Follow The Money

In this collapsing, faltering economy people are not spending money on "wants" like TVs, movies, videogames, cars, expensive furniture and houses like they used to.

People are spending their money (from working multiple low-income jobs to pay the rent or mortgage) on water, food, clothing and shelter.


Life today is all about SURVIVAL and if you are a particularly crafty entrepreneur you will put your time and effort on products and services that will fulfill people's daily living needs.

The resourceful entrepreneur may create some kind of local farming enterprise, water/heat energy fue generator service, home/shelter builder, well/water purification system, off-grid homesteading enterpriser, convenient all-natural healthcare services (for those with the credentials). Mortuary, burial and/or cremation service for people to be buried or "properly" put off somewhere in the proper, courteous social graces of Western Society's civilization.


Thought Note: There are 7 billion+ people on earth. If every one of them; most or many of them gave you a dollar you'd be one of the wealthiest people on earth...

How Your Blog Can SURVIVE

Carry around a small, portable paper notebook and a pen (or pencil though preferably a pen to avoid "smeared" pencil lead words on the paper pages...) and write down everything and anything (Christ-honoring) you think of in your personal random thoughts and ideas throughout the day to use for developing the content of your blog.

It does not matter if all your written-down thoughts are completely random and unorganized at first because when you make some spare time you can organize main ideas as blog post titles and then type out relevant, related sentences in the appropiate draft blog posts.

Just keep WRITING down ANYTHING you think of naturally and then do the organizing, re-writing and editting later.

When you start blogging only write when you feel you are inspired by God. Not because you feel like you “have to”.

Write meaningful, useful posts.

Nowadays everybody and they "momma" (yes, literally) is an “author of a blog or several”.

When it comes to “writing” to me there is no “write (i.e. “right”) way” of writing, lol.

I just write with a pen the words that come out of my mouth and mind that the Lord inspires me with and work from there… naturally…

Do NOT force yourself to write; let the pen do the work. You just sort out the words later  but don’t worry about “grammar”, correct “punctuation” or any of that stuff.

Writing is an art craft. You could create your own “language” if you wanted too (but only do what GOD WANTS YOU TO).

Not that proper writing skills is not important because proper writing skills IS IMPORTANT; it’s just that one could think of writing a blog as a “work of art”.

It may or may not be a masterpiece but it may be a free-forming work of art or any outlet of creative expression.

You just write as you feel the want, need or desire and the words come to life.

This... as this post serves... is a way for your blog to... SURVIVE.

Happy writings my friend(s)! :)

Personal Observation: The Consumer Marketing Strategy of Lay’s Potato Chips Brand®™ From a Customer’s Perspective

I chose a bag of Lay’s Cheddar Sour Cream Potato Chips and Lay’s Hickory Smoke Barbecue Chips and first noticed the bright, crisp, detailed pop-up images of the chip’s crunchy texture and shape that caught my eyes’ attention.

 

The aluminum plastic packaging itself did not get my attention but the neat, clear and bright (i.e. “good-looking”) display of the potato ships bag product caught my attention. I then proceeded to open the bag of potato chips encountering a “top-off” of air filled in the top of the bat that was there as a strategy to sell less of the potato chips about a little over half the bag instead of filling up close to the end of the bag with more potato chips to avoid  selling more product that would be included for the sales price.

The crisp, fresh and savory aroma of fried potato chips oozing from the aluminum bag followed in sync together with the look of the crisp, crunchy texture of the potato chips felt sliding on my fingers and hands made my mouth water and mentally “hungry to eat” even if I did not really feel like eating at the moment and was full from earlier.

The addictive fried, oily, salty, somewhat savory flavorful taste of each flavor of Lay’s Potato Chips was “catchy” to my taste buds and the feelings of my mouth as I crunched and felt the savory taste in the texture of the potato chips before swallowing them in instant self-gratification of the “pleasurable taste and filling” of eating the potato chips…

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Let’s review.

What consumer marketing strategy tactics were most effective in persuading this consumer to eat Lays Potato Chip Brand®™?

1. Sight – the eye-catching bright “blowed-up, professional-looking” image design on the bags showcasing the bright, colorful texture of the potato chips caught this consumer’s mouth-watering hungry interest and attention.
2. Aroma – the pleasant savory aroma smell of the potato chips’ flavor caught his nose’s attention. (Endnote: Now eyes and nose are paying attention in agreement to the self-satisfying delicious product.)
3. Selectivity – this consumer had options to choose from various kinds of Lay’s Potato Chip products; from texture (e.g. “regular, wavy or ‘ruffle-shaped’”), flavor taste, smell and color of the potato chips (e.g. “Cheddar Cheese & Sour Cream yellow potato chips and reddish, light brown Hickory Smoke Barbecue potato chips”).
4. Familiarity – Lay’s Potato Chips is a classic, famous and familiar American household name brand used in a lot of daily living situations: from family barbecues, everyday lunches with sandwiches, TV commercials and American artwork and symbols (i.e. “graffiti”). This consumer knew from popular and past experience that Lay’s Potato Chip’s Brand is a proven, trusted and satisfying product for the purpose intended.
5. Convenience – This consumer could buy Lay’s Potato Chip’s at almost any store or place in America; be it Walmart, Fred Meyer, Walgreens, Albertson’s, Costco; virtually any convenience store at a gas station; public snacking vending machines, social occasions be it parties, lunch breaks at work, community events, family barbecues, potlucks…
6. Taste – The crisp, oily and fried taste of potatoes as “chips” is an appealing irresistible, unique, delicious savory taste complimentary to a variety of different food products ranging from hotdogs, hamburgers, fried chicken and sandwiches.

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Lesson: know and understand the “background” strategies at work of marketers to produce and sell your own products and/or services; though in a godly, “Christ-honoring” honest way.

You might ask: “Why the detailed analysis about potato chips?”

I say because you get to understand the variables used by greedy marketers to exploit materialistic, instant self-gratifying behavior of wicked selfish generations into making them (the marketers) “fat in bucks” and Americans and Westerners “fat in debt” over junk food and personal obesity epidemic.

Food addiction is a real major obstacle and challenge in many people’s lives today. Look around wherever you are in public and you see.

Nevertheless, when YOU the consumer learn through experience the ways marketers do their best to influence your purchasing decisions you can subconsciously make “better buys” that may actually BENEFIT YOU in the future instead of someone else’s greedy schemes.