You can advertise all you wish. If the product isn't any good people won't buy it.

 

When you have a good product, you shout it from the rooftops.

 

You are wrong again – but then you are so good at it.

 

Harry

 

 

 

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>-----Original Message-----

>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss

>Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 4:21 AM

>To: [email protected]

>Subject: RE: [Futurework] Advertising and more

> 

>Harry Pollard wrote:

>> Lawry,

>> 

>> What gives you reason to suppose that eating McDonald's food

>> gives you cancer or diabetes.

>> 

>> I suppose the hamburger is beef, lettuce, tomato, maybe cheese,

>> in a bun.

>> 

>> Seems innocuous to me.

> 

>It is amazing how someone so naïve can get so old.

>It's a vicious circle (oxidized fats clogging the brain vessels).

>Sounds like a hopeful candidate for the Darwin Award.

> 

>---

> 

>> Are you regularly swindled by advertisers?

> 

>No.  It takes two to tango.

> 

>> Haven't you ever decided not to patronize someone who didn't deliver?

> 

>No.  But generally speaking, it is often too late when the damage materializes.

> 

> 

>> I find advertising useful. I'm surprised you don't.

> 

>What's the use of advertising, if not to push inferior products on naïve

>people, and to make liars rich?  (The worse the product, the better the

>advertising -- see M$.)  If a product is good, it needs no advertising --

>it sells by "mouth propaganda" of satisfied customers.  A good health book

>warned: "Don't buy anything that gets advertised."  (The book itself sold

>out without advertising.)

> 

>Chris

> 

> 

> 

> 

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