Daughter and I spotted a half dozen balloons launching when we were on the way home last night. This pic was snapped from my driveway right after we pulled in. Remember old sci-fi movies where they had an over abundance of dirigibles and flying ships in the air to show it was the future? Well, I think we need more balloons when we look up. Dirigibles would be awesome, but I would definitely settle for balloons. One caveat, no advertising! Jeez. Does RE/MAX real estate own a balloon company, or what? 😉
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Need More Balloons
Daughter and I spotted a half dozen balloons launching when we were on the way home last night. This pic was snapped from my driveway right after we pulled in. Remember old sci-fi movies where they had an over abundance of dirigibles and flying ships in the air to show it was the future? Well, I think we need more balloons when we look up. Dirigibles would be awesome, but I would definitely settle for balloons. One caveat, no advertising! Jeez. Does RE/MAX real estate own a balloon company, or what? 😉
Pic snapped with my LG G2 and enhanced by G+ photos.
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My question is has anybody ever looked at a balloon and thought, "Damn! I should go buy a house from them!"Â
+Rich Griffith Exactly. 😀
Silly! Was from the fair grounds. lol
All they need is for you to think "what real estate companies are out there? Well, there's Re/Max" and it's paid for itself. The point of advertising like that is to put them in the back of your mind. Same thing with the Goodyear blimp and the weinermobile from Oscar Meyer. You know their names.
I think it's a surveillance balloon and re/max is actually a secret branch of the NSA
I'm going with +Allen Simpson over the completely accurate +LM Stewart. 😉
I wonder how susceptible to advertising I am. If it's effective I won't know it, but I feel like I go off recommendations from people I know who've used something before. That's how I bought my last three cars, it's a lot of how I pick books, and well, I eat out based on what's in front of me when I'm hungry, next right turn wins. I picked my last three places to live based on availability of homes based on people I knew, the one works at a real estate management place that I picked because I knew her. If I hadn't I'd have kept looking through people I know until I found something. I wouldn't have used another agency, and I think there's a Re/Max in town even.
But, if advertising is done right I won't notice the influence will I? Maybe Scott Adams is right and we have no free will.
He's a RE/MAX agent.
Not everyone will immediately think of their company, but they don't need everybody. It hits the public consciousness and a percentage of people will respond to that. It's not meant to influence every single person, just be remembered enough for the knee jerk response in a percentage of them. Savvy consumers (heh, sorry, had a Zoidberg moment) will look into what they're buying and what is best for the money. They'll notice that clinical strength deodorant is capped at 20% of the active ingredient, but there's some brands that put 19.2% of that ingredient in a less expensive line. They'll buy store brand and generic medications. They'll realize that Advil migraine has the exact same active ingredients as regular, just costs more. They'll shop around online for the best deal on large purchases before going into a store so they don't have to worry about the hard sell from employees or wondering if they've spent too much.
But most consumers don't do that. They spend the extra money for a word on the box (turbo, super, faster, new). And those consumers will go with the company that resonates with them, the one that they think of first because if they're spending that much on advertising they "must be good".
I'm going to get a balloon that says THINK. 😉
Congrats bro, your post just became a giant re/max ad that is going to sit dormant in the brains of all your followers just waiting until the day the need to buy a home.
You really should get some sort of commission.
Argh! It's working! It's working! I think +LM Stewart is on to something! Wait… any chance she works for Re/Max or their ad agency and is tasked to do just this. Sure the conversation LOOKS organic, but is it?Â
screaming and running away waving my arms
I… just… don't… know…
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I'm in the fast paced world of napping. I'm incredibly successful and find it very rewarding.
I'm hearing a lot of re/max disinformation and propaganda here.
We use to watch them go over our house in McKinney, Tx, when Plano had their Air Baloon Fest