GetMidwest Campaign Facing Global Competition?

I saw on Esrati.com today that the Day­ton Devel­op­ment Coali­tion launched their GetMidwest.com web­site. In my hum­ble opin­ion, all sides have now voiced their respec­tive opin­ions on the mer­its and short­com­ings of this cam­paign, and it seems as if there is not much more to say about it. In spite of my cre­ative dif­fer­ences, I will cer­tainly “get behind it” by freely telling peo­ple about the qual­ity of life in Day­ton and the sur­round­ing area — some­thing I already do reg­u­larly. The site does look very nice. There are beau­ti­ful pho­tographs, maps, indus­try infor­ma­tion, and all kinds of inter­est­ing facts about Day­ton, Ohio and the Miami Valley.

There are a few con­cerns though.…

Google Get Mid­west, and you get a bunch of blogs, mine included, ques­tion­ing it. Uhhhh.. that’s not so good. Same results if you include Day­ton in the Query.

Of greater con­cern is the threat of global com­pe­ti­tion with Get MId­west posed by this break­ing news…

Get­Mideast — The Tehran Region: “We Think of Every­thing… For You”

Based on the reports that I am get­ting from my sources on the ground, the cam­paign is focused on how the Tehran Region, led by gov­ern­ment offi­cials, is proac­tively com­ing together through invest­ing heav­ily in the grow­ing indus­try of the nuclear tech­nol­ogy indus­try clus­ter — for peace­ful means only of course.

I hope that no one will mix this up with our cam­paign. We are a totally dif­fer­ent direc­tion. Midwest!

Of Even More Con­cern is This Campaign.…

GetMedieval: “We Get Even…A Pair of Pli­ers and a Blowtorch”

Well, at least we didn’t pick that one…

I hope the peo­ple at the DDC have a sense of humor, and I do sin­cerely hope the Get Mid­west cam­paign is suc­cess­ful. South­west­ern Ohio is a great place, with a lot to offer. The cost of liv­ing is low, the weather is nice (most of the time), there is lit­tle traf­fic to speak of, clean water, plenty of enter­tain­ment, cre­ative thinkers, inno­v­a­tive busi­nesses, and amaz­ing and friendly peo­ple everywhere.

If you were look­ing for the DDC site and came across mine, know that I think Day­ton is won­der­ful. And if you are out there think­ing should I or shouldn’t I “Get MId­west,” the answer is yes. Yes, you prob­a­bly should.

Have you heard of sim­i­lar cam­paigns? If so, please do share. Best that we know now.