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9月14日

Do sales/marketing folks fall into the trap of convention more easily than anyone else?

When you see enough advertisement, you see patterns emerge. Someone does something which is pretty creative in order to help their message, and thus their product, stand out; soon it's showing up everywhere as others copy it, looking for the same freshness and appeal.

After a while, certain designs or phrases become almost an institution in their own right: "new and improved", "this weekend only", "no payments until January 2008". I don't really hear these phrases anymore, and almost missed even thinking about what they might mean. For example, I heard the "no payments..." one since I was a kid, when I had no clue what a payment was. So, I didn't think about it until more recently, when I finally understood what they were trying to tell me (and trying not to tell me, like you still have to pay the interest on those months you aren't paying, fool). Did the constant repetition make it invisible or did it finally do it's job and get me to listen? I don't know. You decide.

I came across this add in a Fry's sale flyer. I think this marketer fell into the convention trap, and didn't think of what the term meant in the context of the product. I know I got a bad feeling when I saw the word and the device, only because the word almost always means something bad when paired with it. 

Ill-chosen word for a hard drive 

This would make an interesting AI problem to get a computer to understand the inappropriateness of this ad.

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9 月 14 日

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