouTube video by an enterprising 14-year-old showcasing the talents of his laid-off dad, a Florida-based marketing specialist, has scored thousands of hits and several job interviews.

When the economy started nosediving Mark Gullet tried to prepare his son for the worst. Then on March 12 Gullet was laid off as a vice president in the marketing department for the National Hockey League (NHL) Tampa Bay Lightning team.

Undeterred, his son Ben got to work and came up with the idea of creating a YouTube video as a promotional tool to help his father find work.

Ben wrote the video's script, which his father then edited. "Then he (Ben) worked on it on his laptop at the kitchen table, laying down the music," said Gullett.

The result is the YouTube video, entitled Mark By Ben, which has received over 59,000 hits. "We had thousands of hits from Brazil and, for some reason, now we're getting hundreds of hits from Switzerland," said the proud dad.

And as an added result he has some job interviews lined up this week.




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