Your Taxes are Free... If Your Name is Johnson. (But Everyone Else Has a Shot at a $100 Gift Card)
01/28/2010


How's this for a unique giveaway/promo: Tax return software maker eSmart Tax is giving away 2.2 million copies of their deluxe software for free... but only if your last name is Johnson.

Yup. You gotta be a Johnson. The company wanted to do something big and found that 2.2 million people in the US have that last name, so they decided: Why not make them all winners? It's the least they can do for people who can never get email addresses, Facebook URLs, or Twitter accounts with their name...

So, if you're a Johnson, all you need to do is head over to iamajohnson.com to confirm your Johnson status and collect on their file-your-taxes-for-free offer.

Daryl Johnson did. He's the guy smiling on that billboard above. The lawn care business owner from Richmond, VA entered and ended up the national spokesman for the promotion. Not bad when just having a certain last name makes you a celebrity... right Paris?

But eSmart Tax isn't discriminating against those of us with less common names. They're giving away $100 Visa gift cards to random uncommon folk, too. And I have one for my readers.

All you need to do to is Tweet the following phrase: "Hey @thebachelorguy I want $100 courtesy of @thedaryljohnson #fileforfree" and next week I'll pick one of you lucky retweeters to score the Visa gift card. It's that simple. Not as simple as being born a Johnson, but close.

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