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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: amigas in real life/marketing
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Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 12:41:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 12:41:07 1987
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lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac) writes:

> Yes, Petty has an Amiga in his new video.
> 
> Maybe CBM should hire him to do their advertising, it's the first
> time I have seen the Amiga on TV in months....

Excellent idea!  Why not hire Tom Petty to do the advertising?  Or
someone else that's into the performing arts (especially synth and
video) such as Thomas Dolby or Deborah Harry.  I like Honda's ad
campaign for their scooters that featured Devo and Grace Jones.  A
similar ad campaign for the Amiga 500, aired on MTV, would be money
well spent.  It would reach thousands of high-school and college
students who appreciate the finer points of personal computers such as
glitzy graphics and sound effects.

It's a much better idea than Commdore's old campaign of "Buy a C-64 or
your kid will fail in life", Atari's current crop of Lies,  IBM's
M*A*S*H revival, or Apple's attempt at wooing the Yuppie crowd.

-- 

Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
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 Atari owners dream in color...
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