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Lord Shonus

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48600 on: May 04, 2014, 11:32:28 am »

How the hell did it manage to survive for so long?  :o
Schoolbooks from ~1850 or later remain incredibly common, to the point where there is very little collector's market for them. I generally see five or six in a day, most of which are rejected as not being worth selling, as nobody wants them.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48601 on: May 04, 2014, 11:35:07 am »

How the hell did it manage to survive for so long?  :o
Schoolbooks from ~1850 or later remain incredibly common, to the point where there is very little collector's market for them. I generally see five or six in a day, most of which are rejected as not being worth selling, as nobody wants them.

Russia, Shonus, Russia. Or USSR, rather. The older textbooks might have been treated as... ideologically incompatible.
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« Reply #48602 on: May 04, 2014, 12:14:24 pm »

Ah. That hadn't occured to me, although I do get quite a few such books in Russian (unfortunately we do not sell any books in Russian, Greek, or most Asian languages because neither the employees or the computers comprehend the characters).
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48603 on: May 04, 2014, 12:20:37 pm »

This Twitter. (relatively new)
Did they get hacked, is this a fake, or is Nature Valley seriously going Tumblr and dedicating its Twitter to anime screencaps?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48604 on: May 04, 2014, 12:24:19 pm »

This Twitter. (relatively new)
Did they get hacked, is this a fake, or is Nature Valley seriously going Tumblr and dedicating its Twitter to anime screencaps?

They say that Nature Valley's PR just went all anime to win the hearts of anime fans around.
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« Reply #48605 on: May 04, 2014, 12:25:03 pm »

It's probably attracting more attention than pictures of national parks did, at any rate.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48606 on: May 04, 2014, 12:26:36 pm »

Behold! The power of memetics.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48607 on: May 04, 2014, 12:33:44 pm »

If I were a PR firm, that's how I would do it. Doesn't matter what you're selling, associate your brand with something really popular, and you'll sell a lot more of it. Sure, tv commercials and web ads are fine and good, but if, say, Purina started making doge ads, I guarantee they would get way more effective marketing for at least a third the cost of your average marketing campaign.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48608 on: May 04, 2014, 12:34:36 pm »

I don't even like granola bars, but the professor made me want one.

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« Reply #48609 on: May 04, 2014, 12:36:57 pm »

If I were a PR firm, that's how I would do it. Doesn't matter what you're selling, associate your brand with something really popular, and you'll sell a lot more of it. Sure, tv commercials and web ads are fine and good, but if, say, Purina started making doge ads, I guarantee they would get way more effective marketing for at least a third the cost of your average marketing campaign.
Depends on the individual. I would boycott any company using doge :I
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« Reply #48610 on: May 04, 2014, 12:42:01 pm »

I see no ship waifus, so I'm buying zero granola bars.
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« Reply #48611 on: May 04, 2014, 12:51:52 pm »

If I were a PR firm, that's how I would do it. Doesn't matter what you're selling, associate your brand with something really popular, and you'll sell a lot more of it. Sure, tv commercials and web ads are fine and good, but if, say, Purina started making doge ads, I guarantee they would get way more effective marketing for at least a third the cost of your average marketing campaign.
Depends on the individual. I would boycott any company using doge :I
Yeah, it can work, or you can suddenly get a massive internet backlash.
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« Reply #48612 on: May 04, 2014, 12:59:01 pm »

If I were a PR firm, that's how I would do it. Doesn't matter what you're selling, associate your brand with something really popular, and you'll sell a lot more of it. Sure, tv commercials and web ads are fine and good, but if, say, Purina started making doge ads, I guarantee they would get way more effective marketing for at least a third the cost of your average marketing campaign.
Depends on the individual. I would boycott any company using doge :I
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48613 on: May 04, 2014, 01:49:58 pm »

I don't know what the hell that Nature Valley thing even is, but I now hate it to the very bottom of my being.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48614 on: May 04, 2014, 02:09:04 pm »

I don't know what the hell that Nature Valley thing even is, but I now hate it to the very bottom of my being.
That's pretty deep emotion to be directed at granola.
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