{"id":584,"date":"2009-09-02T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T21:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-09-02T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T21:28:39","slug":"buell-blast-bit-the-dust-already-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/buell-blast-bit-the-dust-already-whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"buell blast bit the dust already – what’s new?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"humor'sSeeing the anti-campaign for Buell’s late Blast<\/strong> continuing to pop up has me wondering what the fuss is all about. The latest in snicker snicker tsk tsk from CP+B sure doesn’t break any new ground. From my perspective the best that can be said is that it’s – I suppose – a sort of reverse psychology swipe at pumping sales of two cylinders because the one cylinder was so not about performance. Well hooda hey, color me caught totally off guard.<\/p>\n

More interesting is that the spunky little bike that looked like it could have shown up on the front door step from Sharper Image – when Sharper Image had an image – was getting traction as a chop-bob base for kits and remans<\/a> here and abroad.<\/p>\n

It was never going to be a big seller, but by the same token, why devote so much ink and effort to a discontinued line? It’s not like it was a disaster, as in Edsel. At the very least, however many Blasts Buell actually crushed would have made a great contribution to some worthy bike cause.<\/p>\n

But more and more, CP+B’s focus is on, for lack of a better phrase, smart-ass promotion at the expense of digging deeper for the hard to get ore. And Buell’s not setting sales records as is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing the anti-campaign for Buell’s late Blast continuing to pop up has me wondering what the fuss is all about. The latest in snicker snicker tsk tsk from CP+B sure doesn’t break any new ground. From my perspective the best that can be said is that it’s – I suppose – a sort of reverse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-and-promotion","category-powersports-industry-insight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-9q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}