xxnick1975
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Shit me, a Polaroid flat screen for eighty squid......
Why didn't anyone let me about this!!!
Why didn't anyone let me about this!!!
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Outside of large-scale commercial contracts, you can't even bring FOSS or Linux into a marketing discussion, because there is no monetary 'value' to the product. I know that my OS is supported purely by donations and the founder's financial input, as are most of the other programs I use. I haven't paid for a single piece of software since I stopped using Windows around 8 years ago.
Walmart, on the other hand, are the commercial embodiment of Satan himself.
Outside of large-scale commercial contracts, you can't even bring FOSS or Linux into a marketing discussion, because there is no monetary 'value' to the product. I know that my OS is supported purely by donations and the founder's financial input, as are most of the other programs I use. I haven't paid for a single piece of software since I stopped using Windows around 8 years ago.
If you actually believed that he was real, that time when he threw the money-changers and animal-sellers out of the temple would probably be a good indicator of his marketing strategy.highlandsflyer":3hgue6po said:
Walmart, on the other hand, are the commercial embodiment of Satan himself.
xxnick1975":36frocd5 said:
Probably because they knew you wouldn't want to buy an utterly crap & unreliable product that didn't sell throughout the rest of the year. Polaroid is just a recognisable name that got bought by the makers and stuck on the box - they have absolutely no connection whatsoever to venerable camera producers of yore.
technodup
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OpenSource, charities, even foodbanks- they all understand marketing better than you. They might not realise it, or be able to describe the steps in 'consultant' language, or recite case studies to you but they're doing it all the same.
Even a simple soup kitchen for the homeless is at it. Twice. If they put it in the slums of Brixton they get users, in Chelsea they don't. Place. One of the 4Ps. And on the flip side they must undertake some activity somewhere to raise money to provide the service, be it from public donations, charities or grants. Marketing at both ends to two different sets of people and all for no profit.
Try reading this before you come back. Although I'd remove 'profitably' from the definition as it's a bit misleading is some contexts. And beware, it says EVERY product you buy has been shaped by marketing. Don't want your head to explode.
http://www.cim.co.uk/files/7ps.pdf
FFS it's not all about spivs in Savile Row suits working out ways to cream every last penny from the gullible public. The motivation is irrelevant, Pi saw a need, created a product to fulfil it, priced it as cheap as chips and PR'd the hell out of it. If you don't see that as marketing then you genuinely don't understand the term.Neil":27drj4n8 said:
OpenSource, charities, even foodbanks- they all understand marketing better than you. They might not realise it, or be able to describe the steps in 'consultant' language, or recite case studies to you but they're doing it all the same.
Even a simple soup kitchen for the homeless is at it. Twice. If they put it in the slums of Brixton they get users, in Chelsea they don't. Place. One of the 4Ps. And on the flip side they must undertake some activity somewhere to raise money to provide the service, be it from public donations, charities or grants. Marketing at both ends to two different sets of people and all for no profit.
Try reading this before you come back. Although I'd remove 'profitably' from the definition as it's a bit misleading is some contexts. And beware, it says EVERY product you buy has been shaped by marketing. Don't want your head to explode.
http://www.cim.co.uk/files/7ps.pdf
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