Truth is stranger than fiction

[Kasept]

When I was doing a lot of sales and marketing work, I had to do a presentation for a tech product. It was in front of a group and I had to get them excited about how to sell a boring slide projector. Here's what I said:

"Technology is a glittering lure. But, there is the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash, if they have a sentimental bond with the product. My first job, I was in-house at a fur company, with this old-pro copywriter, a Greek named Teddy. Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is new. Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of calamine lotion."

At this point, they seemed intrigued, so I began including slides of sweet and oddly sad scenes of my life in the presentation...

"Teddy talked about a deeper bond with the product. Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards, takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel. It’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Round and around, and back home again. To a place where we know we are loved."

I got the sale.

[Calzone Lord]

Riveting.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Riveting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Kasept

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus

Season 5 debuts March 25th -

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...70703120120123

seems like it's been off the air for 3 years...

[jms62]

Did someone get banned?? If so it is a his all-time quickest.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Still trying to figure out who he is/was.... definitely has a tinge of condescension to all his posts, which puts TFM at the top of my guess list...

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Still trying to figure out who he is/was.... definitely has a tinge of condescension to all his posts, which puts TFM at the top of my guess list...

I don't believe he has posted on this site previously. He used to drive me bonkers on another site with his "herd picks" without ever mentioning the bet and chest thumping when 1 hit.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Kasept

When I was doing a lot of sales and marketing work, I had to do a presentation for a tech product. It was in front of a group and I had to get them excited about how to sell a boring slide projector. Here's what I said:

"Technology is a glittering lure. But, there is the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash, if they have a sentimental bond with the product. My first job, I was in-house at a fur company, with this old-pro copywriter, a Greek named Teddy. Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is new. Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of calamine lotion."

At this point, they seemed intrigued, so I began including slides of sweet and oddly sad scenes of my life in the presentation...

"Teddy talked about a deeper bond with the product. Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards, takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel. It’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Round and around, and back home again. To a place where we know we are loved."

I got the sale.

This may be your finest work to date.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Kasept

When I was doing a lot of sales and marketing work, I had to do a presentation for a tech product. It was in front of a group and I had to get them excited about how to sell a boring slide projector. Here's what I said:

"Technology is a glittering lure. But, there is the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash, if they have a sentimental bond with the product. My first job, I was in-house at a fur company, with this old-pro copywriter, a Greek named Teddy. Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is new. Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of calamine lotion."

At this point, they seemed intrigued, so I began including slides of sweet and oddly sad scenes of my life in the presentation...

"Teddy talked about a deeper bond with the product. Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards, takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel. It’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Round and around, and back home again. To a place where we know we are loved."

I got the sale.

Wasn't this an episode of Mad Man? Not your style to copy and paste..lol

I didnt see you included the link to the scene.. I love this show. Reminds me of working into my parents bedroom at 6 am as they prepped for work both with a cigarette in bed.

[Danzig]

this thread is certainly strange.