Insane Idiot wrote:
Not a fan or a watcher of Oprah, but I understand she turned William Faulkner into a bestselling author, which is something no amount of literary critics or professors could manage to do.
If true, Oprah must be the best saleswoman of all time.
i think its cool that phil knight went on oprah. it was a visibly awkward segment (like 10 mins) that just needed to get over with. oprah dominates the convo a lil too much. awesome shoe box he made for her. oh and i wouldnt want to be running around in oprah lunarglide 2s even if i got them for free.
what i'm pissed about is the 200 or so audience member, of which maybe 4 or 5 knew what the nike sportswatch is, and yet got it for free. YOU CANT BUY THEM ANYWHERE. they came out a month ago, but were sold out immediately! but all these 10min/mile joggers get to use the best watch out there while i have to wait another couple months to get it!
chubbybuffy wrote:
what i'm pissed about is the 200 or so audience member, of which maybe 4 or 5 knew what the nike sportswatch is, and yet got it for free. YOU CANT BUY THEM ANYWHERE. they came out a month ago, but were sold out immediately! but all these 10min/mile joggers get to use the best watch out there while i have to wait another couple months to get it!
Nike has factories around the world pounding out their products by the million. You don't think they could get enough to market if they wanted?
The "shortage" of these products is a transparent ruse to boost interest. Looks like it worked on you.
Insane Idiot wrote:
Not a fan or a watcher of Oprah, but I understand she turned William Faulkner into a bestselling author, which is something no amount of literary critics or professors could manage to do.
the rocket. wrote:
If true, Oprah must be the best saleswoman of all time.
Now you're getting it.
To the OP:
Nike is soooo desperate that recently their stock price hit ALL TIME highs in late 2010. Do a little research next time and oh yeah.....why are you watching Oprah?!?!
nikepdx wrote:
nike's montra as quoted by bill bowerman: "if you have a body, you are an athlete".
Really? They should put that on their billboards then. The last Nike slogan that stuck with me was ¨You don win silver. You lose gold.¨ Which is ridiculous, and the exact opposite of the one you just quoted.
There are people on this board how will have Nike no matter what. They could give away shoes, they could sponsor a national championship for high school xc, it doesn't matter, they will hate Nike.There's no reason, they just hate them.
nikepdx wrote:
quite the contrary - i work in corporate strategy for nike, and for the past several years oprah has been trying to get phil knight and/or mark parker (ceo, nike inc.) to appear on her show. phil is very shy of the media and did this as a courtesy to harpo studio, whose executives have close personal connections to several VPs at nike.
if you do your research, you'll see that nike's last quarter earnings of $5.1 billion were up 7% versus prior year and futures orders are up 11%... clearly nike is not struggling.
neither phil nor nike needs oprah's "blessing" or publicity; this was simply a mutually kind gesture on both parts. oprah has always been a huge fan of nike products and nike supports oprah as a female endorsement and athlete* (* nike's montra as quoted by bill bowerman: "if you have a body, you are an athlete".
I'll stick with Under Armour running apparel.
daps wrote:
I'll stick with Under Armour running apparel.
Ohhh, daps is a rebel!
I agree with 1978 to 1985 on this one. NikePDX, please ignore the ungrounded yet predictable response from knwerewr. Most of the community appreciated your insight.
1978 to 1985 wrote:
nikepdx wrote:quite the contrary - i work in corporate strategy for nike, and for the past several years oprah has been trying to get phil knight and/or mark parker (ceo, nike inc.) to appear on her show. phil is very shy of the media and did this as a courtesy to harpo studio, whose executives have close personal connections to several VPs at nike.
if you do your research, you'll see that nike's last quarter earnings of $5.1 billion were up 7% versus prior year and futures orders are up 11%... clearly nike is not struggling.
neither phil nor nike needs oprah's "blessing" or publicity; this was simply a mutually kind gesture on both parts. oprah has always been a huge fan of nike products and nike supports oprah as a female endorsement and athlete* (* nike's montra as quoted by bill bowerman: "if you have a body, you are an athlete".
quote]knwerewr wrote:
You sound like a douche bag.
knwerewr, You are a NIKE/Knight hate, aren't you? No need to answer. nikepdx wrote a clear, factual post and you with your "brilliance", all too common on this playground, contribute nothing.
Knight is exceedingly shy (Mark Parker almost as much). He has no reason at all to go on a TV show but he has decided to. Good for Oprah, good for Knight, good for the audience and the free stuff they get (one of the perks that people expect now for sitting in a chair), and good for us. So what if it's Oprah? Why not watch and listen? It is something you don't expect to see happen. Knight is in his 70s, successful beyond his wildest expectation. How about listening instead of popping off with nothing but crap to throw? I hardly see this as an commercial for NIKE but maybe it will be. It may end up with a waste of time just like my use of the last few minutes.[/quote]
poodle melon
NIKE's stock has done well so i doubt they are in trouble