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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.183438.18536@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:34:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.170048.21562@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> heiland@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (david.j.heiland) writes:
- >I'd like to see *any* new adertising from IBM for OS/2. I can hope that
- >they're saving up for a big push for the new, improved, bug-fixed, enhanced,
- >faster, documented 2.1. I see the OS/2 ads in the magazines, but they're
- >still the same old ones from months ago. Any new ads would help. I know
- >IBM can advertise - everywhere I turn I see a ValuePoint billboard.
-
-
- The valuepoints are making IBM a lot more money than OS/2 has.
- I wonder if they've recovered even 1/10th the investment.
-
-
- >Going to a two page ad would be a big change - so far IBM seems set on
- >maintaining the same old format of graphics on the left, text on the right.
- >Maybe these ads work well for corporate buyers, but IBM has to realize
- >that home users need something more to get their attention.
-
-
- The problem is not that IBM doesn't advertise, IBM does. The
- problem is that IBM ads are very poor and very dull.
-
- Anyone remember all those M*A*S*H ads for the PS/2 and OS/2 when
- they were released? *Those* were more exciting than the current
- round (almost a year and a half now--although I remember the ones
- for 1.3 "Buy 1.3 now and get 2.0 when we finally release it!")
- of goofy picture of hallways or doors or whatever and some promotional
- text full of
-
- And, we at IBM
- Because, with OS/2
-
- sentences. Dull, boring. Like they're trying to sell you a funeral
- plot.
-
- IBM should go with something dynamic and not be so afraid
- to experiment. Hell, so what if they flood rags like PCWorld
- and PC Magazine--or even Byte-- with flashy, zippy ads
- that catch the users mind and get the message across:
- OS/2 is what you want. Right now. Anyone who sees fit
- to be an ad critic will have to consider that these magazines have
- turned into cheap flop-houses for the big time advertisers, and
- that makes flashy, loud ads appropriate.
-
- IMHO, they should go with the people who didthe ads for Dell
- (not the Murphy's ones, but the dead piggybank ones..) or
- Compaq's new notebook (car driving on it, guy standing on it,
- etc) -- but jazz them up a little. IBM doesn't *need* to boast
- about the OS/2 technicals--anyone who knows them knows that
- OS/2 is really quite good--and anyone who can understand them will
- be quite offended when they see moronic ads promoting OS/2 on
- 30mb/4mb systems.
-
- Even the HP ads ("We didn't start the PC price war") are more
- interesting, if a little dull.
-
- What IBM needs is attention. With attention will come questions--
- let the stores handle those. You can't answer'em all in a two
- page ad anyway.
-
-
- --
- Blaming society for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- Boycott == censorship == cowardice ---
- Do I even need to point out that my views do not represent
- those of my employer, institution or relations?
-