A Brief Note from the Marketing Director | Eastern North Carolina Now

This is an announcement of a new marketing campaign for BCN.

    As the unofficial, unsolicited, unpaid and underappreciated marketing director for BCN in the greater community of the old folk's retirement home, I could not help but notice the tremendous crowds that THE DONALD is drawing at every public appearance. He recently drew about 30,000 people to an event at the City of Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium. See the news here on CNN.

    No good marketing director could let that pass without trying to get in on the potential publicity that I could generate by having an interview with THE DONALD at the Georgia Branch Office of BCN. I asked my staff to contact THE DONALD and set up the interview. I just knew that when I landed that gig we would catapult into the national media and increase our audience by an untold number of people. My staff ignored my instructions, so I called a staff meeting to lay down the law. No one showed up. It was kinda of like my post on BCN but I digress.

    I decided to take matters in my own hand and contacted THE DONALD'S people pretending to be a member of my staff. I asked to set up an interview. Everyone knows that THE DONALD does not have any people. He does everything himself. After a brief conversation, he advised he had to research and he would get back with me.

    The next day he called and said that it would be impossible to set up an interview. I asked him why and he told me that after researching BCN he could not grant an interview because we had an arrogant, know it all blowhard who continuously picked arguments with people on the BCN site. I indicated that it was possible to block the blowhard from making comments during the interview. He said his mind was made up and there was no way he would agree to be interviewed by that damn blowhard Bobby Tony. I was shocked but upon reflection, I realized he probably had read some of my post and comments. I quickly regained my composure as every good salesman does.

    I told him we had another much calmer interviewer who would keep it simple, direct and to the point in eighty words or less. He would not relent because he does not like black and white pictures of himself.

    He asked if we had a Southern Baptist Preacher that could do the interview. I hung up on him.

    So goes the saga of a Marketing Manager's Job.