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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Conventional advertising or word-of-mouth. Let's face it, how much stuff do you buy as a result of advertising efforts versus word-of-mouth recommendations?

Virtually ALL my purchases are based on recommendations by others and advertising efforts have little, if anything to do with it.
I've always wondered why companies can get away with spending millions of dollars for a few seconds of air time during the Superbowl. Surely the cost outways the sales gains.

I wonder how companies (like airlines that stop serving meals and pretzels instead of peanuts) can justify sponsoring sporting events and other "name recognition" forms of advertising?
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