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[the_siobhan]

Psychographic marketing techniques helped Raid roach spray marketers discover that the reason low-income Southern women were the heaviest users of roach spray was that "a lot of their feelings about the roach were very similar to the feelings that they had about the men in their lives," said an advertising executive on the account.

They said the roach, like the men in the their life, "only comes around when he wants food."

The act of spraying roaches and seeing them die was satisfying to this frustrated, powerless group.

~American Demographics, November 1991

Comments

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

awesome

[scarletfaewind.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they actually paid people to research this. I already knew that.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Targeted marketing is big bucks.

[Edited to add] Don't forget that this was in 1991 - targeted campaigns were still in their toddlerhood.

[scarletfaewind.livejournal.com]

I know, but they could have just paid me to tell them common sense.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Obviously this is a revenue stream you need to tap into.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

So, Southern women are repressed psychopaths who just haven't upgraded to cats and puppies?

You might be interested in a show called The Gruen Transfer (www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/) which you should be able to watch online. I'm pretty sure the ABC doesn't block content by IP like the BBC or the US networks.

Hmm

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they would have to say about the women who just stomp on the motherfuckers?

Re: Hmm

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That it expresses your feelings towards the men in your life?

[individuation.livejournal.com]

Wow.
Just wow.
What an interesting/odd/sad country I live in.