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It's kind of hard to feel bad for a marketing-driven company failing.
by tpmx 6y ago
It's kind of hard to feel bad for a marketing-driven company failing.
- FriedrichN 6y agoBill Hicks on Marketing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
- naldini 6y agoThanks for the laugh, classic Bill Hicks
- marcinzm 6y agoPeople seem to have actually liked the ice cream. Most every company will do marketing, nothing evil about that.
- thomaslangston 6y agoThat appellation seems inappropriate in this case. They made good ice cream. At least it was good to me. And the customer service I received at multiple locations was good too. The only marketing I received was word of mouth referral.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoIt is kind of hard to make "bad" ice cream though. (yes I know some snooty people will disagree with this but the literal tons of Hood, Breyers and Friendly's that fly off the shelves for $2.99 on sale beg to differ)
- prawn 6y agoAdmittedly, I didn't read the full story, but the bits I did read included a mid-life crisis guy taking courses to learn to make ice cream and growing a business with the support of his partner.
- acjohnson55 6y agoI guess it might seem that way from a distance. My now-wife and I stumbled upon original Ample Hills location while looking for my first apartment in Brooklyn. It was quite literally the best ice cream I'd ever had. And I like my ice cream. Turned out, they had just opened the week before. Pretty quickly, the word of mouth spread, and maybe there's a point after which you could call it "marketing-driven", but at the core of it was a truly excellent product.