Comments on: The Lighter Side of Banking? http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/the-lighter-side-of-banking/ Internet Marketing, Branding and Web Development for B2B Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:45:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brad Shorr http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/the-lighter-side-of-banking/comment-page-1/#comment-4188 Brad Shorr Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:09:43 +0000 http://www.wordsellinc.com/?p=1089#comment-4188 Joanna, My feeling is the banking community typically doesn't have good humor instincts. Insulting customers worked for Rodney Dangerfield, but his brand of humor won't work for companies. But banks are not the only offenders. How about those V8 commercials where people slap themselves on the forehead because they're too stupid to drink V8? <abbr><em><abbr><em>Brad Shorrs last blog post..<a href="http://www.wordsellinc.com/blog/marketing/cartoons/the-lighter-side-of-banking/" rel="nofollow">The Lighter Side of Banking?</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> Joanna, My feeling is the banking community typically doesn’t have good humor instincts. Insulting customers worked for Rodney Dangerfield, but his brand of humor won’t work for companies. But banks are not the only offenders. How about those V8 commercials where people slap themselves on the forehead because they’re too stupid to drink V8?

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]]> By: Joanna Young http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/the-lighter-side-of-banking/comment-page-1/#comment-4187 Joanna Young Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:54:10 +0000 http://www.wordsellinc.com/?p=1089#comment-4187 Brad, I bet the banks are wishing now they'd taken more care with their adverts. One that used to really bug me was by RBS - suggesting that customers were sheep. Or maybe all customers who didn't bank with them were sheep. I found that pretty insulting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cptMuVPn4Q Now look at them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7836882.stm <abbr><em><abbr><em>Joanna Youngs last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ConfidentWriting/~3/n03sj16ddvg/" rel="nofollow">Quotes on Writing and Audacity</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> Brad, I bet the banks are wishing now they’d taken more care with their adverts.

One that used to really bug me was by RBS – suggesting that customers were sheep. Or maybe all customers who didn’t bank with them were sheep. I found that pretty insulting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cptMuVPn4Q

Now look at them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7836882.stm

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