Comments on: All of the Money, Where Does It Go? http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/all-of-the-money-where-does-it-go/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leon Tchotchke http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/all-of-the-money-where-does-it-go/#comment-3507 Leon Tchotchke Tue, 22 May 2012 20:08:02 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=4619#comment-3507 @Leon Tchotchke Further disclosure: Apparently I cannot operate a computer keyboard. @Leon Tchotchke Further disclosure: Apparently I cannot operate a computer keyboard.

]]> By: Leon Tchotchke http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/all-of-the-money-where-does-it-go/#comment-3504 Leon Tchotchke Tue, 22 May 2012 19:59:00 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=4619#comment-3504 @peacheater Disclore: I am in marketing. BUT! Until we all move off the grid and start living in a single giant freecycled lean-to and burning piles of cancelled credit cards to stay warm, we all gotta buy shit. And marketing more efficiently doesn't necessarily mean making people buy crap they don't mean - it could also mean directing their dollars to stuff that will help them MORE. 90% of marketing is just letting people know that a purchasing option exists at all. But admittedly, yeah, that IS a little funny at gut level. @peacheater Disclore: I am in marketing. BUT! Until we all move off the grid and start living in a single giant freecycled lean-to and burning piles of cancelled credit cards to stay warm, we all gotta buy shit. And marketing more efficiently doesn’t necessarily mean making people buy crap they don’t mean – it could also mean directing their dollars to stuff that will help them MORE. 90% of marketing is just letting people know that a purchasing option exists at all.

But admittedly, yeah, that IS a little funny at gut level.

]]> By: peacheater http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/all-of-the-money-where-does-it-go/#comment-3495 peacheater Tue, 22 May 2012 18:23:40 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=4619#comment-3495 Does the fact that he plans to sell data to companies bother anyone else? Even if it's anonymized, I feel like he's actually helping companies market more efficiently to people and get them to buy more, in the guise of helping them buy less. Something about that rubs me the wrong way. Does the fact that he plans to sell data to companies bother anyone else? Even if it’s anonymized, I feel like he’s actually helping companies market more efficiently to people and get them to buy more, in the guise of helping them buy less. Something about that rubs me the wrong way.

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