Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!ereidell From: ereidell@athena.mit.edu (Evan A. Reidell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: The ouch in advertising Message-ID: <8243@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 10:54:28 GMT References: <1426@neoucom.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: ereidell@athena.mit.edu (Evan A. Reidell) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 17 The two advertisements in the New York Times last week said it all: the Atari being compared with the Mac SE, and the Amiga being pushed with a "free VCR". And in the followup Letters to the NeXT cover story in Newsweek, the Atari ST got a free plug from some happy user... and ads on MTV aimed at the wrong audiences in the wrong way... We can do something, can't we? Continue making up "dream ads" for our favorite machine and sending them in to Commodore? We're one of the most creative sets of people around today! And we're smart or else we wouldn't be reading this newsgroup using this machine... as Cher said (am I really quoting Cher?) "If you have a good thing, and you keep it to yourself, what kind of a person are you?" can be applied to both the Amiga itself and any good marketing ideas we might have for it. Just some inspirational ideas/food for thought Evan A. Reidell (ereidell@athena.mit.edu)