Monthly Archives: April 2008

Should I sell your attention?

Take Back Your Brain! wrestled with an interesting ethical dilemna this week. For the first time, someone approached me with an offer to advertise on the site. It was a pretty decent offer, too - more than two hundred dollars for doing very little work. Thinking about that offer provided an opportunity for me to analyze advertising from a different perspective than I usually do.

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Your assignment while I’m on the road

TBYB is on vacation. Your assignment this week is to go back and implement one of the suggestions you’ve read about in a previous article. We’ll return next Monday to your regularly scheduled blog.

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Holy piranha, Batman!

You’re exposed to some kind of persuasive message every 7 seconds, on average, for your whole life. And every one those messages has at least one thing in common with the others: ALL of them are about someone else’s priorities!

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Personal marketing in the bathroom: better than taking a magazine!

Thanks to “Bathroom Reader” for suggesting my new favorite location to place ads. Early testing indicates that this location is a winner, folks!

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