Author: Lynn

  • Extreme makeover – refrigerator edition

    Extreme makeover – refrigerator edition

    Our refrigerator is in a very central location. I pass by it to go anywhere else in the house. In fact, you can see it from the room where my partner and I spend our evenings. And of course I visit it many times a day to get food. So this location has a lot…

  • How to download and print pictures

    One of the easiest methods I use to advertise to myself is to simply print a picture of what I want. The internet is a rich source of images for our personal ad campaigns. Do you want to work somewhere? Download their logo. Go somewhere? Find some great photos of that place. Own something? It’s…

  • Advertise your way to paradise

    Advertise your way to paradise

    It seems that people choose to remind themselves of connections to others and fun times they have had in the past. And of course there is nothing wrong with that. But let me propose a slight tweak: in addition to reminding yourself of fun times from the past, what would happen if you showed yourself…

  • How my own ads made me a blogger

    Over the course of the last 6 months I have deployed about two dozen ad campaigns, ranging from reminding myself about things I want, to behavior changes, to really large long-term goals. Nine of them have definitely worked. A few were duds and others are still in process, but there have been some really impressive…

  • The REALLY personal ads

    Several years ago I began to wonder if there might be a way I could turn around all of the effort advertisers have put into conditioning me to be receptive to their marketing and use that training to my advantage. What would happen if I could control even a few of the messages I receive…