Comments on: Can TV Grow Your Business?

By: Walt Goshert

Walt Goshert — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:59:15 +0000

TV and tabloids... the winning combo for your business in America.

It's amazing to me how many businesses do this without even thinking about the message this sends about their business.

Hey Doc,

Looking to entertain your brain-dead patients?

Try Direct TV today!

30-day Free trial for your business.

Bonus when you call within the next 27 minutes...

Free subscription for your office to People and US magazine.

Ryan ... I agree. I will not patronize an auto repair shop, doctor, dentist, or any personal service provider who blasts out TV talk shows and stocks crappy magazines...

It's insulting!

(plus, I'm wondering... humm, is this the level of conscious awareness of this business owner or professional?)

Bring in more customers with... TV?

More productive employees with... TV?

We are turning into Zombie Nation! (kinda scary...)

By: Walt Goshert

Walt Goshert — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:59:15 +0000

By: Ryan Healy

Ryan Healy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:35:14 +0000

You may be right about that, Colin.

Last night, before this post was more than synapse firing in my brain, I read that buck slip and literally laughed out loud saying, "You've GOT to be kidding me! Unbelievable!"

Something to that effect anyway. :-)

That's the emotion that must have come out in this post.

Ryan

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:06:51 +0000

Ryan, is it just me or are your blogs getting edgier these days. ;)

(Agree with everything you said btw)

By: Reeveso

Reeveso — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:46:06 +0000

Beautifully said Ryan - advertising on TV is HUGE for some people but it always depends on your business.

To be fair I think #6 simply meant kind of knowing what's going on around the world and not watching TV all day - but even still...it's not true.

I haven't watched the news or read a newspaper in probably 2-3 years...and I'm just as productive if not more than the best of em.

When I try to be at least :)

Anyway, great post and awesome observation about picking the right list. That's one of the most important aspects of direct mail (if not THE most important)...yet people don't spend the time to get it right.

Jeremy Reeves
http://www.The30DayCopywritingChallenge.com

By: Ryan Healy

Ryan Healy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:21:11 +0000

Amen, Daniel! “Television is an escape drug.” I concur whole-heartedly.

Ryan

By: danieljdeyette

danieljdeyette — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:15:07 +0000

What a pile of horse cookies! I can't watch TV while I work and I can't touch Facebook durring the day or my productivity goes straight down the drain, and I'm MOTIVATED!

Television is an escape drug and a gossip tool. Anyone who watches more than an hour a day should seriously check their priorities in life and where they're planning to go with it.