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Originally Posted by Dannyalcatraz  Mea culpa- it wasn't my intent to single you out and attribute that mentality to you.
However, in past (locked) threads about piracy, similar assertions were part of arguments supporting just that. |
I don't know or recall any of those threads. I was just saying that it shouldn't be attributed to just piracy as the downfall of the "copy shop".
I know advertising works, and it makes me sad. I have to deal with people daily asking me about ads and such and get sick and tired of telling them "I don't care about silly ads. I buy something based on the products merits, not its hype." It gets rather annoying after the 40th time per day, everyday....
To get back tied to the topic itself and off the borderline economics if we haven't already crossed it without intending deeply to do so...
I would have fired the advertising department before skilled writers or PR people. That was why I brought up advertising. You can advertise something you don't have al day long and find people to "sell iceboxes to eskimos", but you better have enough people to make them iceboxes, or that advertiser ain't getting paid because you have no money coming in. The less you spend on advertising a bad product the more you can spend on quality control and let word of mouth do what it does best....advertise for free.
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