Monthly Archives: April 2009

Dear Brain: How can personal marketing help me stay clean and sober?

By Lynn | April 30, 2009

Make sure to frame your ads as affirmative, rather than negative statements, and to include pictures if possible. Keep in mind that commercial advertising always seeks to emphasize benefits, and to tailor those benefits to the target demographic.

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Remind yourself to be present

By Lynn | April 15, 2009

The whole purpose of personal marketing is to devise ways to automatically remind ourselves of the things we want to think about. Most of the time Iâ€™ve oriented my ad campaigns toward thinking about things I want to do. This one is more focused on being, and it feels good.

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Guest post: Find Authentic Happiness with personal marketing

By Guest | April 2, 2009

This article demonstrates how to use one of the main ideas of Positive Psychology â€” Signature Strengths â€” to generate ideas for ads designed to make you happier.

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