On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:42:58 +0100, Russell Hafter News
<see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:

>In article , Sam Nelson
> wrote:
>
>> The very fact that a recent ad campaign (for some brand
>> of tea, was it?) 
>
>Yes - Nambarrie, I think.
>
>And one of the few memorable TV ads that might encorage me
>to actually buy the product. (Most memorable TV ads are
>memorable for being intensely annoying, and are therefore
>almost as effective as tele-marketeers as selling for the
>competion.)
>
>> involved a woman saying `your call is
>> important to us' and putting the handset down next to a
>> tinkling child's toy and walking away suggests that
>> marketing departments do know that cold-calling of any
>> kind is despised by the general population.  The whole
>> point of the ad was to allow us to idenfify with her and
>> hence use the product.
>
>Yes, just in from work, knackered, looking forward to a few
>minutes peace and quiet with a cuppa ... and the phone rings
>with a junk call.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fjvcs0QGjCA

(Jack Dee)

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