In my eyes Sharp USA with their meager market share should have been doing this years ago. What I don't get is why Sharp USA has waited until things were REALLY BAD to get the word out. I get it Sharp needs to pump up the volume for Sharp USA, in light of Sharp Corporations debt debacle. I really didn't think that much about the release, then a week a later there was another press release stating Sharp had signed a new dealer, and then another and another. What gets me, is that within a week or two after the report from Nikkei that Sharp may sell it's copier division, I read a press release from Sharp USA that they had signed on a new dealer. Not once in the past three years do I remember reading a press release about Sharp signing on a new dealer in the US. Since then, I set an alert for Sharp and have posted every press release for Sharp that I came across. But, I distinctly remember the gist of the call/email, the marketing person stated that they needed to do a better job at getting press releases out to social media. To give you a little background, I had a call and an email from a marketing company or it might have been from someone at Sharp Marketing a few years ago.
The other day there was a thread on linkedin that stated something to the effect "look how many dealers have just signed on with Sharp in the past month because they have the best products", plus there were some 5 likes to the thread. I'm changing it up a bit to express my annoyance with Sharp.
I changed up the title a bit, my Father-in Law has this saying "what do you expect from a pig but a grunt" that he uses when he is annoyed with someone or something.