From Deseret News archives:
Utah brand doesn't elevate all readers
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They include "stinks," "drivel," "vacuous" and "stupid."
In an unscientific poll, their e-mailed assessments were not all negative. They ranged from "the perfect tag line" to "lame-brained," from "average" to "ambiguous," from "a great ad campaign" to "virtually meaningless."
But other respondents wondered if the new brand would actually result in tourists flocking to the state.
"My reaction is: 'elevated' to what?" asked William O. Shaw Jr. of Centerville. "It's ambiguous with no meaning. It may be too 'deep' for me, and it could be too 'deep' for people outside of the state."
Phil Brueck of Saratoga Springs found nothing in the new slogan "that would make me want to visit if I didn't already have some reason for doing so" and found it difficult to believe that "our tourism 'experts' couldn't have come up with something better."
"The real test, I think, is that if Alabama or another state far away had come up with that slogan, would it entice us to want to visit there?" he wrote. "It doesn't ring my bell!"
Joshua J. Steimle of Draper wrote that he was neither disappointed nor thrilled with the new brand. He also believes it will not, by itself, affect tourism, "even if it were an amazingly good brand."
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