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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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Selling In The Name Of | FreakyTrigger
People who dislike the X-Factor often criticise it for reducing music to a soap opera, but this misses the point: it’s rather like people who slate wrestling for not being a proper sport. The X-Factor is a narrative which happens to involve music.
(tags: freakytrigger xfactor narrative [...]

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Why are men obsessed with watches? | Life and style | The Guardian
"The showy buyers of a bull market are long gone… We are now selling to men looking to make an intelligent purchase; looking to be part of an unspoken club of those who know, understand and appreciate the complications of an haute horology [...]

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Spillway: London in 2010
"The nastier that London gets, the darker its peculiar charms, so people (not planners, or sensible journalists with a topic to follow) will be seduced by it … Just as we love the romantic melodrama of the street in Dickens, we secretly love the growing horror-show of the city we actually live [...]

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Thinkpad Bus Seats Inaugurate New Buttputing Era - Lenovo ThinkPad - Gizmodo
"How tough are Thinkpad notebooks? Tough enough to be installed in buses and tram shuttles as seats and keep working just fine."
(tags: advertising ambient computers technology lenovo )

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MIGS: Is Good Marketing Better Than A Good Game? | Edge Online
“Review scores don’t matter on DS,” he argued, before forecasting that 5th Cell’s Scribblenauts would not see the kind of sales a critical darling would be supposed to, due to low marketing spend. “There is no compelling reason to focus on quality, you should [...]

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The nebulous concept of an insight « Curiously Persistent
So when someone asks me for some insights into an area, they are perfectly entitled to. But they need to be sure that this is what they really want, as it takes a lot of time, a lot of patience and there is no guarantee that the [...]

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