Dien Rice
October 30, 2012, 07:17 AM
So Wrong, Yet So Right: How Infomercial Impulse Buys Will Make You The Life Of The Holiday Party...
More infomercial disasters...! ...
[Great] Topic and Discussion selection Dien... :)
Could Make for a Very interesting Discussion, Lessons and Then some...
With some [Quick] ''twists' on the Topic & Discussion of course...
Just in case A few old Fans weren't aware...
“King of Infomercials” Don Lapre Commits Suicide Before Fraud Trial... :(
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CKing+of+Infomercials%E2%80%9D+Do n+Lapre+Commits+Suicide+Before+Fraud+Trial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
infomercial scams...
https://www.google.com/search?q=infomercial+scams&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
So Wrong, Yet So Right: How Infomercial Impulse Buys Will Make You The Life Of The Holiday Party...
http://www.mamapop.com/2011/11/so-wrong-yet-so-right-how-infomercial-impulse-buys-will-make-you-the-life-of-the-holiday-party.html
Hawaii Chair... Blocked in the Above link! Had Google Unlock it, immediately! ... :cool:
3,532,460 and Growing views! ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hawaii+Chair&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hi Phil,
Thanks for sharing that... Some very interesting links!
I remember Don Lapre's original ad... About how you could make money with "tiny classified ads"... Certainly sounded intriguing!
I think where he went wrong was he was basically upselling - through a very "hard sell" - to his infomercial customers expensive commercial "900 phone lines" (i.e. where people would call and get a message, and you'd charge them a fee for it), which his customers didn't want or need...
Of course, there are good infomercials and infomercial products.
Here's "Good Housekeeping's" list of some good infomercial products...
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-reviews/infomercial-products-reviews
"Back in the day" I was a fan of those old "BluBlocker" infomercials - by Joe Sugarman (also famous for the "JS&A" catalog)...
Here's one of those old BluBlocker infomercials... Quite different from the "gee whizzy" infomercials of today!
1980s Paid Advertisement -- Consumer Challenge (Blublocker Sunglasses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqryy_MA-U
Best wishes,
Dien
More infomercial disasters...! ...
[Great] Topic and Discussion selection Dien... :)
Could Make for a Very interesting Discussion, Lessons and Then some...
With some [Quick] ''twists' on the Topic & Discussion of course...
Just in case A few old Fans weren't aware...
“King of Infomercials” Don Lapre Commits Suicide Before Fraud Trial... :(
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CKing+of+Infomercials%E2%80%9D+Do n+Lapre+Commits+Suicide+Before+Fraud+Trial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
infomercial scams...
https://www.google.com/search?q=infomercial+scams&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
So Wrong, Yet So Right: How Infomercial Impulse Buys Will Make You The Life Of The Holiday Party...
http://www.mamapop.com/2011/11/so-wrong-yet-so-right-how-infomercial-impulse-buys-will-make-you-the-life-of-the-holiday-party.html
Hawaii Chair... Blocked in the Above link! Had Google Unlock it, immediately! ... :cool:
3,532,460 and Growing views! ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hawaii+Chair&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Hi Phil,
Thanks for sharing that... Some very interesting links!
I remember Don Lapre's original ad... About how you could make money with "tiny classified ads"... Certainly sounded intriguing!
I think where he went wrong was he was basically upselling - through a very "hard sell" - to his infomercial customers expensive commercial "900 phone lines" (i.e. where people would call and get a message, and you'd charge them a fee for it), which his customers didn't want or need...
Of course, there are good infomercials and infomercial products.
Here's "Good Housekeeping's" list of some good infomercial products...
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-reviews/infomercial-products-reviews
"Back in the day" I was a fan of those old "BluBlocker" infomercials - by Joe Sugarman (also famous for the "JS&A" catalog)...
Here's one of those old BluBlocker infomercials... Quite different from the "gee whizzy" infomercials of today!
1980s Paid Advertisement -- Consumer Challenge (Blublocker Sunglasses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqryy_MA-U
Best wishes,
Dien
