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Your Looks and Your Inbox « OkTrends
Someone [who is rated as highly attractive] above gets nearly 5 times as many messages as a typical woman and 28 times as many messages as a woman at the low end of our curve. Site-wide, two-thirds of male messages go to the best-looking third of women. So basically, [...]

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Great Lake, a Chicago Pizza Shop, Enjoys Being Small - Question - NYTimes.com
"We never intended to serve mass quantities and have our product available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We wanted to start a business so we could get some control in our lives."
(tags: marketing pr nytimes food [...]

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The most irritating ads of 2009 | Marketing Magazine
"once a brand has done its best to irritate consumers it is difficult to see where the creative approach goes next… ‘The standard of advert­ising has dropped as marketers increasingly believe they are working hard through excessive brand awareness'"
(tags: marketing advertising brand branding [...]

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Kingdom Of Style: Designers Hit Back
It is a widely understood maxim within our industry that a large proportion of good design can only do its job properly by going unnoticed; providing important information in the most unfussy, functional way possible.
(tags: design nhs uk journalism kingdomofstyle advertising )

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