Linus Tech Tips Blog » Bad Marketing http://www.linustechtips.com Computers, Tech Tips, paintball, or whatever I feel like... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:21:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ECS X58 Motherboard Marketing Effort….. F- http://www.linustechtips.com/bad-marketing/ecs-x58-motherboard-marketing-effort-f http://www.linustechtips.com/bad-marketing/ecs-x58-motherboard-marketing-effort-f#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:52:08 +0000 Linus http://www.linustechtips.com/?p=365 The messaging on ECS’s web site *should* make you think of high performance computing, overclocking, reliability, etc.

After seeing this banner though, the first things that came to my mind were ebony pornography and racist hate-speech!

It gets better though. Here you can view the “Black Adventure” flash video. Guaranteed to make you laugh.

http://www.ecs.com.tw/extra/x58_campaign/global/00-flash.html

Maybe a couple of review sample boards to key websites would have been a better investment, hm?

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