The Billy Mays Phenomenon

It is time for spring cleaning once again, and guess who is coming to dinner. In our environmentally friendly society there is a peddler with just the right products at the right time at a price so low they simply must be tried. He has your number, and he is coming to a TV near you - today.

Just like John Kennedy, Billy Graham, David Brinkley, Henry Kissinger, and many other radio and television personalities, there is an advertising guru with an unforgettable voice. Billy Mays. Billy Mays violates all the rules of capturing and keeping the attention of his audience. He communicates by screaming at you. He is grating in the extreme, yet we continue to listen.

More importantly, to his position at least, we continue to buy. That, however, is not a concern for the venerable pitchman who first came to us on The Shopping Channel. We doubt there is anyone in America who owns a TV that has not seen his infomercials somewhere sometime. He hawks and we purchase everything from OxiClean®, Orange Clean®, Kaboom®, Hercules Hook, Samurai Shark, and Zorbeeze, to onion slicers and dicers to epoxy, adinfinitum it seems.

Billy Mays is one of those people who could sell deep freezers to Eskimos. If he were a man of the cloth, he would surely be one of the renown preachers of our time with a mega church supported by multiple thousands of members ministering to (or fleecing as the case may be) untold thousands more via the internet, radio and television. Can you not picture him selling holy water and anointing oils and cloths

Like lawyers, politicians, business moguls and preachers whose reputations precede them, Billy Mays is at the pinnacle of his career, and is sought after by everyone with anything to sell. If there is a product, such as snake oil, that is remotely marketable regardless of its value or sturdiness, Billy Mays can sell it.

Though we may not care to admit it, untold thousands of us have purchased "stuff" we did not need as a result of being swayed by the loud fast talking salesman. Knowing we have purchased defective products in the past as a result of Billy Mays' persuasion, it is almost like we can not help ourselves and we do it over and over and over again. Why Maybe to shut him up. Most often, however, because he sells us not what we need but what we want to believe after he quickly creates a demand for the product dejur.

One can combine a nice trip, vacation, or other family outing with the experience to help ease the pain of that nagging feeling in the pit of your stomach that says, "I really should not do this" as you lay down hard earned cash for one of Billy's products. There are a couple of "As Seen On TV" (your first warning) Stores in the Pigon Forge, Tennessee and Gatlinburg, Tennessee areas. You can play with your new purchase while you feed the wild Tennessee Black Bears which you really should not do either.

Can't get to an "As Seen On TV" Store Never mind. Billy Mays has created such a demand for these products that Wal-Mart, Walgreen's, and even Bed, Bath and Beyond and many other reputable retailers have started selling them. So, a trip to the corner pharmacy will open for you the world of items which Mays says can't be purchased in any store.

Billy Mays... Maijson posted on the Billy Mays Forum at World Warcraft, "HI I'M BILLY MAYES! AND I'VE MANAGED TO YELL EVEN LOUDER THAN I DID IN MY LAST COMMERCIAL!". Well, for the Tennessee Mountain Man that about said it all. Then Computer Man submitted this find from Alaerun, "Honestly Billy, theres no need to scream like someone has a tiki torch up your butt. We can hear you fine... Please bring it down a notch". But, hey, it works for him. We would not suggest trying this at home as Mays is a professional one of a kind pitchman. His tactics would not work for us and probably not for you either, but Billy keeps raking in the money... big money - your money.

About the Author

remote computer repair publication
Submitted by: Super Article Submitter

Source: Viral Marketing Articles on ArticlesTree.com





Recent Viral Marketing Articles

Enjoy your flight - Cheapflights' viral marketing
Dreamy Titillating Funny If this is your idea of an enjoyable flight then Cheapflights is the place to find it, because its new viral marketing campaign is a real trip - literally.

The Billy Mays Phenomenon
It is time for spring cleaning once again, and guess who is coming to dinner. In our environmentally friendly society there is a peddler with just the right products at the right time at a price so low they simply must be tried.

Is Social Bookmarking DEAD?
If when you are checking in your cpanel you notice that you aren't capturing all that many links back from the social bookmarking web sites, there is a reason. Numerous social bookmarking sites have added a "rel="nofollow" tag to your link.

Viral Marketing 101: Use It to Create a Healthy Business!
The one virtue that helps sites overcome the competition online is creativity. With so many competing, you must employ every method of marketing you can to stay ahead. Do you have a killer product A really cool website If people don't know you are there, none of it matters and you won't make a dime.

7 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Site Immediately
To make a profit with an internet business you need traffic and lots of it. No matter how many articles you read about creating a successful company, you will always read about the importance of creating traffic.

Using a Tell-A-Friend Script to Generate Traffic
More people are facing the problem of how to increase traffic flow to their websites every day. There have been many methods developed to help solve this problem. While some work very well, others don't even make a small impression.

Having Articles On Your Site Increases Your Income
There is a free method to increase sales of your product and to ramp up the amount of traffic arriving to your website each and every day. In a word: articles. Articles can generate much more traffic for your site, which of course means more money for you, the site owner.

Check Out Online Auction Marketing
You can use these online auctions sites in a variety of ways, from just selling unwanted items you have lying around your home to building a successful business. The great thing about

The Perfect Squeeze Page


Earn Easy Money
Never Pay Money for Another Lead Everyone know you can become successful in network marketing if you have target new leads constantly who have interest in Network Marketing opportunities. That's why there are many, many network marketing lead vendors making alot of money.

Super Internet Marketing Tools To Get The Word Out On You
In this age of a highly crowded Internet and a widening Internet audience, the word on the digital street is to market everything well. You can see this most clearly in popular websites: evidenced in pop-up or pop-under windows that advertise different programs, links leading to websites that advertise different products and services and often annoying, gigantic banners and buttons that will lead you to different companies that want to make their names known online.

Optimization versus Incoming Links
Finding the right balance when doing seo In the area of site optimization, another balance must be decided: the one between page optimization (including tag authoring, keyword embedding, content design,) and link building (constructing a network of incoming links from other sites in your topical field).

Build Your Online Business Using Viral Marketing Techniques
Viral marketing has emerged as an unstoppable marketing tool to reckon with in businesses. It is a system that makes use of networks that have existed from before for the promotion of a service, idea, or a product.

4 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site
In order to attract traffic to your website, you have to first ask yourself, what is in it for your visitor. There must be a pull factor - a bait on your website to attract traffic to visit your website.

Various internet marketing strategies
Webmasters are now diverting towards new and effective business marketing solutions to promote their products and services and to get online business exposure.