I’m sure I’m not the only who has experienced this. I’ve been receiving “wrongly sent text messages” lately, imploring me to text Treats 2346.
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Dba? Globe Telecom, STYLE NYO BULOK. I am so pissed at this style of marketing coz first, I don’t like unknown people texting me, and 2nd, ang obvious na sila ang nagsend!
Sana man lang they were transparent enough to just write there na it came from GLOBE instead of having some random number text me early in the morning (sorry 10:58 am is early for me)!! and what made me really say na style nila bulok kasi 2nd time na toh! Buti kung 1 time na wrong send, but 2nd time and different names pa?? WTF!!
I know there are a lot of idiots in the world, but did they really have to pander to the stupidity around us? Are they setting the stage for the supremacy of idiots in Manila? But I digress.
And really, do people text that way nowadays? If asked, my version would be: “Shayna, nanalo si ganito ng dinner sa Le Souffle, try mo magtext “Treats” sa 2346, baka makalibre tayo haha!”, but who am I to Globe? I’m just one of their millions of subscribers lang naman.
Next Rant, still Globe Related - I’m a regular visitor of pep.ph and what I hate most on the site aside from disabling a few certain functions (which I completely understand except when I try to open a new tab, they still won’t allow it – haller, that’s my fucking browser!), is this ad from Globe.
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Why I hate it:
1. Every time I open a link, I’d hear this freakish scream from the ad even if my mouse didn’t hover on their ad – hello!? I’m already subjected to their “wrong send text messages”, and I still have to endure that freakish scream and that slap-you-in-the-face ad on Pep! WTF!!! Internet marketing? More of Heart Attack Marketing!
2. Considered a pop up and I hate pop ups. Haven’t they learned? This certain pop up, although not on a different window, interferes with my browsing and anything that interrupts a person’s web browsing is considered BAD! According to Jakob Nielsen, ”In a survey of 18,808 users, more than 50% reported that a pop-up ad affected their opinion of the advertiser very negatively and nearly 40% reported that it affected their opinion of the website very negatively.” (so pep, although I like all that chixmas, it’s making me hate you).
Globe, I understand your need to advertise, but there are other LESS annoying ways to get your message across! Look for a Globe Evangelist – start with them, contact bloggers who are Globe subscribers, check out what is being said about you in social media, create more compelling & engaging ads that don’t interfere with a person’s web browsing experience, be transparent and know that the ways you’ve been advertising on the Internet (save for 1 marketing effort) are antiquated!
Calling Globe Marketing!!!
Abutin nyo muna subscribers nyo!
I really think the 2nd one fits my image at the office (haha go figure). By the way, my 2 officemates last friday were telling me about fielding questions from certain bank employees asking them if they worked for BITAG (The show by the Tulfo Brothers), and yes I was laughing my ass off at the uncanny similarities -> Font, CHECK. Black Background, CHECK. Suspicious looking photo, CHECK! So I guess I can start using my “bitag authority” to tigbak certain people. harharhar.
(Me watching/listening to a video tutorial)
I work in the Lost & Found Dept of the web :) Pescetarian for more than a 200 days now. Loves dogs. and shoes. and ok maybe make-up(i'm just a girl, after all..) 2011= 20eleVEN.