What Podcasting May Be
By Shelly Palmer
Remember Razzles? Back
when I was a kid (when the Earth was cooling), they had a wonderful advertising
campaign that asked the question: "...is it a gum or a candy?" Razzles were
truly unusual. They were a bizarre cross between a sucking candy and chewing
gum. Nobody knew how to describe them, so the advertising agency decided to
forego classical benefit-oriented advertising concepts and focus on the
confusing feature set. The campaign turned the product's weakness into its
strength (very Sun Tzu). The results were excellent, because the product was
excellent. The ad promoted sampling and once sampled, the product sold itself.
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