Saturday, February 02, 2008

Publicity

With every publicity comes a negative publicity. If you are good , then You are better than some one hence.. some body is worse off than you. So every time you publicise your are good you are telling some one they are bad and you are there too get their Job.
Why am i talking of this, well today while driving to work i saw near my home a new three storied C3 opening. For those not from Calcutta, C3 is a big super market rather retail house which can take on Reliance fresh in business any day and twice on Sundays. This was their second outlet in saltlake itself. But how come i did not see any demonstration against it, well they are in to retail business are they not and sell cheaper than our corner grocer shop.
Some how it occured to me it was publicty rather lack of it that allowed its business grow.
It never publicised that they will procure directly from farmers and over ride middle men and nullify them to sell at a low price, neither did they claim they will sell cheaper than the papa-mama grocers.
Reliance on the other hand did the same, and hence the entry barrier. They publicised that they would NULLIFY .. and hence they were annulled in Calcutta.
With every publicity comes negative publicity