A disappointed Coca Cola salesman returns from his Middle East assignment.
A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Arabs?"
A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Arabs?"
The salesman explained:
"When I got posted in the Middle East , I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem ... I didn't know Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through three posters...
First poster: A man lying in the hot desert sand...totally exhausted and fainting.
Second poster: The man is drinking our Cola.
Third poster: Our man is now totally refreshed.
And then these posters were pasted all over the place.
"That should have worked!" said the friend. "The hell it should!? said the salesman. I didn't realize that Arabs read from right to left"
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