Did ya ever wonder

[Rick]

About advertising people and what they might be smoking? Common in this area for local gun stores to advertise on the local radio stations and I just heard a radio ad that has to make ya wonder about these ad people. So according to the radio ad why should you visit this particular gun store? Well because they support the Second Amendment. WOW really? Where's the car keys?

 

[Ian]

KNS Precision runs ads on the local honky-tonk station, but the dialog is well-written and well produced. I wonder if they think just selling guns is supporting the constitution....isn't that more like using the constitution to make money?

 

[Rick]

I was wondering if they are trying to imply the other gun stores in the area don't support the Second so ya better come see us.

 

[uncle jimbo]

Everything I see or hear on ads make me wonder. Some of them are down right dumb, borderline stupid. I would like to know truthfully just how many people are influenced by ads and buy that produce because of the ad.

 

[Rick]

Most ads drive me away from the product or business. No borderline about it, pure insanity is more like it. Subaru has taken the cake of late with ads like . . . Quick honey, the granddaughter is hugging a tree we have to go buy a Subaru.

How many people are influenced by the ads? Dunno but they keep at it so I would say the ads are pretty effective. Ads are very expensive to produce and very expensive to get on the air, if they didn't work they would change their ways.

 

[Cherokee]

I ignore most ads, but that is what makes radio free and keeps cable TV cost down...so let them keep advertising. In the end, we pay for it in the cost of products we buy.

 

[KeithB]

When I work I usually wear headphones and listen to Pandora (the pay version) on my iPhone. Worth it to listen to the type of music I like with no commercials. As far as commercials on TV, car dealers seem to be the worst. Most TV commercials for local businesses don't seem too bad, but a few are real stinkers. I ignore 'em all, can't think of the last time I bought anything that was advertised on TV.

 

[Brad]

Rick, don't wonder about the advertiser or the business but rather fear the idiots the ads are geared to!
The average American isn't very sophisticated and is easily swayed by advertising.
Look at Excedrin Migraine and plain Excedrin. Identical products by the same company. Why? Because people with migraines want a product that says it works for them, people with a regular headache don't have migraines so that won't work. I guarantee some households by both just in case.

People are lemmings

 

[KeithB]

Unfortunately critical thinking skills and logical reasoning abilities are sadly lacking in the general population.

 

[Brad]

After 25+ years of daily contact with the public I can assure you that Keith is dead on

 

[KeithB]

Back when I was perfessoring for a living the University would not let you add a course to the curriculum if it did not contain provable elements of how it would develop critical thinking and reasoning abilities in students. Not all that hard to do in a science/technical field but some other areas had to work a lot harder to include that kind of material in a class. Even so, I think it improved a lot of classes by forcing the instructors to use their own critical thinking and reasoning skills in developing the class and selecting teaching materials.

I'll fall back to this: If you don't know it well enough to teach it you really don't know it.

 

[Brad]

No doubt Keith. To teach it you really have to understand it. Learned that as. freshman chem TA in college. I learned more freshman chem doing that than I did taking the class years before.

Critical thinking is the single biggest thing we need to learn. Question what you see or are told. Always assume there is an agenda behind what you are told.

 

[Rally]

I just assume if they can afford to advertise on TV they are making and charging too much.

 

[fiver]

^^^^that would be a pretty safe assumption.^^^^

I don't remember ever seeing or hearing an ad for a gun store around here, I recently found out about a newer one in Pokey by happening to catch a mention of it in the newspaper looking at a totally unrelated article, and had to look it up on the computer to find it.

Excedrin migraine doesn't work on migraines BTW.

 

[Intheshop]

Off the top of my head......

The only gunstores advertising(TV/radio) here are the newly opened.The gunshows get right much advertising.

I "get" Madison avenue,they have taken the path/s of least resistance. Like so many avocations...... the one,sort of related because of same is,real estate. It's traditionally been on a much "longer" trajectory. So,using techniques borne out of more normal retail offerings....... makes it especially stooopid.

Realtor: "Yeah,you really need to work on the curb appeal of this house so it will sell"..... "HGTV has some great ideas".

The house is on the national register.And I'm not exaggerating.So,you have short term,in your face shotgun approach to advertising. Madison ave,du jour....... or you have,what?

 

[Tom]

Many ads are just plain irritating. I'm really tired of hearing Jimmy pitch the anti snoring thing. I guess that's effective, as the dang thing is imprinted in my memory enough that if I felt a desire to not bother people with my snoring, I'd remember the product.

 

[Bret4207]

We have a local radio copany that runs 2 or 3 stations. They do a lot of their own advertising spots. Without doubt they are some of the worst examples of butchering the English language in existence today. And, the guys that write and produce the ads are CANADIAN! So much for Canada turning out a better educated person. Clumsy phrasing, incorrect structure, etc. And I'm no English major.

Keith, critical thinking? One of our local institutions of higher education just started a program in "E-Gaming". Yeah, you can get a degree in video games...

 

[Dusty Bannister]

Probably easier on the fingers than underwater basket weaving.

 

[Rick]

Anybody ever wonder why something like 35% of 30 year old college grads are still living with mommy & daddy?

 

[RBHarter]

I've never seen a Scheels commercial that I remember .
Advertise when business is slow and let word of mouth work when it's good is what I'd always heard .

Dicks is probably the best current example of we support the Constitution as long as nobody's feelers get hurt .

It's like the trap snobs that can't imagine why on Earth anyone would need more than 2 shots , obviously they never spent any time with Cali or Nv chucker .