Note to file: sex still sells
Calvin Klein pushes the envelope again and the network news once again feigns concern. Some of us with daughters continue to worry about long-term serious damage rather than momentary titillation.
What’s the count?
What's the count?
No, not the balls and strikes! I'm talking about the number of advertisements you'll find in a baseball stadium (click on the image for a much bigger and clearer image).
I was recently invited to go to a Cardinal baseball game for a work function. I was amazed at the number of ads. There had to be more than 100 large ads visible from the seats. And I'm only including static ads, not the videos they pump out on the big screens.
Sao Paulo bans most outdoor advertising
According to Time Magazine, the Mayor of Sao Paulo banned most outdoor advertising two years ago, "in a bold effort to rid the city of what he called 'visual pollution.'" You can check out some images of the new Sao Paulo at the Time link. I have a special interest…
How to keep customers coming back for things they don’t need.
How do you keep customers coming back? Keep them constantly dissatisfied. That is the topic of this article in Orion Magazine. The author is Jeffrey Kaplan. Here's are a few excerpts from this well written article. [Note: you might be blocked from going straight into the article. If so, go…
“Push capitalism” turns us into full-time consumers and non-citizens
Bill Moyers recently interviewed Benjamin Barber, a renowned political theorist and a distinguished senior fellow at Demos — a public policy think tank here in New York City. Barber's most recent book is Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (2007). What's the focus of this book?…