What we really need are incentives for advertisers to focus on permission marketting rather than broad spectrum annoyance. I can't think of anything offhand, but I am certain that easing costs in some way to channel behavior will be more effective than penalties on the whole profession.
I am not likely to click on your link for a free ipod or ringtones. But if you send adds for discount printer toner because I am subscribed your premade business forms site, then yeah, I might just click on that.
Maybe we could focus on making overhead on advertising expenses a part of the tax deductible business development column provided that the company doing the advertising itself produced some kind of commodity besides advertisement. Maybe not foolproof, but it rewards advertisers that are on the level and encourages clients to seek out providers in the formal economy.
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Institutions usually scare the parents into surrendering them when we are children.
If a monopolistic, unipolar government actually could represent my interests and needs, I'd love for them to know everything about me.
What we really need are incentives for advertisers to focus on permission marketting rather than broad spectrum annoyance. I can't think of anything offhand, but I am certain that easing costs in some way to channel behavior will be more effective than penalties on the whole profession. I am not likely to click on your link for a free ipod or ringtones. But if you send adds for discount printer toner because I am subscribed your premade business forms site, then yeah, I might just click on that. Maybe we could focus on making overhead on advertising expenses a part of the tax deductible business development column provided that the company doing the advertising itself produced some kind of commodity besides advertisement. Maybe not foolproof, but it rewards advertisers that are on the level and encourages clients to seek out providers in the formal economy.