Thread: Lookin' for market reaction...

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Originally Posted by IC2

It's beyond me why car companies(and others) have to use these so called sophisticated ads to try to sell me a car. I would much prefer that someone stand up and tell me that they have the best car(product) in the world and we can deal and those ads are irritating other ways too. The VW ads, stupid. Howie Long trying in his most condescending sneer at some runty in comparison guy trying to sell me a Chebbie because his C1500 p/u doesn't have a 'man step'. It goes on and on. What ever happened to the likes of Speedy Alka Seltzer or Doris Day in Seein' the USA.

(sorry, it's my age showing again)

Ah Dave, you're a gold mine.........and I mean that as a compliment!

Yes, your age IS showing but your remarks also demonstrate why you were primarily engineering and not marketing or sales. On the flip side of that, when I had my business (well, actually even before that) I would approach the sales process completely differently when talking to an engineer versus say a grocery store clerk. Sales is communication, and different mind sets communicate differently. What's a priority for the engineer customer may not be on the clerks radar, even though the product/service is essentially the same. One size does not fit all in the sales process. That's most often the difference between the successful sales person and the ineffectual one (not always time based). Figure out what's important to the customer and then demonstrate how what you have fills the bill.

I'd bet that the successful (which might explain why GM has issues) auto companies rely on other streams of communication to reach folks like you. For example, enthusiast magazines like Car & Driver, or through Consumer Reports, or perhaps a J.D. Power listing. This partially explains why newspapers are in trouble (besides their editorial content and bleed over to the "news" sections). Folks who have something to sell (which at the core is everyone and everything), have way many more options for communication paths today than in years gone by. The challenge is to economcally reach as many of the likely buyers as you can.

34 40, no, I can't help you with your mad Russian..............but he better watch out for PETA!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Ah Dave, you're a gold mine.........and I mean that as a compliment!

Yes, your age IS showing

34 40, no, I can't help you with your mad Russian..............but he better watch out for PETA!

Dave, you've got a decade more or less on me. But, like a lot of folks here, we think alike! You only vocalized some of what I was thinking.

Bob, it was all in good clean fun and thanks for the smiles! :

You too Rand!

When I was a kid, we couldnt turn the radio up because the
tubes in my '53 Chevy made the sound too distorted and the
dirt on the speakers made a big buzzing noise.......

But I did buy a reverb once....but had t take it back because
it wasnt 6 volt compatible.

mike in tucson

Originally Posted by 34_40

Dave, you've got a decade more or less on me. But, like a lot of folks here, we think alike! You only vocalized some of what I was thinking.

Bob, it was all in good clean fun and thanks for the smiles! :

You too Rand!

Mike (y) That's one of the pluses of going into dotage - I don't have enough time left on this big blue marble to beat around the bushes.

Uncle Bob - thanks. I tried sales of GE industrial gas turbine parts for a while but found that I preferred getting dirty working on them rather then trying to convince some purchasing agent and operations group they needed to spend a million or so dollars on spares and/or an uprate.