Just so we're clear on Universal....
POSTED BY: bad2verse
UPDATED: Thursday, September 7, 2006 11:51
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Originally posted by FollowMal:
From now on all the projects will have their own thread or one final thread under the Guerilla Marketing Forum. We'll also have our guerilla marketing website up soon.
Good point about the cards. We'll have that squared away next time.Thank you!
We may want to go one step further if we plan to do more of this in the future... I own several Servers around the country, and we can get a webname and park it on any one of them, with enough space so that "Whoever" can use it as a base of operation.. Piece of cake... Or we can link to a webspace from here, or whatever..
As you and several others have said, If we're gonna do this stuff, we need to be coordinated, and we need to have ALL of the different Fansite owners able to meet under one virtual roof so they can carry the word back to their various forums..
FFF.net seems to the Biggest and highest ranked in the search engines, so it is the logical place to do it... One unifying "Current projects" area, and then we can all spread the word to the various forum and site owners about the area, and maybe a private message board for all the heads of the various sites to meet and hash out our campaigns, then (again) each owner can carry the decided upon project back to their own forums..
MUCH easier than trying to herd thousands of people individually.. simply hand the info out to the top dogs of each site/forum from ONE main site/forum, and let them carry it home.
Then the FFF.net people are on the same page with the various browncoat orgs, Serenity orgs, etc etc etc... FFF.net is in a unique position to take the lead on this.
As far as the cards.. We need to stay within Copyright laws, so we'd have to decide on a graphic, and then give the web location on the card. I don't mind having the Cards made up and sending them out to whomever, once we have the "one project place" nailed down (If it is decided to go that route)...
Again, I have people that design our Logos on .AI or .PDF format (which is what most printers want, if you want to avoid a setup fee) that can polish up whatever is decided upon.
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Originally posted by goat:
You do realize who Universal's corporate parent is, right? None other than GE who does just about everything from locomotives, water purification systems and MRI machines to aircraft leasing, credit cards (like American Eagle's credit card) and corporate finance. If you want to talk about monster corporations, GE will probably come up (The second biggest company in the world (1)).
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My Company handles MUCH of their Server maintenance and security here in the USA and abroad.. they have an in-house division for it, but they step outside of that division to make sure that their people are kept honest ("Once Root, Always Root", as the saying goes... and one of my Jobs is to make sure the various server people don't get tempted to go that route, OR go into areas where they shouldn't be).. You obviously know how compartmentalized they are, and how they try to keep one hand from knowing what the other is doing.
You might Say "GE" is "in the family" since I have Family that have been there YEARS, some are various VP's in charge of______ (Insert division).. My father retired as one of the VP's from their Turbine division on his 45th Birthday.. He's still got LOTS of pull and is a major shareholder.
GE is probably a bigger bite than we're prepared to take at this point, but if the idea is put in the right hands, It's not far fetched for a VP in Corporate to ask about an idea from a Child company... in fact it happens rather often. I'll talk to Dad and see what he says on the matter.. he stays in touch and semi-involved, but his major profession is (As Patience says) "Trout Fishing".. and he says if you do it right, the trout don't bother you at all.. I've known him to fish with no hook on his flies. ;)
We probably need to stay down a few rungs in the Film business, rather than go THAT far up the food chain.
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World of Warcraft was developed by Blizzard, which is owned by Vivendi which happens to be.....
* MSNBC
* NBC
* Sci-Fi Channel
* USA Network
* Universal Studios
* Vivendi Universal
* Bravo
* Telemundo
* Universal Studios Theme Parks
* TRIO
* CNBC
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Hi, y'all.
I'm TDBrown, the guy who started all this over on the serenitymovie.org Board. Kari, who hosts "The Signal", is a crewmember of mine there.
The whole point behind "The Anniversary Job" is it's simplicity. It's a "grass roots" effort to let Universal Pictures know that we're still out here, that we're grateful, and that we're ready for More.
"The Job" is three-fold:
1) Send snail mail to Universal a few days before Sept 30th, so that it will arrive as close to Saturday as possible. When addressing snail mail, make it c/o Mary Parent, or Attn: Mary Parent. She's the #2 over at Universal, and is responsible for Serenity being made in the first place. (Some have suggested the PR department; It's a thought)
2) send an e-mail to Universal's "contact us" address on the 30th. The idea for this is sheer Volume; It Will get their attention!
3) Have fun; watch the Movie or the Series with a Newbie on Saturday. Enjoy what we all Love, and recruit new Browncoats in the process! This can be as simple as a small party at your house, or as grandiose as renting a small theater venue. Use your imagination and Shindig like there's no tomorrow :)!
IMO, we shouldn't make this any more complicated than that.
Thanx for all your efforts! :) TD/Tim
ps: NBC is owned by the Ultimate Corporation: My Employer, General Electric. I build refrigerators for them in Bloomington, IN. Just one of the nameless faces...
GE is a Monster; a Net Worth of 90 Billion Dollars yearly. They'll never hear us at the top unless we shake the roots at the bottom.
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Mary Parent is no longer with Universal, even though she probably has offices on their lot. She left the position she held with them shortly after the BDM was released (or shortly before, I can't recall), in order to start her own production company with a partner I also can't recall at the moment.
So, in order to appear "in the loop" so to speak, her name should not be on the envelopes anyone sends to Universal.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Mary Parent is no longer with Universal, even though she probably has offices on their lot. She left the position she held with them shortly after the BDM was released (or shortly before, I can't recall), in order to start her own production company with a partner I also can't recall at the moment.
So, in order to appear "in the loop" so to speak, her name should not be on the envelopes anyone sends to Universal.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
Thank you ECGordon.. 11th Hour expressed concern with the " in the loop " thing too.
Appreciate that.
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i am a member yes
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Would you consider being our representative to that forum?
You could post about us and post our messages from the BSC.
If you'd be willing to?
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Excellent DrWIll!
Do you mind sending me your email address so that the head of the BSC ( Browncoat Signal Corps) can send you the posts when we send them out?
My address is followmal@gmail.com.
We very much appreciate this DrWIll. 500,000 people are a lot of folks.
I take it you like Firefly a lot? And Serenity?
Maybe some other folks over there are fans too.
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