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The views of a marketing deviant.

Monday, June 18, 2007

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover.

During yet another tortuous train journey today, a small genteel woman in her sixties sat down opposite me. She was travelling relatively light and I guessed she might be heading for London for a theatre trip. However, as the travel delays developed, it emerged that she was doing something very different.

In response to someone's moan that they were going to miss their connection, she responded that she was unworried as she was headed to the hedonistic Glastonbury Festival and had four days to get there!

10 Comments:

Blogger kaylen said...

stuck on trains with hippies... ha ha.

7:40 PM, June 18, 2007  
Blogger RB said...

Worse than that Kaylen - stuck on train with hippy granny instead of entreprenerial Zimmerperson who failed to sieze the moment for an en spec Glastonbury Ticket auction!

She had a captive audience and I am certain Mr Dodds would have paid over the odds to help poor granny out.

9:23 AM, June 19, 2007  
Blogger RB said...

.....and then not gone because he considered himself past it...!!

Bwahaahaahaa

9:24 AM, June 19, 2007  
Blogger john dodds said...

1) I don't do hippy.

2) I was making a marketing point!

10:02 AM, June 19, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this a marketing blog?

2:38 AM, June 20, 2007  
Blogger john dodds said...

Well it's filled with enough unsupported assertions, gratutious name-dropping and dubious examples so.........

But your commenting on it is the clinching imprimatur!

2:44 AM, June 20, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I feel cheated.

2:49 AM, June 20, 2007  
Blogger john dodds said...

That's marketing for you!

7:09 AM, June 20, 2007  
Blogger RB said...

And I am still feeling cheated too and devastated at John not being a hippy and flabergasted that marketing can't do much about that.

What went wrong with marketing?

12:40 PM, June 20, 2007  
Blogger RB said...

But I have a photo of Senor Dodds to prove he i....nah I wouldn't do that. Forget it. Not even for a pair of free Glastonbury tickets or even Robert Plant's shabby and muddy Hunter wellies would I do that.

Gorra rubbery elbow. Anyone?

12:45 PM, June 20, 2007  

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