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To: Nachum
This could backfire for Rush if the story is true.

You NEVER burn your bridges in the business world if you can help it.

Bad business decision from Rush if it is true. Future advertisers will keep this mind.

6 posted on 03/14/2012 9:49:17 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: trailhkr1

Too right. However, this would be acceptable: “Hello, Sleep Number? Sure, glad to have you back. By the way, did you know that our rates have doubled?”

TC


10 posted on 03/14/2012 9:52:28 AM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck
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To: trailhkr1

Ridiculous. I’m sure Rush knows exactly what he’s doing since he’s been successful at doing it for many years. Future advertisers should keep in mind that dumping Rush because of a few nasty liberals is not a smart move.


12 posted on 03/14/2012 9:54:41 AM PDT by beandog (Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand)
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To: trailhkr1

Rush is right, I am listening to him now.


13 posted on 03/14/2012 9:54:52 AM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: trailhkr1

Do you really think avid supporters of Rush care about Sleep Train? Or so many of the other products? Really?
The advertisement, nationally - voice endorsed products are a matter of listener loyally, pure and simple.

Whether the voice-endorsed products are Sleep Train, Chocolate Strawberries, or Carbonite, the listeners don’t care, really. They care about what Rush thinks about the products. And, therein my friend, is the crux of Sleep Train’s problem.


15 posted on 03/14/2012 9:57:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Rush handled it artfully. He told his audience that the advertisers didn’t want the audience anymore. Now they don’t have them. You are right that future advertisers will keep this fiasco of bad PR in mind.


25 posted on 03/14/2012 10:06:25 AM PDT by beefree
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To: trailhkr1

Well...

For the most part that is true.

If a customer has cheated you or tried hard to cheat you through the courts I don’t want them back period. I don’t want to be cheated again or learn new ways on how it is done.

If that’s not the problem and its legal, then just charge enough more to make it worth its while, don’t say no. Let the customer decide if they want to do it or not.


28 posted on 03/14/2012 10:07:24 AM PDT by DB
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To: trailhkr1
This could backfire for Rush if the story is true.

You NEVER burn your bridges in the business world if you can help it.

Bad business decision from Rush if it is true. Future advertisers will keep this mind.

Nice try, newbie.....

36 posted on 03/14/2012 10:16:24 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: trailhkr1

>>>You NEVER burn your bridges in the business world if you can help it.

SleepTrain Blew up the bridge. Rush is choosing not to rebuild. Good for him.


39 posted on 03/14/2012 10:18:45 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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Wrong. The advertisers burned the bridges, not Limbaugh. They were the cheating spouse...now kicked out of the house and will not be let back in.


43 posted on 03/14/2012 10:21:28 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Quit poking holes in the life raft!)
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To: trailhkr1

Please call the multimillionaire number one talk show host for over 20 years Rush Limbaugh right now and warn him! I’m sure he’ll appreciate your advice.


44 posted on 03/14/2012 10:22:08 AM PDT by free me (heartless)
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To: trailhkr1

BZZZZ! Wrong answer!

New advertizers know who we are and what we’re about and likely have the same values. (P.S. Hey Liberals, our values doesn’t include racism, either!)

Rush isn’t going anywhere and will be fine.


45 posted on 03/14/2012 10:24:17 AM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: trailhkr1

“Future advertisers will keep this mind.”

I hope they do keep it in mind: Don’t screw over your host through liberal knee-jerk reactionary business decisions or else you may find yourself left out in the cold.


48 posted on 03/14/2012 10:26:37 AM PDT by CodeToad (I'm so right-wing if I lifted my left leg I'd go into a spin.)
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To: trailhkr1
Future advertisers will keep this mind.

That's the point. He's able to pick and choose his sponsors, and leftist prima donnas are excess baggage.

50 posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:57 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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Congratulations.

Your posts have placed you among the finalists in the FR “Recently Registered Concern Troll of the Year” award.


59 posted on 03/14/2012 10:41:04 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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With hundreds of thousands of Rush fans lined up to boycott Sleep Train and other moronic sponsors that pulled their ads in a knee-jerk reaction to the perpetually offended...

how could he do otherwise? It would have been a slap in the face to all of his loyal fans and supporters that signed petitions and went ON RECORD against Sleep Train and others that bowed to leftist pressure.

Rush did the right thing. He doesn’t need their business if they are that fickle.


66 posted on 03/14/2012 10:48:53 AM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: trailhkr1

Wrong, this was the right decision. If an advertiser is going to play in with the left on a bogus scam they do not deserve to ever be trusted again.

Screw them and the democrat train they rode in on.


80 posted on 03/14/2012 11:32:32 AM PDT by dforest
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To: trailhkr1
“Bad business decision from Rush if it is true. Future advertisers will keep this mind.”

They damn sure better remember it. When you dis your customers because left-wing kooks email your company and you side with the kooks you will lose business that will never come back. A good thing to remember!

It wouldn't do Rush any good to take them back because his listeners were the ones these companies were dissing! They can KMA because I will never buy anything from them again.

96 posted on 03/14/2012 1:01:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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"backfire"

Rush is probably worth one half billion bucks or more. I don't think he cares to much about things backfiring.

102 posted on 03/14/2012 2:08:35 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: trailhkr1
Bad business decision from Rush if it is true. Future advertisers will keep this mind.
110 posted on 03/14/2012 3:59:53 PM PDT by xone
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To: trailhkr1; Melas
Note: asked to relaunch a "voiced endorsement" on Limbaugh's show on Thursday

A "voiced endorsement" is not just an ad. He may run their regular ads, I don't know. BUT- A voiced endorsement is when Rush personally talks up the product, so it doesn't sound so much like an ad, and he relays personal comments and anecdotes and gives his personal endorsement. Now, after what happened, do you really expect Rush to go on air and start talking up this company? No, he's going to do the smart thing and wait a while before letting them back into the fold, if at all. You absolutely cannot expect a personal endorsement from someone like Rush after you just slammed him and pulled your ads.
117 posted on 03/14/2012 4:43:54 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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