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Some random thoughts on marketing and advertising.

I went to a sales seminar recently, in conjunction with one of the jobs that I have. it wasn't a bad seminar, but it wasn't great one either. It got me thinking that I could probably do just as good a job. So I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Here is my thesis:  Everything in life is advertising or marking. Let me tell you what I mean. From the very first time a pre-teen or teenager discovers that they get more attention from the opposite sex by looking pretty or muscular, or batting their eyes at the right time, or being on the football team, they become an expert marketeer. Later in life it will become virtue signaling when, at a job or a bar or in graduate school or at an interview wherever, they will discover the day can attract potential mates and or friends or an employer, simply by espousing the right causes, the right beliefs or the right motives. Whether it be a Super Bowl ad or a job interview almost every thing in life is marking. Wether  you're ma...