I read that some public schools sell ads for placement on standard school supplies. I think that is inappropriate.
I’ve got a story about those “store cards” that may change your minds about that. A couple of years ago I got a robocall advising me that a frozen dinner might have salmonella contamination. Because they knew my purchasing and phone number, I could take it back for refund and was darned glad I hadn’t eaten it. Sometimes “big brother” watches out for you.
There is a class of things that exist that follow the pattern “First guy to try X- marketing genius. 2nd, 3rd…nth guy? Uber-dickheads to a man.”
A canonical example is the first guy who tried setting up a little mike and speaker outside his shop to spruik his wares. Brilliant. Every copycat arseclown since who chokes the amenity of indoor shopping malls to death with endless lines of screeching, wheedling cacophony? May they be perpetually rogered by Satan’s red hot barbed Poker of Lerv. While listening to playbacks of their own huckstering at shrieking volumes.
Depends on what you mean by school supplies.
I have the local school come by from time to time to ask for donations for their school. A common one is book covers. Do you feel it is inappropriate that I have my business logo on something that they asked me to donate to give to the kids? It is one of the few actual cash donations I give out, most of my donations are in the form of gift cards for charity raffles and auctions.
I never really thought about it, they come by once a year asking for money, and I give it to them along with artwork for my logo. I honestly thought I was doing something useful for my community, I never stopped to consider it inappropriate.
Anyway, the advertising that I really hate is when someone puts a business card in a bag along with a rock and throws it on your driveway. I’ve actually called businesses that advertised like that, and told them that due to that practice, I will never use their services.
That’s really a thing?
Yep. I’ve only gotten a few of them in my driveway over the years, but I find them rage inducingly annoying.
When I was starting out in my business, my father had received one of these rocks in a bag at the end of his driveway advertising for one of my competitors. He though it was the best idea ever, and tried to convince me to do it as well.
I refused, as I really don’t think that that is a valid strategy.
Ho-lee crap.
To paraphrase the words of Albus Dumbledore:
Help will always be given at the SDMB to those who ask for it.
What does William Prescott Lane sell?
Well, in the intervening years you’ll be pleased to know that sports arenas have finally gotten their act together, with names like Smoothie King Center and KFC Yum! Center.
Putting some balls back into arena names again, at last.
And what will those poor cashiers do without apple stickers to read the codes from?
Pretty obviously the next step will be to put a business card in a bag along with a rock, and throw it through your window.
CRASH
This just in: the owner of Gazquette & Paine Windowshop has been fined for throwing Acme Window Repair advertising rocks through neighborhood windows.
One dystopian idea I read on a forum somewhere was a DRM cybernetic implant where you can either daydream about a product or skip it by devoting a percentage of your mental CPU cycles to mining bitcoins, or some futuristic equivalent.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Venture to the Moon series. Mrs. Cad moved my copy of The Other Side of the Sky or I could find which exact story it is in but I think it is Watch this Space.
Hopefully Larry Mudd will continue his tradition of showing up each Boxing Day.
Who looks up outside?
People who see the launch of a rocket and think it’s an alien ship or something.
Ads in the atmosphere will have to compete with ads in hand and looking down has always been easier feeling than looking up. Double entendre meant.
I would have asked him if he meant rocks in a bag advertising my business or rocks in a bag advertising the competitor’s business. I think the latter would be more effective, if one is sufficiently oafish to do either.
Just be glad that he evidently never heard of Rai stones.
All we need is for the King of Ego to openly brag about having bigger stones than anyone else.
I’d like to see Kellyanne handle that one.
The question that follow the comment that is, not tanny danny’s little huevos.
First thing that came to my mind … that should be worrisome to you …
Rumor has it Microsoft once considered selling advertising space on the error messages from Windows … but I don’t think that’s what the OP is looking for …
I’ll go with three foot long receipt for the purchase of four #6 washers … God that irritates me, it’s a tax deduction and I have to save all that crap for eight years … 12¢ of paper for 8¢ worth of merchandise … insane …
And to accept the Royal Thread Award for the most endearing, warmest, Rockwellian, wonderfully homespun version of advertizing:
EE…A…Ooo’s…