{"id":19056,"date":"2026-10-02T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:32:22","slug":"making-fun-of-your-customers-as-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/making-fun-of-your-customers-as-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Fun of Your Customers As Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is a big part of business nowadays for a lot of people, as generating traction and leads through a viral video of sorts could be very profitable. It gives you more exposure to reach a new audience, or at the same time, you could use it as a way to show your knowledge in the industry. And this is what got me thinking as I was watching some funny clips where it seems like there are some small businesses making little skits about the unreasonable demands and requests of customers many times, especially when they&#8217;re unknowledgeable about a particular topic. For example, in a lot of tech-related spaces, when it comes to things like filming, people think it&#8217;s like a five-dollar job. For example, they think someone filming with their phone is the same thing as someone with a professional camera. <\/p>\n<p>In these skits, they&#8217;re essentially making fun of the customer, and it seems to get a positive response overall, especially from people who are not in any way looking for the service. They can just relate in a different way, but it makes you wonder: is that a good idea for your business in a social media age to make fun of your customers in a light-hearted way, or the potential customers? Because on one end, you could argue that the old mentality of &#8220;the customer is always right,&#8221; and you should never make fun of them anyway, would be a disaster, especially if you did it in person. But in this case, for a skit and marketing purposes, would you think that&#8217;s a good idea? <\/p>\n<p>I know for myself, I wouldn&#8217;t personally think of the business in a negative light if they did something like that. If anything, again, it&#8217;s kind of relatable and it might actually make you gravitate towards the business because you will tend to think they&#8217;re knowledgeable about it, and since they&#8217;re going through all this, when you enter as a customer, you&#8217;re more likely not to do that. <\/p>\n<p>It makes you wonder if that&#8217;s good too, in terms of a strategy, in terms of filtering out certain types of people. You don&#8217;t want people that are going to, let&#8217;s just say, penny-pinch you, or come in with an attitude of how they know everything when in reality they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is a big part of business nowadays for a lot of people, as generating traction and leads through a viral video of sorts could be very profitable. It gives you more exposure to reach a new audience, or at the same time, you could use it as a way to show your knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[800],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/city.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4Xm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19057,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions\/19057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}