Jason's Business By Bootstraps

Tag: advertising

  • How can you sell your service with your service?

    (Via Corrupt Camel) Granted, the first thing I think of when I see one of those “you just proved bench advertising works!” ads on a bus shelter is generally “you just proved you have unsold inventory!” but since I don’t much like driving I’ve got some extra brain bandwidth while I’m being chauffeured past these […]

  • Tagging photos with Facebook pages: the next next hurdle?

    Fast Company sends word that Facebook users can now tab company pages in their photos in addition to users, and how it’s the next evolution of Like As they put it: Social media experts have begun to look askance at the Like system. It’s so easy for someone to “Like” something. What does it really […]

  • History, Nostalgia, and the Modern Web, via ads

    I did a quickie (and slightly cryptic) post a little while ago comparing old school comic book ads to Google Ads, but a post on Boing Boing about a man who bought a monkey via a comic ad got me to thinking some more. No, I’m not about to go out and buy a monkey […]

  • All of this has happened before and will happen again

    Excerpted from a 1972 comic book page of ads:  Excerpted from a Google search result page (silly border added to highlight that it’s a screen shot): Insert comment about distribution and target markets here… On a related note, I’d love to see an e-commerce interface design based on those full page ads with the x-ray […]