Can You Market Anything? Prove It In This Thread

Figured we could have a little fun and also learn something about marketing in the process :)

With that said below you will find an everyday product that we have all used and more importantly, we all need to buy occasionally.

What i would like you to do is the following.

1) Tell me the reasons WHY i should buy this product over another one.

2) Tell me the BENEFITS of using this product over another one.

3) Make me BUY this product.

Simple enough huh?

Okay here is the product you are trying to sell me:

http://www.bicworld.com/images_uploa...s/cristal0.jpg

Regards,

Lee

lee, i have some cool pics of you. i understand the two twinks and the black guy. but whats with the midget, the peanut butter, and the hamsters? i can post them if you want...


what address did you want those pens shipped to?

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Originally posted by Dawgy
lee, i have some cool pics of you. i understand the two twinks and the black guy. but whats with the midget, the peanut butter, and the hamsters? i can post them if you want...


what address did you want those pens shipped to?

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The midget owned the hamster who was hungry so he fed it peanut butter :)

Perfectly innocent pics :)

Nah not interested in the pens at this time ;)

Regards,

Lee

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Cheers,

Allan

Oh and by the way, this is a variation on an exercise i did in class last semester at uni. As a marketing exercise I had to sell ice to eskimos (my class mates) in the middle of winter. You should have seen me, the purchases all ended up being huge :)

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Originally posted by ozmalegalleries
Oh and by the way, this is a variation on an exercise i did in class last semester at uni. As a marketing exercise I had to sell ice to eskimos (my class mates) in the middle of winter. You should have seen me, the purchases all ended up being huge :)

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I would like to hear your that sales pitch.

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Originally posted by ozmalegalleries
Oh and by the way, this is a variation on an exercise i did in class last semester at uni. As a marketing exercise I had to sell ice to eskimos (my class mates) in the middle of winter. You should have seen me, the purchases all ended up being huge :)

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Hehe yeah thats where i picked this excerise up from a few years ago ;)

Its amazing the replies you can get if people actually realize th benefits of it to them :)

Hell some people say stuff they dont even realize they are saying sometimes ;)

Regards,

Lee

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Some great replies so far keep 'em coming :)

Regards,

Lee

Awww, is no one else gonna try?