Comments on: Small business marketing and the ass kicking machine http://canuckflack.com/2007/09/24/small-business-marketing-and-the-ass-kicking-machine/ ... it's about public relations, marketing, retail quirks, government communications and oddities ... and written in Canada! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Colin http://canuckflack.com/2007/09/24/small-business-marketing-and-the-ass-kicking-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-41971 Colin Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:41:56 +0000 http://canuckflack.com/2007/09/24/small-business-marketing-and-the-ass-kicking-machine/#comment-41971 Wow. Thanks. Then this really is an example of small business marketing - ripping off ideas, tag lines and even photography, all the while counting on distance and regional variations to "protect" them from accusations of plagiarism and theft. For most local consumers, they only take away the first impression from the sales or marketing pitch - they don't think of the veracity of the pitch. Wow. Thanks. Then this really is an example of small business marketing - ripping off ideas, tag lines and even photography, all the while counting on distance and regional variations to “protect” them from accusations of plagiarism and theft.

For most local consumers, they only take away the first impression from the sales or marketing pitch - they don’t think of the veracity of the pitch.

]]> By: copyright faerie http://canuckflack.com/2007/09/24/small-business-marketing-and-the-ass-kicking-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-41970 copyright faerie Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:30:26 +0000 http://canuckflack.com/2007/09/24/small-business-marketing-and-the-ass-kicking-machine/#comment-41970 Just FYI, the actual creators and constructors of the pictured contraption were some MIT folk back in 2004, and the image was taken from here: http://www.mit.edu/~amrys/photo/badideas/badideas-Pages/Image4.html If you liked it, there are more photos here: http://www.mit.edu/~amrys/photo/badideas/badideas.html and another successful bad idea project here: http://web.mit.edu/storborg/ddf/ Enjoy! Just FYI, the actual creators and constructors of the pictured contraption were some MIT folk back in 2004, and the image was taken from here:

http://www.mit.edu/~amrys/photo/badideas/badideas-Pages/Image4.html

If you liked it, there are more photos here:
http://www.mit.edu/~amrys/photo/badideas/badideas.html
and another successful bad idea project here:
http://web.mit.edu/storborg/ddf/

Enjoy!

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