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On Sunday mornings, I often wake up to a tray containing a cappuccino, the Sunday New York Times and a bowl of berries topped with freshly whipped cream. I sit up and enjoy all three things. They make me feel cared for. This is what you might call...
by Michelle Teheux
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 01:14 PM PST
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Mass-market messaging is all about repetition and consistency—telling the same story over and over till it finally sinks in with a media-deluged public. It’s the principle behind the famous “Rule of 7” in advertising (your audience has to hear your...
by MatthewSmith
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on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 06:52 PM PDT
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Way back in the late 1980s, I ran a company that imported computer parts from Taiwan, such as motherboards, cards, monitors, and keyboards. We assembled them into what were then the fastest PCs you could buy. CAD/CAM and accounts customers loved them,...
by Adventurist
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on Fri Sep 08, 2023 at 06:58 PM PDT
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The business of the news media is to bring us truth and the latest news. Certain media outlets repeatedly tell you that they have the only truth and that you must watch them. When I hear that, I hear ‘propaganda’. Various religions make the same claim....
by iarnstein
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 07:55 PM PDT
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KIA Motors is complaining because sales are down to a new low for its flagship EV6 electric car. Could it be because since its introduction, Kia dealers in the U.S. have been tacking on extra “market adjustment” fees of $5-10,000 on every new EV6, on...
by RichardLang
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on Mon Dec 12, 2022 at 07:56 AM PST
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While we were voting in the US on November 8, national leaders gathered at COP27 to talk about climate change. It is going much too slowly, but it is better than no talks at all, since we do get progress, such as improving loss and damage funding. Now...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Nov 20, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Jul 26, 2022 at 04:50 AM PDT
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A new study that investigated hair and skincare products marketed to Black women has uncovered a long-suspected but unproven connection between breast cancer and a class of preservatives called parabens. While many products, from baby lotion to...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Jun 14, 2022 at 11:09 AM PDT
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REASON 1: Incompetence in marketing. (I’ll get to solutions) Despite the media buzz; Issues aren’t our real problem. Salesmanship is. The Dems have material to sell; but are unable to sell it. I believe inflation could disappear tomorrow and Biden’s...
by KKwriter
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 05:36 AM PDT
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The first time I heard the TV commercial for Volvo’s $50k+, XC90, a bloated road hog, the hair on my neck twitched. The ad’s tone-deaf choice of background music, with each of many repetitions, has fed more fuel onto the fire of my rage and...
by LeftOfYou
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on Thu Feb 18, 2021 at 05:23 PM PST
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There is an eye-opening story at Mother Jones: How Black Rifle Coffee Company Made Itself One of the Right’s Biggest Brands From Kenosha to Capitol Hill, armed extremists savor its militaristic marketing. Ali Breland and Mark Helenowski look at the...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Feb 08, 2021 at 01:01 PM PST
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As each day unfolds with Trump failing to concede the election results or do anything sane about containing the covid pandemic, he is setting himself to go down as the biggest loser among all US presidents. [You can get off the hot seat now,...
by melharte
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on Wed Nov 18, 2020 at 11:57 AM PST
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Greetings, beer lovers! Happy Friday and Independence Day long-weekend, for those to whom the latter applies. Your eyes don’t deceive you, as your FNBB blogger this evening is not esquimaux, but instead chingchongchinaman, as esquimaux is taking a...
by chingchongchinaman
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on Fri Jul 03, 2020 at 04:45 PM PDT
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People on the road or on the street understand the value of names, and more precisely, the value of remembered names. Whether by instinct, social education, or through research like myself, there is a knowledge base both Wide and Deep focused on being...
by ghefley
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on Mon Apr 20, 2020 at 10:59 PM PDT
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Hi there kids, can you say Propaganda? How about Marketing? Notice how different they sound even though they are the same damn thing? What's with that? Is the sheep’s clothing on ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Apr 08, 2020 at 06:06 AM PDT
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Let’s say our nominee ends up being, Warren. In that case, I want Warren to get: one billion$ from Soros, one billion$ from Buffet, one billion$ from Gates, and one billion$ from Walmart. Then, I want the Warren campaign, to saturate all radio...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Sat Dec 28, 2019 at 09:53 PM PST
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Prefatory blah, blah: This column will e getting somewhat short shrift. It seems that I have become some sort of entropy attractor, or more than usual, at any rate. Way behind, way busy and ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 06:06 AM PDT
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NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATION-Cambridge Analytica is just one of a growing number of companies that exist to aggregate information about you and help their clients influence your decisions. They were exposed for their use of personal Facebook data to craft...
by Mystic54
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on Thu Oct 10, 2019 at 01:14 PM PDT
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In May of 2011, novelist Barry Eisler published a short read primer on how those on the political left suck at communication skills. It’s only 42 pages and we could all use the advice about now. On this site, we often succumb to making ourselves feel...
by BayAreaKen
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on Fri Oct 04, 2019 at 01:10 PM PDT
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Donny Deutsch is suggesting that Democrats tag every Republican with the "ASSAULT" moniker. As the party that is a protector of the ability to have assault weapons while not protecting healthcare and other life-saving social efforts, it is a pejorative...
by Egberto Willies
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on Fri Aug 30, 2019 at 10:24 AM PDT
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