Whose Answering Your Phone

Is it me or is it funny to call the telephone company and get a busy signal.

Or that all their operators are busy? And you are put on hold to a call that may be monitored for training purposes.

I follow your rules when you give me a hundred menu items to choose from. I punch until I believe I have the right department only to be told, "that's not my department". And the odyssey begins all over again. Okay I get that maybe I did press the wrong number from your menu. My bad.

Just do me one favor. If I get, "press 1 for English, 2 for this language, 3 for this language", and I press 1, then I expect to have that conversation with someone who can speak English.

If you would just listen to those calls you record for educational purposes you would know what I mean.

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Where Have All The Writers Gone

They say (whoever "they" are) that we are exposed to about 3000 advertising messages a day. You wake up to your Chass alarm clock, drink your Starbucks coffee made in your Braun coffee maker while listening to your Sony radio or catching CNN on your Hitachi Big Screen TV.

Then its a Irish Spring Shower with Baby Shampoo drying yourself with Martha Stewart towels. 8 messages and your about 15 minutes into a new day. My problem isn't the amount of messages we are exposed to. My problem is the schlock thats passed off as advertisements.

Seems like the ad agencies and broadcast outlets just want the revenue and who cares about how good the ad is. It seems that there is a lot of very bad ads. Whats happened to the copy writer's profession? Where have they gone and whose fault is this?

I blame Dan O'Day for the bad radio and tv commercials. For the record, Dan O' Day is an advertising guru (so his website says so).

Check Dan's blog, http://www.danoday.blogspot.com/ and look for

"theamazingbadcommercialgenerator"?

That little tool has made copywriters obselete. Why pay someone to write ads when we can use theamazingbadcommercialgenerator! Ad agencies can save money on the writer and still charge the client more.

If you think I am kidding, try theamazingbadcommercialgenerator out. Then next time you see or hear a lousy ad you decide, computer or person.

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