Awesome Riddle. 10 pts for first answer?!
Question: A man from a soft drink company goes to work in the Middle East. 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 will makes a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters...
First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand... totally exhausted and panting. Second poster, the man is drinking our Cola and Third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place"
"That should have worked," said the friend.
Why didn't the promotion work?
10 pts for first right answer.
Answers: A man from a soft drink company goes to work in the Middle East. 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 will makes a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters...
First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand... totally exhausted and panting. Second poster, the man is drinking our Cola and Third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place"
"That should have worked," said the friend.
Why didn't the promotion work?
10 pts for first right answer.
Because Arabians read right to left!
Answered at 10:22pm Germany time!
they were posted in the wrong order
They took offence in the desert part because it's a stereotype
middle east don't know cola
b/c they read the posters in reverse order, the man is refreshed, then drinks cola, then is crawling through the desert
arabs read things backwards
Because it wasn't in arabic,
no idea!
I'm just guessing >.<
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They were posted in the reverse order...
The first poster shows a man totally fresh!
The second shows him drinking Cola!
The third shows him crawling through the hot desert sand... totally exhausted and panting!!!
Arabics (and Muslims) read from right to left so it was technically posted in the wrong order.
Arabs read from right to left, so the posters were in the wrong order for them.