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I don’t so much think it doesn’t have an impact, as much nothing on the list has any PR pizzazz. $316.62 to a grade school? Lame. $100,000 novelty check to a
by jonathankoren 4y ago
I don’t so much think it doesn’t have an impact, as much nothing on the list has any PR pizzazz.
$316.62 to a grade school? Lame.
$100,000 novelty check to a board member’s favorite charity that happens to be run by his son? Now that’s pizzazz with a capital P!
- godelski 4y agoThat just means bad marketing. > Amazon has helped fund over 20 thousand charities of your choosing. These small charities couldn't have made it without your help.
- AppleBananaPie 4y agoeasier to get promoted by replacing a program with a new one you made
- iso1631 4y agoAmazon in my country has an image problem. Sure people use it, but people hate it for "killing the high street" and other such nonsense. Facebook adverts picking random local charities and showing how much they've raised is far better, run them on amazon's front page too. The local hospice I choose has raised £3k via amazon smile. That's far better PR than them giving £1m novelty cheques to some remote city based charity.
- fooqux 4y ago>That's far better PR than them giving £1m novelty cheques to some remote city based charity. How is it better PR if hardly anybody knows about it?
- iso1631 4y agoAmazon runs a news story in local paper about how smile is benefitting $list_of_local_charities The email they sent to me was they are going to take the money from my local charity and instead give it to ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown