Palm marketing goes bonkers

I pity each and every employee toiling away in Palm’s marketing department. The hoops through which they have to jump in the face of deteriorating product innovation become worse and worse every day – if it goes on like that much longer, I expect them all to receive a special hardship bonus. Anyways, read on to find out their (pathetic) latest attempts to keep the flow of Centros flowing…

Palm bribes customers with 25$
The Boy Genius Report has received materials for a Point-of-Sales promotion that almost vorders on bribery. Customers taking a free Verizon Centro on a 24mo contract get a 25$ visa gift card (no cash, nope) after filling out a form and mailing it to Palm.

Press pedicure party
I already planned to give the “most useless event ever” award to the girls at Flutlicht.biz for their lovely work for Asus (aka landing them on my blacklist) – but Palm’s latest attempt at keeping journalists chattering literally blows the flipchart off the stand.

The lines below come off Palm’s blog:

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To celebrate the unveiling of the new Sprint Centro holiday colors Vibrant rose and Olive green, Palm invited 20 editors from fashion and lifestyle magazines, websites, and TV (including InStyle, Lucky, the Today show, Conde Nast Traveler, Real Simple, and more) to a pedicure party at the Townhouse Spa in New York City. Our guests selected nail colors to complement the new Centro hues, and got a quick tour of the Centro from Rob K., Senior Product Manager, Consumer Smartphones.
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Looks like the Flutlicht girls now get a lifetime-of-incompetence award instead …

P.S. Palm has resumed attacking web sites run by users – more on that tomorrow (we were hit ourselves)!

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