No Milestone, Please Not Coupons
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Comments (18)
Sean Patton
No Groupon?
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Luis Carmona
"Would you like to apply for a Milestone credit card today and get an additional 10% off your total purchase and 1000 bonus miles?"
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Brian Rhodes
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Jeremy Ellis
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Undisclosed Integrator #1
What Milestone could use is a new rep firm. I've been trying to get in touch with a Milestone rep for a few weeks and expressed a huge interest in trying out XProtect but they simply do not respond to emails.
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Kevin Nadai
In my advertising and public relations undergraduate work, we were presented with an early advertisement for Pepsi Cola with the tagline: "Twice as much, and for a nickel too!" Pepsi has been trailing Coca Cola ever since.
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Undisclosed #2
What if the new sales 'strategy' is coming from 'downtown'? As in downtown Tokyo?
Only a pessimist would note that there's room on the last line for exactly two more categories, IP cameras and NVR's...
Meanwhile, setup at Canon's Bumper Sale Booth continues...
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Hal Bennick
04/14/15 05:45pm
When I see a 50% off coupon, my first thought is "wow, their list price is really bloated". It's sort of like shopping for a watch in the sub-$500 price range. You will find a ton of watches out there for $245, with an MSRP of $795. Huge discount! Crazy thing is, there are exactly ZERO people selling the watch for $795. The MSRP is a scam from the start.
A 50% off coupon just stinks of schlocky scam. "If you order in the next 13 minutes, you'll also receive a Slap-Chop Chopper!"
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Horace Lasell
Sounds like a great marketing approach: perhaps a strategy to woo back potential customers that may have been discouraged by useability issues? Creating that coupon is probably a lot easier than improving the installation experience.
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Jack Sink
2TB as a noteworthy technological advancement? The new Apple watch probably approaches that. We have certainly witnessed the beginning of impact by Canon and perhaps the beginning of the decline of Milestone.
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