Tim's Reflection Connection

Social media? Get real. It’s really all marketing machinery! Facebook and Twitter try to keep it quiet, but a backlash against the heavy marketing (exploitation) of user information is annoying a critical mass of people. Remember, if you’re not paying for an online service, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. Eli Pariser [...]

Everyone who knows me knows of my complete disdain for advertising, but this commercial is special. I love the design sensibilities and size of the new Fiat 500s. Their marketing campaign is crafty to say the least. This commercial is very well done on several levels. It’s cleverly deceptive. The last thing Fiat wants you [...]

So, this is going to be really, really annoying! Apparently a startup in San Francisco is selling your daily routes to work and back to companies willing to post advertisements on your car. The car owner gets paid about $100 per month to have the advertisements stuck to their car. “This car runs on advertising.” [...]

Unlike most people I suspect, literally everything I see in media, online and on TV, I’m asking myself: “Who paid for me to see this and why?” Call me cynical, but I genuinely do not believe anything in the mediaspehere happens by accident. I believe that corporations have paid large marketing corporations to attain very [...]

I swore for years I would never join Facebook. I hate what they stand for: making money off of you! It’s a disgusting marketing machine. Facebook has provided me with a wonderful way to reconnect with many long-lost friends, colleagues, people from high school, college, former jobs, etc. But I increasingly hate Facebook! I recently [...]

I remember these vividly as a child. I was small enough to crawl under the end table in the living room and play with the colorful packages on the floor. For some reason, I was enamored with the happy looking faces and the contrast of the vivid color on the white packet. Keep in mind [...]

No, it’s bigger than that! I’m in electronic spam hell! I completely killed text messaging on my iPhone* because I began getting an untold number of marketing text messages. I can think of nothing I loathe more than unsolicited advertising, especially when I’m the one paying for it! On a quest for a solution, I [...]

From time to time over the past 30 years, I have definitely drunk the Apple Kool-Aid–that reality distortion field inducing, cult-like elixir that is nothing short of being the nectar of the gods. Well, hat tip to my friend Mark for tipping me off to the fact that Apple has begun selling it. (From Scoopertino) [...]

I read this tweet from @Wolfrum and in an instant realized that religion is one of the oldest and most successful marketing platforms in the history of humankind. The church has defined culture through the ages: whose work was “in” and whose work was of no value. It decided what was heresy and what was [...]

Could you walk right up to the edge?  Heights make me start spinning.  But heights don’t seem to bother these kids.  Would you let your children stand this close to the edge? Oh, OK.  I get it now.  Clever.  (It’s a brilliant marketing campaign for a book.) Source:  Damn Cool Pics

I think it’s time advertisers understood something: if you have an educated demographic as your targeted sales group, you need to stop inundating it with advertising! As an intelligent human being living in the 21st century, I am fully capable of searching out the information I want and need when I am ready to make [...]

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