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This just in: Lion Brand taps into knitting zeitgeist

Did you ever want to publish a meme, but… louder?

Simple. Instead of blogging the most popular hits and search terms used to reach your website, issue a press release.

10 Responses to “This just in: Lion Brand taps into knitting zeitgeist”

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   lorinda said on October 24th, 2006 at 9:12 pm

   Geez, Louise.

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   Lola said on October 25th, 2006 at 8:19 am

   Umm. Okayyyy . . . I’m sure they have a few PR interns who are capable of putting together something like this.

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   Steph said on October 25th, 2006 at 9:58 am

   They really do want some market share eh? It would help if they made some decent yarns of course.

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   Erika said on October 25th, 2006 at 11:57 am

   The fact that Martha’s poncho is still #3 tells you all you need to know, really.

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   Carol said on October 25th, 2006 at 2:43 pm

   I’ll take a meme please.

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   caro said on October 25th, 2006 at 3:50 pm

   I’m with Erika. A high ranking of ‘poncho’ for a search term speaks volumes about the brand and the website.

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   3c said on October 26th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

   [responding to the comments to-date more than to the blog entry]

   Er, when y’all get uppity and talk about ‘bad’ yarns and ‘bad’ patterns — um, Lion is in business, so aren’t you really talking about the ‘bad’ taste in patterns and yarns that seems to sell to a big segment of the market with similar ‘bad’ taste in patterns and yarns? If it was a product that had no appeal in the marketplace, it wouldn’t sell.

   Not quite my taste in yarns or patterns either, but business is business — and demand is demand. But I’m not sure the seller is at fault (yeah yeah, we could discuss ‘push’ vs. ‘pull’ marketing if you want — but why bother…).

   Yeah, we all have ‘better’ taste than Lion anything or Red Heart sells. Then again, I think some of those ‘crap’ yarns are great values for what you pay for them, compared to boutique novelty crap or inflated prices for basics that a lot of companies are charging.

   What does the poncho thing tell you? What do their best-seller yarns tell you? That there’s a really big market out there you’re not in synch with :)

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   Carrie said on October 27th, 2006 at 10:59 am

   McDonald’s is hugely popular; does that make it good? :)

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   Amie said on October 27th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

   I don’t know why, but I’m laughing at this scenario.

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    Kimberly said on November 9th, 2006 at 11:21 am

    3c, LB doesn’t necessarily have a large market share because they are good or deserving of it. They have it because they’re cheap and easy to find. (And they must have a killer profit margin.) Until I moved to NYC, I did not know yarn stores existed that sold other brands. I just thought they had some weird choke hold on the market.

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