Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 08, 2024

Well, good luck with that. I don’t think anyone with the extra money will be throwing it at an influencer who nuked her socials on a whim and Tiffany, who didn’t even have that going for her. They’d be smarter to start with a lower fee. Especially when necessities are so costly now.

Tiff you and Bets need to stop, first who will pay $5.00.00 no one.

Unrealistic numbers. Where’s the supply demand, break even point, costs?

Students can’t pay $500 for rebranding.

Either Tiff misplaced the comma, or she added one too many zeros in that figure. Either way, I wish I made that much in a month. I don’t care though; another week worth skipping.

This One Time At Brand Camp.

10 clients a week is a lot!

How about “Fuggedabout This Stupid Scheme”?

The stupid — it hurts!!

Because every college student has $500.00 to drop on a “rebrand”.

How does “Brandin’ Marlowe” strike you?

How much is malpractice insurance going to cost? How much will they sue Tiffany for when they find out who her daddy is?

This enterprise is doomed to fail. They have not developed a process or tested a prototype of the product. They don’t know if it will work. They don’t know what it will cost, so they can’t set a marketable price that covers operating costs and produces profits. They can’t advertise any justification of the product value to convince potential customers that their fee is worth spending. Business cannot live on hype alone. They still haven’t realized that they have an idea worthy of repeat business if only they’d let go of the “once-for-all” concept of identity branding. What they have is the potential for an evaluative tool for personal and professional development, if it works. The end result of several iterations and “what-if” decision-making investigations over the several-year span of a developing university career might be used to claim a personal “brand”. It might well improve the process of resume writing or videographing, particularly in tailoring a specific resume toward a particular employer, industry, or position. The real profits would not be a result of a “one shot” application, but in the virtually limitless re-evaluations possible during a client’s developmental process.

These two are more in the “pet rock” level of merchandising.

Good luck, ladies! I somehow think Lucy Van Pelt would do a better job. And she would only charge them 5 cents. ;)

G+K are clearly out of touch with today’s economy. No college students would pay 500 bucks to a couple of inexperienced girls for some “Branding”.

Their company name:

Let’s Go Brandin’

The only way for Bets and Tiff to get this to work is if they could get the most popular girls in the most popular sorority (ditto for the popular guys in the popular fraternities) on campus to sign up for the rebranding and then others will follow their lead. $500 is a lot of coin but then again, a lot of the kids in the Greek system are from wealthy families and nowadays some fraternities and sororities have dues and fees that amount to a lot more than $500 when you add up the whole semester.

I am going to guess their first targets might be Kip and Stef as they are pretty popular on the Mooney campus. Kip s the star QB and Stef as a cheerleader. Despite their enthusiasm, I suspect that Bets and Tiff are not going to rake in $20K a month but they may gain a valuable lesson in life and business.

A “name?”

How about Brand Flakes?

Or has That one been taken?

Okay.

Brand FAKES, it is!

And are any of you ladies writing this down?

Your class is at 8:00 A.M. and it’s now 7:45……, ;-)

Are they really that stupid?

Leave it to Tif to need a calculator to do the math.

Love their enthusiasm. Price is a bit high, but they can adjust that (¬‿¬)

Malpractice insurance. And don’t forget the cost of quackery insurance.

I miss the old LuAnn. Seriously!!

Yeah, good luck with that girls. Anyone willing to pay $500 for help rebranding needs more than just a couple of hours of work to accomplish it.

The Branding Iron. Duh. ;)

How many college students can afford to pay $500 to these two bozos for something they can get done for free at the local University resource center?

They need to call Bernice Halper?

They need 10 lost souls per week?

BrandYou!

The Branding Iron!

Wow, Tiffany and Betz must be attending an Ivy league school to expect the students there to have the type of attitude and cash needed for their services!

Raisin’ Brand? Who Are You?

They’re like the bottom panel of today’s Buni strip.

How about, “Brands R Us”?

I might pay $500 for this misery to stop. Does THAT count?

Heck! A good Cowpoke could brand more cattle than that in a day! Remember to keep the fire hot!

BroadBrands.

Speaking of Brandon.

I can’t wait to see what’s going on!

These two need to get a grip. For one thing, no college student is going to fork over $500 for a “rebranding.” For another, there’s no way 40 clients a month is sustainable.

Even the Doonesbury family did better than this.

How about, Rebranding Are Us?

Sounds like a Nathan For You Episode episode.

I liked the first one, Brands on Demand.

Maybe if the $500 includes: $100 haircut, $400 teeth whiting, $500 new clothes and suddenly its -$20,000 month. Besides they are at a California State University, the rich kids are at USC / Pomona / UCLA

Any kid who has $500 probably doesn’t need rebranding

I actually find this series boring . Hoping something fun happens.

What happens when Bets realizes that she’s doing all the work? I don’t see Tiffany contributing anything, but maybe she’ll be the “interviewer”. This would be fun if they tried it on Les!

“Dandy Branding”. That should attract the cowboy crowd. Popular in certain Western states.

Nobody’s going to pay $500 for your BS idea

I like that them think big and believe in themselves, now they just need to decide on a more realistic launch price. $15, or $20, would make more sense. I think that if they’ll do some free Rebrand for students well know in the campus, they would attract many others too. I propose Bernice because many know her for how inflexible she is and seeing her changed would surprise everyone. Sure, the whole idea might end in a big failure. But it might help them learn something and do better next time.

Brand Pits!

A fool and his money are soon separated

It’s interesting that Bets turned to Tiff for a catchy name. Their “clients” don’t necessarily have to be college kids. But some commentators say college kids can’t afford $500. But, they spend $$ on tattoos, expensive shoes and tons, for girls, of makeup. Tiff has run into trouble setting up businesses, so I hope they are smarter this time.

“Brand New”

You guys, THINK about how much work it would be to rebrand ten clients a week.

Good Lord- this arc is still alive…

This arc is really weak. I’ll come back next week.

Wow, there’s a lot of “boomer brain” going on in these comments….

Considering the unlikelihood of success how about “BrandFlakes”

Not sure how so many of us survived college without being “branded.”

They will be overwhelmed with business by the Instagram Idolized Wanna Bes!

“What if we charged $2000 a branding and did 100 clients a week? Those are equally realistic numbers!”

There’s One Born Every Minute International Industrial Enterprises?

Bets is just pulling number out of her orifice. Why not say they have 2 clients a month at $10,000 each. That is just as realistic as what Bets is saying. They have done no research at all into the demand or need for a branding service. They have no idea what is involved in it and why anyone would want it. They have a lot to learn if they intend to be business majors.

Tiff seems good (not great) at naming things. Those are ok instant name ideas. She has done better…and worse.

uh… when I was in college I was lucky if I had enough money to eat out once in a while.

Pretty sad business student if she needs a calculator to do 10×500 and 4×5,000, hope her concentration is not accounting. If they can get all their women clients into Tri-Delta they may have something.

How to brand the branders.

How to get out the starting gate….

Let’s get back to the Luann comic strip.

I like Brands on Demand. But I still think it’s a foolish idea. We’ll see how it all works out.

The joys of capitalism!

Geez, I sure hope no one at this school would spend $500.

Like the average college student can afford to pay $500 for that

How is this going to work? They are already complaining about being stressed, and now they are going to somehow find time to offer a specialty service not once, but ten times a week? When??

don’t underestimate the power of “image” to today’s youth. :-/

Five dollars might be more realistic. And 10 clients a quarter.

All they have to do is create the perceived need. Spring semester is when the companies roll in and interview on campus. They have to price it to create the idea that they can’t live without this new brand for themselves. And in California, there are people who pay thousands to create their brand, new or improved.

What a ridiculous story arc. Who would pay $500 to two untried “branders”? And 10 clients a week? There goes reality.

These worldly ladies could produce a Bawdy Barbie Bobblehead, in a black bikini.

They figure on doing the whole football team at once. Especially if they finished the season 1-7.

You need some clients— about 500 a year.