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- From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
- Subject: Re: More thoughts on ads..
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.222052.16755@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
- References: <1993Jan3.162947.6596@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:20:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.162947.6596@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >It occurs to me that a computer/computer software that is advertised
- >on TV or radio is in pretty bad shape.
- >
- >Observation: Never has a TV campaign, so aimed, succeeded.
- >
- >Examples: Commodore Amiga's number of ads
- > The original PS/2 and OS/2 ads (MASH)
- > Phillips CDI & Commodores CDTV (flops)
- >
- >
- >When you advertise on TV or radio you are spending a lot more to contact
- >a limited number of people. How many of those listeners/watchers
- >have computers? How many know jack about them?
- >
- >A few ads in a some computer magazine (say, a two or three page insert
- >a la DesqView/X)--or all ofthe computer magazines--would deliver a much
- >higher hit rate than any radio or TV ad.
- >
- [deletions]
-
- You make some good points, but there are two things to ad (pun? naw!).
- First, for what little share it has, Apple seems to continue to
- advertise the Mac on television and they're not exactly hurting, either.
- TV ads may, indeed, work. Second, part of what's going on with IBM's
- OS/2 ad (weak it was, I am sorry to agree) is to simply make the name
- familiar to people out there, sort of like planting a seed you hope will
- later grow to fruition, ripen, and fall off the tree in your dealer's
- shop (ok, so I get carried away, we've still got tons of fruitcake
- around here!). That's what I suspect the ad's for the Amiga, for
- example, tried to do (and they are still selling them, though not many
- it's still a going concern).
-
- My two cents...
-
- Joseph T. Malloy / WB2RBA
- Associate Professor of German / Hamilton College / Clinton, New York
- CIS: 76060,444 / BIX/WIX: jmalloy / jmalloy@hamilton.edu / AOL:jtmalloy
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