May 29th, 2009 @ 11:30 am
It’s time for your Sales Machine Friday dose of funny sales videos. Today we’re paying homage to a true art-form — the fake high tech ad. High tech companies spend billions of dollars every year hyping their products, making them excellent fodder for satire. I checked out about 100 of these fake ads. Here are the five that struck me as particularly funny.
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Geoffrey James
Geoffrey James has sold and written hundreds of features, articles and columns for national publications including Wired, Men's Health, Business 2.0, SellingPower, Brand World, Computer Gaming World, CIO, The New York Times and (of course) BNET. He is the author of seven books, including Business Wisdom of the Electronic Elite (translated into seven languages and selected by four book clubs), and The Tao of Programming (widely quoted on the Web as a "canonical book of... more »
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