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I'm Not Buying That
April 14, 2005 at 12:12 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

How well does advertising actually work? I know there are times that I am in the store and I will by one brand over another because I heard of it before, not necessarily because of a commercial. There have been times that I have seen a commercial and I almost instantly bought it. Saw a commercial for Pizza Hut dipping things and was on the phone ordering them with in 15 minutes. Another time I was watching the UFC show and when it was done I ran out and rented one of there dvds. I like to think of these as exceptions, and that I do not easily become swayed by a commercial.

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More Than Words
April 6, 2005 at 6:10 pm AST by Rodney MacLeod

Magic 93 has a Fantasy Wedding and Honeymoon contest. To enter the contest you were to send in an essay 200 words or less. A quick look at the entries for the contest show that the qualifications for the contest were not enforced. This probably happens all of the time in contests, but it does suck for the entrants who spent time and effort into writing a concise and purposeful essay that gets the message across in 200 words or less where others just ramble on for over 500 words and become a finalist. Maybe the person that wrote a 500+ word essay did write a great essay, and maybe the person they were writing on behalf of are deserving, but don’t you think that it is easy to explain there deservedness in more than 200 words.

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