28: An Incredible Reinvention
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
When no one wants your product, don't change the product, change the name.
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| 0:00.0 | In New York you can gaze up at the towering skyscrapers or... |
| 0:05.0 | You can sunbathe on top of one. |
| 0:08.0 | In LA you can catch a neon lit rollercoaster ride on Santa Monica Pier. |
| 0:14.0 | Before catching a California catfish off Santa Monica Pier. |
| 0:19.0 | Oop! |
| 0:20.0 | Virgin Atlantic fly to the world's most iconic destinations |
| 0:24.0 | but how you see them is up to you. |
| 0:26.0 | Book now with Virgin Atlantic. See the world differently. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:38.0 | Bob was confused. |
| 0:39.0 | In his office, Santa man named Joe, with a product that cleaned wallpaper. |
| 0:45.0 | Joe wanted to advertise his product on Bob's show, |
| 0:48.0 | but Joe had no money to pay for a commercial. |
| 0:51.0 | Moreover, Joe didn't seem to understand that Bob's audience |
| 0:55.0 | was comprised mostly of seven-year-olds. |
| 0:58.0 | So Bob's confusion was completely understandable. |
| 1:00.0 | Even if you could afford to advertise on my show said Bob, |
| 1:04.0 | why would you want to? Why would a kid want wallpaper cleaner? |
| 1:09.0 | These were fair questions all posed with a measure of incredulity |
| 1:13.0 | entirely appropriate for the moment at hand. |
| 1:15.0 | Because not only did Joe have no advertising budget, |
| 1:19.0 | he wanted Bob himself to actually demonstrate the product on television |
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