Category: Media Bob

I’ve been watching the Democratic primaries with considerable amusement. What a confederacy of dunces. It was particularly fun watching Dean get tangled in a Confederate flag several weeks ago. An article in Slate says what I’ve been thinking for a long time: Why are the Democrats so worried about the South anyway? Face it. The South is Republican. Now get on with your lives …

To quote:

“Since 2000, many Democrats have questioned quietly why they should expend so much effort trying to win votes in what is now a solidly Republican region. The Democrats’ ceaseless courtship of Southern votes has fostered an unhealthy sense of entitlement. Southerners now consider it their God-given right to supply Democrats with presidential candidates or, failing that, to force non-Southern candidates to discuss Him using an alien evangelical vocabulary.”

Now Playing: Shining Moon from the album Whites Off Earth Now by Cowboy Junkies

I have several items that I’m trying to get rid of. This also is giving me an eye-opening look at online classifieds. I’m putting online/print ads in the local paper, the Thrifty Nickel and Yahoo! just to see what the differences are. So far, all I can say is that Yahoo! totally gets it. They make placing an ad online a simple and painless experience. The real test will be to see if their ads bring results …

Here are the items I’m selling:

A saltwater aquarium (You have to enter my phone number 865-691-7731 to see the ad, which is a print ad keyed to my phone number.)

A desk

A wireless base station

A printer

No sense linking to the desk or printer ads since the local paper got the numbers wrong. We’ll have to see if the Thrifty Nickel does better, but that ad doesn’t publish until Wednesday.

So Yahoo! was the only one that could get my ad up and running on New Years Eve without any delays. It’s also telling me how many people have viewed the ad …

A newspaper recently held a meeting for all of its print salespeople. The discussion focused on selling online media, especially interactive banner ads.

After the presentation, one print rep walked up to a friend of mine:

“You know that Rich Media everyone is talking about? I think I know his brother, John.”

Hmmm. I want if we can sell any of those John Media ads and make some big bucks …