AThought For A Sunday Morning...

They also have to pay for R&D but not the research and development into the product as you would think. It research how much crude the can dump on you and still get you to pay for it.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.



= Will Rogers

This would cause the product to be better, then word of mouth would
do the selling! Then maybe...just maybe I would still have TV Cable.
I am not paying to watch all these garbage adds.

Brian

"If I had been smart I could've cut my advertising budget in half,.....if only I had known which half."

I think the OP quote said spend the same amount, not stop advertising.
I agree with the lost Mexican and Will Rodgers.

I disagree. Advertising excites an interest in a new product for instance. You are advocating a basic change in a free market economy without sufficient knowledge IMO. Will Rogers advertised his movies and live appearances even after he was famous.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.



= Will Rogers

If they actually did that, they would only sell the product based on its quality. Many places would go out of business quickly.