Free Furniture Sign at Fenway Park!

As most of us may remember in 2007 when the Red Sox won the world series everybody who purchased furniture at Jordan's Furniture in Massachussetts all recieved there money back from when they bought it. Jordan's furniture had the deal of a life time that anyone who bought furniture at the beginning of the season would eventually have it for free if the Red Sox won the world series. That year the Red Sox won a second world series in 3 years giving all that bought furniture at the beginning for free. This year Jordan's Furniture has done something similar to that deal, on the right center field wall there is a Jordan's Furniture sign if any Red Sox player hits that sign between July 22 and September 10 than anyone who had bought furniture from March 16 to April 23 will receive a full refund on the furniture they bought. This idea of marketing is great in the chances of someone hitting that sign are very slim, Jordan's Furniture has always been known to being loyal to the Red Sox fans and this year they are showing that once again. If youwere in the market to buy furniture would you buy from Jordan's?

In Response to Kelsey Rhodes: 40 Creative Marketing Ideas

In Kelsey's post she summarizes an article that talks about marketing strategies that are directed toward the public even though they are little things. Even though they are little things they stil can mean alot and attract consumers toward your business. Kelsey states that this tactic can work for large or small companies, I agree with her as well that it is worth a shot trying because these things are so little that it doesn't take alot of money or it doesn't involve much hassel making it easier on your business as well and it may even draw in many consumers that will boost your sales and profit.

Spring Weekend Ticket Dilema

As we get closer to end of the semester the work load picks up and the hours in the library increase. It also means that spring weekend is coming upon us and this year Keene State has brought most likely one of the best concerts this college has ever seen. Lupe Fiasco and Sam Adams will be coming this year and everyone was truley excited about it until the ticket mayhem started. All over campus you will see posters and advertisements about this concert telling who is coming, when it is, and when tickets go on sale. This past monday was when tickets went on sale, they started selling online at 9 a.m. and in the student center at 10 a.m., by 12:30 p.m. the concert was sold out. This lead to more than half the campus in a feud about not getting tickets as there was only 2200 tickets sold which isn't even half the campus. The concert is scheduled to take place in the gym which I figured could hold a little more than that. If there was only a limited amount of tickets then I think they should of advertised that on the posters around the campus because many students have class all mornings therefore not letting them have time order them. Do you think that the advertisements should have expressed the limited amount of tickets?

In Response to Haley Irwins: Disney Contradiction

After reading Haley's blog on Disney and how they portray happiness and a great time but really behind the scenes work their employees to death to become known as that special place for happiness and laughter. After being to Disney World a few times in my life and having a great time down there with my family I never thought about the people and what it takes to make Disney so great and such a good time. Haley explains what happens behind the scences at Disney and I agree with her that it is not right to have employees working overtime way beyond than they should with no extra pay, treating them unfairly, the list goes on and on but Disney has built up a great reputation to be happy and great vacation for families.

Too Many Commercials

March is a great time of year for sports fans you have the big dance which is the college basketball tournament, the NBA and NHL seasons are almost over so that means playoff time for the Celtics and Bruins. Being that these are all on T.V. means that we have to watch more T.V. and that means way to many commercials on every single channel. In every single sporting event on T.V. excpet for soccer they have media T.V. timeouts which is just saying that they are taking a timeout to play commercials. I think that is redicolous a half of basketball should only have timeouts if one of the 2 teams calls for it, none of this T.V. timeout every 4 minutes thats now how basketball or any sport should be played. Even though many people watch these games all around the nation and it is a great chance for advertisement save it for halftime or other shows, we see these commercials enough when ever we watch T.V. anyways. Would you like to see not as many commercials or T.V. timeouts when watching a sporting event on T.V.?

In Response to Cory Secore's: Coca Cola

Coca Cola I can remember since I was little kid because it is everywhere like Cory states, commercials, billboards, stores, any public place you will most likely see a Coca Cola advertisement. Even if I were to travel to Russia or Australia like Cory states you would still recognize there logo because we have seen it so many times. In our world today it would take a very long and catchy logo to be remembered and memorized as much as Coca Cola's is today.

Spring Break

As this is the last week before spring break for us you hear everyone talking about where they are going and for how long. I have mostly heard a lot of students going to Florida, that seems to be the hot spot this year for break, for me I am just heading home to relax and not spend any money. The reason I am blogging about spring break is because you always see ads on T.V. or online for spring break trips and the deals you can get them for them. My question is that is it really a good deal for many of these trips with us being broke college students?