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From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga and Advertising are mutually exclusive terms, but...
Message-ID: <3070@ames.arpa>
Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 16:08:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ames.3070
Posted: Sun Oct 11 16:08:25 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 22:46:25 EDT
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Reply-To: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Keywords: Advertise, get Netters help creating the ad.

>
>Alright then, if BADGE can sponsor a Killer Demo contest, then why doesn't
>C-A or their Ad firm (Sleepy, Dopey, and Pokey) get on the stick with a 
>Killer Ad contest?  We have assembled here some of Amigas finest minds, people
>who can make the machine jump through hoops (or in Leo's Case, unicycles).
>
>Barring that, what about the ad company bouncing some ideas off us?
>
>I'm not so egotistical as to suggest we are the ultimate experts, but we
>ARE pretty close when it comes to ideas of what's looking sharp on the 
>Amiga machine.

Actually, I suggested that to some of the guys both at BAADG and FAUG, with
some interest. What I was looking at was a "Design Your Own Print Ad" contest,
which would be a bit easier than a video contest. Submissions could be in both
IFF and photo/art format. I have a half-dozen serious and not so serious ideas
I'd love to do. I even went so far as to suggest that we could take the winner
and actually run it in one of the medium level mags if the cost wasn't too 
outrageous (entry fees could pay for it). 

A video contest would be fun as well, but difficult for many people. Oh, heck,
we could just make it a group project, and star the guys from BAADG. I wonder
what it would cost to rent "Star Tours" at Disneyland for a couple of 
hours of shooting??

Back to reality, I just saw the new A500 ads last night running on KTVU, an
independent station (on Saturday nite?? Who are you kidding guys!). They
weren't too bad, but still never really told me why I'd want to buy an Amy
over a PeeCee Klone. What would've been alot better would be to have
testimonials from users, such as the guy who does the Max Headroom graphics,
to people doing MTV videos, to researchers at NASA. Or how 'bout mimicking
those California Almond commercials. Instead we have Amiga developers 
standing hip-deep in Kickstart disks saying "Hi there, were developers, you know
the guys who bring you all that neato software. Well, Porches are expensive 
these days, and how 'bout them hard-disks? (in unison, the others say, "yeah"
or "you bet" looking around at each other). (some other inane comments) And
the ad ends. . .

"An Amiga a week, that's all we ask".

Tis all for now. . .



-- 
				   *** mike (powered by M&Ms) smithwick ***
"ever felt like life was a game, and 
someone gave you the wrong instruction book?"
[discalimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]