Post #52604 by SugarCaddyDaddy on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 10:00 AM

Ok..here's what I found out (I called)...

Well, first I went to the Tiki Queen Yahoo Group. It lists and refers to "TikiQueen.com" at the bottom. So I went there. As you see on TikiQueen.com, it then refers to a company called "Tiki Media". It then lists a toll-free number at the bottom to a media group, which I called....

While on hold, they had Hawaiian music playing, and then on comes "Eric". I spoke with him and asked what Tiki Queen, Tiki Media and all the Tiki names listed on the Tiki Media site were all about. He said that they are a "holding company" and are attempting to work with different restaurants and nightclubs in order to put on various tiki related projects and products. Products?? He said that these products were under development. He was very vague, of course, not wanting to release any more info than needed. Hmmm....ok. So I repeated back to him for absolute clarification and I said "so, you are trying to develop interest in tiki through restaurants and (night)clubs to generate interest in your "product", which you say is "under development". He said "Yes, that's it".

Note, that if you type in any of the names on the TikiMedia.com website and add ".com" to it, it brings you right back to Tiki Media. I take it that he has registered all of these names for future sales of them to interested parties.

I asked him what their goal for this investment is. He said he hopes to bring out some of the 'closet tiki' people. I then asked him if he was into tiki, hawaiiana, etc., and he said "sure". I asked if he has gone out to ANY of the the tiki functions currently going on in Southern California (they are based near LAX). He said no. He's a closet tiki person himself. I asked him if he knows any carvers. He said no. When I mentioned Sven's name, it seemed to fly right over his head. The more I asked about tiki-related things the more I felt that he had no background knowledge whatsoever and was just jumping on the bandwagon.

Now, I work in marketing & media myself, and I don't think I quite agree with the approach they are taking to spearhead a project like this. Especially if he is "in the closet". Sheeesh.

He said that they(?) will probably have more info up on their site after January 2004. We'll see if this person finds us here. I didn't mention Tiki Central at all since I want to see if this guy can actually do research and find us here.

Now, maybe he's some marketing genius and will surprise us next year with something great....or maybe not. We'll see.

Just my 2 coconuts worth.

[ Edited by: sugarcaddydaddy on 2003-09-25 14:43 ]