Best,
Jamie

- How do customers convince a growing (and successful) company that they’ve grown out of their old branding?

I may need to think about this…I’ll have a post up later this weekend. Feel free to drop by on Sunday using the link above and let me know what you think Jamie!

Ryan, Mike, Leslie, Jason — you all have good things to say.

Jason, you make a particularly good point about businesses (like ours) supporting the bad advertising with our economic vote. That’s a smart way to look at it. And, unfortunately, we’re guilty.

For the record, based on your comment, I checked with our IT guys to find out what it would take to move the site to another hosting company. Unfortunately, it’s not a 3-clicks-and-you’re-done kind of thing. Once it’s hosted on GoDaddy, it’s labor-intensive to change.

Given that, perhaps you could suggest other options so our readers can send their economic votes elsewhere?

(Note to GoDaddy: I would hate to think that the honest commentary on our site would result in a mysterious disappearance of this blog post. I’m not saying you’d do that. I’m just sayin’…)

Obviously, Bob Parsons launched the sexually-gratuitous Go Daddy campaign to break from the pack as a startup and Danica Patrick signed-on a few years later for money. What I don’t understand is why you and thousands of others who claim not to like the ads, support them with your economic vote? You might like their customer support, but unless you were part of Go Daddy’s beta team…the ads existed when you signed-on.

Did you expect them to change once they were paid for it? As long as Bob’s company continues to grow, he’ll keep pumping out the same lame ads because (a) he’s running a business, and (b) it appears to be working.

For the record, I’ve used 4 hosting companies and Go Daddy wasn’t one of them. ;)

As a woman, I am pretty sick of poor/mediocre female athletes leveraging their looks for endorsements, rather than their sport.
Ex: Danice Patrick and Anna Kournikova

Jeez, I just wish they were decent at their profession-that would make it less distasteful for me.

So, am I saying that levering their looks is okay as long as they are good at their sport? Yeah, maybe. At least they would be celebrated for their talent, as well as their, um, genes. It’s a bit like “dress up” when there isn’t much talent there to speak of.

I also personally don’t think Danica Patrick is such a knockout and if she wasn’t a race car driver, she would’ve never gotten all the attention for her looks. It’s primarily b/c she works in a male-dominated profession. I concede Kournikova is pretty striking, and I am sure those tennis skirts don’t hurt, either.

Where are the female golf professionals and their endorsements? LOL. I agree Jamie-fire that agent, do something for charity-dump the Hooters-like 90′s tank tops and work on driving :)