It’s just a tv show
A post from a connection on LinkedIn started with:
“8 fundamental marketing lessons from the latest edition of Love Island”.
Like many reading this, I paused, slightly confused, before continuing to read:
“Na, just kidding”.
There were many comments from relieved LinkedIn users, probably like me thinking maybe we had got Love Island wrong!
Whether you love or hate it, there is no doubt that the show’s premise is not one to teach us how to market our businesses.
There are some tv shows that can teach us about life, love, and the universe. I have a guilty pleasure which has taught me a thing or two.
Doctors!
This is a programme on BBC1 on weekday afternoons. My husband calls it a soap opera, and it does have similarities to Eastenders and Coronation Street.
I don’t watch traditional soap operas, and although Doctors similarly follow the lives of the main characters, who all work at a doctor’s surgery, each episode looks at a particular medical condition or injury and the way this affects the patients concerned. They have covered many interesting and sometimes hard-hitting topics over the 20 series so far.
I am sure that real members of the medical profession may criticise the portrayal of the doctors, nurses and midwives shown, or how the various medical conditions are handled. Self-diagnosis, whether via the internet or from watching a tv show is never good. As the saying goes:
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”.
Luckily for me, there are no tv shows, as far as I am aware ?, that try to depict the world of marketing and advertising law, as only getting half the story about email marketing or how to advertise an alcoholic product compliantly could cause a whole heap of trouble should a business try this on their own.
With a medical issue, it is always best to ask a professional.
And the same applies when it comes to marketing your business legally.