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Metra: Marketing Ideas

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Metra: Marketing Ideas
Posted by Mr. Railman on Thursday, December 2, 2010 6:01 AM

OK. I have an idea for a radio or video commercial for Metra. Here it goes:

Weather night or day

Work or play

if you take Metra

You'll be on your way

 

Then I also have an idea for Magazine/newspaper ad:

Get a schedule for each line, Take a picture of it, put in big caps the word CHOOSE, and below the schedules write "Eleven routes in and out of chicago"

 

 

Tell me what you think

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Posted by Mr. Railman on Thursday, December 9, 2010 3:06 PM

If you have another idea, send it here.

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Posted by uphogger on Friday, December 10, 2010 8:09 AM

[quote user="Mr. Railman"]

OK. I have an idea for a radio or video commercial for Metra. Here it goes:

Weather night or day

Work or play

if you take Metra

You'll be on your way

 

Then I also have an idea for Magazine/newspaper ad:

Get a schedule for each line, Take a picture of it, put in big caps the word CHOOSE, and below the schedules write "Eleven routes in and out of chicago"

 

 

Tell me what you think

[/quote

The word you're looking for is "whether."

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Posted by henry6 on Friday, December 10, 2010 8:28 AM

You are talking ad concpets, creative ad concepts, not marketing.  We've come to use the term "Marketing" to mean advertising or selling but not in its true meaning of resarching needs and application, developing and pricing a product, then advertising it to make a sale.

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