The wind was horrible. I’ve done what I can to try to — at least — mute it a bit, but it’s still a horrible file. I’m going to have to address that. Today.
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The new camera takes great photos!
Is the wind problem unique to the new mike? Or just because it’s a windy day? (I couldn’t make out anything on the audio file.)
It’s a REALLY windy day. Much windier than I normally have. I suspect the earbud would have had problems as well.
Want me to lone you my motorcycle helmet. The mike in it works great in the wind. LOL
I do think you have a point that reaching the right audience is as important as reaching the largest audience, but I think your jump of logic from “to each consumer, 90% of everything is crap, 10% good” to “each thing is thought to be crap by 90% of consumers” is logically flawed and invalid. It is entirely possible that only 20% of people think one thing (Schindler’s List? Star Wars Episode IV?) is crap, but that 99% of people think another thing is crap (or would if they read/saw it). Indeed, I’d say it is very strongly evidenced.
While I also agree that relationships are a better way to reach fans than mass marketing blasted ads, I don’t think one needs to be quite so concerned with reaching as few of the wrong audience as possible. Does having someone dislike your product matter much? I’d say the fact that 50 Shades of Grey and Twilight are such gigantic successes is clear evidence that it doesn’t matter if lots of consumers hate the product, especially when it is an entertainment product, and thus highly subjective.
While one doesn’t really want one’s product to be rated 1 or 2 stars overall on Amazon or what have you, I regularly see outstanding products rated 3.5 or so, and I’m not sure many people are dissuaded above 3 stars, as long as there’s a goodly number of reviews (I’m much more suspicious of a product with 5 stars but only 3 reviews than of a product with 4 stars and 200 reviews).
There’s people whose “this is crap!” declarations will give me a hint that the thing they’re talking about might be awesome. =) So… it’s hard to say whether bad publicity is really bad. You might reach the right audience through the wrong audience too!
Some very good points here, Stephen.
And I think you maybe right about my jump from one to the other. I need to think about that.
I suspect you’re right and I’ve been a bit myopic.