Comments on: Missing a marketing opportunity

By: eirikso

eirikso — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:31:43 +0000

I’ll quote Engadget, and their conclusion about the fantastic new “Ringles”-format. “See you in the funeral boys.”

These people will actually manage to destroy their own market completely. Musicians will keep making music, companies will still help them with distribution and marketing. But it will probably be people like the ones behind amiestreet.com, iTunes, iLike, Last.FM etc…

By: Trond

Trond — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:35:13 +0000

Slashdot today:

“Sony seems to think we should not be allowed to rip CDs we own to our iPods. In fact, doing so is stealing, and we should all re-buy songs, preferably one copy for each device. Says Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG: ‘When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song. Making a copy of a purchased song is just a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’.’ I guess somebody should tell Sony about all the devices Sony produces that allow this stealing to occur!”

By: Bjarne Sverkeli

Bjarne Sverkeli — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:32:56 +0000

Good post, and very good response from Øyvind too. Producing juicy news that attracts the journalist is crucial, unless you can afford millions in advertising for your product. But sometimes it is difficult for å company to come up with news.

I am never ever going to hire a traditional marketing bureau. I want a crazy artist or any other corky creative soul to play ball with and think out of the box. Like the guys at Blendtec, wich produce kitchen blenders. They will never ever make anything worth mentioning, so they had to do something completely different. And they did. Their campaign is maybe one of the most brilliant marketing campaigns I have ever seen. I recently bought a blender e few months ago, but after googling iPhone and stumbling upon http://willitblend.com I only wish I had a Blendtec …

By: eirikso

eirikso — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:42:10 +0000

You’re completely right. This is the kind of comment that deserves to be moved into the article itself.

By: Oyvind

Oyvind — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:59:57 +0000

I think so-called press releases should be taken out in the back yard, and dug forever. It’s something people did 200 years ago when you sent journalists letters to tell them about a product.

Today, companies should make something that looks like the internet, not like a paper letter.

When EMI had news THIS big, they should have made a minisite, called “musicwithoutdrm”, “EMIonSteroids” or some other clever name. And put up links there to their artists, the bestselling tracks, technical info etc. Not just a press release.

And if your company don’t have the resources to to that, at least put up a blog! If you hate the blog word, call it News, make “whateveryourcompanynameis/news” and post the “press releases” there. With comments, trackbacks etc.

And make sure all valuable content related to the things your are talking about are to be easily found in the sidebar or in the blog/news-post itself.

Why comments and trackbacks? Because the net is about conversation. And even EMI bosses surely would like to read how much people love their DRM-free tracks. If they had comments/trackbacks on that press release, they would have gotten thousands, maybe 10 000s of comments. And people would have come back five times as much, justto check in on the conversation.