Pat Flynn’s background is in marketing, but sometimes even he’s surprised by the ways a portable sanitation company can gain publicity. The vice president of Superior-Speedie Portable Services in Akron, Ohio, got an unusual request for his products recently, but he recognized a good opportunity to attract attention for the company.
“It was definitely the weirdest phone call I’ve ever gotten,’’ Flynn said of a movie producer requesting to borrow a portable restroom to drop on a car during filming. “I told them, ‘Keep our stickers on them and you can have two of them.’ I get some crazy calls, but
