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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This improved version of Ad-O-Matic prints your personal ad on a variety of stuff you can use to influence yourself every day.
Selected Articles
- Reboot your life
- Dear Brain: What kind of ads will motivate me to exercise?
- Change your mind with a Belief Board
- A picture is worth 1000 sticky notes
- Dear Brain: How can personal marketing help me stay clean and sober?
- Remind yourself to be present
- Guest post: Find Authentic Happiness with personal marketing
- Pardon our dust
- Dear Brain: How can personal marketing help me save money?
- Take back the Marketing Mix: The Four P’s
- Report on my fall marketing campaign
- Create a brand for your goal: Decide how to position your change
- Put yourself in the picture (series)
- A picture of your target result is worth at least 1000 words of crisp, powerful copy
- My exercise ad campaign
- How I got an RV with my most successful ad campaign
- Make a motivational poster at Big Huge Labs
- The psychology of persuasion (series)
- Target your hierarchy of needs (series)
- How to rotate picture ads with the Google Photos gadget
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- » Is it easy to use Photoshop to put yourself into a picture? on Put yourself in the picture with Photoshop
- kyky on Put yourself in the picture with Photoshop
- Custom Wristbands on Dear Brain: How can personal marketing help me save money?
- unabashedly female · Collaborative Creativity with Creative Commons on Guest post: How to use Flickr to find pictures for your ads
- Anonymous on Ask the readers: Which digital photo frame do you recommend?
- Anonymous on How to customize your computer background
- Cate on Dear Brain
- Ted Wintriss on How I got an RV with my most successful ad campaign
- Laurel on Guest post: How to use Flickr to find pictures for your ads
- Creating A Fall Marketing Campaign Using Take Back Your Brain « Revolt and Resignation on How to choose a goal for your back-to-school marketing campaign
- Lynn has come up with a fascinating concept -- advertising to yourself. Its kind of like a life-coaching thing where you are the coach and the client.
- Your ideas are more than helpful. The way I'm going to use them, they will be transformational.
- Your site has opened my eyes to new possibilities/tools for the work I am doing! Thank you!
- I think this is fabulous stuff. I'll be sending my clients to TBYB!
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