Dan Gargan and a Box of Crayons: The Marketing and PR Thread

Discussion in 'LA Galaxy' started by barroldinho, Aug 1, 2014.

  1. Lazy Assed Assassin

    Jul 21, 2015
    Pet peeves of mine as well, which makes the rambling, grammatically incorrect posts I make here a true embarrassment to revisit when I see them quoted back to me. As I said elsewhere, designers are notorious for bad grammar and spelling. I think it has something to do with the way our brains get trained to work, iterating through dozens of approaches in a nudge and shift approach; visually it’s very easy to see the horizontal rule is 1 pixel off, but that same approach fails horribly when it comes to writing.

    Thank goodness for copy editors, proof readers, quality assurance teams and all the other people who exist in a professional environment to catch and minimize those errors ever reaching the public.
     
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  2. barroldinho

    barroldinho Member+

    Man Utd and LA Galaxy
    England
    Aug 13, 2007
    US/UK dual citizen in HB, CA
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I see what you did there.
     
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  3. shurikt

    shurikt Member

    Aug 4, 2004
    Las Vegas, NV
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I see what you did there...
     
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  4. Beakmon FC

    Beakmon FC Member+

    LA Galaxy
    United States
    Jan 10, 2002
    The OC
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  5. Geneva

    Geneva LA for Life

    Feb 5, 2003
    Southern Cal
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  6. hav77

    hav77 Member+

    May 31, 2010
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
  7. Lazy Assed Assassin

    Jul 21, 2015
    Hat tip to the marketing department for ruining their own jersey revel event by scheduling it after the outdoor campaign start date. I guess substituting a marketing calendar for a Twitter DM has its downsides.
     
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  8. mbar

    mbar Member+

    Apr 30, 1999
    Los Angeles, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Watch out, super cool head of marketing wizardry Chris whatever his name is will soon point out that your opinion is invalid because he "didn't know anyone posted on bigsoccer anymore..."

    He likes to say that every 3-4 months or so...
     
  9. mbar

    mbar Member+

    Apr 30, 1999
    Los Angeles, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Anyone else think we're going to be totally outclassed by LAFC in the marketing department this year?

    I know winning is the most important cure for our problems but LAFC seems to be putting serious money into their efforts. I strongly suspect they are paying some of their "organic" supporters. They seem to have a twitter troll army on par with the KGB and I think they paid for like 10 fans to fly out to the superdraft today.

    Whether that stuff is real or not it creates a meaningful impression our twitter posts of our players wearing cartoon birthday hats can't match.
     
  10. barroldinho

    barroldinho Member+

    Man Utd and LA Galaxy
    England
    Aug 13, 2007
    US/UK dual citizen in HB, CA
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    They don't need to fly fans out to special events. They just need to know what it means when a red squiggly line appears under the word they just typed.
     
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  11. Beakmon FC

    Beakmon FC Member+

    LA Galaxy
    United States
    Jan 10, 2002
    The OC
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Funny. When I read about it on Twitter, I thought "Who the F... goes to the MLS Draft?"
     
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  12. Geneva

    Geneva LA for Life

    Feb 5, 2003
    Southern Cal
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    OMG. Burn.
     
  13. L.A. Native

    L.A. Native Member+

    Aug 1, 2013
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
  14. hav77

    hav77 Member+

    May 31, 2010
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Still waiting for the official "Oooh LA LA Kamara signs with the Galaxy" headline from the PR team.
     
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  15. L.A. Native

    L.A. Native Member+

    Aug 1, 2013
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    So I won't be going to the STM event today, gotta work. Not long after I got here though, look what went by
    [​IMG]
     
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  16. The Cadaver

    The Cadaver It's very quiet here.

    Oct 24, 2000
    La Cañada, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How just about Hola Ola.
     
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  17. shelbo

    shelbo Member+

    Oct 16, 2007
    L.A.
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Like it! An upgrade over "Romaine Lettuce"
     
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  18. hav77

    hav77 Member+

    May 31, 2010
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    FYP, because it's the "LA" Galaxy so you know, "hola" and "Ola" both has LA in them, so yeah...
     
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  19. skydog

    skydog Member+

    Aug 1, 1999
    Durham, NC
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    It only took a couple of posts for Shelbo and Hav77 to outshine our entire PR department. I say hire them now!
     
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  20. TrickHog

    TrickHog Moderator
    Staff Member

    Oct 14, 2002
    Los Angeles, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ola has LA in him!! Nicely done!
     
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  21. napper

    napper Member+

    Jan 14, 2014
    Fullerton
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I didn’t attend, but the jersey release party looked pretty cool. I’m kinda bummed I missed it.
     
  22. Geneva

    Geneva LA for Life

    Feb 5, 2003
    Southern Cal
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It was exciting to see the Galaxy greats, and how excited they seemed to be there. I mean what I saw online, because I wasn't there either. :sleep:
     
  23. Dr.Phil

    Dr.Phil Member+

    Jan 18, 2004
    Club:
    FC Bayern München
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    I like the since 96 campaign so far
     
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  24. Geneva

    Geneva LA for Life

    Feb 5, 2003
    Southern Cal
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Fabulous! That gave me chills.
     
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  25. TrickHog

    TrickHog Moderator
    Staff Member

    Oct 14, 2002
    Los Angeles, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not a fan of the tag line. But the video department has been doing an excellent job for the past few years.
     
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