How Marketing Works

[Orior]

First, apologies to anyone on GAAboard who works in the marketing department.

Here is how marketing works.

Lipstick.
1. Hire a drop dead gorgeous looking girl with great lips
2. Dress her up like a top class tart
3. Have her apply lipstick in an nice location
4. Pat youself on the back as fat ugly girls buy your lipstick in the belief it will make them beautiful

Add your own examples.

[ONeill]

Guinness

1. Get a pile of giant horses and a few surfers
2. Make them run/surf through the ocean
3. Get the semi-naked men to cavort gayily on the beach
4. Puts the hunger for stout on you.

[Niall Quinn]

Post-It Notes

1. Give them an in-your-face descriptive name
2. Concern ye not on sustainable design ethos
3. Make the 3 inch square canary yellow model your flagship
4. Put a small re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, and let the word spread.

[Windmill abu]

Lipstick.
1. Hire a drop dead gorgeous looking girl/boy with great lips
2. Dress her/him up like a top class tart
3. Have her/him apply lipstick in an nice location
4. Pat youself on the back a fat ugly girls/boys buy your lipstick in the belief it will make them beautiful

advertise during soap operas

[theskull1]

Of course there's the bill hicks classic 

I'll tell you the commercial they'd like to do, if they could, and I guarantee you, if they could, they'd do this, right here.
Here's the woman's face, beautiful.
Camera pulls back, naked breast.
Camera pulls back, she's totally naked. Legs apart.
Two fingers right here, and it just says: "Drink Coke."
Now I don't know the connection but I'm drinking lots of f**king Coke.

Funny but so true