tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13141702.post3231474704608349540..comments2023-10-29T11:41:32.942-04:00Comments on venangago-go: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13141702.post-80168090874256573642007-10-14T16:14:00.000-04:002007-10-14T16:14:00.000-04:00I'm not sure what the issue is with Brother Bean. ...I'm not sure what the issue is with Brother Bean. <BR/><BR/>I can say that if I did not read here, I would probably have no idea whatsoever what, if anything, was going on out there. Nor does the place appear to register on my students' radar, either. And it may well be that neither my students nor I are exactly BB's target demographic, but if you're ruling out teens and middle-plus aged folks, you've thinned out your potential audience quite a bit just to start with.<BR/><BR/>From out here in the cheap seats, BB seems to have a branding problem. Is it a Christian Coffee House? A book store? Are heathens welcome, or will they feel uncomfortably out of place? And if it's several different things, how does one tell when which sorts of things are going on? And given the location, casual drop-ins are unlikely.<BR/><BR/>If I cared enough, as a potential audience person, I would go check things out on line or seek out info about the place. But of course the trick is to entice people who don't really know whether they would care enough to bother, and they're not going to go the extra mile to find out what's going on.<BR/><BR/>It's not a unique problem-- there are any number of operations in Venangoland, past and present, living and dead, that operate(d) on the theory that since family and friends know all about what's happening, that should about cover it. And the lack of any dependable media outlet to reach people-- the newspaper is both mercenary and expensive, and it would appear that the Forever Broadcasting stations just took another step backward by axing all the live jocks-- makes getting word out for anything an uphill challenge.Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.com