The following is fun family fodder (for me anyway!) because of the Onrec/Kennedy Expo I'm heading to and is inspired by a fun event we're sponsoring called Fail Spectacularly. (And it probably wouldn't work on the HRmarketer blog.)
It's 1982.
My company is called Cleaning Right Industries.
My sister's is called CleanItFast.com (you can see how ahead of her time she was).
We were both vendors of choice for MomCo, a Fortune 500 conglomerate, a provider of shelter and sustenance and other delicious snacks.
MomCo send us an RFP about vacuuming the living room and the den (break room) - within the next hour. MomCo is throwing a dinner party and needs the living room vacuumed quickly but effectively too.
We respond in kind with our proposals. MomCo picks me. MomCo always picks me.
I take a little time, but I get it done right. One hour should be plenty of time.
The TV is on in the break room. MTV is on in the break room. There are only three videos that play in 1982 - Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra", Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf", and The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star."
(Yes, there were more than that, but work with me.)
I've been vacuuming for 10 minutes. I need a break. MomCo's OSHA rules say so.
Sixty minutes later I'm humming "hungry like the wolf" and I've vacuumed an area the size of 4 square feet.
Not even close to being done.
Cleaning Right is fired, CleanItFast.com is hired.
There you have it. Video killed the cleaning right star.
Keep failing and keep reaching for the starts, kids!
(You can make fun of me now.)
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