"Doesn't auto racing and monster trucks share the same aesthetic? Usually have the same crowd? Of course it does."
Someone read this to the blind one. Monster truck races: Raminator features crowd-pleasing special effects like smoke-snorting nostrils and strobing red eyes. "The trucks draw fans of all ages," said Tim Hall. "It helps let people know that it's a big truck and it fits in with the Dodge brand character of street-smart and edgy." More than a million people attend monster truck events each year, and the demographics of the people who attend those events are the consumers who buy pickup trucks. Grand Prix races: "They're event people. They're the same people who go to the Kentucky Derby and the Super Bowl, to experience the whole thing" Older. Fifteen percent are over 65, more likely to be male. Sixty-nine percent of loyal open-wheel fans are men, more likely to have graduated college. Open-wheel fans are 5 percent more likely to have degrees. The cellular phone service has its own grandstand section with 3,000 customers who got cut-rate tickets, displays on the grounds to show off its products and a suite to entertain VIPs. Those suites are schmoozing spots most of us never see. "We host our most significant customers in our pit suite" "We don't want to sell them anything. We want to build a relationship and get dose to the customer and let them have a good time." Digital and information technology giant EDS have installed computer terminals in the tents that will give up-to-the-second race results. `We're getting visibility in front of 9,000 senior executives over the weekend," Survey says they are, mostly 29 to 43, most with college or university education and most earning more than $40,000 a year. "On average they have twice the consumption of cellulars of the general population. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fred, > > You asked of Skip: > > > I would like to know what did Larry do to you? > > I'll gladly give you the answer. > > Skip and a Partner, Carroll Raver, were planning on promoting > a "Grand Prix" race around the old Circuit at the beach (The round > made by Ocean and Kingsley). > > [Off topic for one second: Last year I posted here how much my kids > had on the Monster Truck ride at the 4th of July Parade. Skip > posted nasty messages about me, apparantly because Monster trucks > are an aesthetic that is beneath him. Well I ask: Doesn't auto > racing and monster trucks share the same aesthetic? Usually have > the same crowd? Of course it does.] > > Back on topic. While trying to promote this event Skip's partner > was fined in a stock scheme to the tune of $350,000.00. > > HERE IS WHAT LARRY DID TO SKIP: HE CUT ALL TIES WITH SKIP AND HIS > PARTNER AND WOULD NOT DO BUSINESS WITH HIM. IN SHORT, VERY > PUBLICALLY, LARRY FIRED SKIP. > > Ever since then, Skip has been screaming terrible things about > Larry. It is all about revenge, not Asbury Park. That's why he > laces every psot with terrible things about Asbury Partners. > > Here are two links to prove what I say. They first is to Skip's > website telling of the Grand Prix and his partnership with Raver in > it (which I assume Skip will take down as soon as he see's this, so > you better look at it fast). The second was the very public snub by > Larry to Skip and his partner. > > Enjoy. And when you see Skip constantly pounding Larry, and me for > supporting Larry, you know now you can skip it all as sour grapes. > > http://tinyurl.com/7r54w > > http://tinyurl.com/d6yk3 > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
