Rant: Current car commercials

Jeffblue

every time i see that commercial i laugh. its like they are proud to say the people that drive their cars are totally aloof and can't drive. why would that attract someone to buying a mercedes. it would be like if Ford had commercials where idiot kids drag race their mustangs and get pulled over by the police, but they get away because their mustangs are so fast.

I had another good one for Hyundai:

So there is a lot full of Mercedes, Acura's, BMW's, Infiniti etc, all of the cars that Hyundai rips off the designs from. And all of the cars are missing bumpers, hoods, grills, tail lights etc. Then the camera pans over to a bunch of fully assembled hyundai's.

m4a1mustang

I told you a while ago, Jeff, but you should be in marketing.

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WarmAndSCSI

And I discovered Hyundai's are totally still pieces of sh*t over my vacation as well. The lady we were staying with had a nicer '07 Hyundai Santa Fe and it was barely out of warranty and multiple sensor were failing. It had a complete transmission failure during its warranty as well. This is all on a dealer-maintained well-cared-for vehicle. On top of that, the interior was the worse combination of fake wood grain plus painted silver pieces that I've ever seen

GG Hyundai!

*Cue somebody coming in to argue devil's advocate for Hyundai...*

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Jeffblue

haha, unfortunately i hated marketing in college. i don't know if its the way the teachers taught or what, but it just always seemed like such ethereal bs. marketing concepts are like breathing
'speak directly to the consumer, show you understand, offer a solution to their problem.'

blah blah blahh value blah blah blah blah G37 blah blah blah warranty blah blah hyundai assurance blah blah i'm gay blah blah i'm trying to make myself feel better about my stupid purchase blah blah blah.

m4a1mustang

The best marketing minds don't go to school for marketing!

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370Zsteve

And the best marketing minds didn't become marketing professors either

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shadoquad

Marketing is such a slimy and dishonest profession by its nature.

m4a1mustang

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Jeffblue

SO true. i think its more true than in any other field. i can see a former CFO or Hedge fund manager who always had a passion for teaching, end up retiring young, and deciding to go become a professor in accounting or finance. What i don't understand, is why on earth i should be listening to a 27 year old professor teach me about marketing.

Jeffblue

I agree. Not to generalize, but most of the marketing majors in my school were ditsy girls and gay guys. Management was the other major that kind of annoyed me. I think a good manager, first and foremost, has to know a lot about the field in which they are a manager. you can know all the 3 letter management jargon in the world, if you don't know anything about Steel, you won't be a good manager in a steel manufacturing company. Same thing with marketing. While there is definitely something to be said for ad agencies etc which come up with brilliant ideas of how to sell a product, i think a good product sells itself. Of course, a good product will sell more with good marketing, but if you paint turd gold, its still turd. and the people i met in those majors had this attitude of like 'oh it doesn't matter if i don't know anything about the specific field i plan to enter or anything about its products, i'm a hot shot, i can sell/manage anything.

finance<3

shadoquad

Managers have to be somewhat technical, but also know how to manage people properly and leverage their available talent pool. I've had managers who do one well but fail spectacularly at the other. And most of the ones I've had that do both well either get burnt out by it or get stabbed in the back by one of their "colleagues".

Jeffblue

you have valid point. Just because you know how to speak a foreign language, doesn't mean you can teach it. Just because you know a lot about an industry, doesn't mean you can manage the north east division of it etc. You need to know both. but i'd be more likely to heed the words of someone who had a lot of experience in the industry over some fresh college grad telling me about CRM and every other abbreviation they read out of their textbook.

m4a1mustang

Finance <3 indeed. We make money off the morons who think they can actually do ****.

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