Life will shower happiness upon you (Comm 296 Intro)

Guys, you should know that my name is Jonathan Chen by now. I came from China, that you can also tell from my name. Like most of you, I am a second year Sauderites. As a matter of fact, I have never spent much time thinking about a possible career in marketing. It’s probably because I have little knowledge regarding this aspect of commerce, I am comparably more interested in finance and accounting. However, it is never a bad thing to learn more and expand one’s vision, so I’m glad that Sauder included Comm 296 in my STT.

Living in the 21st Century, my daily life has been immerged in different elements of marketing: TV commercials, billboards in the subway station and on the roads, advertisements beside my emails and much more. To make them less annoying, marketers designed diligently to make those ads entertaining for bored consumers like me. Sometimes a great commercial could just make my day (exaggeration used here, but you get what I mean)!

Before I introduce my favorite commercial, I would start with joke: “This morning I saw a butterfly with no wings, so I poured it some Red-Bull…It drowned.” 

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This refered to the “Redbull gives you wings” campaign done by the energy drink company. It became so popular that jokes around its slogan can be found online! This turns out to be one of my favorite commercials.

Sit back and enjoy! Have a nice day by the way.

P.S: 

Last Tuesday, I dined in a Chinese restaurant on Dunbar street (where I currently live) and my fortune cookie told me that, “life will shower happiness upon you.” I felt even happier since then. This strengthened my belief that “happiness is an attitude.” Everyone can be happy, why arn’t you.

1 thought on “Life will shower happiness upon you (Comm 296 Intro)

  1. Hi Johnathan,

    Interesting commercial about the power that Red Bull claims to give people and your joke about how in practice it doesn’t actually work. I am glad that you are taking Marketing too it will give you such a broader business perspective as you build your career in Finance or Accounting. Welcome aboard and make sure to bring your happy to class – we need it at 8:30am!

    Phaedra

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