6 of 30 - Marketting Backfires

[aggienaut]

   Today in Theories of Persuasion we had to form groups, decide on something to market and the target audience, write this down, trade with another group, decide how we would market what they came up with.
   Of course my first impulse was "I want to be an asshole and give some other group something like "a new brand of landmines to market to new age female yuppies."* Toward this end it immediately occured to me that Vice Chief Justice Daniel Raff who I had class with, would probably also be enthusiastic about being an asshole.
   Sure enough, when I got to him he was already plotting. His incredibly nefarious plot: make the other group market George W. Bush. How evil! To add to the evil, I knew that super liberal Jim "I'm going to change my middle name to ACLU" Schwab was in the class and resolved to stick him with the job of marketing GWB. Unfortunately however Dan's liberal female friend thought this was too evil so we spent much time debating it. So much so that by the time we were ready to exchange with another group, all the other groups had exchanged already... so we had to do our own!! At least we were able to cause severe angst to the liberal girl in our own group.

   It ended up not being so bad though. To market GWB to youth we resolved to show him snowboarding and playing other vigorous sports. Also we decided to have like the IPOD commercial, but the silhuette person in the ipod commercial would fade in to reveal: its GWB!! Rocking out! Then maybe he'd say "its been me all along muahahaha!" while putting his pinky up to his mouth. Or not.
   After some consideration we decided the song involved would be Gwen Stefani - Holla Back Girl. "Iraq is bananas/ I-raq is banan-as/ b-a-n-a-n-a-s!!"
   To market to the nonheterosexual crowd without offending his conservative base, we'd use footage of him doing ambiguous activities with other men, like hanging out in the spa in speedos.
   The other goal was to get conservatives out to vote, so we decided just to show old people voting and portray voting as the frasky and exciting conservative thing to do.

   And to get the liberals who hate his guts on board, we'd show him about to die, like about to step on a land mine or walk into a jet engine intake, only to get distracted at the last minute and stop walking. Hopefully the liberals will be so excited with ancitipation that Bush was about to become mulch, that they would become susceptable to the messege of the advertising campaign... which would secretly be pro-bush! Now how's that for brilliant marketing sauce? I should go into marketing asap. (=


*In 12th grade econ in an assignment where we had to work in pairs and make up a country and its economy, I created an island nation that specialized in making and exporting land-mines, much to the angst of my partner, local cheerleader Stephanie Ulrich.

Comments

[oeaschwab.livejournal.com]

Hahahhaha, your deviousness was thwarted! On and by the way my middle name is National Organization for Women, not ACLU.

[citizene.livejournal.com]

What exactly is up with Dan's wiki page? Did he write that himself, or did someone else just something to get off his or her chest?

...Frasky?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I started the page but most of what is there now, particularly the rant about _me_ was written by himself. At that time he also added to my entry. The changes he made led me to speculate that either he secretly loathes me or has zero WikiTact. I think the latter is the case. I dunno. The changes he made basically portrayed me as an ogre. And between you and I, his logic makes no sense. He simulteniously calls me a judicial activist (an extremely liberal judge) while at the same time portraying me as espousing all the views to the right of him on the political spectrum. And as is still evident I think from the current state of my own page, he (consciously?) totally miscontrued something I really did say to mean something utterly ridiculous.

So I dunno. No wiki tact?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

geeze does EVERYONE have a livejournal? (=

[citizene.livejournal.com]

I picture an awkward conversation coming out of that.
"Hey, Dan. So I was looking at the Wiki the other day and do you secretly loathe me?"
"Oh, hey... um... well, if it was a secret I wouldn't tell you anyway."
"True enough."
"Nice job on that thing the other day, by the way. K, I gotta go, cheers."

[apoplecticfittz.livejournal.com]

Your continued effort in the fight for frasky has not gone unnoticed, sir.

fraskatory

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hey can you furnish a link to the origin of frasky? I need to explain it to Citizene (see comment above)

fraskination

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Also as to "frasky," see here

Er nevermind

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

so right after making the previous comment I decided to do a cursory search myself and found the relevant link in your memories. d=

Re: fraskination

[citizene.livejournal.com]

Oh, neat. I was assuming it was an East Coast hipster thing, but I see... maybe that's just where it's headed.

hipsters

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Also personally I'm not sure what a hipster is but in my current conception of it its an east coast thing, and incomple is the only example I know. Mainly because his detracters usually call him one (and maybe he himself does, I forget?). But critics of megabloggery, noteably otimus accuse the whole megabloggist community of being a bunch of hipsters.