In Marketing, we focus on emerging trends of interest.  What is selling, what’s not and how can we incorporate those trends in our marketing plans with our clients.  Do we sell sex? Hell yeah we do! Sex has been employed in advertising since the beginning of advertising.  At the beginning, wood carvings and illustrations of attractive women (often unclothed from the waist up) adorned posters, signs, and ads for saloons, tonics, and tobacco.  The use of sex in advertising can be highly evident or extremely restrained. It ranges from relatively explicit displays of sexual acts, to the use of basic cosmetics to enhance attractive features.

We’re all familiar with the notion that “sex sells”.  And if you aren’t, take a glance through your Twitter followers Avatars, or your Facebook friends profile photos. As individuals, we all can be guilty of using our sultriest shots for our Twitter account or for our Facebook photos.  It’s apparent that most of us aren’t batting an eyelid at how we’re choosing to present ourselves online.

But here’s the thing: Sex is one of the most powerful selling tools utilized in the 20^th Century. While we have become somewhat desensitized to provocative campaigns, sexual enticement and borderline porno……there’s still a line that we seem to draw in society.  How much is too much?  How much is not enough?  When does the provocative nature of my campaigns, over shadow my products nature?  These are all relevant questions which should be posed prior to the sexual advertisement campaigning.

If you are selling a service which isn’t sexually related, and yet your advertisements are leaving me with only a feeling to have mid-afternoon sex…..your campaign has failed.  This principle applies personally as well.  Many single women posts provocative pictures in nature to attract the attention of men.  The only thing you are attracting is the animal instinct in men to aboard you and conquest your womanhood. Your choice of imaging does not sell a potential lifetime partner, an enduring mother and wife.  It is selling a sexual desire.  So yes Sex sells, true indeed.  But what sex sells is sex and attention.

Think about this same principle in the world of Hip Hop. When a single is released, they don’t drop with a video first.  The single is first released through the radio mediums….giving the people the actual product 1^st. Then after the anticipation and interest is arisen, they introduce you to the sultry seductions of the video….Hook, bait and caught.  The sex should never oversell your product.  It should be used as an accolade to your product and or service.

The Sexual Nature of your campaign’s sole purpose should be as follows:

• Draw their attention to the subject matter (product, service or request).
• Get them to retain pertinent information relevant to your subject matter.
• Relate to your subject matter in essence to create a impulse desire to buy

If your campaign does the above, you have successfully sexed your way into the market.  However, most people do not know when to say when.  That’s why Marketing Professionals such as I are available for consultations and strategic marketing planning.

Tia Black

(@MidnitePromo)

Yes, you read the title correctly. We’ve all heard the saying, “you
can’t turn a hoe into a housewife”. But, I disagree with that statement. A wise man once said (R. Kelly), “if you can believe it –- you can achieve it.” I believe in you. More importantly, I believe in my advice to you.

First of all, we have to estimate their CURRENT level of hoeness. We
all have a past, so lets concentrate on the present. A great way to
figure out their current hoe level is by meeting their friends. Are
their friends sluts? Birds of a feather flock together. Don’t believe
that, “me and my friends are separate people” gibberish. The first
step into turning your hoe into a housewife is convincing her to find more positive friends. No woman walking barefoot in nightclubs is
worthy of being your companion.

Second, meet her family. What is her mother like? If her mother
listens to Waka Flocka instead of Luther Vandross –- this job may be
harder than we first thought. Does her mother offer you a glass of
sweet tea, or does she offer you a 40 ounce of Miller High Life? You
may need to tell her to cut off all communication with her mother
also. If she doesn’t, she isn’t serious about converting from her hoe
ways to the straight path.

Third, let her meet your friends. See how she interacts with them. The best way to do this is by secretly leaving a webcam recording the
activities of your living room. Invite one of your friends over, then
hit the shower. Review the footage later to assess whether she has
abandoned her hoe activities yet. If she happens to have approached
your friend, its still a winning situation. “It aint no fun if the
homies can’t have none!”

Finally, you must know what to expect of her. If your new housewife disappoints you by relapsing and doing something slutty – you must accept it and move on. Perhaps, you under-trained her. No one promoted beyond their capacity can expect to do a job the right way. Its never wise to love the one you first lusted. Besides, you can’t turn a hoe into a housewife. I just made all this stuff up.

I Love You,

Nova Giovanni

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By (@NovaGiovanni)

Aye, HOMIE!!! Stop spying on your girlfriend’s Facebook page and do
something constructive while you’re online! You’re investigating her
wall, trying to piece together her relationship with every man who
leaves a comment. How about you take an online class or apply for a
better job?

Excuse me, ma’am. Why are you spending your spare time researching
every woman in your boyfriend’s phone? I thought you were going back
to school. What happened? You’re too busy with ‘him’ now? How many
college credits have you earned with THAT?

Shame on you. Your love life is now your whole life- and its holding
you back. You’ve stopped living up to your potential and started
living down to their expectations. You quit chasing your goals and
began chasing behind your ‘boo’. You have ceased to improve yourself
and prepare for your future. Now, your days are spent making up
scenarios of them cheating on you in your head. Your nights are made
up of the two of you arguing.

If the person you’re with isn’t pushing you to be a better person-
they are holding you back from becoming one. A relationship should
compliment things, not complicate things. If your relationship were to
end today, how much further in your life would you be than in the
beginning? What would you have to show other than some memories and a few pictures? There are few things worse than time wasted. Cherish it.

Time, that is.

I Love You,
Nova Giovanni (@NovaGiovanni)
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If you lose just make sure you hit that again — and hit it right
–
By Dr. J

It would be easy to tell you that a man has the world all figured out, but I mean, this is real talk. Seems like on the internet nobody makes mistakes and every man’s perfect.  I’m not perfect, and I’ve made my fair share of mistakes.  With sex, dating, relationships, family, religion, politics, and my career.  I’m far from perfect and I’m clearly flawed.

Anyway, with all that…

This happened to me, and I’ll admit it.  My game wasn’t always tight, my jeans wasn’t always pimp, and what I did in the bedroom has been a work in progress.  So I’m talking to this girl who I used to sleep with, but told myself if I was friend with her, maybe she’d let me hit it again, every now and then.  That did NOT work.  I ended up being the guy that she told everything, so imagine my surprise when she said that the guy she was talking to now was the first guy who ever gave her an orgasm.  The dude who is reading thinking, “Not me. My sh*t’s official” that dudes a dumb ass b*tch.  Think about it dude; if she’s slept with 8 people, it’s like a 1 in 8 chance you were the best, and if you were her only, she could just think sex is wack. #nowbeatdat.  Anyway, this angered me because I was thinking to myself like what was I doing that I couldn’t handle my business like I should have.  And it wasn’t like I missed a few games, it was like I never made a basket.  Head down…

I did what any other self-respecting man would do; I sat on that joint until I got the chance to beat again.  Right after I stopped being her friend and started being an ass she decided to break me off again.  Because, “I always keep it real with her,” look I don’t know what that sh*t means either.  And this is where the story goes left…

After having sex with her, I realized some things about her vagina.  When I was having sex with her, it was like Windows 95, but that sh*t right there… that sh*t right there, my dude, that shit was Windows 7.  I’m saying it was 5000 times better, had me speaking correct English, “Excuse me, but where did you learn those skills?”

At a certain point a grown man has to come to grips with the fact that he’s not the only person she has had sex with, or will have sex with.  It’s a humbling experience.  But an enlightening one too.

Everything made sense then, my first real real girlfriend, probably the first girl I ever told I loved and meant it.  She got a kid now, from a dirtbag if I might say.  That dude is not even in the United States.  I saw that first in like 10th grade, and then like after that kid.  AND I KNEW EXACTLY WHY SHE HAD KIDS!!!

She gave platinum brain and uranium vag.  And every man knows that you can’t do nothing in this world without Uranium.  It is truly a weapon of mass destruction.

Remember that girl you were messing with freshman year.  I didn’t just wake up out of bed and turn my swag on, and neither did she.  But anyway, give that girl about four years on a college campus… and damn.  18 year old’s backshots have nothing on a chick with a few miles on her.

#lookbackatit

Some real emotional, humbling sex is when you have sex with your ex that you say you used to love after you know she been with a couple other dudes.  Especially if the only reason why she was out there is because you let her go.  “F*cked it up, trying to be a player.” – D. Lovehall.  Then you guys reunite and you get to hit again, “but wait, you never did that before tho…”  Overcome with emotions you not sure if you’re crying because you miss her or you mad you let her go in the beginning.  “Oh my God, baby you done took this shit to a new level.” – Chris Rock.

@DrJsFreakNastyEx: #yeezytaughtme

…now since you’re in that mood. Fast forward to 5 min 17secs.

Written by: Miss Boss

When I was about 22 with a twinkle in my eye, my aunt lovingly told me, “you’re going to come to a point in your life when you’re gonna meet a man and you’re just going to want to sex him.” I remember having a broken heart and wishing that day would come quickly as I had watched all my male friends do this years and merely wanted my turn. Now I have come across some faces that I would love to rape and have but never has my attraction toward any man manifested itself so quickly that before I knew it, I was riding him until the wheels fell off. Actually, many of my friend’s have approached me with their disgust with the opposite sex and are seriously entertaining becoming abstinent in 2011.

This new wave has made me wonder if its even possible to refrain from sex, with the sex with no strings attached being at an all time high. I remember being able to stop having sex for six months easily. Nowadays if a warm breeze even glides across my clitoris on the wrong day, it can cause my fingers to do the walking on my phone as I search for a lucky unsuspecting former lover. Some say that becoming abstinent will allow them to focus on career goals, on school, on their kids, on life in general. At that point, I felt the whole thing just had to be ridiculous. I mean no man, 6 pack, smooth skin, nice smile, full lips, bushy eye brows, deep voice and holding a remote control between his leg could hinder me from feeding my kid. Where are your priorities? Still, I join in the ranks. Thirty days in and feeling every moment of it. I can’t even have conversations with my friends right now, I need prayer. Even found myself grooming less to deter dougie’n on an unsuspecting face. I will say that since sex is not controlling my actions, I have been getting a lot accomplished. I’m thinking more clearer and far less consumed by unnecessary emotions that come with having sex, so I’m for Abstinence in 2011. Besides, you’re next orgasm is only a finger or hand away.

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