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Unread 1 Oct 2006, 16:33   #5
Heartless
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Re: Wanted: Marketing Assistant

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Originally Posted by Tomkat
Seriously Heartless where does all the PA Team hatred stem from?

You tell him off if it looks like he isn't doing anything.

Then as soon as he does do something you tell him off again!

It's a voluntary position, asking for a Marketing Assistant. Adding someone else to the team to do some work isn't going to do any harm at all - it's not like they're being paid or anything.

The PA-Team-Bashing on here does get pretty tiresome at times
I wouldn't call it hate, more like constantly asking in order to actually get a track record of what PA Team actually does. The problem is not that he is doing something, the problem is that he either does nothing or things which do not help reviving the game (f.e. what jer said - delegating work to other people instead of actually doing some work).
From the job description it's only about firing up google/msn/yahoo searches for websites about online (browser) games and see if they can advertise pa without pa actually having to pay for it. One could already wonder why chef and Kal are unable to do that anyway.

Now, while this at first looks like a good idea, there are several issues with it: People notice that there is this game called Planetarion, and they might even sign up and play - however, after a round or two those people will stop again due to not enjoying the game itself (for various issues which have been adressed over and over again but nothing happened yet). So, what is left is a customer who gained a bad impression about your product and thus is a lot less likely to use the product again. So, as you can see, this marketing strategy might provide a very, very small short-sighted profit at the cost of a much more important mid- to long-term profit.
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