The Worst Disc Golf Advertising Campaign Ever!!!

[SpringDgLover]

Original post of this thread quoted here:

"So I'm sitting on my toilet reading my newest issue of DiscGolfer and after about the fifteenth time reading it an add finally catches my eye. At first I think it is an add for a daycare or maybe a summer camp. But no it is actually an add for a new disc manufacturer called ABC Discs. Now if anyone has seen this add then you know what Im talking about, it has a bunch of kids holding crudely made lettering and cheap looking discs with letters written on them in Sharpie spelling out... you guessed it ABC Discs. Now I may be coming off like an add snob but I really dont think this is the best way of advertising campaign for a new disc company. Hell is it really that hard to come up with a decent logo and some cool slogan like "ABC Discs... We make Innova and Discraft our Bitches". No instead I get this kiddy add that I truly didn't even notice till I was on the tail end of a monster crap. I of course went and checked out their website to see there discs and was even more let down to see that it is one page with a space where you can enter your email address so they can send you information on their discs. Discs mind you that should be releasing this month."


Thanks for the insight Terry.

You have clearly made up your mind as to just how good or bad this company is going to be. You have already nailed down and honed in your assessment and there is no where else to go from here. Needless to say, it seems like you have spent a good amount of time developing this assessment all for something you have already deemed inferior. Sounds like a case of wasting a bunch of time just to be negative about a product you've already dismissed. You also say how the "add" (incorrect homonym used by you) is basically junk but yet you came out to a discussion board to discuss just that - the ad. Anyone else here smell irony?

I wish this company or any other disc golf company the best of luck in their endeavors. It takes a great deal of courage, experience, and dedication to the game to create any product or service which is made available to the disc golf family.

Ill admit that I can be a bit over dramatic and I tend to poke fun a lot. Please dont mistake my disdain for his ad as a knock against him as a person. My point was and still is that if your going to place an ad in a magazine catered towards serious disc golf enthusiasts. Don't make it an ad with kids holding letters and people playing with whatever in the back ground. Know your market and who you are targeting and I personally believe he missed the mark there. As Midnight said earlier they should have placed that add in a family magazine where they could target a younger less serious demographic.

I was being serious when I said I didn't even notice the add till after reading the magazine like 15 times. That is bad adverstising and if anything I think this thread has done more good then bad by bringing attention to a new, home grown, disc golf maker. I trully wish them all the luck and I will be one of their first customers, because as you all have all said. It is great to support new and up and coming innovators in disc golf and in life in general.

 

[WillACarpenter]

The kids in the picture are his own children BTW.

I talked to Dan a bit and I'm hoping to get a relationship going with him. I'd like to get my hands on some of his discs with the promise of a full review after I've tried them all. If that happens I will be sure to post everything I find out here for all of you to read.

Dan seems like a really awesome guy, and I wish him the best of luck. In a perfect world I think we'd all see some great things from the man.

\/\/

 

[Roc1Time]

Abit cheesy

 

[discin311]

where is the chicago area?

Dekalb

 

[klay]

I'm not a big arm yet, but I am rather accurate at about 250' now.\/\/

No offense but are you sure you're qualified to review the flight of disc golf discs?

 

[billnchristy]

man what a bunch of bitch-craft on this thread.

Go Dan, make good discs, let me know where to get them when they are available and I will buy some.

Thanks for having the sac to fight the mega-giants.

 

[solomon.trenton]

I think you should buy one and see what it's like

they look worse than the discs that come with the instep

 

[crawdad62]

they look worse than the discs that come with the instep

Are there pictures somewhere? Other than the picture of the kids holding the discs? I'd like to see what models they've got.

 

[ejvogie]

where is the chicago area?

It's in Illinois, kinda on the Southwest corner of Lake Michigan

 

[JimDK27]

I thought it was kind of funny that there is an Innova Discatcher in the background.

 

[SpringDgLover]

man what a bunch of bitch-craft on this thread.

Go Dan, make good discs, let me know where to get them when they are available and I will buy some.

Thanks for having the sac to fight the mega-giants.

Hey thanks for referring to me having an opinion as "Bitch-Craft". Actually I like that. I think next time when a buddy of mine expresses an opinion Ill just say "hey dude stop being "Bitch-Craft"". I also love how people take everything so serious on here. News flash, everyone here wants Dan to succeed, no one here is against the little guy, so everyone getting all bent out of shape chill and go play a round.

 

[thepowerofpancakes]

Hey thanks for referring to me having an opinion as "Bitch-Craft". Actually I like that. I think next time when a buddy of mine expresses an opinion Ill just say "hey dude stop being "Bitch-Craft"". I also love how people take everything so serious on here. News flash, everyone here wants Dan to succeed, no one here is against the little guy, so everyone getting all bent out of shape chill and go play a round.

I agree with Bitch-craft, just poking a little fun, no reason to flip out....

 

[skinner21]

It's in Illinois, kinda on the Southwest corner of Lake Michigan

maybe I should proof read a little better...

Dekalb

that is awesome! I went to college in Dekalb and still live about an hour from there. I'm going to have to check this out.

man what a bunch of bitch-craft on this thread.

Go Dan, make good discs, let me know where to get them when they are available and I will buy some.

Thanks for having the sac to fight the mega-giants.

amen

 

[BogeyNoMore]

So I'm sitting on my toilet reading my newest issue of DiscGolfer and after about the fifteenth time reading it an add finally catches my eye. ...

...I really dont think this is the best way of advertising campaign for a new disc company. Hell is it really that hard to come up with a decent logo and some cool slogan like "ABC Discs... We make Innova and Discraft our Bitches". No instead I get this kiddy add that I truly didn't even notice till I was on the tail end of a monster crap.

Well, at least you knew what to wipe with - that way, their add wouldn't be a total waste.

 

[SpringDgLover]

I agree with Bitch-craft, just poking a little fun, no reason to flip out....

Ahhhh im totally flipping out ahhhhh help my heads about to explode. Ok Im done thanks for calming me down that was a close one lol.

 

[SpringDgLover]

Well, at least you knew what to wipe with - that way, their add wouldn't be a total waste.

This is true but I find magazine paper to be quite chaffing so I prefer cactus petals.

 

[skinner21]

This is true but I find magazine paper to be quite chaffing so I prefer cactus petals.

magazine paper is too glossy and slick. It no real grip power and I end worse than when I started.

 

[billnchristy]

The correct term would be "practicing bitch-craft"

 

[thepowerofpancakes]

Ahhhh im totally flipping out ahhhhh help my heads about to explode. Ok Im done thanks for calming me down that was a close one lol.

Ummmmm, i was defending you, i was talking about the others flipping out over you poking a little fun at the ad....sheesh....

 

[prerube]

No offense but are you sure you're qualified to review the flight of disc golf discs?

I may be inclined to agree. WillACarpenter, you are still in your first year so your flight patterns will be changing (mine are still changing). What a 172 champion Wraith does for you now will be different in 3 months. But kudos on being willing to shell out your money on an unknown disc in order to try to give us an idea of what they are like. I hope to meet you for a cold game of NY disc golf really soon.