Category: Deliver your message
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Just print it!: Moving from contemplation to action
This advertising method is one of the easiest you can possibly do–just print out a copy of your statement and place it someplace you will see it often. The article goes on to explore why we might still have resistance to doing something that easy to help ourselves achieve a goal.
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Rock your Roku screensaver
TBYB!’s favorite way to deliver personal ads is to insert them in a slideshow that plays automatically somewhere in my life. I’m currently using a Roku screensaver to display my slideshow. Frankly the screensaver app is not even that great, but the fact that it shows in the room where we spend most of our…
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Change your mind with a Belief Board
Steve’s “Belief Board” is hung on the wall in front of the desk where he works, so he exposes himself to the messages it contains for several hours every day. It’s in his field of vision, yet off to the side, so that it’s normally visible but not the focus of his conscious attention.
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A picture is worth 1000 sticky notes
Several people have told me lately after discovering this site that they’re really excited about the potential of personal marketing so they’re going to start using Post-It notes to influence themselves. I’m very happy they’ve decided to try personal marketing and curious to learn about their results, but I always want to tell them that…
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Remind yourself to be present
The whole purpose of personal marketing is to devise ways to automatically remind ourselves of the things we want to think about. Most of the time I’ve oriented my ad campaigns toward thinking about things I want to do. This one is more focused on being, and it feels good.
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Automate text messages with Serenitext
Serenitext is a service that sends you text messages at random times throughout the day. You can write your own messages or choose them from a list, then Serenitext delivers them to your cell phone or email address. I really like this service. It’s very easy to set up and use, and it works well.
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10 easy ways to advertise to yourself
TBYB! wants to inspire you to DO personal marketing, because this stuff absolutely rocks your life. Here are ten very effective advertising techniques that you can implement in just a few minutes.
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Ask the readers: Which digital photo frame do you recommend?
A digital photo frame may be the perfect tool for delivering advertising to ourselves. What do you think? Which photo frame should I buy? If you have a digital photo frame what do you like about it? Are there any features you wish it had? Which one would you buy if you were going to…
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Guest post: How to deliver tagged Flickr photos to your desktop with the Google Photos Gadget
This is a technique I had not tried before, and I really like it. For starters, it’s dead easy. Once I set up a theme feed other people literally do all of the work. You’ve gotta love that! Another great thing is that variety and novelty are built in. For example, I currently have photos…
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Rock 2009 with a New Year collage
Here’s an arts and crafts project that’s fun, powerful, and dare I say a reasonable alternative (or addition) to football for New Year’s day. You’ll be exposed to over a million commercial messages in 2009. As is true with so many of the techniques we use at Take Back Your Brain!, the New Year collage…