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“You know you want it” That was the subject line that greeted me the other day. It concerned a certain so-called men’s (man’s? menses? Oops!) magazine recently yanked from Wal-Mart’s racks. Basically Playboy with bikinis, full of pickup tips obviously for adolescent boys. Now there’s marketing, Internet or otherwise for ya! They knew I wanted it even before I knew I wanted it. As a matter of fact, I still don’t know I want it – but they know I want it, so I guess I will soon. Perfection!! No more decisions to agonize over, no more hesitance, no more “Can I afford It?” worries. They know you want it, so all you have to do is fork it over! Man, what a relief…Now it’s clear why there’s all this spam everywhere. They’re just trying toooo hard. All those exclamation points and capital letters and even fancy HTML graphics – when all it really took is telling ‘em they want it. Sheer genius!! Time for a big garage sale…gotta unload all this apparently useless and ineffective marketing stuff…I finally know the secret. Oh look…here’s another…”Wahumor, increase your size naturally”…Wow… Must be some organic ezine subscription service… ------------------------------------------------------ With two boys, a dog, a cat, a wife and a household to keep together to boot, Dan Reinhold is the editor of WAHumor to hang on to his sanity by showing how insane the work-at-home community can be. Work at home? You deserve a laugh! Dan Reinhold is the editor and creator of WAHumor, the newsletter for all who work at home. If you work at home, you deserve a laugh! Subscribe at WAHumor-subscribe@topica.com. Send something WAHumorous to WAHumor@yahoo.com. Do both and enter our monthly drawing!
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