Why does advertising life suck?
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Because your whole life revolves around trying to sell people things they don't need using methods that don't accurately represent said things.
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Under pressure to get it working so it can be put on the market. Marketing folks are great at selling things do not not yet exist and enineering scrambles to win the "big contract". And yes - I work in a engineering environment.
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Word of mouth is the WORST way to promote ANY kind of company. It's only attraction is the cost of 0. Consider this...what you say in any ad is JUST (if not more, really) as important as WHERE you say it at or through what media. With word of mouth you have NO CONTROL of your message. So even with the best intentions, someone could be talking you up and actually affect the listener negatively about what you can do. You never see your failures...only the successes with word of mouth.\n\nI would suggest radio, on stations that play the type of music you most like to produce. You know musicians are also listening in...best place to catch them. Next in line would be different music magazine publications or local 'hip' publications. The ones that talk about the art and entertainment scenes or the party places and such.\n\nYour CHEAPEST way is to make a flyer to post at record stores and intrument shops. HOWEVER, if you want it to have a great effect, either put your MOST into making that piece look amazing and keep your copy simple and bottom line as to what is in it for the prospect and don't gush on about yourself and what great equipment you have. That is important, but only in the way that actually affects what your target audience would want to do or be looking for. Always write from thier viewpoint...not yours. Also...make the graphics eye catching, yet not confusingly busy and keep a level of class and elegance to appear much bigger than you actually are. No matter your size.
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It makes great tv and stuff, but actually.. there is no devil, and you don't have a soul to sell.  But if all of that were really true, you do make an excellent point.  It's kinda like running out and buying a "T" shirt that says Nike on it and giving them free advertising, while they pay some basketball player a million bucks to do the same thing.
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Have you noticed that almost everywhere you go you see a glowing neon sign on the door that advertises cigarrettes?\nHave you seen the posters of a happy couple with those things in their hands and their teeth are purley white?Have you seen a bunch of cool guys hanging out with their friends on these posters and doing the same thing as the others?And have you noticed how the warning labels are always pushed off to the side and mabye even need a magnifying glass to read it?The companys who make these awful things do it on purpose.They make it look fun or cool on  the posters and in the magazines and almost everywhere!When people start,they think they can just have one and quit...no!Eventually there doing them so long that its too late.They cant help it.Their hormones become so high and their need for those things grows until they cant stop.The componies know this.This is why when the old buyers die or become ill or quit,they just advertise them to younger generations so they can sell more and more.People know that it harms them its just that they cant help it.Because of all the chemicals in it,\nit becomes addictive.To stop,people need a lot of support!\nThey need comfort and understanding or everything turns out into an angry mess.To quit they try some medications or even some who are lucky just quit on their own. :D\nHope this helps!
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Personally, I think this is a problem with a lot of commercials.  I tend to mute the ones I am sick of.  I wish they'd realize that shoving this stuff down our throats every 30 seconds just makes us want to get away from their product, not run out and buy it.  Enough already!
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Ads affect my purchases rarely, but at least they promote wide spread name recognition for various products.  I like the continuing story lines, like for Sonic, and of course the gekco.  Remember the "Where's the BEEF" lady? \n\nIn my case, I have looked for and bought the occasional grocery product I've seen and heard about on television.  Coupons from newspapers and flyers were helpful while our family was growing up and I was trying to save money, but eventually I realized that I almost always only used coupons on products we already used and liked.\n\nCome to think of it, it was an ad on Yahoo! while I was looking for one of my groups that tipped me off about Yahoo! Answers.  So that kind of internet advertising works.
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You are right...wrong attitude.  Figure out why you think "life sucks."  Are you cold, hungry, abused?  If not you have a great start in life but you must work at it.  Most of us do that are merely the poor or average majority.  Get with the program.
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When you pay the money you are suppose to be on a list for advertisers to pick from. I paid my money 6 years ago and never got  picked. I think you would be better off if you contacted a company directly (for example Pizza Hut), and ask them about putting their ad on your  car, or driving their ad car.
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Depends on the Ad... Many times if i get offended I switch the channel or put it on mute.. Now a days the ad world has lost its creativity!!! It screens cheap, hopeless, nonsensical ads!!!
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A flyer is relatively inexpensive to produce. It allows you to distribute your advertising to a targeted geographical area. But, it's also incredibly ineffective and inefficient.
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Actually, I ran an escort service for awhile, and yes, it is a pain in the ass!! Constantly recruiting new girls, keeping your existing girls happy, mediating their stupid cat-fights, and of course ADVERTISING, ADVERTISING, ADVERTISING! Advertising takes up more of a "companion marketing assistant's" time then anything else!!
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I actually think it is funny when I see someone's head shot on a card or in an ad.  It does not draw me in at all.  But I guess to each their own.  It does not make me buy any more.  I am all about if the sales person is genuine and not just trying to make the sale.
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It's all in the Concept Development and Marketing Plan.  It's in the way they speak, the inflection in their voice at the appropriate time, the testimonials from people who remind you of yourself, the camera work, the lighting, the editing of angles to make something/ somebody look great, the stage makeup & hair,  etc.  They use a familiar celebrity so that you pay attention.  They give you something free if you buy now.  (They bait you and give you a sense of urgency because you are afraid you'll miss out on this deal of getting something else free.)  It is script writing after script writing.  It was tested on audiences or in smaller television markets prior to you seeing it.  If it didn't work or test well in a small market, they start story boarding again.  They pry on your weaknesses or what they think would be somebody's weakness.\nThere are advertising agencies that specialize in the making of your infomercial, in the naming of your product, in the price point of this product, in targeting the correct sex and age that would typically buy this type of product and when this type of person would be watching tv, etc.  There are all types of analyses going on when they plan an infomercial.  They have to buy the time from the tv station they air on, so you know they are not going to waste their money without a strategy.\nThen they even hit you up again after you call the toll free number.  They will try to upsell you something else or ask you to join some kind of loyalty program where you spend even more money. \n\nYou must remember, they are actors and you are a Marketer's Dream.
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not all companies are bad.if you don't like your job find one you do .life is to short to work in a boring place or one you hate!
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poor marketing skills.
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Marketing and research.  I'm sure that there are advertising studies that told them that personal preference of consumers leaned toward the annoying deep voices.  You don't like the voices? You must be an anomaly.  Which is a good thing.