The NY Times wonders if good marketing will help
San Francisco’s Brand Is in Trouble. Can a New Ad Campaign Fix It?
San Franciscans don’t like outsiders bashing their city, but they’re also cleareyed about its biggest problems: homelessness, rampant drug use and leaders who can’t seem to fix those issues.
So how does San Francisco turn its lackluster image around?
Some wealthy locals say the way forward is a brand refresh, and they are throwing their support behind a new $4 million ad campaign that will promote San Francisco as a hub of innovation and creativity.
The slogan? “It All Starts Here.”
It’s meant to remind San Franciscans — and everyone else — that the city of cable cars, Levi’s jeans, the Summer of Love, Gap Inc., Uber, Harvey Milk and the Golden State Warriors still has an exciting future ahead of it.
What starts here? Poop, urine, and used drug needles in the street? Homeless everywhere? Rampant crime? Car breakins and thefts? Gap? Most of their stores in SF closed, and they just shut down their Banana Republic in the downtown area, where most companies are closing their stores. Levis is still open in the downtown area, but, it’s surely just a matter of time. Tech companies are leaving over all those issues, as well as the high taxes and high cost of living. Cable cars aren’t enough to chance having a 1 in 20 chance of being a victim of property crime.
In fairness, there are large areas of SF which are safe. You know, the richer areas where the cops tend to be deployed to in order to protect those toney areas.
The campaign, funded by tech billionaire Chris Larsen and Bob Fisher, whose parents founded Gap in San Francisco in the 1960s, includes a social media video narrated by actor Peter Coyote, hundreds of billboards around the city, banners hanging from light poles, and bumper stickers and signs for business owners and residents to hang in their windows.
“No question we’ve got problems we’ve got to fix,” said Larsen, who has funded numerous startups and now sees his city’s reputation as desperately needing investment.
“But we can’t let the brand just suffer,” he added. “We’ve got so much to be proud of, and we can’t lose sight of that.”
Does it really help to tell residents this? Also, they aren’t actually fixing the problems.
Meanwhile, the high crime Democratic Party run city of Seattle thinks they have a Plan
Support Seattle mayor’s anti-crime proposal, including gunshot detection system
With the general election less than three weeks away, crime remains a top issue for Seattleites. With that, Mayor Bruce Harrell has asked the Seattle City Council to fund a $1.8 million crime prevention pilot program in its 2024 budget.
The program would fund closed-circuit television surveillance at outdoor public spaces in certain areas, acoustic gunshot-locator technology and the expansion of automatic license plate readers to detect stolen vehicles.
I bet they will not like the gunshot locator, because that is considered to be raaaaacist. The license plate readers only help after some has had their car stolen. Surveillance? That’s more about Big Brother
Upon the completion of a racial equity analysis, given that the mayor’s office anticipates it would find no such biases, City Council members should listen to their constituents’ pleas for action and support Harrell’s anti-crime proposal.
Everything is about race with these people
As homicide numbers continue to tick up in Seattle, and as the number of police officers continues to drop, these tools will help police investigate incidents of gun violence that have wreaked havoc on families and neighborhoods.
In other words, crime will still go up, because they do not know what stops it. Or refuse to implement measures that lower crime. But, hey, Seattle residents voted for this, and seem surprised that they got it.
Typical democrats. They care about the brand not a tually saving the city.
The most dangerous* US states:
1. Louisiana, Gov Landry (R) (Most dangerous)
2. Mississippi, Gov Reeves (R)
3. Texas, Gov Abbott (R)
4. Arkansas, Gov Huckabee-Sanders (R)
5. Oklahoma, Gov Stitt (R)
6. Montana, Gov Gianforte (R)
7. Alabama, Gov Ivey (R)
8. Florida, Gov DeSantis (R)
9. Missouri, Gov Parsons (R)
10.Tennessee, Gov Lee (R)
The most dangerous states in America are run by Republicans. That list also controlled by R legislatures.
Safest States (Governors, 3 Rs, 7Ds)
1. Vermont, Gov Scott (R) + Dem Legislature (Least dangerous)
2. Maine, Dem Gov + Dem Legislature
3. New Hampshire, Gov Sununu (R) + Rep Legislature
4. Utah, Gov Cox (R) + Rep Legislature
5. Hawaii, Dem + Dem
6. Massachusetts, Dem + Dem
7. Connecticut, Dem + Dem
8. Minnesota, Dem + Dem
9. Washington, Dem + Dem
10.Rhode Island, Dem + Dem
Maybe the Repubs should see how Governors Scott and Sununu do it.
*Number of Fatalities per 100 million Vehicle Miles of Travel; Number of Law-Enforcement Employees per Capita; Number of Assaults per Capita; Bullying Incidence Rate; Unemployment Rate; Share of Uninsured Population; Percentage of Adults with Rainy-Day Funds; Total Loss Amount from Climate Disasters per Capita; and Number of Fatal Occupational Injuries per Total Workers.
Another Rimjob copy&paste apropos of nothing.
Now repeat it again, chubby.
#ShalomMotherfucker
Humjob can’t understand why Repubicunt-run states are Crappy?
Now repeat it again, fluffy.
There you go, chubby.
Knew you’d do it. So predictable.
#ShalomMotherfucker
Elwood:
You need to remove the Democratic controlled cities from the states due to the rather large portion of the states population being in the cities, not in the suburban/rural areas. Notice how the cities list fits with the states list.
Memphis, Tennessee
St. Louis, Missouri
Oakland, California
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Baltimore, Maryland
New Orleans, Louisiana
Detroit, Michigan
Lubbock, Texas
Chicago, Illinois
Stockton, California
All of these have a Democratic administration.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/30-u-cities-highest-violent-192626493.html
Don’t confuse Rimjob with facts.
With clear enforcement problems along with Soros backed district attorneys the problems lie within the blue metro areas themselves not the states.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/another-day-another-dishonest-gun-control-narrative-from-liberal-media
Funny-city with the most shit covered streets-San Francisco
Get rid of EVERY DEMOCRAT and that city might have a chance.
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Of course for the true believers Teach’s assertion that “most” of the gap stores in SF have closed was just too good to check.
Teach SF. Used to have 8 gap stores, they closed 2
They did not close midr of their stores. Was that error stupidity ? Or just fine to misinform ?
Done
No, Johnny-just to show how misinformed you are.
Recent downtown SF store closing’s-
Anthropologie
Office depot
Amazon Go
The RealReal
CB2
Banana Republic
Athleta
The Container Store
Crate&Barrel
Abercrombie & Fitch
DSW
Disney
Uniglo
Marshall’s
H&M
Gap
Nordstrom
Old Navy
AT&T_
Saks Off 5th
Whole Foods
Coco Republic