Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Perverse Payola - Bring It On



Apparently, new rules are coming down for blogger's on how they deal with all the free loot companies give them to try and then make recommendations to their readers.

So far, these companies have missed Dysfunctional Bungalow in their marketing meetings. But I like to imagine the types of products that could be a fit for my 4 perversely, sophisticated followers.

Free therapy comes to mind...this seems like a natural way to promote local shrinks, therapists, support groups, and soft-core cults. Interventionists, hoarding specialists, rehabilitation programs, any 12-step program. Self help books, bats with pillows (to beat them with), dishes to be broken, phones to be screamed into and them slammed, bubble wrap, peanut shells to be crushed on a wooden bar room floor, any Wal-mart to relive your dysfunctional childhood or easily participate in creating a new one with a child you've never met.

So, marketing guru's, you may think this is a tricky and tiny audience to pin down, but just give it some thought, and send me the goods.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did I ever tell you I worked next to a scream therapist? I would be happily designing something when out of the blue would come this agonizing, blood curdling scream. The very first time it happened I nearly jumped out of my skin. Weird stuff.

Anyway, sign me up for the free therapy. :)

- Susan

steinstew@gmail.com said...

I rented a room in a house where the "screamers" as we called them would come in once a month for their therapy. While they were in the midst of screaming and beating pillows, we would sneak into the kitchen to steal their tasty snacks!