Yes. I'm not exactly a granola-eating socialist. I produce advertising campaigns regularly, and have weekly meetings to discuss how we can move more product.
But I'm still a human with eyeballs. You're not the least bit overwhelmed by the 1000% increase in advertising email during the past few weeks/days? Between Tiger Direct, Musician's Friend, Amazon and other online shops it seems like I have new opt-in spam every time I check mail. Absolutely ridiculous. Sorry, it's just too much. I'm tempted to remove myself from ad lists for places I actually shop on a regular basis. Companies are really starting to strain the trust they've worked on for the other 50 weeks of the year. Michael On 2010-11-28, at 4:30 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > Don't you work in a profession that relies on advertising? > > On Nov 28, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Michael Luscombe wrote: > >> It was slightly rhetorical, but the black friday/cyber monday/pink >> thursday/plaid tuesday marketing broo-ha-ha the US generates is noise >> pollution, completely obscuring the fact that there's anything to celebrate >> other than savings, Savings, SAVINGS! >> >> I guess it's just timing more than anything, and I should have pieced that >> together myself. >> >> Michael >> >> >> On 2010-11-27, at 12:51 PM, Reagan Johnson wrote: >> >>> In my experience, Thanksgiving isn't any of those things you mentioned, >>> Michael. It probably also has to do with you celebrating in October, which >>> is much farther from Christmas. >>> >>> Thanksgiving for us is the big meal with extended family, and the long >>> weekend usually means there's time for some get-togethers with friends. >>> I've never heard of people giving cards or gifts for Thanksgiving. >>> >>> The shopping thing is the day after Thanksgiving, and in the last few >>> decades businesses have really started hyping it up and having big sales, >>> but it has less to do with Thanksgiving and more to do with the start of >>> the Christmas holiday season... it's really just a way to jumpstart sales >>> and getting people in a present-buying mentality since the time between >>> Thanksgiving and Christmas is usually when retailers save their bottom line >>> for the year. >>> >>> Or maybe that was a rhetorical question. >>> >>>>> Would anyone like to offer an explanation of why U.S. Thanksgiving is a >>>>> shopping extravaganza of such epic proportions? >>>>> >>>>> I mean, we have Thanksgiving here in October, but we really just have the >>>>> turkey dinner. No gifts, cards, shopping, etc. >>>>> >>>>> I don't really understand the connection. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "StrataList-OT" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- Michael Luscombe [email protected] http://www.maumedia.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
