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... ." When Pepsi started marketing its products in China a few years back, they translated their slogan, "Pepsi Brings You Back to Life" pretty literally. The slogan in Chinese really meant, "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave." In Italy, a campaign for "Schweppes Tonic Water" translated the name into the much less ...
... identifying speaker as a marketing man. One-Day Shot: heave across line unlikely to make contact with ball, thereby scoring no runs and making batsman liable to be bowled; played by batsmen in the belief that this helps them to score runs quickly. One-Day Wide: at beginning of innings same as any other wide, at end of innings any ball which goes down leg ...
Copied from Houston Chronicle Columnist, Jim Barlow. Department of Unusual Marketing: Johnson & Johnson has a continuing contract with a number of Web sites devoted to the stock market. When the stock market falls by at least 100 points, banner ads for the company's headache remedies appear on the sites...
An interoffice volleyball game was held every year between the marketing and support staff of Santabanta.com. In 2002, the support staff whipped the marketing department soundly. But the marketing department showed how they earn their keep by posting this memo on the bulletin board after the game: "The Marketing Department is pleased to announce that for the 2002 ...
1. Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish where it was read as "Suffer...
... Ross, IBM's director of marketing. "Whether you're a nun cloistered in an Italian abbey or an Aborigine in Australia's Great Sandy Desert, IBM has the ideas to get you where you want to go today." According to Ndeti, of the modem's many powerful features, most impressive was its hard plastic casing, which easily sustained several minutes of vigorous ...
... , send them to Tech Pubs. If they don't even look up when you enter the room, assign them to Security. If they try to tell you it's not as bad as it looks, send them to Marketing. And if they have left early, put them in Sales.
... headquarters. Babes in Marketing suddenly start flirting with dorky personnel manager. Employee Discount Days discontinued at Ammo Attic. Company dental plan now consists of pliers and string. and the Number 1 Sign Your Company Is Planning A Layoff... President begins weekly meetings, "Good morning, you ignorant bastards." ...
... Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists Their products cause unhealthy addictions. DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D.; Enough said. Do your job well and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you Damn! Damn! DAMN!
... job or not. Husband #7 was in Marketing; although he had the product, he was never sure how to position it. Husband #8 was a Psychiatrist; all he ever did was talk about it. Husband #9 was a Gynecologist; all he did was look at it. Husband #10 was a stamp collector; all he ever did was... God, how I miss him! 'But, now that I've married you, I'm really excited'!" ...