Saturday, February 26, 2011

In Response to Rachelle Beaudoin's post on toothpaste

Every day on television I see at least 3 different commercials for 3 different kind of toothpaste. Rachelle is absolutely right about there being way too many kinds of toothpaste in our society. Each company trying to out do the other one or target a certain market whether it be young kids with just their favorite cartoon characters on the outside or adults that want whiter teeth. As Rachelle says there should  be a survey of some sort to eliminate some of the 352 different kinds of toothpaste out there because it just doesn't seem practical to have that many when really they are all pretty much the same thing.

March Madness!!!!!!!!!

As march approaches and the basketball season for colleges come towards the end, the greatest tournament of the year for me to watch is the Division 1 college basketball tournament otherwise known as "March Madness". Every year I watch this tournament on T.V. from beginning to end with one game on T.V. and 4 or more scores to other games in the corner of the T.V. The tournament is always on CBS and they are the only network to broadcast the games so you can only watch one game at a time which isn't as much fun as switching back and forth to games if they were on T.V. This year for the first time ever every single game of the tournament will be on T.V. as they have joined with TNT, TBS, and Tru T.V. to bring the spectators every game on T.V. The NCAA has decided to expand the T.V. broadcasts so that we can watch every game and we'll know that if our favorite team is playing that they will be on T.V. on one channel. The big dance is going to be fantastic this year as they have been advertising it since November and it always lives up to its hype with every game being exciting, i cannot wait for the madness to start. Have you heard or seen any advertisement for this tournament?

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Response to Kelsey Rhodes-Social Media? A good way to advertise?

After reading Kelsey's post and seeing the great possibilites that facebook and twitter have for small businesses it made me come to think that a restaurant like Country Life should take full action these. These sites are free and easy to use and pose a great way of advertising and promotion to a very wide market that is online alot. A simple facebook page may draw in 10 new customers and it may seem small but that is 10 more that came in the day before or each week. The society we live in today is always on the computer or some sort of technology and advertising this way can be a great tool