Tag Archive: Subliminal Persuasion

When Is It Okay To Attack Your Competition?

I’m sitting in front of the Apple store in our mall stealing their wifi on my iPhone. As I’m sitting here I’m thinking about their PC vs. Mac commercials and how successful they’ve been despite the fact they’re talking negatively about their competition and about their potential customer.
In these commercials, Apple is portrayed as the [...]

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Propaganda and Covert Persuasion

If you persuade the masses or individuals, one of the most important people that made what we do possible was Edward Bernays. He wrote one of my favorite books, “Propaganda.”
Edward was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and was the first to bring many of the psychological theories he came up with for marketing and selling.
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