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Does Sex Sell?
Posted by shelleyk • 3/09/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
That was the topic of my new blog thread. With Victoria's Secret feeling like they need to "cover up" more do you think that will help or hinder their sales? Do you think sales of beer, cars, chips goes up the more skin their commercials show?
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Well, as a retailer, there is no doubt that beautiful sells. I am not sure it is sex, but healthy men and women, interfacing with products certainly sends a certain message....healthy, beautiful people like or do this or that. That being said, I think SOME retailers are taking to too far. I am certainly not a prude, but I am sometimes shocked by what I see from television and internet marketing, especially places like Victoria Secrets. Oh well, I am old and out of touch.
Phil Ellis
www.divesportsblog.com
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I changed my avatar as well - took off my personal pic on my blog as well...left a little mystery. I have received 50% more hits today than usual meaning 2 hits total hahahaha!! Actually traffic has picked up and I have had more comments sent to me.
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best way to drive traffic (imho) is to actively comment on other people's blogs... but then again I only get 25 or so unique hits a day so... maybe i'm not the best person to ask. It's just worked better for me than anything else.
But to answer the original question, yes sex sells.
www.newsday.today.com
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what a foolish thought.
why just read this one:
wisdomof-love.blogspot.com/2008/03/singles-and-sex-logical-and-loving.html -
Sex sells. My goodness.. It is men's weakness exploited for commercial purposes.. tsk tsk tsk.. or is it men's only? hmm. what can u say?
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blurem23 sometimes sex is a woman's weakness to! Sex does sell. Even if you don't agree you usually cannot look away. It is a memory etched in your head.
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and I don't care what anyone says...I love the New Axe Bullet Commercial!!
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/the-axe-bullet-commercialthis-is-amazing
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I believe sex does sell. All my most popular posts involve me either getting naked; making sweet aristocratic love or other such depraved activities.
Of course, sex does not sell everything. I have yet to see it deployed to sell dog-food, or cat-food, for example. Neither would I want to! -
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Well sex does sell, when it comes to adult entertainment. When it come to normal products my friend Norski says it the best.
"The conventional wisdom is that sex-saturated content=lots of hits. On the other hand, advertisers for the most part stopped putting hot girls in bikinis in their ads when someone did a bit of research. They found out that the guys seeing the ads could remember the young woman's appearance in exquisite detail - and sometimes remembered what sort of product was being advertised."
This response was pertaining to my old BC discussion about adult content on your blog. www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/would-you-add-adult-content-to-your-blog -
ModelElaine has the right idea! I'm going to be a supermodel, too, and am also considering removing the photo of myself from the blog (I'm the spitting image of Angelina Jolie) because I'm too damn gorgeous and sexy for my own good! In fact, many people drop by just to oogle me, and I don't want to lead them on because I'm saving myself for my soul mate, Scott!
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Sex sells, but I think SEXY sells even more. Here at Blog Catalog I will usually click on a sexy woman's picture first. I do this for 2 reasons. 1st- I love beautiful, smart, sexy women. 2nd- Sexy women that blog usually end up having the most informative and up to date information. That's why you see a lot of guys here on Blog Catalog use a sexy picture of a woman instead of their own because more people are likely to click on it!
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When I first started my blog my numbers were not too high - as soon as I changed my avatar to a sexy woman I got so many more views - I do totally still agree sex does sell! Not that I am bad to look at - a model showing off her cleavage seems to be very pleasing to many people
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Of course sex sells! That is the whole reason I entered this discussion. I saw the word "Sex". I didn't even know what the discussion was about... but I had to participate.
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