On 24 May 2007 11:24:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur T.) wrote: > Similarly, I was very interested in the Science >Fiction Museum which opened a couple of years back. Just >before it opened, it spammed the SF community (but missed >me). By publicizing that, the SF community warned me and >many others who will never pay to enter the museum. > > While *almost* no publicity (positive or negative) is >bad, there *is* such a thing as bad publicity. I'd like to >thank this list for warning me about the current spamming >company.
Unfortunately, the net usually is profitable. But I do my share. Even with mass media advertisements, when the advertisement insults me, I really need compelling reason to buy the product, as I make an effort to avoid it. Once I e-mailed a company with such an insulting ad, asking them to change - because I liked the product too much to switch. They did respond, and I did notice that that ad campaign didn't last long, fortunately. With advertising, sometimes the result is just that people feel comfortable with a brand name and they don't quite know why. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
