A letter – via blog post – to Chris Whitley at Wood Group Renewable Energy Services.Dear Chris: Can you make out the ad at all? For Mexican avocados? I honestly don’t know why I hadn’t suggested this idea to you before now but the new ad caught me by surprise.
Fresh from the back cover of this month’s issue of Cooking Light, I honestly never envisioned using slices of The Amazing AvocadoTM as rotor blades on high-efficiency wind turbines. Nope, not even when we were creating and producing the 2009 Renewable Energy Services print ads.
I also can’t determine if this new ad is part of the campaign that started in January, or the newer, second-half campaign. According to the trade press, the Avocados-from-Mexico Fall/Winter marketing program’ll run full-bore media campaigns in “the top avocado consumption markets” of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Chicago. (I can’t quite figure out Chicago, but there it is.)
According to a news release from Integrated Marketing Works in Newport Beach, CA, though, the “new” campaign won’t start ‘til early November. So maybe this particular ad comes out of the avocado organization’s NYC shop, Lewis and Neale.
In case you can’t read this photo, the headline is, “with nearly 20 vitamins and minerals, it’s nature’s power plant.” I guess it suits the Cooking Light audience. Our headlines are quite a bit better, of course. Still, the Mexican avocado campaign’s slated to reach 99 million consumers and that’s a lot of people, no fooling. So here’s the NEXT BIG IDEA for RES.
Let’s contact the Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association (MHAIA) and do a joint marketing campaign. RES brings its exceptional, global knowledge of, and experience with, turbine MOR and wind farm operations. The importers bring the avocados…and we will find a vendor to supply the chips.
Everything gets promoted with “hospitality events” at the Turbo Show in Houston, as well as Power-Gen 2009 in Las Vegas. Avocados are, after all, a renewable resource. I guarantee – the renewable industry will NOT have seen anything like this!
All the best for a good week…Richard.
Print advertisement ® 2009, Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association. All rights reserved.
4 comments:
Chicago? Rob Schoenbeck says the Mexican community there is huge!
This is so fun Richard. What a great post -- fresh, delightful.
It would be cool to contact the Xochitl folks out of Dallas for their fresh chips and gourmet driven salsa. I crave their savory flavors and they are hard to find here.
How cool, great ad.
For additional support of this ongoing series of ads, Avocados from Mexico is using House Party (Irvington, NY) to introduced the produce in - well, house parties - on October 10, 2009:
http://www.houseparty.com/avocadosfrommexico
Wish I'd known about this promo!
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