Re: [Epic] GW Marketing... What they should do to drum up business

From: Simon Larouche <larouche_at_...>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:04:16 -0500

>>Now, some of the rumors I've heard on the warhammer newsgroup are near
>>unbelievable, but if it _is_ true that Arnold Swarzenegger and Robin
>>Williams play 40K, why doesn't GW get them to do a commercial or
>>something? That's bound to get people (in America, at least) a little
>>more tolerant of the "hobby", as well as drive sales up.
>
>one reason...
>
>cost
>
>have you ever noticed that GW almost *never* advertise outside of WD? and
>if they do it is usually in conjunction with some non-wargaming product. ie
>an ad in a computer game mag along with a GW computer game...
>
>Imagine how expensive it would be to get even one of these guys on an ad...
>
>And even then they would end up being labelled as 'weird' for having done
>the ad...
>
>
>Doug Veal


--------> I think Robin Williams is already labelled as weird :))) I love
the guy :)

Simon Larouche
larouche_at_...
Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 16:04:16 UTC