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Okay folks. Here’s that ad I was hinting about. For Canadian public relations practitioners/readers, it’s a service you’ve already heard about if not already using.
For my international readers, you should take a look at the clickthrough - there’s an interesting approach to tying value-added services with time-wasting games.
It’s right over there in the sidebar.
5 Responses for "To mis-quote Billy Joel … I’m selling out!"
That’s brilliant!
If only “catching” media attention were that easy! (Though I guess that’s the point CNW is trying to get across, it’s easy if you use their service?)
Anyway, love it!
[...] CNW Group, one of Canada’s two major suppliers of newswire and other services to the PR industry has begun a three-month advertising pilot with several Canadian PR blogs, including this one. Obviously, I haven’t installed the ad yet, but if you want to take a look at what’s going on so far, check out Canuckflack and StudentPR for a peak at how the ad is displayed in the sidebar. (There are also horizontal and vertical banner options.) [...]
Marketers, Welcome to My Readers…
In the right margin of this blog, you’ll find an ad aimed at Canadian public relations folks. I haven’t run ads here before, not from a misguided sense of the purity of my ideas, but because I didn’t have the time and energy to pursue it. Well, CNW …
[...] If you haven’t seen them, check out Dave, Chris, Colin, Michael OCC, Eric and Donna…anyone who has seen or even used them, what do you think? [...]
[...] After CNW Group asked a few Canadian PR bloggers to put ads on their blogs, the bloggers started a discussion amongst themselves about the ethics of it all. I’ve been watching it from the sidelines. Here is my perspective. [...]
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