[thelist] common marketing/advertising misconception (was RE: spammers/spambots)

[Bob Meetin]

Barney Carroll wrote:
> When selling tasteless crap, the urge to be tasteful should be treated
> cynically
It's not just/only tasteless crap, but the fact that you don't have a 
product to sell so you find a way to repackage 'nothing' and make it 
look like 'something'.  It's a shortcut to doing real work.  There are a 
lot of very gullible people and/or people who are simply not educated in 
the wiles of the world.  Ridiculous offers appear ridiculously enticing 
to folks who are desperate.