I'd rather sell those toys please.

Looking at the bright side of it, I'll be making buyers happy either way - both will be happy and inclined to whip out thier cards. So why not the happiness that's intrinsically essential🤷🏽.

Both are sales jobs, one direct the other indirect.
I once heard this: a good salesman can sell anything. There was a guy I knew who started off selling radio ads, then sold cars, then industrial chemicals, all very successfully.
In this poll, I went with being responsible for placing PPL in dramas which I presume is creatively helping incorporate the product into the story.

My Y chromosome probably makes me unsuitable for one of those jobs.

But if I'm responsible for PPL, do I have some freedom to pick which interesting products we try to make deals with? Any possibilities for subtle revenge against the idiots who assigned me that job? Sex-toy PPL on a children's show? Happy children's toy PPL before an after the funeral scene? Auto PPL showing white trucks in almost any show? Etc. What other possibilities can anyone think of?

Does placing ppl mean I get to fight with PDs who take good actors and a good script and ruin it by putting a serial killer in at the end? Does it mean I get to make actors do funny and cringe stuff like drive a vw bug into the ocean? Hmm... this is making me seem like a bad person.

I've seen Be Melodramatic and the first episode of Because This Is My First Life - getting PPL into a drama is harder and I don't think I can handle being side-eyed and yelled at from all sides because we need to get some product onto the screen before the drama ends - from the writers, the directors, the actors, the audience, supervisors/managers from the production offices, the product vendors, etc. And of course, bloggers, blog commenters...beanies!... who will also side-eye my work of inserting yet another Kahi stick moment.

With the pandemic and into post-pandemic - sex toys have gained more acceptance - I'd rather sell sex toys and lingerie. In the last few weeks, we've had a kdrama featuring a guy using dildos as weapons and a drama about selling lingerie and sex toys. It'll be nice to help women feel beautiful and take their own pleasure into their own hands. Also, not all sex toys are 7-inch dildos, handcuffs, and collars. There is a lot of cute, discreet stuff out there.

I'd rather never work in sales/advertising again altogether, tyvm. See ya in the next poll.

I could imagine I would have fun finding absurd reasons why everybody would want to suck a little plastic bag and cry out: "MMh! I feel so energized now!!!"
BUT
I would be sad to do that to any drama that I actually liked.
And even without that, selling stuff openly aligns better with my personal moral principles than sneaking in products in cultural products.
So I'd go with the underwear and toy thing.

My education is a degree in Communications (focusing on Marketing), so I can think of ways to market and sell the things, but not actually be in customer service to sell the thing. Nope lol 😂

I think the best ppl is placed creatively or makes me laugh out loud when I see it. I think that aspect of it could be fun, to subtly involve it or make a laugh about it. As long as I don’t have to do Subway or that coffee candy. I wouldn’t mind doing massage chairs; I feel like they are used more creatively or hilariously. You also would hopefully get to sit in them.
Be melodramatic had the most ridiculous massage chair scene on purpose. Due to the fact that the show had a character that did ppl placement and its tongue-in-cheek self-awareness, the show had hilarious ppl scenes.

I can imagine all the fun and laughter on set while doing PPLs! It's always so cheeky and a little bit awkward, like a joke everybody's in on.

It's a creative challenge I'd love to take on, so PPLs it is for me.

I know I will do better in incorporating PPL in dramas than sell the first option.

This is tricky because both require some level of persuasion.

I feel like selling sex toys and lingerie could be done almost like a hobby. It's a bit risque and you wouldn't necessarily want certain folks but know but that's part of the thrill.

Being responsible for PPL seems like a headache. There are higher ups berating and pressuring you about getting a certain brand or amount by a certain time or EVERYONE is screwed and it's because if you.
Then I imagine there's legalese and negotiations about the specifics of how the PPL is done.

While I understand selling sex toys and lingerie would also be considered work and it would/could be hard to do, I think there's a skotch more freedom to it and if you're a charismatic person, this could be easy. That's why I would choose that option.

I choose being responsible for product placement in dramas.
Firstly, because I have a bachelor's degree in Advertising, so that's my thing, I guess. I think I would be able to find less annoying ways to insert PPL in dramas.

Secondly, because I'm too shy to sell sex toys and lingerie and I have no idea about that kind of things. I would have to act as if I were another person to sell them.

😂 I just realized how very bad I’d be at both of these jobs! Anything sales related is definitely not my thing (though I had a side job in retail aeons ago - but since it was a specialized shop, I didn’t have to do anything to sell other than ring the till... 🤔 Anyways!). I guess I’d be forcefully removed from drama sets because I’d just be creeping about uncertainly while looking suspicious, not knowing who to talk to to get the better angled shot of that Avolon Pizza. Though thinking of scenes to place products unexpectedly would be so much fun!!!
Selling sex toys would be worse though. Must pull a Darcy there: „I don’t have this talent which some people possess of conversing easily with strangers.“ It would be an epic fail. 😂

It comes as a surprise to no-one really: We, Beanies, don't fancy the idea of selling toys and lingerie. 

Here's a little nugget of boring truth: As a neurodivergent mind who's been diagnosed only during adulthood, I've struggled a lot in offices. The whole social rules of the office, the inner politics, the never-ending gossiping, the cliques that would reject you no matter what (when I say you, I mean me), etc. It was exhausting, especially because I spent most of my time masking to appear "normal" and still struggling with every non-work-related interactions. So I burned out and quit to work from home. Among the jobs I've been doing at home, one of them was SEO and one of my clients was an online toy shop. So, while I haven't physically sold said toys, I did sell them digitally. And honestly, there is only so many times you can boast about the g*rth of an object, its tantalising vibrating functions, and climaxing on cloud 9 without being bored to death... Yes, it's a stick, you put it in places. And don't get me started on lingerie that is specifically designed to hold none of your bits in place (presumably defeating the very concept of what underwear is for?). Just go au naturel (unless you're in public, then please wear clothes), it's cheaper and just as effective. 

So, I’m going to try my hand at PPL. I’ve always wanted to see how many Kopiko placements are too many for one single K-drama episode.

Oh, the header image isn’t two consecutive frames of a webtoon?

What's not to love about being paid to figure out great ways to implement PPL.

My first career was in public relations and part of my training was to get media coverage for client products and services, often indirectly through everything from publicising client sponsorship of charitable events to client partnerships with other companies with complementary/adjacent/connected products or services.

So yeah, PPL would be something I can absolutely do.

Direct selling of anything for profit is not my strong suit at all. I can advocate for a cause with the best of them so I have the persuasive skills but I don't like selling anything I don't believe in just to make a buck.